![]() ![]() And the condition of our heart is paramount. Whatever your desire is, we learn from Psalms 37:4 and other references in the Bible, that we can only accomplish our God-planted dreams, if we can discover how to delight ourselves in Yahweh. Maybe you are a student and want to finish school and pursue your own great adventure…have career dreams, ministry dreams, etc.īut more importantly, because first things really do need to be first - before you assess your dream or hearts’ desire, let’s discern: what is the condition of your heart? Maybe you want to bring leadership and impact to your community. Maybe you have a business idea and you want to see it grow. Maybe you have a heart to reach out to people in need or in poverty. So what is the desire of your heart? Maybe you have (or want to start) a family and you want to love and care for them. What a blessing! We get to be in God’s Garden, where we discover what David the Psalmist wrote about elsewhere, “in your presence there is fullness of joy at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” One of the beautiful revelations from studying the verse more closely, is that ‘delight’ comes from the root word for ‘Eden.’ Did you know that Eden was a garden of true and pure delight? The garden of God (aka the Garden of Delight) is the place where we can find fulfilment for every hearts’ desire! So in other words, the Bible is teaching us to “ Eden ourselves in Yahweh…and He will give us the desires of our hearts.” If we delight, enjoy, fellowship with and love God, we will also be given the desires of our hearts. Delighting in Them is not very difficult to do.Īnd so we are being invited into a profound Kingdom truth here. Perhaps, what always strikes me most about this verse, is that Yahweh, Christ, and The Holy Spirit are the most DELIGHTFUL beings in the entire universe. If we foster sincere passion within our heart for God the Father, by delighting in Him, we are promised the overflow will be the receipt of our heart’s desire! It says, “ Delight yourself in the Lord (Yahweh) and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalms 37:4 is a ‘life verse’ for me personally, and undoubtedly one of the truths in Scripture every one of us could live our lives from. ![]() Jesus later declared in Matthew, “From the overflow of your heart, your mouth speaks.” This means that even the words we speak come from the internal condition of our heart. ’ This means that our actions flow out of the condition of our heart. Proverbs (written by the wisest author who ever lived) declares, ‘As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Ask God to lead you to sources that will fill your mind and heart with His love and truth so that those are the things that overflow from your heart onto your tongue.You’ve probably been asked the question before: ‘What is on your heart?' Did you know the true answer to that question impacts every detail of your life? Through prayer, you can own up to it and rid yourself of it, even if it is ugly. Secondly, don’t hide from God because of shame. Study encouragement from scripture and diminish voices in your life that lead to internal sickness. If you are metaphorically ingesting toxic substances, begin to reach for more wholesome material. “Uh-oh,” some of us are thinking! What if the unpleasant things in my heart ended up coming out of my mouth? Jesus explained, “from the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34). You and I are a bit like that pot of water – we shouldn’t expect to fill ourselves with one thing and magically produce something completely different. Now, only a fool or a character in a fairytale would expect to take the lid off and find that the water had turned itself into a hearty soup! ![]() ![]() Then you put the pot over a fire, put on the lid, and wait for it to boil. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. ![]()
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