Psalms 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
BSB
ASV
Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.
KJV
Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
(Verse 4.) Therefore, he says: Delight in the Lord, and he will grant you the desires of your heart. Why did he not say 'your desires' but 'the desires of your heart'? For the desires of the external and internal man are not the same and not all of them are approved by Christ; because the law of the flesh often opposes to the rules of the spirit. But those desires that belong to the interior man, who is renewed by the Spirit, the Lord grants them to the petitioner with effect.
There is an ascent in this third precept. He who was first bidden not to fret, was then commanded actively to trust, and now is told with holy desire to delight in God. Delight thyself also in the Lord. Make Jehovah the joy and rejoicing of thy spirit. Bad men delight in carnal objects; do not envy them if they are allowed to take their fill in such vain idols; look thou to thy better delight, and fill thyself to the full with thy more sublime portion.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
John 15:7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
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And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Through
John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
