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\u201cDelight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.\u201d <\/b>Psalm 37:4<\/b><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

When I hear people reference this Scripture, the emphasis is usually on the latter part of the verse. We can focus so much on our desired outcome that we completely ignore the crucial prerequisite, but God does things in order. Those who will renounce the carnal nature and submit to the Holy Spirit are those He can trust with the greatest of blessings. Instead of coming to God with a pre-conceived wish list of desires that we want Him to sanction, we need to understand what it means to delight in the LORD and consider why it is so important. To delight in the LORD means to take immense pleasure, satisfaction, and joy in Him\u2014rather than the things we want from Him. It means to hunger for His presence: that place of divine intimacy where we are transformed into yielded vessels whose desires align with His will. In other words, those who take delight in the LORD are blessed to want what He wants for us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dear Father,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Your plan for us is good and perfect: rooted in everlasting love. Your will for us is greater than any desire that we could perceive or imagine. Your Word and Your Spirit declare these truths. In You, we are divinely delighted. In Jesus\u2019 Name. Amen.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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For Further Study:
<\/span><\/span>Psalm 27:4 \/ Psalm 26:8\u00a0
<\/span>Psalm 65:4 \/ Psalm 42:1
<\/span>Psalm 119:97 \/ John 6:63
<\/span>2 Corinthians 3:18
<\/span>Romans 12:1-2 \/ Matthew 6:33
<\/span>Jeremiah 29:11 \/ Jeremiah 31:3
<\/span>John 15:7 \/ 1 John 5:14<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDelight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.\u201d Psalm 37:4When I hear people reference this Scripture, the emphasis is usually on the latter part of the verse. We can focus so much on our desired outcome that we completely ignore the crucial prerequisite, but God does things in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"blog","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\"\"\n\n\u201cI am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel\u2014 <\/b> <\/b>which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God\u2019s curse!\u201d Galatians 1:6-7<\/b>\n\nThe Good News is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It\u2019s the truth that sets us free, from both the power and the wages of sin. Because the enemy is the author of lies, he distorts and perverts what God has said and done. False Gospels serve those who\u2019d rather embrace their sin, than repent of it. The theologies behind these fake gospels may use harmless sounding labels like inclusive <\/i>or progressive. <\/i>But anything that leads us to celebrate what God forbids, is not of God, and therefore has no power to redeem. So, we can choose to walk in truth by the Word\u2014or embrace our old nature by the counterfeit. One offers life\u2014the other offers death. But there is no middle ground.\n\nDear Lord, \n<\/i>Please keep us from deception. For in your perfect love, you are neither double-minded, nor swayed by popular opinion: You change not. No one can improve your word or your finished work. By your grace, we can take the narrow path, where our hunger for truth overrides the flesh. In Jesus\u2019 Name. Amen.<\/i>\n\nFor further study:\nMatthew 24:24 \/ 2 Corinthians 11:4\nLuke 17:22-23\n2 Timothy 4:3-4 \/ James 3:1\nMatthew 18:6-7\nGalatians 5:17 \/ Romans 7:18\nJohn 10:27 \/ John 10:4-5\nMatthew 7:13-14","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afterbirth","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}