It goes deeper than that
"delight yourself in the Lord
and He will give you the desires of your heart" Psalm 37:4
What is it to 'delight yourself in the Lord'? Delight- that means joy.. fun, interest. Do i just interest myself in HIm, or is it more of loving HIm with everything I have. With all my heart, mind, soul, and body?
I know that when I love God totally with every ounce of me, that the things of my heart that I desire and the plans that He has for me are totally different. I want so bad one thing, but He is wanting to teach me something totally different. Will I be able to give up my life and die for Him? I pray I can. It's all worth it, only for HIs glory.
The things I desire are so simple at times, but at the same time so complicated. Things like relationships, praise band, friends, church location. More than anything I want to be dependent on Christ, and HIm alone. I don't want to worry about having a boyfriend and the things that come with that spiritually ( distractions..). At the same time I desire affection. If I am attracted to someone, but yet there is 'nothing' there, is that attraction truly a desire of mine or is it just that I haven't delighted myself in HIm enough, and that there are still things He needs to teach me. I desire to play the guitar, and i would love to be able to play in the praise band at church, I just don't know if that's something the Lord wants me to do there. It is something that would be awesome. I would love to glorify Him with that talent, it's not much, but some days it seems as if that is all I have to give.
I like calvary, but I desire to get more involved with the youth program. Maybe I'm not ready for that. It's also hard to moderate the transition from Mt.Calvary Bap. to Calvary, but I know it's something that the Lord is calling me to do. I'm still praying about this though.
-->It's just all so frustrating, and I don't understand everything, but in HIm i wait, and soon His plan will be revealed. Till then, I guess it's more prayer! yum yum.. and just living and learning!
I watched the debat tonight. Kerry didnt do too well. He seemd to be incorrect about a bunch of things, I sorta do agree with him on abortion and choice, and that you can't force your religion on someone else. Don't get me wrong, I don't like the idea that you kill a child. But if you are Christian, I pray that the Holy Spirit can convict you to not fall into abortion and that you will let teh child live.. but this is a more complicated matter which I don't feel like typing right now. But basically I'm not for killing, but for i am for the choice.
Bush looked strong and i liked!
Jake came to Calvary tonight. It was fun.. we all got to hand out ( court, julia, me, john,) nice fellowship.
** well you kids, FCA is in the morning, and I would really love to be able to wake up on time this time so I can go, so I need to hit the sack! **
nighty night to all!
<3 rose
p.s- if you have any advice or anything to comment on the verse/debat/anything.. leave me one!
and He will give you the desires of your heart" Psalm 37:4
What is it to 'delight yourself in the Lord'? Delight- that means joy.. fun, interest. Do i just interest myself in HIm, or is it more of loving HIm with everything I have. With all my heart, mind, soul, and body?
I know that when I love God totally with every ounce of me, that the things of my heart that I desire and the plans that He has for me are totally different. I want so bad one thing, but He is wanting to teach me something totally different. Will I be able to give up my life and die for Him? I pray I can. It's all worth it, only for HIs glory.
The things I desire are so simple at times, but at the same time so complicated. Things like relationships, praise band, friends, church location. More than anything I want to be dependent on Christ, and HIm alone. I don't want to worry about having a boyfriend and the things that come with that spiritually ( distractions..). At the same time I desire affection. If I am attracted to someone, but yet there is 'nothing' there, is that attraction truly a desire of mine or is it just that I haven't delighted myself in HIm enough, and that there are still things He needs to teach me. I desire to play the guitar, and i would love to be able to play in the praise band at church, I just don't know if that's something the Lord wants me to do there. It is something that would be awesome. I would love to glorify Him with that talent, it's not much, but some days it seems as if that is all I have to give.
I like calvary, but I desire to get more involved with the youth program. Maybe I'm not ready for that. It's also hard to moderate the transition from Mt.Calvary Bap. to Calvary, but I know it's something that the Lord is calling me to do. I'm still praying about this though.
-->It's just all so frustrating, and I don't understand everything, but in HIm i wait, and soon His plan will be revealed. Till then, I guess it's more prayer! yum yum.. and just living and learning!
I watched the debat tonight. Kerry didnt do too well. He seemd to be incorrect about a bunch of things, I sorta do agree with him on abortion and choice, and that you can't force your religion on someone else. Don't get me wrong, I don't like the idea that you kill a child. But if you are Christian, I pray that the Holy Spirit can convict you to not fall into abortion and that you will let teh child live.. but this is a more complicated matter which I don't feel like typing right now. But basically I'm not for killing, but for i am for the choice.
Bush looked strong and i liked!
Jake came to Calvary tonight. It was fun.. we all got to hand out ( court, julia, me, john,) nice fellowship.
** well you kids, FCA is in the morning, and I would really love to be able to wake up on time this time so I can go, so I need to hit the sack! **
nighty night to all!
<3 rose
p.s- if you have any advice or anything to comment on the verse/debat/anything.. leave me one!