“11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.”
What do I pray for in AA? Knowledge of God’s will and the power to carry that out. This is much narrower than in other settings, where prayers can be very wide ranging, including prayers for particular outcomes to geopolitical situations, social engineering objectives, in fact anything but the moral betterment of the individual person who is praying and his steering away from self and towards God.
This focus in Step Eleven shows me what the focus in my life must be: performing the actions God would have me perform in my day, leaving the world to the world.