How about you actually call out to the Lord on your knees... yes, on your knees, being willing to hear out His plans and not your worldly revision thereof.
There has been a lot of self powered fleshliness going on even in supposedly orthodox Christian circles.
God won’t bless that, and that is why it has no power.
Put feet to the prayers. Even Paul invoked his Roman citizenship on occasion, and also straight up verbally abused Simon the sorcerer when Simon was presenting an obstruction to the Gospel.
One of the greatest problems in the Christian churches today is the false spirituality of sitting by and doing nothing because doing anything is “carnal” and “worldly.”