God gives us what we desire

Ps5 2 Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray.

3 In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.

This Psalm is establishing how we can encounter the most personal fellowship with God. The Psalmist speaks about approaching God and crying out to Him. Because this Psalm is in the beginning of this book it is teaching us the proper way to have access with God. This fast rule is never crossed throughout the book. The Psalm teaches that the most simple thing to do swallows up the most complicated and difficult things in our lives. Our natural response in this life is to believe that its the kind of sorrow that we display that gets Gods attention. But the Psalms provide us with Gods decrees, promises, laws, and statutes that we have on our lips and we begin to develop habits that transform us and secure our spiritual success. We are always trying to figure out if God is responding to that one sin that we do over and over again, or the excessive burdens that we are prone to carry instead of focusing on these boundaries that God has established so that we drawn to believe that He will do more than we could ask or think. 

This is the point here where the Psalmist has developed the habit of telling God his desires and waiting in expectation. The better translation is "Morning by morning You hear my request." The Psalmist focuses on his desires because God has made us like Himself. So the Psalmist believes that he must know himself in order to know God. This is terribly important and has been redefined in this pragmatic age. The Psalms teach that when we are saved we receive new desires. Our old will is destroyed and God puts His new will in us.Now listen we may have desires that are in conflict with Gods new desires but they are never described as a direct rebellion but a cause for us to slip and be in danger. The truth is that since we have the fulness of God dwelling in us we have the ability to use these corrupted desires for our benefit and be freed from the power of the curse...that being to free ourselves from the unjust use of our desires. We free ourselves by pouring out our desires to God and experiencing the consuming of the experience of being stung by the curse. Our new desires should never be seen as being so burdensome that they lead to dread. 

So when we express our desires to God even tho they may be obnoxious, angry, neurotic, fearful, or excessively sorrowful, we have been given the freedom to be wrong and still be accepted by God. If there is nothing that we fear in expressing it to God then we begin to know ourselves as God knows us. Or as God begins to operate on us in order to heal us. He does this by being so good that we begin to be changed by His grace alone. In order for us to know ourselves fully we must know our desires and be so convinced of our purpose that we would spend years expressing them to God in order to receive what we desire. The person who is convinced that his desires are right will pray to God until he experiences the fullness of receiving what he desired. I call this experiencing the highest unity of our circumstances with our gifts. 

This is what the Psalmist does. You will see that he talks about praising, crying, petitioning,longing, and cursing as he approaches God night and day. So he is saying that he talks to God all the time. This is the way that we should experience God. We should be used to expending our energy by speaking to God with all of our hearts as He has described His work and our souls in His word. We speak to Him in His language of the laws, promise. etc. As we experience the highs and lows of His power in expending our strength in our petitions we know we are drawing near to these different times in our lives when He is approaching us through different situations. We will begin to march at His pace. When God moves it is for our good and not so that we can explain it according to our view. You will find that if you experience the highs of praise when God gives you so much that you need His power to accomplish it or the lows when God seems to be silent and you are spinning your wheels , that you will not be caught off guard or surprised.   This is the secret to being content and understanding that you are seeking God for God and not for yourselves. When you experience the highs you always want to experience them in light of the unity of God , not being satisfied by the circumstances but wanting to reach the highest power in the circumstance. And when you experience the lows, you want to be motivated to expend more energy in the petition to get back to the highs. All of this is experienced as we are convinced of our desires.