Seize the Moment – Day 1134
Pray for your Heart’s Desire!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, April 25.
People often ask me if it is okay for them to pray for what they want. I think so; in fact, we are invited to come to God as our heavenly Father. A good father wants to know what’s on his children’s hearts and minds. Jesus emphasized this in His teaching on prayer in Matthew 7:9-11:
Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!
God wants you to pray for your heart’s desire, and in asking Him, He (and you) will hear what it is you are seeking (Matthew 7:7-8). One of my favorite blessings to pray over someone is, “May God give you the desires of your heart, may all that you desire be found in Christ alone.” While it names the inclination of every human heart to come to God to have their desires met, it simultaneously prescribes that God is all that we need. God is our sufficiency! He is the wellspring of life and blessing, the Source of all good gifts, as David expressed in Psalm 36:8-9, “They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; and You give them to drink of the river of Your delights. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light” (cf. Psalm 37:4).
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 36, meditating upon God as the fountain of life – “Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow” (James 1:17).
God bless you!
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