AudreyNicole
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So I've been praying about a certain desire in my heart for about 5 months now. It has been weighing on my heart and giving it up to God is my first action because I want to follow Him and not my own heart.
So anyways I've been praying pretty fervently day and night about this desire, asking God to guide my ways but especially my desires because I don't want to desire anything that He doesn't want for me. My single greatest desire is to follow God's will and not my own, and He has helped my over the past year learn to recognize His ways from this world's. So as this desire weighs on my heart I continually give it up to God because I don't know how to deal with it, and I have full faith that He will deal with it properly. The thing that I am having the greatest problem with though is knowing if this is a Godly desire or a carnal one? I can't seem to tell the difference and it makes me so sad because I don't want anything to do with anything that isn't of God.
I pray about it quite a bit and I ask that if this isn't a proper desire that God would remove it from my heart. I often pray that He would detach me from everything of the world and lessen these feelings I am having for this thing if it is not right. I guess I'm just wondering if this is the right way to pray for this thing.
Someone recently said that some things of this world just aren't meant for us and so no amount of prayer will ever get us those things... which I agree with. But God wouldn't let us keep wasting our time praying for these things then, would He? I mean if you are truly desiring something that isn't from God, He would let you know right? I just don't want to be wasting all this time and effort in a vain pursuit of something that I shouldn't even be praying for.
How should I pray about this?
So anyways I've been praying pretty fervently day and night about this desire, asking God to guide my ways but especially my desires because I don't want to desire anything that He doesn't want for me. My single greatest desire is to follow God's will and not my own, and He has helped my over the past year learn to recognize His ways from this world's. So as this desire weighs on my heart I continually give it up to God because I don't know how to deal with it, and I have full faith that He will deal with it properly. The thing that I am having the greatest problem with though is knowing if this is a Godly desire or a carnal one? I can't seem to tell the difference and it makes me so sad because I don't want anything to do with anything that isn't of God.
I pray about it quite a bit and I ask that if this isn't a proper desire that God would remove it from my heart. I often pray that He would detach me from everything of the world and lessen these feelings I am having for this thing if it is not right. I guess I'm just wondering if this is the right way to pray for this thing.
Someone recently said that some things of this world just aren't meant for us and so no amount of prayer will ever get us those things... which I agree with. But God wouldn't let us keep wasting our time praying for these things then, would He? I mean if you are truly desiring something that isn't from God, He would let you know right? I just don't want to be wasting all this time and effort in a vain pursuit of something that I shouldn't even be praying for.
How should I pray about this?
