Today: 2026-09-27
GETTING YOUR HEART’S DESIRES
Text: Psalms 37:1-7
Emphasis: Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart (Psalms 37:4)
Narration:
Imagine being able to get from God whatever your heart wishes. That would be great, right? Well, the psalmist in today’s scripture gave us a formula to achieve this. He said we should delight ourselves in God. That is the only condition given. So, what does it mean to delight yourself in God? Why do you need that before getting everything you desire from Him?
Delighting yourself in God begins with prioritising what pleases Him. This, of course, is the work of grace; it is a transformative process in the heart that brings about a complete change of your longings, priorities and value system. Thus, by asking you to “Delight thyself in God”, the psalmist invites us to lay ourselves on God’s operating table, where He performs the greatest heart surgery of all. He cuts away what does not belong, so that we may bleed out every hindrance and be filled with His life. And like Paul, we too can then declare, ‘I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus”. The aim is to change you (2 Corinthians 5:17). And if the Lord must change the man, He will have to start from His heart (Proverbs 4:23). This is because when God changes the heart, the man is changed!
Described as a man after God’s heart (1 Samuel 13:14), David understood what it meant to delight in God. Even when he fell into sin, he prayed for a contrite heart, that is the kind of heart God does not despise (Psalms 51:17). God is ready and willing to answer the prayers that arise from a remorseful and transformed heart (John 16:23). When our hearts are transformed, our prayer points and style will change as well as our prayer lives.
Prayer: Gracious Father, please transform my heart by Your Spirit and word, so I can ask according to Your will and receive with joy, thanks and praises; I pray in Christ’s name, Amen.
A publication of: The World International Sacred Peace Movement - Grouped Soul.
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