One night at a prayer meeting, an elderly woman pleaded, “It really doesn’t matter what you do with us, Lord, just have your way with our lives.”

Adelaide Pollard, a rather well-known Bible teacher was at the meeting and was deeply discouraged having been unable to raise needed funds for a desired missionary trip to Africa . She was moved by the older woman’s sincere and dedicated request. At home that night, she read Jeremiah 18:3-4. It was these verses that inspired her to write the words to this hymn.

Have Thine own way Lord
Have Thine own way
Thou art the Potter I am the clay
Mold me and make me after Thy will
While I am waiting yielded and still

Have Thine own way Lord
Have Thine own way
Wounded and weary help me I pray
Power all power surely is Thine
Touch me and heal me Savior divine

Have Thine own way Lord
Have Thine own way
Hold o'er my being absolute sway
Filled with Thy Spirit till all shall see
Christ only always living in me
Have thine own way Lord

The prayer of that elderly woman and the words to this song are what one could call a “dangerous prayer.” It is not dangerous in the true sense of the word, but it is the hardest thing for control-freaks like we generally are to actually pray and mean. When you sing or pray these words, do you really mean it? Are you brave enough to totally give up your own will and tell God to do things His way? 

The prayer is not, "Tell me what you think, Lord." 
Nor is it, "Give me some choices, Lord." 

The prayer is simply, "Your will, not mine."

Jesus prayed that dangerous prayer in the garden just shortly before he was arrested. In Luke 22:42 Jesus prayed, "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."

"Yet not my will, but yours be done."

Ask God to give you the courage to pray these "dangerous" words sincerely and expectantly. Ask God to give you the faith of that elderly woman to totally trust Him and place your life in His hands. Ask God to teach you to be Christ-like and live trusting in His will.

Isaiah 64:8

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