A Prayer for Pleasure – Your Every day Prayer – August 13

A Prayer For Pleasure
By Tiffany Thibault

“For the enjoyment of the Lord is your energy.” – Nehemiah 8:10b

God has created us to get pleasure from our life, to search out pleasure within the issues that we’re all in favour of. For me, pleasure is discovered not solely within the huge moments of my life – weddings, births, celebrations, but in addition discovered within the small moments, resembling once I sit on a sandy seashore, listening to the crash of the waves, or seeing my child smile at me every morning once I would get her from her crib. The truth is that these huge and small moments are fleeting blips of time in my life. My infants are grown, and I now dwell removed from the seashore, however the reminiscence of those conditions nonetheless brings me pleasure once I take into consideration them. 

Regardless that God has created us to crave pleasure in our lives, our days are principally crammed with issues that may steal our pleasure as we give attention to issues that must be achieved, initiatives to finish, points to be addressed, relationships to be labored on and communication to be improved. There does not appear to be many moments of pure pleasure all through any of that!

After we are confronted with these troublesome issues in life that rob us of our pleasure, it may be a problem to see past the circumstances. Nevertheless, it’s throughout these very arduous moments that we should be taught to lean into the Lord, to remind ourselves of the guarantees that He provides us within the Bible.

This verse tells us that our energy comes from the enjoyment of the Lord. What’s the pleasure of the Lord? The enjoyment of the Lord is discovered after we intentionally spend time attending to know who God is, after we be taught to depend on the guarantees of scripture to information our ideas and feelings, and after we stroll in shut fellowship with God all through the day.

So how can we keep within the pleasure of the Lord all day lengthy, no matter our circumstances? Right here are some things that we will be intentional about:

• We should spend time day by day studying the Bible.
• We have to be meditating (remembering) all of the issues that God is doing in our life.
• We should proceed to pray with out ceasing.
• We should start to view every scenario as believing that God is at work in our hearts and lives. 

As we start to focus extra on the Lord, by beginning every day with time within the Bible and in prayer, issues in our life will start to alter. Our ideas, feelings and plans will start to be considered by the filter of God being at work in all the arduous conditions. Our religion will turn out to be stronger as our belief within the Lord grows deeper. 

As the times go by, we are going to start to view each problem and each scenario with extra belief, with extra energy and even with pleasure within the midst of all that’s arduous in our lives. We are going to know that God is with us by each single second, and we are going to start to have actual deep pleasure as we notice how a lot that God has management of each scenario, how very a lot He’s “working all issues collectively for good” (Romans 8:28) as a result of we love and belief Him to be God in our lives. 

So, as you go into your arduous issues at present, pray over every of your circumstances and every particular person in your lives, after which hand it throughout to the Lord. Consider the promise that discovering your pleasure within the Lord will provide you with all of the energy you must stroll by each scenario that you simply face at present. 

Let’s pray:

Expensive Lord,
I can do nothing with out You. When my energy falters, I’ll look to you Lord. You’re my energy in each single scenario that I’m going by. I cling to the guarantees that you’ve given me by the phrases discovered within the Bible. Lord, I cry out to you thru the hardness of my conditions. You’re my hope, You’re my peace. I discover my pleasure in You. Assist me to permit the reality of those realities to fill each a part of my thoughts and coronary heart.
In your identify I pray, Jesus,
Amen

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