Delighting In The Lord:Psalm 37

For then you will have your delight in the Almighty, And lift up your face to God. 
Job 22:26

Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Psalm 37:4

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the LORD honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own words,
Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; And I will cause you to ride on the high places of the earth, And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The mouth of the LORD has spoken.” Isaiah 58:13, 14

You know what these four verses have in common? 

      Which means "Pliable, soft, live in enjoyment of". While I understand the enjoyment part, I would not have connected pliable or soft with it. And, yet, God did say that when we surrendered our hearts to Him, he would remove the stony heart and replace it with a fleshy heart. In other words, our hardened sinful hearts would be replaced with a heart that is pliable, soft, more easily moldable, shapeable into what He desires our hearts to be.

     But just how do we get to the Delight part of this walk? Not all of what God wants to reveal to us in His Word is going to be revealed all at once. When I was reading Isaiah 58:13 the other night, the Holy Spirit opened it up to my understanding. 

• Turn away my foot from doing my pleasure on God's holy day. Don't go where I want to go, go where God wants me to go. Choose to walk where God wants me to walk. 
• Call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable. Whether we call the holy day of the Lord the sabbath or Sunday, we are to call it a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable. A pleasant day to be in God's presence. It is a day to honor God with our presence, fully surrendered and committed to doing what He wants us to do on His holy day; not what we used to do or feel pressured to do just because "everybody else is doing _____". Choose to spend the whole day with God.
• Honor Him, not doing what I/we want to do, nor finding our own pleasure, nor speaking our own words. Whereas, once upon a Sunday, we looked forward to family time or sports time or however we would spend our Sundays, now that we belong to Him, our Sundays are not our Sundays: Sunday belongs to God. 

     Romans 12:1 tells us to surrender our bodies a living sacrifice. While it is talking about a surrendered life in Christ, it also concerns our lifestyles. No longer do we do, nor behave how we lived when we were sinners, but now we live according to the terms of our surrender to God. We chose Him as the Savior and Deliverer of our souls. Now we choose Him as Lord of our lives; we willingly sacrifice what our flesh wants to do and submit to what the Spirit of God wants us to do. And when we truly, honestly love the Lord our God, then we become quite willing to turn over every aspect of our lives, including how we spend our Sundays. 

     For me personally, this will include shutting off the television on Sundays. There is not a whole lot on the idiot box that honors God on any day of the week, much less Sunday. And I will taper off on computer time, as well. But that is what is changing in my home. How you choose to spend or change your Sunday/sabbath is between you and God. My hope is that as you open yourself up to God, He reveals Himself to you. And He will; His Word says so and God does not lie. “They that seek Me early shall find Me.”  Proverbs 8:17

     

Clap Offering

PSALM 47:1 "CLAP YOUR HANDS, ALL YOU PEOPLES; 

SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF TRIUMPH."

Bring Me a clap offering

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Bring Me a clap offering 

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I want your worship

I desire praise

From you,

From your heart and not your lips.

You raise your hands in surrender,

But your heart is not on Me.

Give Me your heart

And glorify Me

Give Me the worship

that only I desire

Give Me your heart

and I will set your life on fire.

Bring Me a clap offering

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Bring Me a clap offering 

(clap--clapclap---clapclapclap)

I want your worship

I desire praise

from you.

Clap Your Hands, All You Peoples
 

1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

Clap your hands, all you peoples;

shout unto God with a voice of triumph.

2 How awesome is the LORD the Most High,

the great King over all the earth!

3 He subdues nations beneath us,

 and peoples under our feet.

4 He chooses our inheritance for us,

the pride of Jacob, whom He loves.

Selah

5 God has ascended amid shouts of joy,

the LORD with the sound of trumpets.

6 Sing praises to God, sing praises;

sing praises to our King, sing praises!

7 For God is King of all the earth;

sing profound praises to Him.a

8 God reigns over the nations;

God is seated on His holy throne.

9 The nobles of the nations have assembled

as the people of the God of Abraham;

for the shields of the earth belong to God;

He is highly exalted.

Delight In His Law--Psalm 1:1-6

1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

and
Philippians 1:10 "that you can discern what is best, that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ".

Make wise choices. Know what wisdom is by reading The Book of Proverbs. And follow after it, meaning hold onto it like glue (Psalm 63:8)

A New Song

He has put a new Song in my mouth, even praise unto our GOD: many will see it, and fear, and put their trust in The LORD.

 Psalm 40:3

Waiting on God for deliverance does not mean just sitting around like a lump on a log. We are to continually seek Him out, praise Him for who He is and what He has done. 

Each time we open our mouth to praise Him,

 thank Him, love Him, 

we are rendering to our God a NEW SONG, 

a song which has not been uttered by us before,

nor through our mouths, until that precise moment 

when we open our mouth and declare His glory.

And where does this song come from?

HE has put a new song in my mouth. 

Not like we put such and such an item in its place, 

but through our faith in our God, 

such peace and joy as only comes from Him,

instantly fills us with the desire to sing His praises! 

Let us give God the glory for His is GOD! 

And greatly to be praised and adored! 

Fat and Flourishing

Matthew 4:4 "Man shall not live by bread alone, but every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."

Psalm 34:8 "O taste and see that The LORD is good: Blessed is the man that trusts in Him."

Acts 17:11 "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received The Word with all readiness of mind, and searched The Scriptures daily, whether these things were so."

What do these verses all have in common? Bible Study is for everyone, not just preachers, teachers, evangelists, apostles. Everyone should have access to a Bible that they may do more than just read it, but study it out for themselves. And not on your own understanding of it should you rely, but through The Holy Spirit of God, for it is He who draws, or woos, you to God. 

--Many Read, Few Feed by Bishop Taylor Smith--

"If we want to be fat and flourishing we must feed much on God's Word. Many read, few feed. The Bible is silent to the careless, but to the digger, rich. You cannot be noble unless you love your Bible."

Having access to the internet we now have access to the Bible, in any language. My favorite site is Bible Hub. There I have access to not only the Bible in my language, but Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Bible. It is an easy site to navigate. 

For instance, this is Psalm 34:8. Acts 17:11. Matthew 4:4. Now you are beginning to study out what God is saying to you. As I am. 

Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." 

That's us. The people who hunger for The Word of God shall be filled with The Word of God. Because "(we) searched the Scriptures daily". 

"Father, open the eyes of our hearts with Your precious Holy Spirit. Pour Him out upon us, and fill us, that we may know and understand what You want us to see." Amen.