so naturally, it is important to make sure our supplications are balanced with adoration and confession. This will keep us from the “grocery list” syndrome of merely praying for our felt needs. We need to be aware of another prayer imbalance as well. In his book Speaking Truth in Love, biblical counselor David Powlison encourages us to pray three types of supplications: prayers to change circumstances, prayers to change us, and prayers to change everything.3 We could call them circumstantial, transformational,