My Heart’s Desire

During the confirmation service in August 2008, the bishop prayed this over me: “The Lord wants you to know that …. So may you this day say, not my will, but Yours. …and meet your heart’s desire. So fear not and be blessed.”

The moment he prayed it, I wondered what was this heart’s desire he had mentioned – is it my crush then? Is it my desire to travel? Nothing jumped at me. Thus, I have been wondering about this heart’s desire ever since.

And after 16 years, I finally found the answer when I was listening to David Jeremiah’s sermon (16:34). I am quoting him for the following:

Delight yourself also in the Lord,
And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 37:4 (NKJV)

The scripture doesn’t say when you delight in the Lord, you can ask Him for anything you want, no matter how frivolous it may seem. The Bible says, that if you delight in the Lord, you will never ask anything from Him that doesn’t coincide with who He is.In your delighting in the Lord, you define the things you need or want based on this context.

I had this love for radio. I was one of the kids that built radio kits, into the whole thing about communication, and here God is saying, no I want you to preach. Then without any conditions, I said, Lord if this is what you want me to do, I will do it. I registered at Dallas Seminary, graduated, got married, and thought that was it. But I just had this ache in my heart because I have loved this radio thing.

But I delighted in the Lord, and He gave me the desires of my heart. What I do on the radio today, is far different from what I was going to use radio, and God made it way better and bigger and more extensive than I could ever dreamed of in my wildest moment. He took what He knew I was supposed to do, and He brought that into my world.And so today I live in both worlds, and it’s all one world now. I looked back over my shoulders and recognised how terribly poor I would be today in my own spirit if I had delighted in my plan instead of his.

If you put your trust in the Lord and give Him first place and you say ‘Whatever You want me to do’, He is going to get you to do something that you already want to do, and He will marry what you want to do with what He wants you to doand you will walk away thinking how did that happen? God is at work.

I got my answer, the aha moment, when I heard Dr David Jeremiah’s testimony. Because I delighted in the Lord, said Yes to Him and followed His plan years back, I discovered my love for writing. This desire grew with time and it’s another testimony of how my writing skills were honed through the years.

It took me 16 years to see the answer because it took 16 years to finally bear the fruit and see how God married what He wanted me to do with what I wanted to do. And, here at shema-rhema.com, I saw this beautiful union.

What is your ‘Whatever You want me to do, Lord.’? Trust Him and take that step.

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