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Psalm chapter 37, verse 4, delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Is that not a great verse?

Just a simple, glorious verse, this picture of delighting yourself in the Lord even that imagery one of my sons

and I were talking this week just about all this imagery in the Psalms there's so

many phrases with such rich word pictures and this is one of them delight

yourself in the Lord that's a command from Psalm 37. Delight yourself in God. Enjoy God. And he will give

you the desires of your heart. And really there's multiple directions that goes when you think

about the rest of Scripture. One, God will put his desires in your heart he will implant in your heart

his desires he'll give you the desires of your heart and that what we want we've mentioned it

multiple times on this podcast that the secret to prayer is making your wants god's wants wants, and then asking for whatever you want.

And so to pray, God give us the desires of our hearts, put your desires in us, and then for every

desire that we have that comes from him, every desire that is in alignment with His Word, we can ask and know that God

will answer according to what His Word says. And then, then on specific things where we don't

have a word from God, where we want healing from disease, where we want, well, so many things that

we desire in our lives or we desire for

others' lives or in our families or in our churches or desire in the world.

Like we want peace in Ukraine and Russia.

We want peace in Sudan right now.

And so we have a father in heaven who says, express to me the desires of your heart.

So let's do that right now, together before God. Oh God, right now, we say together that we

delight in you. You are our joy. You are our desire. You are our joy.

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