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What Are You Delighting In?

2018-01-03 | 🔗
When you delight in the Lord, you love what the Lord loves. You love the things that God loves. You want to do what God wants you to do. You want to go where God wants you to go. When you love God, your desires are for the things of God and you give yourself to them. The apostle Paul sums up what I’m trying to say: “The heart regulates the hands” (2 Corinthians 8, MSG). What is in your heart, you put your hands to. What you’ve allowed to form in your heart, you go after because you have passion for it. Your hands and your heart work together.
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Welcome to the dual loose dean, podcast helpless! new to share the message of hope with those all over the world visit Joe Augustine Dotcom Flash, give hope to give a gift today. We all want to do great things in our life. I think the cry of our hard is God does being in me and throw me let two thousand seventeen we a year that you really bring or the dreams and desires and my heart, but you know its end state about gods promises is. I always come with the condition.
Usually we have to do something and then god I'll do something. It comes with a condition, a stipulation. You know. I find it very interesting because if God can get us to move, then he can move it's almost as if his condition prepares our heart. It part Cheers us to receive what he has you say if we just wish all day if we're just fish. Then the wishing pond we're not do anything God says I am a partner with you, we argue, AIRS and Jesus Christ. He wants us to be active and participate in what he wants to do in our life. So is we're standing here, saying God do something to make
He threw me and in me, bring forth my desires to the sender. What gods condition is its found in some thirty seven. Five in the Bible says it like this delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart, When you delight yourself in God, he will shape in you his desires so that he can bring the best out of you. God wants to shape in you. His desires. We all want our desires to come to pass. We love to hear gods promises. We want gods promises, but what are we delighting in? What are we pursuing? What are we given our I'm do you see the scripture says that when we delight in the Lord, which means when we Fine, joy and happiness and pleasure in God
It will shape those desires for God you see. Sometimes we had the wrong desire. Our struggling trying to make those things happen, I think sometimes we get it backwards, we haven't desire and
forget to find out what we delight in. We forget what gives us fulfilment. We forget to pursue those things that give us joy, peace and stream and allow those things to shape our delight, shapes our desires when jewel and I were started dating. I worked in my family's jewelry store. I worked on saturdays, so I would take off on Fridays. Jaw worked at the church so Sunday he would take his father's messages. He would edit them get them ready to be broadcast on television, and so he worked on Sundays and our on Saturday, so we basically didn't see each other on the weekend that night. So since I took up on fridays-
Joel decided that he was going to take off on Fridays. The only thing was this on my day off on Friday, I wanted to go to them all. I wanted to run errands. I wanted to do the things that I needed to do on my day on, but you know is really great. Is jolting care jaw wanted to be with me so Joe. To them all. He would go with me to the mall because he just wanted to spend the day with me. He delighted in that when we first started dating your head season tickets to the Rockets. In fact this was the former compact centre for those of you who don't know,
First state was right here at a Rockets, basketball game. He was such a fan, heaving love the games and I loved your. I love to be with him anyway, point you, because I am delighted in general, so it motivated me to go to the basketball games. It motivated me deeply com, a sports fan, see, I doubt if I didn't enjoy being which all I doubt I would have been so ambitious to go. All those basketball games, and I can tell you this if you're willing to found joy in being with me, he wouldn't have been in the mall. You see he liked them all, because he, like being with me Do you get? What I'm trying to say here are delight, shapes our desires.
It wasn't the mall Joel light. It was we with me lie it was: that I was such an avid ban. I just wanted to be with jaw, so I became a fan interesting when we delight and the more we when God wants for us, we were Do what God does we want to be when God is the things that are important to all of a sudden, become very important to us. You see, God wants to shape your desire when you delighted him when you find fulfilment in here, he wants to go,
those dreams in you that will come to pass? He wants you to dream big dreams, but he already has a plan for you. When you delight in him, then your dreams will come to pass. I find it interesting that the apostle Paul said this in second Corinthians. Six, and this is the message- translation- and there really sums up what I'm trying to say, it says the heart regulates- the hands. Paul was saying what you have in your heart. What you find delight in you can put your hands to see. What is in your heart is gonna drive you with great passion and determination, your hands and your heart go together. Just like your delight and your desire to see the apostle Paul was saying when your hearts right, you put your hands to the right thing. God, what's
Your heart to be his garden, he wants to plant his dreams and his desires in your heart because he wants to bring forth God opportunities. He wants to bring forth that a view. God miracles, God moments in twenty seventeen listen, don't let the wrong desires cause you to struggle spin your time with God find out what he wants you to do delight in him take pleasure in the fact that he's your guy that he chose you that here plans for you are good and not evil there to give you a future and a whole, you see God, what's our best, he doesn't want our leftovers. I don't want the end of your day when you're, tired and a little miserable God once the best of your day, get up every morning in great God, with a good forum
nodded. Oh god, it's morning, see God once our first fruits. Throughout the day we should have conversation with God. We should consult him for our decisions bringing into our relationships. Take him the job with us put his word in our heart, because when his word is in our heart, what will happen is it will come up out of us? It will get guide us and give us Great council and wisdom jewels, dad used to say it like this put gods word in your heart, when you don't eat it, and they ll come out of you when you do it gods. Wisdom come out of you. You know some thirty seven says delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Then it goes on to say, commit your ways to God, and he will do this and it began
To say how you will overcome you will any challenge you face. He will be there, your enemies won't get the best of you. You say he's talking about delighting yourselves. Creating a desire for God. Then your roots go down the. So you can be committed. You see, I delighted I mean with jaw delighted in his friendship. I delighted to know him. My desire was formed that he would be my spouse. I marry Thirty years later, on committed to that Guy Marie. There is a commitment that has been born, see. There's a system to this. God is saying delight before desire desire or take root and commitment will steady. You strengthen you, an anchor you
I will do this. He saying when you're committed you'll, do what you don't feel like doing he say and when you are committed realize even when it's hard on other sad there's. A great reward hastened sooner or later. My way is the best way hang on and twenty seventeen I'll get you where you need to be is a faithful guy. He wants or heart he wants our hearts so that we can put our hands to his business to his kingdom. So we can be successful. We can be happy can we serve happy God? God is up in Heaven the Bible says laughing. And enjoying things- and he wants us down here- accomplishing.
Laughing enjoy overcoming going from victory to victory. We serve a guy who is committed to us. So let's be committed to him. I believe if we will take time to invest and delight and dwell in our guide, that will it night those passions and those desires, and we will abound in his grace and we we committed our hearts and our hands will be moving in the right direction and, I believe, will see miracles happen in twenty seventeen. That we never even expected a man.
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Transcript generated on 2019-12-12.