Delight in the Lord

My friends leave tomorrow for Brasil tomorrow. I'm sad in some respects because I won't get to see my adopted family there, but at the same time know that I was not called to go there this summer. I started working with a missions team out of the U.S back in November and nothing ever worked itself out. Last summer as I got to experience Brasil and some amazing ministry, I committed to the Lord that as long as I was still single I would serve wherever He called me to serve during the summer. What I find so interesting is that after all that, this summer I am not headed anywhere. I prayed through MANY options but none ever seemed to be the place to be.

"Delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your ways to him and he will do this." Psalm 37:4,5 I've been reading a lot about this. What does it look like to Delight in Him? What does it mean to commit your ways to him, and what do the following versus say that he will do? I believe that as we begin to find joy in the Lord, asking Him to be the joy of our lives first and foremost that we will begin to find all the things we ever thought we would want. Not in the since that we will get all of these earthly possessions or that you or I would be rich, but that our joys would begin to change. Our desires would match up with what the Lord has in store for us and just maybe we would begin to find joy in the places that we don't think we really were suppose to be to begin with. (i'm still not there yet, so this is a work in progress for me). There are so many places in scripture the Lord talks about delighting in Him, or asking whatever in His name and He will do it. I believe there is a catch to this however, ok catch might not be the right term. It all comes down to belief. I can ask a lot of things from the Lord, however if I don't really believe down in my heart, my core of what I believe that God can do, then I'm not sure He's really willing to answer that. I believe He can to show me He is still and will remain the Most High, but He wants us to believe what He is saying to us. We ask in faith. So what is it that you believe. If you really look to the core of what you believe and what you are praying, do you REALLY believe He can do it? I know we all have times that we will have our ups and downs with faith. We will struggle to believe God is working. I can't tell you how many times I have prayed and I just didn't believe what I was praying, and if I would be honest with myself it all came back down to the fact that I didn't believe my LORD was big enough. How sad! The God who created the universe, the one who has made so many prophecies come to reality, who died and rose again three days later, that God wouldn't be big enough for me? Seriously? I must find delight in Him, because on those days that I ask the Lord when I first get up to be the delight of my life. He energizes my day. He gives me enough energy to go above and beyond my tired self, and become the playful person that personality really is. I pray that for you, tomorrow you will get up and realize the LORD (and yes it needs to be all caps, because all caps means yawah, the creator) is the delight of your life. I am praying that anyone who reads this will begin to think about the hugeness of our God, and that I will continue to realize that daily.