<p>1:10&nbsp;<i>M</i><i>aking request, if by any means now at length I may succeed by the will of God to come to you</i><i>- </i>Or, &quot;A prosperous journey<i>&quot;. </i>Realize that prayer may be answered in totally unexpected ways. Paul prayed that he would have &quot;a prosperous journey&quot; in coming to see the Romans (Rom. 1:10). Little could he have realized, sitting in Corinth as he wrote, that the answer would involve many months of imprisonment in Jerusalem, a shipwreck that lead to an ecclesia in Malta&hellip; and so much other grief. But from God's viewpoint, the prayer was answered. See on Rom. 1:14.</p><p>Paul felt that his prayers could influence or at least engage with God&rsquo;s will; he prayed that he might at some time Gk. be helped by God on the road AV &ldquo;have a prosperous journey&rdquo; to visit the Roman believer. He asks this not &lsquo;If it be God&rsquo;s will&rsquo; but he asks this might be so&nbsp;<i>en</i>&nbsp;or in the will of God. He didn&rsquo;t see God&rsquo;s will as something to be passively accepted but rather engaged with in prayer.</p>