Let my start by responding to this and see how it goes.
It might work for my own benefit, but that's much harder.
The secret to getting God to answer is to get "you" out of the request.
Work and work and work, to subtract "you" from the result you are seeking.
Seek to allow God to give you the perfect result He has already planned for you from the beginning of time till now.
He is aching for you to Let Go And Let God do His thing.
When you finally let go of your attachment to the answer....then he washes you over with
a warm glow of satisfaction. You finally relax and stop Whining and finally let go.
And the warm glow lets you relax and give up. In that instant, sometimes BAM! the gift is handed to you. Or perhaps in the next minute or two. And you just nod your head and say
"Thanks. I just knew you had this. "
This is fairly reflective of modern thinking, as I mentioned. Not so much that this is what modern men do, but it reflects a negative view on our selves. It also reflects a popular Christian view that probably has its origins in Greek philosophy. That is, God is outside of time and has determined everything from the beginning of time and we just need to step out of the picture.
You have a few problems with this as in your view, we are holding up God from doing so because we are not letting go. This means God is limited because we are too powerful to let HIm do as he planned. It is probably not intended but can you give me an alternative answer to this problem of us hinding GOd by not letting go. Now I do think we hinder God but that is because we actively sin, not because we stand in the way.
THis has led you to attribute motives to HIm that no one who walked with Him said were in his heart. He is not aching for us to let go and let God do His thing. He said plainly he is aching (if that is the right word) for us to do justly to others, to love mercy when they fail to do justly to us, and to walk HUMBLY with Him. That is what he is aching for us to do.
Now the satisfaction is probably the result of ceasing striving to get your own will done. Surrender to the right person or cause and satisfaction and freedom will be experienced.
Now the whole premise here seems to be getting what you want and to do so, you try to get you out of the matter which is strange because you is always there. Even when you get what you wanted out of Him, YOU take it and YOU keep it. You want the perfect result for you, most certainly. That is determined by the thing wanted, not by the mental gymnastics one goes through to try to empty the self.
Like this one time I was getting a ride to the bus station. Already 15 minutes late. I had wailed and yelled and even cried for Gods help.
Long-story-short I had gotten the "peace" stage. The driver says "I missed the exit!".
Peace. I told the driver "It was fine."
Long-story-short- I arrived in Canada after nearly being strip-searched. My connections were just as late as the bus had been late arriving. Peace.
This is, of course, a good story and I do not doubt He had a hand in it. But if you think that you are not in the equastion from beginning to end, you are fooling yourself. For it not to be you, you needed to be praying for SOMEONE ELSE who needed the bus to be on time for them to get their connections where you derive no benefit from the answer. That is how you are no longer in the equation.
We will not find anyone in the BIble who had this view. IN fact, God wants relationship with YOU. Yes the YOU that you are trying to get out of the equation. WHen I pray I ask GOd to do things for me and for others. THose others need answers that do not benefit me at all. That is how the YOU is out of the equation.
THe other thing is you are still trying to "getting God to answer" which is not relationship but seeing him as the one giving you what you want. We are supposed to surrender to HIm walking in obedience to Him, not trying to get Him to answer our requests as an end goal.
THat is my input. THink about it.
