Pray While You’re Prey Devotion Plan For Singles, Part VISample

Sheer Delight

Quote from Pray While You’re Prey:

“I know the type of [mate] that I desire, and I want to be with the type of [mate] that God desires for me.”

I, like many, have often searched for the key to getting everything I want. I mean, who doesn’t like getting his or her way? I will even admit, because I know I have been forgiven for it, that there was a point in which I thought I could manipulate God.

I would say things like, “God, I promise to…If You will…,” (you didn’t really think I was going to fill in the blanks, did you?). Then, I read this Scripture, Psalm 37:4, “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” It sounded super simple.

So, I just had to show God that I loved Him, right? I went to church, Sunday school, and Bible Study. I paid my tithes and offering. I sang with the praise team. I even read the Bible and prayed on my own. And I am a deacon’s daughter, so that had to count for something. And I truly felt that because I did all of that, God should give me what I wanted…A MAN!!!

I would pray this Scripture back to Him like I was told you are supposed to, “Lord, You said if I delight in You, You would give me the desires of my heart, so I want a man. Remember, what You promised. I am delighting in You.” Yes, I was that brazen, or young and stupid, either way, I was totally misinterpreting this verse, and I had taken it out of context.

I never really read the second part of the verse about commitment and trust. Not only that, but I did not realize that when you are serving someone only for what you can get out of the deal, that is not true devotion. I have learned how I was treating God through many of my relationships with men, friends and family. I have had many people in my life offer me praise, help, and so-called commitment just so that they could get what they wanted from me. It is an awful feeling, and I hate that I ever thought my relationship with God should be like that. But praise God for spiritual growth!

Now I know these verses mean that when you have sheer delight in God alone, you commit to Him alone, and you trust in Him alone, He will change your heart and your desires to conform to His Will for your life. He will set you on a path of dreams that you never even imagined. All of the things and people you wanted before may be included, but they will not be the ultimate prize. The ultimate prize will be an intimate relationship with the only One who can totally and completely satiate your every desire, which is the one, true, living, loving God Almighty. Find sheer delight in Him and see your desires fulfilled.

Prayer:

Thank You, God for allowing me to have a close, personal relationship with You.

Please forgive me for anytime I have done something to please You in an effort to get my way.

Lord, please help me to wholly commit to Your Will for my life and to trust in You so that the dreams You placed in me will come to pass.

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen