Desires of Your Heart

Will God give you all the desires of you heart? This is exactly what Psalm 37 verse 4 says:

Delight yourself in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

I’m sure there are many false prophets out there that love to quote this verse out of context to tell you that all you have to do is delight in the Lord and whatever you want, the Lord will give it to you.

Well, that’s only part of the story. Read the next verse because there is a condition and explanation of what it means to delight in the Lord. Verse 5 says,

Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.

Delighting in the Lord means committing all that you are to the Lord. It means you commit to having all his holiness, his righteousness, his glory (to name a few things) are what you want as a result of living for the Lord.

When you delight in the Lord in this way, then the desires of your heart will bring him glory. You will only ask for things that bring glory to God according to his will. Then, when you trust him to work out his will, he will act.

If you don’t know Jesus as your Lord, then you can’t possibly delight in him, and you won’t get the desires of your heart because the desires of a person who hasn’t come to know Jesus for salvation is only evil in God’s sight according to Genesis 6, verse 5.

To know Jesus Christ and have the desires of you heart changed to be the same as the Lord’s, watch my video on the Gospel on my profile page or on YouTube.

God Bless you.