Does God Want What You Want?

Remember asking your parents for something that you really wanted but for whatever reason they told you to wait?  No doubt you wanted the object of your desire right then and there.  Waiting seemed like such a difficult task, but you did it and for your patience your parents gave you what you requested.  At this moment, what is it that you currently desire?  I’m not talking about material things, I’m talking about non-tangible things such as a obtaining a marriage partner, wanting someone to change, someone to stop a nasty habit, or wanting someone to receive salvation, etc.  The attitude one has can certainly affect the outcome of the petitioned of prayer.  In maintaining patience and a spirit of expectation the Lord rewards His children.  However, if during the waiting period, one becomes impatient and exasperated, starts to complain - it may force one to take foolish action rather than waiting on God. 


As adults we have been conditioned to work step-by-step earnestly towards our goals in order to achieve them.  People are use to working hard for something on their own, then seeing the end results of their sweat and hard labor, yet that same formula doesn’t apply in one’s walk with the Lord.   Proverbs 3:5-6  (AMP) reads, “Lean on, trust in and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.  In all your ways know, recognize, acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.”  By not relying on your own insight or understanding, you put a stop to the hasty, random impulses to take action yourself verses waiting on the Lord to work.  Many exhaust themselves by allowing their flesh to get in the way, by trying to “make it happen” instead of trusting in the Lord, thus getting frustrated and impatient when they don’t get the results they want.  Some may even start to doubt or lose faith in the Lord.