Pray the Word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

Word pictures. And this is one of them. Delight yourself in the Lord. That's a command from Psalm

37. Delight yourself and 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's what we want. We've mentioned it multiple times

on this podcast that the secret to prayer is making your wants, God's 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 delight. And you are supremely delightful. You are the fountain of all delight. You're the

fountain of all that is good. You're the author of everything good. Oh, God, all of our desires for

good lead us to you. We delight ourselves in you. The good, gracious, merciful, God,

abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, the fountain of all satisfaction for our souls.

We delight in you and we pray that you would give us the desires of our heart that you would

put your desires inside of us that we would desire what you desire today in our lives. Transform

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