Lay Your Desires Before Him...

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

Psalm 38:9

No matter how far you have fallen, how great the error appears to be or even the depth of the mistake you made; know today that God can still transform your life, restore your divine plan and plant your feet on solid ground… Your mistake may not be correctable (there are things that happen as a direct result of our decisions which simply cannot be fixed), but you can learn from them so that the end product is positive… There are things in your life which may lead to a delay in reaching your destiny and today’s passage teaches us to understand that a delay is not the same as a removal or cut off… God has a divine plan for your life; however, the time frame in which it is executed can be paved by the choices and decisions that you make… God is not governed by the time which daily restrains us from doing things that need to be done… Each and every day that you experience on this earth is another day where you can complete all the tasks set before you if you lay your desires before the Lord… Too often I have heard people say there aren’t enough hours in the day; the question that I have to ask as a direct result of this phrase is are you using your time wisely…? Are the things you spend time doing in your day the things that God desires of you or are you busy fulfilling the desires which have led you down the wrong path to begin with…? When the desires you have don’t align with the desires of God you find yourself uttering the aforementioned phrase as if to say that you have too much to do… The bible declares in the 3^rd chapter of Ecclesiastes that there is a time for everything under the sun… “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” The will of God will never put more on your plate; on the contrary, it will actually alleviate things from your life that had no business being there in the first place… This is why David says that my desires are before thee… David realized the error of his ways and has felt the discipline from the hand of God; at this point in his life, he is crying out to the Lord knowing that the same God that delivered him before can deliver him again… As we mentioned earlier, a delay in your divine destiny is not a cut off from the will of God… Often times we get the two mixed up, we make a mistake and instead of learning from it we compound that previous mistake with the mistake of thinking that we have complete lost out on the will and plan of God… This message today is to teach us that all the desires of God can be released in our lives when we give our desires back to Him… There are a lot of mistakes that we make in life, but the greatest mistake you can make on this earth is not making sure that your will aligns with the will of God… David is fed up with the results that he has received from following his desires; he has reached rock bottom and now call on the Lord form his very heart… This passage not only speaks to the delays we can experience in this journey, it also speaks to the humility that we must have when we hit rock bottom…

David could have wallowed in his misery; however, he decides to let his groans of ineptitude reach the ears of his heavenly father… When will you decide to stop feeling sorry for yourself and start raising your hands to God begging and pleading for Him to incline His ear to you and pull you out…? Humility can allow a Christian to be deprived of his/her calling simply because they actually believe that they don’t have to turn their desires over to the Lord… Today’s message is that you can overcome, you can reach higher heights but just as Jesus said the greatest among you will be your servant. The plan that God has for you may not be the plan you have for yourself, the place you see yourself may not be the location which God has prepared for you… Sadly, sometimes the only way God gets our attention is to allow us to fall and then we call upon Him, not out of necessity but the burning desire to do His will that was ignited through the fall which we experienced… There are a lot of things that we experience in this journey of life, a lot choices that we make which will lead us to our destiny or deprive us of it… Through today’s devotional we are reminded of the love which God has for His creation even in the midst of their flaws and failures… David had succumb to the temptations of the flesh and after experiencing the great affliction which was produced form that seed of temptation he decides to lay his very soul before the Lord… In all of his anguish and misery he pens this psalm and starts by making a request unto the Lord; “Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.” Paul’s letter to the church of Philippi, he encourages them to lean on the everlasting arm of Jesus Christ… Despite the trials and tribulations that come and invade their lives, the passage written in the 4 chapter reminds them to continue to seek the very presence of God and make their desires known to Him… “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Make your request known to God, not because it’s the right thing to do but because you need to know whether your desires are His will or not... Upon receiving the answer, prepare your heart to accept His will for your life even if it hurts to the very core of what you wanted to do…

BE BLESSED!!!