It is very hard for most of us  to articulate and write down what we want from God because our vision is clouded by our challenges.  Challenges make you feel hopelessness and despair. Your thoughts and feelings are usually negative when you are going through something. You can't even see the way out. Especially when your life is full of struggle. That is when faith comes in.  You just have to disregard what you see, hear and feel and trust God. Get into the Word of God to build yourself.   I remember during a long period of losses the Lord moved me to write down new goals to start afresh. It was soooooo hard because I was used to fighting,  barely surviving and just focused on today not the future.  It took several attempts over a period of three months to write and rewrite my goals and vision again and again.  I was praying , studying the word , writing, listening to faith messages by anointed and proven Bible teachers,  confessing the Word ...