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Heart Alignment

    We know that the first and most important command is to love God with all we have in us. If that is what He deems as the most important thing in life, don't you think He values that and would want to keep Himself our main focus? Think about this in the context of prayer. We are also told in the Bible that if we ask anything in His name and believe it, we will receive it. But it is only if it is in the confines of what He has promised and what is in His will for our lives. But what about your heart in that prayer?

    Have you ever prayed for something that you knew was the Father's will, but it wasn't happening? Well what if it wasn't about that? What about your heart behind the prayer. Is the thing you are praying for going to lead you away from Jesus? Jesus doesn't want to be our means to an end-- He wants to be our everything! He wants to give us the desires of our heart and to answer our prayers, but He also doesn't want to lead us away from Himself.

    Sometimes we ask for things that we believe are good, but really our intentions are selfish or leaning away from God. Before you ask Jesus for something, ask yourself why you want it and if you are would still love Jesus if you didn't get it. Oftentimes we need to let whatever it is go and realize that it is Him that we seek above all else-- everything else is just a result. Change your heart to align with His before you start praying and that's when you will start to see real results.

Luke 10:27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’' (NIV)

 John 14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. (NIV)

 John 15:7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. (ESV)

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