Unite my heart to fear Your name',

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"Unite my heart to fear Your name!" Psalm 86:11

To fear God includes . . .
faith in His Word,
love to His character,
zeal for His glory,
concern to please Him,
and the fear of offending Him. 

It sometimes signifies to WORSHIP Him. 
This embraces . . .
reverence,
adoration,
thanksgiving,
and prayer. 

Worship without the heart is worthless! But how often in worship, do we feel our hearts distracted and wandering, and at a distance from God! Well may we pray, "Unite my heart to fear Your name!" That is, calm it, compose it, attract it, fix it, inflame it—that it may throw all its energies into Your worship.

Such a prayer proves that we . . .
love to worship God,
desire to honour Him in it,
feel our own weakness, and
seek to obtain grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 

But do all saints feel their hearts thus prone to wander, and find it difficult to engage them in the Lord's worship? They do at times, though some suffer from this much more than others. All occasionally feel some reluctance to worship—or distractions in it; or they are the subjects of dullness and deadness. Therefore they all pray as David did here, "Unite my heart to fear Your name!"