What does it mean to delight? You might think of a delight as a tasteful treat, or something that you see that makes you happy, but what does it truly mean to be delighted by the Lord, what does the Lord mean by being delighted by Him mean. Do we know that? I think if we read the Bible, we get a pretty good idea of it, it means that we long for Him, we desire to chase Him, we can't wait to spend time with Him, we don't dread praying, we don't have a bucket list of things to do that we have to check off in a day, we long to do it. How many people have you heard say I have to ready my Bible today? Like they hate doing it, but they have to do it? That is not a delight in the Lord, that is a dread to be doing something He desires us to do. It is a longing to spend time in the presence of the Most High God, it is the Longing to give God our best, not our left over, it is to give Him our most, not to give Him what we dread, it is to give Him our all, not to give Him what we don't want. We don't have to go to Him with a list of request, but with a list of praise and thanksgiving. It is to praise Him, to be thankful in everything.
Today, how can you change your wording, to give Him thanksgiving instead of making it the same as it always is. Let me make some suggestions.
Instead of saying Lord please go before me today, change it up, Lord thank you for going before me today, because He says He goes before us every day. We are thanking Him for doing something He already says He does.
Instead of asking for peace, thank Him for the Peace He gives us.
Instead of asking for comfort, thank Him for the comfort.
Instead of asking Him for His promises, thank Him for all He promises us.
When we change our prayers, we change who we are, because no longer are we asking, we are changing from being a greedy person, to being a thankful person, we are thanking God for all He has done and for all He is doing. He has promised to give us the desires of our Hearts, but our hearts must align with Him, but they will not align with Him, if we are not being thankful in all that He has and is doing for us.
It is a matter of perspective, it is a matter of changing the way we look at things, we have to change our conversation with Him, stop asking and start praising Him, being thankful for what you have and all He has given you. It changes everything. It will be amazing how it will change you in the process.
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