Let’s look at Paul’s prayer in Romans 1:8-10 in the King James Version. He asks God to give him a prosperous journey to Rome. “First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.” When you look at Paul’s journey to Rome, from the world’s point of view, it was far from a prosperous journey, for everything went wrong, but from God’s point of view it was great and glorious. The trouble is our perception of ‘prosperity’ and God’s can be very different. We need to see things from God’s point of view.