You lust and
do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you
do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask
amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. –
James 4.2-3
You want and we don’t get
it. We fight and covet and can’t obtain what we want. We ask for what we want
and we don’t get it – because we ask for the wrong things. We ask for the
things that we give us pleasure.
When we pray too often we are
praying amiss. We aren’t not praying for what God wants but we want. We pray
for things that are going to please us instead of Him and therefore we don’t
receive.
The key to that is in Psalm
37.4 – delight yourselves in the Lord and you will receive the desires of your
heart.
A lot of folks miss the
point there. They think that if I delight myself He will give me whatever I
want, That’s true, but maybe not exactly in the way it first appear. It says
that God will give us the desires, the right desires, His desires. When we have
the right desires we can wait on God to answer our prayers. If we are
delighting in the Lord instead of ourselves we will learn to have godly desires
instead of selfish desires.
Lord, fix my desirer so that
I don’t ask amiss and see my prayers answered.
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