We should pray concerning our trials in this way:

"Lord, I have this thorn in the flesh. I beseech you, deliver me from it, but meanwhile I bless you for it; for though I do not understand the why or the wherefore of it, I am persuaded there is love within it. Therefore, while I ask you to remove it, so far as it seems evil to me, yet wherein it may to your better knowledge work for my good, I bless you for it, and I am content to endure it so long as you see fit."

Is not that a sweet way of praying?

"Lord, I am in need, be pleased to supply me; but, meanwhile, if you do not, I believe it is better for me to be in need, and so I praise you for my necessity while I ask you to supply it. I glory in my infirmity, even while I ask you to overcome it. I bless you for my affliction even while I ask you to help me in it and to rescue me out of it."

This is a royal way of praying.

Such an amalgam of prayer and thanksgiving is more precious than the gold of Ophir.

Spurgeon