Delight in God (Psalm 37:4)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Psalm 37:4, David Platt asks God to transform our hearts so our desires would align with His sovereign will. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.5	Psalm chapter 37, verse 4.
0:09.6	Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
0:17.6	That is a verse worth memorizing if you've not memorized it maybe even right now just kind of
0:24.3	say it with me delight yourself in the lord let's just say it a couple times delight yourself in
0:30.1	the lord delight yourself in the lord delight yourself in the lord and he will give you and he will give you he will give you he will give you
0:42.7	the desires of your heart the desires of your heart the desires of your heart the desires of your
0:50.4	heart see if you can say it all at onceight yourself in the Lord and he will give you
0:56.9	the desires of your heart and then just soak in what this means. I've mentioned it at different points,
1:05.2	but the twofold secret to prayer to getting all that you ask for in prayer here's the twofold secret one make
1:15.5	your wants god's wants then two pray for whatever you want that's the secret make your wants god's wants
1:26.6	delight yourself in the lord Ask him to transform the desires of your heart. Make your wants, God's wants, your desires, God's desires. Then ask for whatever you desire. Because you know you're asking for what God desires. This is his design for us in prayer that our hearts
1:46.9	would be so aligned with His, our desires aligned with His that what we're asking for is what He desires.
1:55.4	And this is the whole premise of this podcast that when His words are abiding in us, his desires are transforming us,
2:04.1	then we ask whatever we desire according to his word and it will be given to us. And so we pray,
2:12.9	oh God, Psalm 37, verse 4 over each of our lives. We pray that our deepest delight would be in you alone.
2:23.9	You above all.
2:26.6	You above over all the best things this world has to offer us.
2:33.6	Over and above the people we love the most the things
2:38.0	we enjoy the most may our delight in you far surpass all of those things put together help us oh god
2:47.0	to delight in you over and above all in such a way that your desires transform our desires.
2:56.0	God, please align our desires with yours and then teach us to pray for all that we desire.
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