Our Delight In The Lord Shapes Our Desires

God wants to do something extraordinary in your life! When you delight in Him, He will prepare you to receive the dreams and desires of your heart.

You know, we all want god to do great things in our lives.
I think the cry of our heart is, god, do something in me and through me. Let
2017
be a year that you really bring forth the dreams and desires in my heart.
But you know what’s interesting about god’s promises is they always come with a
condition. Usually, we have to do something and then god will do something.
It comes with a condition, a stipulation.
You know, I find it very interesting because if god can get us to move, then he can move.
It’s almost as if his condition prepares our heart, it postures us to receive what he has.
You see, if we just wish all day, if we’re just fishing in the wishing pond, We’re not doing anything.
God says I am a partner with you. We are joint heirs in Jesus Christ.
He wants us to be active and participate in what he wants to do in our life.
So as we’re standing here, saying, god, do something amazing through me and in me. Bring forth my desires.
Listen to what god’s condition is.
It’s found in Psalm 375, and the Bible says it like this.
Delight yourself in the lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
When you delight yourself in god, he will shape in you, his desires
so that he can bring the best out of you. God wants to shape in you his desires.
We all want our desires to come to pass. Oh, we love to hear god’s promises.
We want god’s promises.
but what are we delighting in? What are we pursuing? What are we giving our time to?
You see, the scripture says that when we delight in the lord, which means when we find joy and happiness and pleasure in god, it will shape those desires for god.
You see, sometimes we had the wrong desires, and we’re struggling trying to make those things happen.
I think sometimes we get it backwards.
We have a desire, and we forget to find out what we delight in. We forget what gives us fulfillment.
We forget to pursue those things that give us joy, peace, and strength.
and allow those things to shape us our delight, shapes, our desires, When Jewel and I first started dating,
I worked in my family’s jewelry store. I worked on Saturdays, so I would take off on Fridays.
Joel worked at the church. So Sunday, he would tape his father’s messages.
He would edit them, get them ready, to be broadcast on television.
And so he worked on Sundays, and I worked on Saturdays.
So we basically didn’t see each other on the weekend that much.
So since I took off on Fridays, Joel decided that he was gonna take off on Fridays.
The only thing was this.
On my day off on Friday, I wanted to go to the mall. I wanted to run errands.
I wanted to do the
things that I needed to do on my
day off. But you know what was really great is Joel didn’t care.
Joel wanted to be with me. So Joel would go to the mall.
He would go with me to
the mall because he just wanted to spend the day with me. He delighted in that.
When we first started dating, Joel had season tickets to the Rockets.
uh, in fact, this was the former Compact Center for those of you who don’t know, and our first date was right here at a Rockets basketball games.
He was such a fan. He loved the games. And I love Joel.
I love to be with him anyway at that point. You could say I delighted in Joel.
So it motivated me to go to the basketball games.
It motivated me to become a sports fan.
See, I doubt it if I didn’t enjoy being with Joel.
I doubt I would have been so ambitious to go to all those basketball games.
And I can tell you this, if Joel wouldn’t have found joy in being with me, he wouldn’t have been in the mall.
You see, He liked them all because he liked being with me.
Do you get what I’m trying to say here? our delight shapes, our desires.
It wasn’t the mall, Joel liked, It was being with me, he liked.
It wasn’t that I was such an avid fan. I just wanted to be with Joel.
So I became a fan. isn’t it interesting when we delight in the lord?
We want what god wants for us. We wanna do what god does.
We wanna be where god is.
The things that are important to god all of a sudden, become very important to us.
You see, god wants to shape Your desire, when you delight in him, when you find fulfillment in him, he wants to put those dreams in you that will come to pass.
He wants you to dream big dreams, but he already has a plan for you.
When you delight in him, then your dreams will come to pass.
I find it interesting that the apostle Paul said this, in 2nd Corinthians 6.
And this is the message translation, and it really sums up what I’m trying to say.
It says the heart regulates
the hands. Paul was saying what you have in your heart What you find to light in, you’re gonna put your hands to.
See, what is in your heart is gonna drive you with great passion and determination.
your hands and your heart go together, just like your delight and your desire.
See, the apostle Paul was saying, When your heart’s right, you put your hands to the right thing.
God wants your heart to be his garden.
He wants to plant his dreams and his desires in your heart because he wants to bring forth god opportunities.
He wants to bring forth out of you, god miracles, god moments in 2017, Listen, don’t let the wrong desires cause you to struggle.
Spend your time with god. Find out what he wants you to do. Delight in him. Take pleasure.
in the fact that he
is your god, that he chose you, that his plans for you are good and not evil, they’re to give you a future and a hope.
You see, god wants our best. He doesn’t want our leftovers.
God doesn’t want the end of your day when you’re tired and a little miserable.
God wants the best of your day. Get up every morning and greet god with a good morning god.
Not an, oh, god, it’s mourning.
See, god wants our first fruits.
Throughout the day, we should have conversation with god.
We should consult him for our decisions, bring him into our relationships, take him on the job with us, Put his word in our heart.
Because when his word is in our heart, what will happen is it will come up out of us.
It will get guide us and give us great counsel and wisdom. Joel’s dad used to say
it like this. Put god’s word in your heart when you don’t need it, and they’ll come out
of you when you do need it. God’s wisdom will come out of you.
You know, Psalm 37 says, delight yourself in the lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Then it goes on to say, commit your ways to god, and he will do this.
And it begins to say how you will overcome You will any challenge you face, he will be there.
Your enemies won’t get the best of you. You see, he’s talking about delighting yourself.
creating a desire for god, then your roots go down deep so you can be committed.
You see, I delighted in being with Joel. I delighted in his friendship. I delighted getting to know him.
My desire was formed that he would be my spouse. I married him.
30 years later, I’m committed to that guy. My roots are down deep, paid through the
highs, and through the loads. He’s mine, and I’m his.
There’s a commitment that’s been formed. See, there’s a system to this.
God is saying delight before desire, desire will take root and commitment will steady you, strengthen you, and anchor you, and I will do this.
He’s saying when you’re committed, you’ll do what you don’t feel like doing.
He’s saying when you’re committed, you’ll realize even when it’s hard, on the other side, there’s a great reward.
He’s saying sooner or later, my way
is the best way. Be committed and hang on in 2017. I’ll get you where you need to be.
God is a faithful god. He wants our heart.
He wants our heart so that we can put our hands, to his business, to his kingdom, so we can be successful, we can be happy, Listen, we serve a happy god.
God is up in heaven. The Bible says laughing and enjoying things.
And he wants us down here, accomplishing, laughing, enjoying, overcoming, going from victory to victory.
We serve a god who is committed to us.
So let’s be committed to him.
I believe if we will take time to invest and delight and dwell in our god,
that he will ignite those passions
and those desires. and we will abound in his grace. And we will be committed.
Our hearts and our hands will be moving in the right direction, and I believe we’ll see miracles happen in 2017 that we never even expected.
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