Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. – Psalm 37:5
Have you ever tried to motivate God? Be honest. Many believers have either consciously or unconsciously tried to get God to heed their requests by the way they pray. Jesus noticed non-believers used similar approaches, saying, “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him” (Matthew 6:7-8).
When you pray it is tempting to think you are initiating a conversation rather than responding to one. God was reaching out to you long before you said yes to Him. It is self-centered to imagine you will explain to God what needs to be done in your situation!
When you place yourself unreservedly in the grace of God’s Son, you can count on having the Father’s ear continually, as Christ Jesus did. In His divine wisdom, He knows the right path. The simple heart prayer He always responds to is at times the hardest to say: “Not my will but your will be done.”
Pray simply from a trusting heart that God will move in America and the world today. Ask that many from across the nations will dedicate themselves to relationship with the Father through Christ the Son. Let the motivation of your heart becomes only to see His will accomplished. Rather than trying to motivate God, yield yourself to Him and He will motivate you!
Today’s Verse: Psalm 37:5
Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Recommended for further reading: 1 John 5:11-15
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. 4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. 9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. 11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
