He will do what is best. There may be times when we are so clearly guided that we can make prescriptive requests. These are probably the exception rather than the rule. Another way of saying this is to say that we will hold lightly to our ideas of what needs to be done. We will recognize that, while we must plan for the future, we must not let our planned programs become idols.
Programs are dispensable.
We may very well have misunderstood what God wants done. So we need to hold our guidance lightly and do our praying accordingly. The conditions in Gethsemane under which these words were spoken were so far more tempting for prescriptive prayer than any situation in which we may be involved that it seems not only safe but necessary to suggest that they should always qualify our petitions. How We Ought To Pray How to pray sounds like a question of technique. As such, it is open to both of a negative and a positive answer.