The salvation we expect from praying to God is ...?

The salvation (salvation) we expect from praying to God is a change to a better situation.

But the salvation that God gives us leads us to an impossible situation

in which we can't even save ourselves.  What is the reason? 

Maybe God wants to make us to look only at God and solely trust in Him.

Maybe God wants us to realize our sins and turn away from them.

Perhaps the reason is that God wants us to obey His commands.

[As I was listening to Pastor Kyung won Kim’s sermon, ‘God’s way, Jonah’s way’

and thought about Jonah’s expectation of salvation when he was thrown into the sea (Jon. 1:15).  

Maybe his expectation of salvation was not to be inside the great fish (v. 17, 2:9)

but to be delivered directly to the land (2:10)]