Psalm 20
Taken out of context, verse 4 sounds like a blank check from God or perhaps a vague wistfulness that is actually without substance. What if my heart's desire is to rob a bank and never get caught, to find an illicit lover that will never betray me, or to kill someone I hate and never be convicted? But the context of verse 3 is about acceptable worship. Worship and prayer cannot be separated. Worship is more than just a proper ritual. Right worship always begins with a right heart.
We treat prayer as an irrefutable wish by which we can have God's power at our disposal. Frankly, that is foolishness from an evil heart. Our approach needs to be that we have our hearts so aligned with God that the desire of our hearts is the same as the desire of His. When we want what he wants and worship, ask, seek, and knock for it, he moves. Our problem is that we don't want what God wants. Our sinful nature wants to use God's power to satisfy itself, so we pray for these kinds of things, and then we wonder why God doesn't move on our behalf.
“God, make my heart like Yours so that I will ask for what You want. AMEN.”
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