We are to expect what we pray for to happen, one of the toughest things in the world for me to do. So I just started trying to forget about worrying what I'm going to do if it doesn't happen, and that seems to have helped me at least to understand what really believing something that hasn't happened, will, actually is, or entails.
We can also keep bugging God about things. That and the prior are all scriptural, and I think something like you have here fits into the area of just requests.
Or something that. I'm still working on it.
Oh, living right, or at least making a serious attempt...another ingredient, I personally feel necessary.