Desire God.

Mar 11:24  Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. 

What ARE you desiring?

The above verse isn't a fairy godfather promise, or a Tinkerbell clap to bring her back to life because you believe. This isn't Santa Claus in one of those many Christmas movies where people are losing their belief in Santa being real so they just have to believe and it gives him power.

This isn't any of those things.  It isn't some magic stone, lamp or other object you rub and your wish is fulfilled by whatever means the author of the story chooses.

When we are told- WHATEVER WE DESIRE…it's when we PRAY.

Think about that for a few moments. When you pray you are communicating with God, your Creator, your Redeemer.  When you are speaking to God asking for anything -what is most paramount?

HIS WILL BE DONE.

If our desires do not match His will, should we be having those desires?

If our desires DO match His will we SHOULD believe that we will receive them when we ask, when we pray.

If we are praying for a million dollars, or even just enough money to see us through, if it isn't God's will- if He is in the midst of teaching us something as He refines us in the fires of affliction, we need to allow for that. We need HIS will to be done first and foremost. We need our desires to be His desires for us.  We aren’t told that we will receive the fulfillment of every wish we have- beauty, brains, brawn, money, status all these things are of the world more than they are of our Lord.  We need to desire to be refined, we need to desire to suffer anything that would draw us closer to the Lord. Does He enjoy our suffering? NO. He wants us to desire to be His, to be love. Yes, to be love because He is love. All that isn't of our God is not of love.  You can dispute this all you desire, but it's truth. Satan has set up a counterfeit love that mimics the real, but it remains counterfeit.  Because of sin, we need an advocate and we have that, we have an advocate- Jesus Christ.

1Jn_2:1  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous

Our Savior paid the price for us, we are bought.

1Co 7:23  Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 

1Co 7:24  Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. 

1Co 6:19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 

1Co 6:20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 

We belong to God through our Savior, Jesus Christ and as such we long to be His in all we do. Yet, this longing is at war with our flesh nature and we need our 'DESIRES' to be God's, not our own. This is what we are praying for, first and foremost that God's will be done in our lives even when it conflicts with our perceived desire however honest, good, and seemingly righteous. God's will.

Secondly we need to desire acceptance when we simply cannot understand why God's will is for our perceived suffering.

Yes, we need to ask for things-

Php 4:6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 

We need to use supplication, and we need it for everything, we can't exclude God from any part of our life.  We must praise Him, we must thank Him and we must desire Him to be our all in all.

All through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ… NOW and FOREVER!

Rom 12:12  Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer

Col 4:2  Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving

1Pe 4:7  But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 

Php 4:6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.