Tag: Bible verses about God giving us the desires of our hearts

Bible Verse of The Day – 1-1-20

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

What are the desires of our hearts?

That’s a pretty major question that we each need to ask ourselves.

Why should we be asking that question?

Because it will tell us a lot about our walk with God. It will show us where our hearts lie.

Our hearts will focus on the things that mean the most to us. We will spend our time and our efforts putting energy into those things. They will dominate our thoughts and our conversations.

Matthew 6:21 (NKJV) 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The funny thing is that we can think our heart is in the right place, but our actions will sometimes show us otherwise. It’s only when we take an honest look at ourselves that we will recognize this. And when we do recognize it, whether we then see the need to change or not will also tell us a lot.

Sometimes God will show us something, but we turn a blind eye, saying “Not me, God. I don’t do that!”. But if God is tapping us on the shoulder, we need to be sure to take heed.

Our honesty with God and ourselves is the key to fixing any problems as quickly as possible. And if we’re still not sure about it, we just need to listen to ourselves as we speak.

Matthew 15:18 (NKJV) 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.

Are we wondering why God doesn’t seem to be giving us the desires of our hearts? Sometimes it’s just a matter of timing. We need to wait on Him.

Other times it’s because our desires don’t align with His desires.

As we press in to Him, and we learn to line our desires up with God’s heart, we will begin to see our desires answered and fulfilled.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-31-18

Matthew 7:7 (NKJV)7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

God tells us that if we ask we will have, if we seek we will find and if we knock it will be opened. The question is, “do we ask, do we seek and do we knock?”.

This was a very big lesson we had to learn. We would never ask God for anything. We would just wait and see what He would do. Even if we were in a critical situation, we would just wait, wait and wait some more.

We were patient in this area, but we weren’t doing everything we were told to do. We weren’t asking, seeking and knocking. How many of us do that today? We just sit and wait and see what God will do.

We think because God knows everything about us that we shouldn’t have to ask.

Wrong! We need to ask. And one of the things we have learned is that we need to be specific with our asking.

Once we learned how to ask, we would be very shy and reserved about it. We would only ask for exactly what we and others needed. That was it. Nothing else! I guess we didn’t want to put God out, so to speak.

But, one day during my prayer time I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to lift up my desires as well. I struggled with this, and I even argued with Him. Don’t argue with the Holy Spirit. He always wins.

He showed me that as long as my desires lined up with the will of God for me, and as long as they weren’t going to hurt me, it was OK to ask for more than just exactly what we needed. He has proven to us that He loves to help us with the desires of our hearts.

He loves to see us succeed and move forward. He loves to bless us!

We’d like to remind each and every one of you today, as we obey God with everything that He blesses us with, that we also give back to Him a tenth of it.

As long as we are diligent and faithful to Him, putting Him first, He will take care of our every need. He will protect us and give us the desires of our heart.

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

That doesn’t mean we can be silly or excessive in our asking, but be prayerful. God will show us what we need and what desires are good for us. He will give us wisdom even in our asking. Amen.

Have a lovely day. You are blessed to be a blessing!

Proverbs 11:25 (NLT) 25 The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-30-18

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

This is a promise.

I have seen this happen in my own life, the more I turn to God. And I mean turn to Him for everything. He has turned my life around and made it beautiful! I can honestly say He knows me better than I know myself.

This verse is telling us something that I personally wish I had gotten earlier in my walk with God. I was a Christian since childhood and I am just now starting to understand what God is saying to me here.

I did a lot of things in my life. I’ve been through a lot of different kinds of trials. Most of these things I brought on myself. Some were very hard to get through. But nevertheless, God was there with me and helped me through it all.

How much easier and enjoyable my days would have been if only I had taken this verse and applied it to myself. If only I walked it out at an earlier stage in my life, I may very well have been able to avoid a lot of things that brought pain.

It’s OK, though, because I do understand it now. We know the saying; better late than never, right?

I share this with you all today because we love each and every one of you. You are very dear to Pastor Curt and me. We want God’s best for you and for you to be able to have the desires of your heart!

We have not met most of you face to face, but there is a spiritual connection that God has connected us with, and we believe we are closer than we realize.

This verse is beautiful! God is saying, if you put me first in all that you do, you will live out a life that is simply beautiful. And at times when you reflect on it, you won’t even know how it happened.

Have fun, enjoy Him, go after Him. Draw near to our Lord…let Him be our delight.

The rest will be history!!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-4-18

Psalm 37:4-5 (NKJV) 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.

Delight yourself in the Lord. Commit your way to the Lord. Notice a common theme in those two phrases?

We all want God to give us the desires of our heart. Who wouldn’t? We’d be crazy not to want that!

But let’s take a look at what it takes for that to happen in our lives.

First, we have to “delight ourselves in the Lord”. This is a big deal, especially since it’s one of the keys to having God give us the desires of our heart.

To delight ourselves in the Lord means that we put Him first. We make His priorities ours. We make His thoughts our thoughts. We make His ways our ways. And so on.

It means that we give ourselves to Him wholeheartedly. 100%. We make every effort to please Him and grow our relationship with Him.

The beginning of verse 5 sums it up nicely: “Commit your way to the Lord”.

To commit means to give in trust, or to give charge over.

We trust God with our life and give Him charge over it. Pretty serious stuff, isn’t it?

So, with that in mind, it sheds new light on what it takes for God to give us the desires of our heart.

Is this meant to discourage us? Not at all. Quite opposite, actually.

Now that the mystery has been removed, we should have less doubts about this and what it takes for it to happen in our own lives. This should encourage us to move forward with God in every area of our lives.

Go ahead. Draw near to God. Press in to Him and learn of Him. He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-28-17

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

Finding ourselves in love with God, and Who He is, is one of the most wonderful things that could happen to us here on this earth.

Some try to find happiness in material things. Some try to find happiness in a certain lifestyle. Some try to find happiness through being married and having a family. Some may even go after a certain crowd of friends. Some think they will be happy with a certain title.

It’s sad but true, that some have spent their life chasing after happiness and never really found it.

If we would take all that trying and put it toward going after our first love, we will find sound, grounded, pure happiness. And through it all, God will bless us with the desires of our hearts.

1 John 4:19 (NKJV) 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-22-16

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

The desires of your heart.

How many times do we hear people talk about God giving us the desires of our heart? It’s safe to say that we hear it a lot! After all, who doesn’t want this? If we’re honest, we will all admit that we want God to give us the desires of our heart.

And God has told us that He will do this. So why does it seem that sometimes we get them and sometimes we don’t? And why do some people seem to have it happen more often than others?

The key to unlock that “secret” is in the first part of the verse shown above; “Delight yourself also in the Lord”.

You see, if we are delighting ourselves in Him, then the desires of our hearts will slowly change and shift. And what we desire will no longer be based solely on our wants. But, instead, we will now have more godly desires, revolving around His will and not ours.

This doesn’t mean that we will never get something that we want. It just means that many of the things that we want will no longer be the same as they once were.

Delight yourself in the Lord!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-8-16

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

We all want things to happen in our lives. We have desires, hopes and dreams.

So many of us spend many years of our lives chasing those dreams, hoping they will come true. And so many times we hear it said that God wants our hopes and dreams to come true. And that He will give us the desires of our heart. He does. And He will.

But so often, years go by and we feel empty and unfulfilled. We keep chasing those dreams, but to no avail.

Why?

There’s a secret to making sure God gives us the desires of our heart. It isn’t some kind of magic prayer or a special type of fasting.

It isn’t about attending the right church or singing the right praise and worship songs. And it isn’t about giving the right amounts of money.

It’s all about our hearts.

As we seek God, truly seek Him, and build a relationship with Him, the desires of our hearts will begin to change. We will begin to long after the things that God wants in our lives, not just the worldly things that we used to chase after.

And as this happens, we will begin to see things fall into place for us. And we will have the desires of our hearts. We will have the things that please us. And those things will also please God.

Now, this doesn’t mean that God won’t give us other types of desires, but as we continue to keep Him first in our lives, some of those other things will also unfold for us.

The key is to remember that God is not the means to an end. He is the end. He is who we should be seeking after continually.

Matthew 6:33 (NKJV) 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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