There is a prayer of desperation after Joshua and the children of Israel are defeated by the people of Ai. The real cause of that defeat was that Joshua and the leaders did not pray before going to battle but they sent observers who saw the town as weak. They did not seek the One Who Knows all things, even the End from the Beginning, so they lost by relying on their own judgment. How often does each one of us from time to time have the attitude that “I can do that, I do not have to ask God?”