Hey, this is Beth. Listen, what we live for at Living Proof is to serve people the Word

of God. We base our ministry on Hebrews 4.12 that tells us that the Word is alive and

active. We pray this message is going to serve you in some way today and that God is

going to speak through it. Thank you so much for giving us this privilege.

Do not give up. Do not give up on God and do not give up on the desires of your heart

unless he had shown you that they are his specific antithesis of desire for you. Do not give

up. Now listen carefully this so we can kind of imagine what the Psalmist meant by this

heart's desire. A legitimate heart's desire necessitates a weight. So with every true

with what the Psalmist is talking about, if you've got a heart's desire, you have

waited for it. It's necessary to qualify as a desire of heart because it has to be

something that has been tested by time. A true heart's desire is something that is

really on your heart that you really want from life and you really want in life or

you really want for a loved one is something it's a sustained longing and I don't know

if you're taking down notes but that would be a very key phrase for understanding a

desire, a true legitimate desire of your heart. It is a sustained longing that is

unaffected by mood or surroundings. It's a sustained longing. This is a true

heart's desire according to Psalm 37. It's going to be something that is sustained over

a long period of time and necessitates a weight because for it to be a true longing, it's

had to build up over time. So that part of the weight is necessary to establish it as

a true heart's desire. So the very thing that frustrates us so badly is imperative for

it to qualify. Does that make sense to anybody? And it's not affected by mood. In other

words, no matter what your hormone level is at any given time of the month, you still

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