Psalm 37:4 (NKJV) 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

He will give you the desires of your heart. That sounds like a great proposition, doesn’t it?

And it is a great proposition!

Like everything, though, we need to understand exactly what is being said, not just what we think is being said.

To get that understanding, we need to look closely at what is said in the first part of the verse. This will help us better understand the last part.

So, if we are being promised that “He shall give you the desires of your heart, in the first part of the verse, what do we have to do for that to happen?

We must delight ourselves in the Lord.

What does it mean to be delighted, or to delight ourselves in someone?

Delighted: captivated, excited, thrilled, elated, euphoric, joyful, etc.

If we are delighting ourselves in Him, everything we do is based on pleasing and satisfying Him.

We put Him first in everything we do. We make choices based on what we know is right according to His word, and what pleases Him, not by what pleases us.

We learn of Him and build a strong relationship with Him, gaining a better understanding of who He wants us to be and what He desires of us.

It is then, when we have learned to put ourselves aside and put Him first, that we will begin to see our desires coming to pass.

Why?

Well, to be honest, it is because our desires have largely changed, lining up more closely with His desires.

As we have allowed our old self to die, and be raised up new in Christ, our desires change. The old desires fall away and begin to align more closely with His desires.

And it is then that we begin to see our desires being fulfilled.

Now, this doesn’t mean that God never gives us desires that are our own. He does.

But when we allow Him to change us, shape us, and mold us, allowing the righteousness of Christ to transform us, we will less frequently desire the things of the world, or the things that are self-gratifying, and we will look more toward the things that glorify Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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