Praying for a Successful Failure

CC had an interview today, and he said he thought it went well. But the interviewer told him that they still had one candidate to talk to before making their final decision. I told him that’s a tough one. On the one hand, you don’t want to wish ill on someone else and hope they fail. On the other hand, you want to get the job. So, I suggested that he pray to God that the other candidate would do really well on the interview, but then he’d ask for far too much money and price himself out of the deal. That way you weren’t praying for bad things to happen, but you would still get the job!

CC said he was just going to pray that God’s will be done. I suppose that would work too, but I think mine was a little more specific and direct as to what I really want.