Receiving the Desires of Your Heart

"Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart." (Ps. 37:4)

Someone has rightly said, I believe, that God's will for our lives is what we would want if we knew what God knows. God is outside of the boundaries of time and the physical constraints of our world, and He sees our lives with clear focus and perspective. As some say, "He can see the big picture." Because He desires the very best for us His will is that we live in obedience to Him.

If we concentrate on delighting in Him, our heart begins to desire what God desires. We begin to want what He wants. We surrender to His will and we pray according to His promises in the Scripture. So if I want to see God answer in a positive way the prayers I am praying, I need to learn to delight in the Lord. I can do that by spending quality time reading His Word and praying according to what He has promised in His Word.

This incredible promise is not about how to manipulate God into doing our will. It is about so totally being consummed with who God is that our desires begin to be transformed until they are a reflection of what God desires. His desires become my desires. His will becomes my will. When I am delighted in the Lord, I can pray as Jesus prayed, "Not my will, buts yours be done."