Make This Valley Full of Ditches

2 Kings 3:16
"And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches."
We serve a good God Who is the very embodiment of love itself. He delights in His children and blesses us in ways we do not even realize on a daily basis. He also answers prayers and listens to our hearts, hearing our innermost pleas.
But I wonder if perhaps the reason we often miss out on the blessings and answers He wants to give us is because we fail to make our "valley full of ditches". Consider if Israel had just waited, sitting on their hands for God to work a miracle. Would they have received an answer to their prayer? There would have been nowhere for the water to be. Now it is true that God didn't have you require any action on their part to bless them and answer the prayer, and often we are blessed in that way. However, the point here is that He did require action on their part.
Perhaps sometimes our prayers appear to go unanswered because we fail to prepare for blessings. We have failed to make the " valley full of ditches ".
What prayers have appeared to go unanswered in my life recently? How have I prepared for them to be answered?