This week in the Navigator's Bible Reading Plan, we read together Psalm 79.

So this question from Kimberly in Houston, Texas is timely for us.

She rides in to ask this.

Hello, Pastor John, thank you for this podcast. in to ask this. Hello Pastor John thank you for this

podcast in Psalm 79 the Psalm is praised like this quote help us oh God of our

salvation for the glory of your name deliver us and atone for our sins for your name's sake."

I want to pray like this, but how? How do I pray for things that would benefit me and the people I know and love and would also glorify God at the same time in answer to those prayers.

It seems very Christian hedonistic.

We get the help, he gets the glory.

Except I just don't know how to frame my praying like this.

I thought it would be easy until I tried to do it. It's actually

very hard and limiting because I'm finding that most of my prayers have no conscious

relation to God's glory. Can you teach me to pray the Psalm 79-9 way?

Well, Kimberly has one problem already solved, which many people stumble over.

And the problem is expressed in the question,

how do I pray for things that would benefit me and glorify God at the same time.

Many people stumble over that tension as though it were attention.

Like for me, for God, which is it?

But Kimberly knows there doesn't have to be attention

because she says, we get the help, he gets the glory.

So she's got that one wonderfully, biblically figured out.

Which is exactly what Psalm 50, verse 15 says. Call on me in the day of trouble, I will deliver you and you will glorify me.

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