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God is sovereign (psalm 68:20 ... one of numerous references). When I pray, I often ask God to reveal His will to me about certain situations. I think it's so ironic that so often I seek to know God's will and I just flat out ask Him. To be honest, many times I don't think about it after I pray it and I seldom think about the answer I hear. why do we pray for His will instead of according to His will? When we pray according to His will, He will honor us and give us what He knows we need right now.

"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him."
-1 John 5:14-15