There are plenty of people, from various religious faiths, that make it a principle, or a ritual, to mouth the saying that they desire to do something or have something happen to or for them, “God willing.” The thing about saying those words is that the person so speaking, needs to be, or should be, absolutely sincere in what they have so said, because if they are not, then they aren't really willing to have God's will be done, and instead, they seem to be behaving in a way in which God has been reduced to nothing much more than “wish fulfillment” or a security blanket.
Indeed, what we get out of life, has an awful lot to do with the effort, persistence, dedication, and the ethical foundation which we have built our life upon, and those who do a better job in accomplishing the building of this edifice, are going to often find a much more satisfying life, than those that claim to rely on an outside source, that they apparently desire to do the will of, but are typically themselves not clear or are confused about what that will actually is.
The logic of what God wants from all of us has not ever changed, for it forever remains the same, which is to be good to one another, and to properly honor God for the beneficence and wisdom that is ours for the taking, if only we would get our house in order. In truth, to know God's will is to understand that God always wishes our good, and is pleased when we take the necessary steps to get to where we were always destined to be, no matter how tortuous the pathway has been, for God wills us to come back to the fold, for until we do so, we will in perpetuity be restless, unless we find that sanctuary that we eternally belong to.
It would seem that especially in Western nations, that there is a high degree of people who desire to have freedom, and even when that free choice and free will place them in some sort of troubling circumstance, they still won't let it go. Yet, for those that truly do desire God's will, it has to be admitted that at the end of the day, the satisfaction that each of us dearly wants, comes forth only from being in harmony with that which is ever wise and ever loving, which will necessitate the corresponding reduction of our ego and the increase of our recognition that everything that really matters is already ours if only we would gravitate to those wholesome attributes.
In life, we should be careful about what we ask for, because those who unwittingly take our God's name in vain, have done so to their own spiritual diminishment; whereas, those who invoke the will of God, wittingly, should first make sure they comprehend the very essence of God and then do their level best to align with that, in which, by doing so, they will find that more and more of what God wills for them, is the same as what they should aspire to become and be, which makes for eventual unification back into the One.