Father, You said in Your Word that if I would delight myself\nin You, You would give me the desires of my heart (Psalm 37:4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lord, You\u2019ve been very good to me, but You\u2019ve been no genie! My wish has NOT been Your command. I understand WHY now better than I did before; I also appreciate Your great wisdom in it, as well. Now I am asking You to sort through and filter my wants and desires so that the chaff\u2014the wrongly-motivated, wrongly-based desires\u2014blows away by the wind of Your Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, please filter through my expectations. Those presuppositions that I\u2019ve placed on others which have not been conceived by Your Spirit, I release to You to abort and eradicate. I ask that a right spirit, a right heart, and a willing soul be renewed within me and that all my expectations will arise from Your Word and intimate fellowship with You\u2014not from what I THINK people ought to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank You, God, for cleansing, removing, rebuilding, and\nreordering my desires and expectations so they more fully align with Your\npurpose. And I believe, according to Psalm 139:23-24, that the \u201churtful way\u2014the\nway of pain\u201d will no longer have a voice within the recesses of my soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank You, God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Father, You said in Your Word that if I would delight myself in You, You would give me the desires of my heart (Psalm 37:4). Lord, You\u2019ve been very good to me, but You\u2019ve been no genie! My wish has NOT been Your command. I understand WHY now better than I did before; I also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayerperspective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8294,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions\/8294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}