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By Pastor Glenn Pease
People succeed for a thousand different reasons, but the one thing they all have in common is desire.
Igor Sikorsky, the great Russian airplane designer, tells in his autobiography of how his father took him to Paris as a boy, and they visited an airport where he saw his first plane.
His imagination was stimulated, and he developed a burning desire to build a machine that would fly.
He begged his father to let him leave school and work on it.
At 17 he began, and after two years he had spent nearly all of his fathers money, and his plane never got off the ground.
His sister still had faith in him, so she gave him all she could afford.
After two more years he got his plane off the ground, but plunged it into a local lake, and barely escaped with his life.
The family still believed in him, so they mortgaged their property to enable him to build another plane.
He did it, and then went on from this success to build the first successful multi-motored plane.
Finally, he designed an built the famous China Clipper, which he flew around the world.
His success began with his burning desire, and it was his desire that pushed him on through all this failures to achieve his goal.
If failure stops a man from pressing on, you can count on it, he has lost his desire.
As long as desire is burning, there is always fuel to keep it going, for desire determines destiny.
This is true in every realm of life.
Take marriage for example.
If two people really desire to find a solution to their problems, they will work out a way.
If they loose desire, however, they have little hope of success.
Desire is the fire that pushes us higher.
On the locker room wall of the University of Notre Dame's football team is the well known saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
Football games are not won in the first half when both teams are fresh.
Victory comes in the second half when their bodies ache, and they only want the grueling punishment to end.
That is when the team with the deepest desire digs to the depths of their being for that reserve energy to keep going.
If there is no deep desire to win, it is all over.
If it is there, however, there is no telling what kind of spectacular plays will be made.
Deep burning desire drives a team to do in a few minutes what they could not do in hours.
The greater the desire to reach a goal, the more likely it is, that goal will be reached.
Longfellow said in his teens, "I most eagerly aspire after future eminence...My whole soul burns most ardently for it, and every earthly thought centers in it."
Do you think there is any connection between his burning desire and the fact that most of us recognize the name Longfellow when we hear it?
There is a very definite connection.
Right after World War II, a young preacher who liked to paint had a showing of 50 of his paintings in one of Boston's great art galleries.
The critics were amazed, and declared he was a genius.
He never even went to art school, but James Greer was one of the great landscape artists of our nation.
William Stidger, one of his seminary professors, had him install one of his paintings in his house.
He asked him how he came to be a painter, and he replied, "I always wanted to paint more than I wanted to do anything else in life...." This is the key to almost every success story you will ever hear.
You tend to become what you really desire to be.
If this be the case, there are few things in life that are more important than that of developing the desires that will dominate, direct, and determine the direction and destination of your life.
That is why the Lord's Prayer deals with desires.
The six petitions of this prayer represent the six basic desires that are to characterize the child of God.
When these six desires dominate your life, and become the inner driving force of your life, you are as successful as any human being can be.
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire.
Here in this prayer of our Lord, we have the very essence of prayer and desire linked together as one.
This prayer was taught to the disciples because they came to Jesus asking Him to be taught how to pray.
This prayer comes in response to their desire to know how to pray more effectively.
It is, therefore, an answer to prayer, or their soul's sincere desire.
Desire is the cause of it as well as the content of it.
It is a prayer which, in itself, is an answer to prayer, and the key to all answered prayer.
The key, of course, is divinely directed desires.
Fenelon, in the 17th century, said, "To pray is to desire...to desire is to pray, and sense, if we desire improper things, we may be cursed with the granting of our prayer, it behooves us to desire only high and worthy things."
What he is saying is, strong desire almost always leads to the getting of what is desired.
That means if you desire the wrong thing, you will probably succeed in getting it, and so your very success becomes a curse.
Bernard Shaw in, Man And Superman, was right when he said, "There are two tragedies in life.
One is not to get your hearts desire.
The other is to get it."
In other words, sometimes the worse thing that can happen is to get what we most want.
The Prodigal wanted his inheritance right now, and he got it, and ended up with the pigs with nothing to show for it.
Midas got the golden touch he so much desired, and ended up destroying the daughter he so much loved.
The Israelites got their quail they begged for.
God granted them their deepest desire, but it became a curse, and many of them died, giving credence to Oscar Wilde's statement, "When the gods wished to punish us, they answer our prayers."
This means that the goal of prayer is not answered prayer, but divine desire.
The highest goal of prayer is not to get what we want, but to come to want what God wants us to have.
We see this so clearly in Christ's prayer battle in Gethsemane.
He had a strong desire to escape the cup that awaited Him.
He had the normal human desire to live and not die, plus the pure and holy repulsion from taking on the sin of the world.
Both His human and divine nature had a desire to let that cup pass unconsummed.
The goal of His prayer, however, was not to get that sincere desire fulfilled, but to get His desire conformed to the will of God.
He was able to win this victory, and let His Fathers desire dominate His own.
That is why He could pray, not my will but Thine be done.
Desire determines destiny, and because Jesus was able to wrestle His desires into a proper order where God's desires took priority over His own, He became the Savior of the world.
The destiny of all mankind hung in the balance, as these conflicting desires struggled for priority.
Nobody knows better than Jesus that desire determines destiny, and that is why the prayer He taught all of the family of God is a prayer designed to determine desires.
Thomas Aquinas, the greatest theologian of the middle ages, called the Lord's Prayer, "A list of perfect desires."
Newman Hall said, "As the 10 commandments are a summary of our doctrine, so the Lord's Prayer is a summary of what ought to be our desires."
Bishop Gore said, "Understand the Lord's Prayer and you understand altogether how to pray as a Christian should.
It is not really an exaggeration to say that the climax of Christian growth is to have thoroughly learned to say the Lord's Prayer in the spirit of Him who first spoke it."
Oh, thus, by whom we come to God,
The Life, the truth, the Way,
The path of prayer Thyself hast trod,
Lord, teach us how to pray.
And Jesus answers that prayer by teaching us the desires that are to dominate us as we come before God in prayer.
The Westminister Shorter catechism defines prayer like this-"Prayer is the offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to His will."
That means the Lord's Prayer is the perfect prayer, for all of its desires are perfectly agreeable to God's will.
If you truly desire what the petitions of this prayer ask, you cannot help but be successful in prayer.
But that is the catch: If you truly desire.
The proof that this is hard work is that Jesus sweat drops of blood in bringing His desire into conformity with the Father's will.
Don't kid yourself, and think we have here a simple success formula, and all you have to do is say the words, and like open sesame, the door of heaven will open in response.
The idea of using this prayer like a magic formula is contrary to its very purpose.
If you cannot bring yourself to truly desire what this prayer requests, the mere repeating of the words is vain repetition, and no prayer at all.
You can say this prayer a thousand times: Hallowed be Thy name, and then go out and use the name of God in vain as a curse word.
It is meaningless words, and you just as well recite the multiplication table, for words without desire is not prayer.
People confuse wishing with desiring.
A wish may be the seed of a desire, but it has not yet germinated.
You can hear a great piano player, and say, "I wish I could play like that."
But that is the end of it.
A desire to play like that moves you to action, and you take lessons, and you practice.
True desire always motivates action to achieve what is desired.
Anyone who truly desires what he asks God for is taking action that helps achieve the answer.
The mere wisher is using prayer as a gimmick.
He hopes God will just bring it to pass without him lifting a finger.
The person who says I wish I knew the Bible better may pray, "Lord help me understand the Bible."
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