"Delight yourself in The LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to The LORD; trust in Him and He will do this..." Psalms 37:4-5 (NIV)
King David, a man after God's own heart (1 Samuel 13:14 and Acts 13:22), told the people of God that if they delighted in The Lord, in His Word, and in His way; and if they trusted in Him, that He would grant them the desires of their hearts.
We need to understand that The Lord will also grant us the desires of our hearts if we, one, trust in The Lord and do His will; two, if we make The Lord our heart's delight; and three, if we submit our way to His way. David was not perfect, but God blessed him. He committed a number of sins, but his delight was in the law of of The Lord and He meditated in it day and night. (Psalms 1:2) He praised The Lord seven times each day. (Psalms 119:164) He even got joy out of going to The Lord in prayer. (Psalms 43:4) David provided us with a good example. If we want The Lord to bless us with the desires of our heart, then we must show Him that we love Him, that we love His Word, and that we love His way. We need to submit to His way, to do good and to follow His will. If we submit ourselves to The Lord, we will be able to resist the devil and he will flee from us, and then it will be easier to do the will of God. (James 4:7) Things that we delight in doing, we do, and we do them often. Let's not just tell The Lord that we love Him, let's let our actions show Him that we love Him, and that we delight in Him.
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