That is not what I am praying for.

I have a friend whose wife left him. Everyone he meets he tells the story and says that he does not understand why she left. He asks everyone to pray for their marriage. When he told me I told him I wasn't going to pray that their marriage would be restored as much as that is my wish and his desire. He was surprised until I told him that I would pray that the joy of the Lord would be restored in his life. If we pray for his marriage to be restored and it is then he would stop short of what God wants for him. By praying that he would have the joy of the Lord renewed then when that prayer is answered everything else is bonus.