How to Pray in the Middle of the World?

In the old testament, there is this constant longing for a righteous king who will do justice and mercy. As followers of jesus, we ought to be people who are constantly praying for that ultimate future - both eventually and in ticipation. Of course, previous generations had to face this with the rise of the great powers,. Iin previous world wars and so on. We, i think, have got a bit lazy about this in my generation that have not had to fight a war. And it seems to me that that is precisely what so many of the great biblical prayers are about.