Fulfillment and Joy (Psalm 20:4–5)
May He grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans. May we shout for joy over your salvation and in the name of our gods, set up our banners. May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.
– Psalm 20:4–5
Oh, isn’t this a great picture of encouragement? It’s like a prayer for blessing over each other. May God grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans.
Psalm 20:4–5 Is a Prayer for Fulfillment and Joy
I just want to pray that over you as I read it. That your heart’s desire would come from God and would be granted by God. That your plans for your life would align with God’s plans for your life, and may they be fulfilled. May the Lord fulfill all your petitions. This is an invitation that we see all throughout the Bible, to call out to God for help in our lives, to call out for help on behalf of others, our petitions for ourselves, our petitions for others. As we ask for those things according to His word on basis for this podcast, we pray according to God’s word.
May the Lord fulfill all that we’re asking. I’m sure I’ll mention it in the future at other points, the twofold secret to prayer. One, make your wants, God’s wants. Then two, ask for whatever you want, make your wants, God’s wants. Then ask for whatever you want. God, I just pray Psalm 20 over every person listening to this right now. Lord, grant them their heart’s desire and fulfill all their plans. And God, I pray that you would transform their desires to be your desires, desires for your glory and their lives and others’ lives, desires to be conformed more into the image of Jesus through whatever they’re walking through, desires to lead people to Jesus in everyday life.
Psalm 20:4–5 Is a Psalm of Hope and Victory
God, give them, give me your desires and grant those desires, which we know are what is best for us. Lord, help us, help them, every single person listening right now to align the plans for their lives with your plans, for their lives, according to your word and your spirit, and then bring them about to the full. God lead, God direct their thoughts, their desires, their plans, their dreams, their decisions, their steps, maximally for their good and others good, and your glory among the nations.
God fulfill all of those plans and petitions, God, as you place things on our hearts. We just cry out to you for your help in our lives on behalf of others. And we pray that you would fulfill our petitions according to your power. God, we pray, you would give us boldness and faith to ask for things that can only have accomplished by your power and your wisdom, God, some of which we ask for things that are not best unknowingly, even as we ask for those things. We trust your wisdom and we trust your love God, that you will fulfill all the petitions that are good and right for us, for others, for your glory in eternity.
Praying for the Russian People
Ah, we praise you for Psalm 20:4–5, and even for the middle in verse five, maybe we shout for joy over your salvation. God, we petition right now for the salvation of the nation. Specifically, we pray for the salvation of people in Russia, as we see Russia in the headlines all the time right now. God, we pray, we intercede, we petition right now. Please God show the power of your salvation all across Russia. Draw many Russians to Jesus, we pray. Fulfill that petition, we pray, oh God, in all our petitions that we pray according to your word of trust in your power, and your wisdom, and your love. In Jesus name, amen.
