|  "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." - Psalm 37:4
I have made a few posts about how God has given me so many desires of my heart lately. It's overwhelming to me how He has done this....how He LOVES us!! But even more recently, I've been talking with various people who are also telling me that God has been giving them the desires of their hearts - things that, like me, they have desired for MANY, MANY years. God is so faithful!!
The neat thing, to me, is that though we can understand the verse that He gives us the things that we desire when we delight in Him...that's how I've always understood that verse....but not only does it mean that, it means that He PUTS those desires into our hearts so that He can bless us by fulfilling those desires. He GAVE you the desires you've had for ...whatever it is...so that He can bless you with that gift!!! He puts those desires in us so that He can bless us with those things or people. That just amazes me. Isn't that just AWESOME?!! He loves us SOO much and wants to bless us! I cannot imagine that Love....
As I was thinking about this the other day, I thought, God gave me the desires I had to have children so that He could bless me with children. But I wondered, what about those who have that same desire, but aren't able to have children? I really don't have an answer for that one. But I do know that God can do anything. He can do miracles - and He has. I know it's happened to some people.
He gave me the desire to sing on a worship team at a church that He also gave me the desire for, so that He could bless me with this church I go to now and put me on the worship team there. That was a biggie for me!! He gave me the desire for more friends, true friends, so that He could bless me with them. Probably the biggest one for me right now is that He gave me the desire - ALL my life - for one very close friend, so that He could bless me with that. I get to go visit her in 7 weeks!!  Praise GOD!! I, with the help of Connie, put on a new layout here with the theme of Friendship, because I am so blessed by my friendship with Gail (and others), that I just wanted to kind of honor that right now.
What desires do you have deep in your heart? Desires for a new home, a spouse, a child, a friend, a particular ministry? God put those desires within you so that when you delight in Him, He can bless you with them. I just think that is an awesome thing! Praise God for His AMAZING love!! |
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