hallelujah amen and amen you know we all want God to do great things in our life i think the cry of our heart is God do something in me and through me let 2017 be a year that you really bring forth the dreams and desires in my heart but you know what’s interesting about God’s promises is they always come with a condition usually we have to do something and then God will 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 postures us to receive what
he has you see if we just wish all day if we’re just fishing in the wishing pond we’re not doing anything god says “I am a partner with you.” We are joint hes in Jesus Christ he wants us to be active and participate in what he wants to do in our life so as we’re standing here saying “God do something amazing through me and in me bring forth my desires.
” Listen to what God’s condition is it’s found in Psalm 37:5 and the Bible says it like this delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart amen 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 oh we love to hear God’s promises we want God’s promises but what are we delighting in what are we pursuing what are we giving our time to you see the scripture says that when we delight in the Lord which means when we find joy and happiness and pleasure in God it will
shape those desires for God you see sometimes we have the wrong desires and we’re struggling trying to make those things happen i think sometimes we get it backwards we have a desire and we forget to find out what we delight in we forget what gives us fulfillment we forget to pursue those things that give us joy peace and strength and allow those things to shape us our delight shapes our desires when Joel and I first started dating I worked in my family’s jewelry store i worked on Saturdays so I would take off on Fridays joel worked at the church so Sunday he would tape his
father’s messages he would edit them get them ready to be broadcast on television and so he worked on Sundays and I worked on Saturdays so we basically didn’t see each other on the weekend that much so since I took off 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 the mall i wanted to run errands i wanted to do the things that I needed to do on my day off but you know what was really great is Joel didn’t care joel wanted to be with me so Joel would go to the mall he would
