Any Needs or Desires?
Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalms 37:4
*God’s Will is what happens when we seek Him!
*Only God can meet our needs and desires That will bring us true happiness. God himself placed our unique needs and desires into our hearts.
Spend time with God and continue digging into His word for treasures that are beyond our imagination.
Notice that first word: “Delight yourself.” Psalms 37:4
I heard someone once ask this question of a group of people: “Do you enjoy your religion, or do you endure it?”
I think that to the majority of people religion is something to endure.
It’s a kind of painful duty that they have to go through with,
BUT that’s NOT the way God wants us to experience Him. He doesn’t want us to endure Him; He wants us to ENJOY Him.
** God says, “Delight yourself in Me and I will give you the desires of your heart.”
That doesn’t mean simply that God will do for us everything we might wish or think.
*It means that He’ll put in us new desires – godly desires, beneficial desires, the kind of desires that God has Himself.
*And then He’ll satisfy those desires because He’s put them there in our heart in the first place.
* When we find real joy and pleasure and satisfaction in our personal relationship with the Lord. Then out of that comes that blessed PEACE that He will put into our hearts – those desires which He Himself has and which He wants to share with us, desires that are beneficial in their fulfillment.-
On whom does Jesus bestow his peace? You may think, “I’m not worthy of
living in Christ’s peace. I have too many struggles in my life. My faith is
so weak.”
We receive the peace of Christ from the Holy Spirit. This peace comes to us as the Spirit reveals Christ to us. The more of Jesus you want, the more the Spirit will show you of him—and the more of Christ’s actual peace you will have.
The Holy Spirit doesn’t comfort us by manipulating our feelings. His
way of comforting is vastly different and is outlined clearly in Scripture.
No matter what the problem, trial or need, his ministry of comfort is accomplished by bringing truth: “When he [the Holy Spirit] is come, he will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13).
The fact is, our comfort springs from what we KNOW, not what we FEEL!!
Only TRUTH overrules feelings! And the comforting ministry of the Holy Spirit begins with this foundational truth: God is not mad at you. He loves you.
In his own time and his own way, God will make a way when there seems to be no way. Whether you’re well or whether you’re sick… whether the answer comes as we expect it or not.
Yes, Jesus is your sympathetic High Priest! So trust in his love and care for you today.
When Jesus healed a blind man: And all the people, when they say it, gave praise to God (Luke 18:42).
* It was right for them to do so! God himself was performing miracles in their presence.
*But, like us, they sometimes confused things — giving greater glory for Gifts they could see rather than the gifts that are ETERNAL.
*Be encouraged today because God is working behind the scenes on your behalf. Delight yourself in Him — find joy in serving Him and make your heart moldable in His hands. Don’t settle for mediocrity because God knows what’s in YOU, and His plan is to finish the work He began in YOU!
Father God, I humbly come to You today giving You all that I am. Thank You for fulfilling every desire in my heart. Mold me and shape me into Your image. Remove anything from my life that is displeasing to You so that everything I am brings glory to You. Lord, forgive me for the times I’ve kept to myself, believing I have everything necessary to solve my problems. In doing so, I may have missed Your plan for meeting my needs through others. Help me to identify pride and submit it to You. Help me to have a humble and teachable spirit. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.