 And that gets right to the heart of the problem with inappropriate prayers. They're self-serving. They're not in accord with God's nature. They put the focus on our things, not on the things of God. Someone has said, we ask for health, not to serve others, but to engage in righteous living. We ask for wealth so that we may live in luxury instead of serving God with our money. The word spend in the verse means to waste or squander. God will not give us something just to waste it.