# Delight Thyself Also in the Lord

January 12, 2026

Turn your Bible to Psalm chapter 37. Brother Tim, he did a good job on that. Psalm 37. We are going to look at the first five verses of this passage. But for the beginning here, we will just read one verse. I really want to focus on this verse here in just a minute. Psalms 37 in God’s word. When you find that passage, would you say amen? By the way, if you need a Bible, there is one of those chairs in front of you that ought to have it right underneath there. You can grab one of those. They are there for you. Psalm 37. Is everybody got it? Working on it.

Good, good, good. Let’s stand if you would, please, if you are able, to show the Word of God respect. I do not know that we have to do that, but we like to do that. The Word of God is worthy of that. They did that in the book of Nehemiah, so we like to do it at the beginning of a service. Psalm 37. Let us just read one verse for the sake of time: verse number four. Verse number four.

Would you read it aloud with me? How about let us read this together. Are you ready? Here we go. Psalm 37, verse number four. Here we go: “Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” Good, good. Can you do it without looking? If you cannot, just read, but if you can do it without looking, let us try it. All right, you ready? Here we go: “Delight thyself also in the Lord.” And he shall give thee the desires of… I saw you. I saw you. I am teasing you. That is fine.

Let us pray that God would speak to our hearts from this passage here. Father, thank you for your word. Lord, I would be so lost. Lord, you know, that is true. I am just a simple-minded country person. Lord, without your word, I would be lost. Thank you for it.

Lord, would you help us to take this section of scripture that I believe you want us to preach about? Lord, help me to rightly divide it. And Lord, I pray You to help me to apply it to our lives. Father, would you send Your Spirit speaking to each one of so many different lives, Lord? And as each individual needs it, would you speak to them about this truth? For truths. Lord, well, thank you. Lord, I do my best. I do not want to get proud. I will brag on You for what You do because I know the real work is You. Lord, You do work in our hearts. We are hungry. We need You this morning. Bless the folk. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen. Thank you so much for standing. You may be seated.

Let us go back. Let us just get this passage. Let us start in verse number one. We are just going to go through it a little bit. We will get down to verse number four here in just a minute. In verse number one, he says there, he says, “Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.” Can I put that in our individual lives? When you watch the news and it sounds like the wicked are prospering and going to take over, do not get worried.

“Fret not thyself because of evil doers.” When you look out, by the way, it says, do not be envious. Sometimes the kids in school that are not living right, doing right, they can look like they are having the most fun, and you can get envious, and God said, do not do that. This is really… We just get snapshots, a little quick shot of people’s lives. If this one shot, it might look like they are doing good.

But watch the next verse. Let us go to the next verse, would you? Verse number two there. He says, “For they shall soon be cut down like the grass.” Praise the Lord for old Steve Page cutting the grass around here, you know. About every week during the summertime, he is cutting it down. It may grow up, but boom, he is going to get it, you know. That is his mission in life, and I am glad for it. “For they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as a green herb.” Be careful. Sometimes you just see one snapshot of someone’s life, and it looks like the wicked are doing so good. Do not fret over that, and do not get envious of that. You are just seeing one clip of their life. By the way, this whole lifetime, whether it be seven, eight years, is just a drop in the bucket. I mean, this is just the getting-ready place; eternity is a whole, whole long time for it.

God sees the big picture, but not just eternity, but even in their lives. He said, hang on, friend. You are seeing just this one little shot of them in the eighth grade or whatever grade, 12th grade, you know. There is a whole life to live there. He said, so do not get worried about them, the wicked that look like they are doing so good, and do not get envious of them.

I remember when some elections went south, in my opinion, very liberal years ago, and I was very discouraged with a president that was very pro-abortion for murdering babies. I mean, murdering babies. Yes, what was it? Twenty-six times, I think the Bible calls that a child inside the mother’s womb, the babe or the child. What is God’s opinion about it? It is a child, you know. And so anyway, when the liberal got in, man, it was discouraging. Someone called me and said, “Man, what are we going to do?” And I said, “Read Psalm 37. It will help you when it looks like the wicked are doing so good.”

Do you ever see that guy over there? You do not know—and hopefully we are not judging—but it looks like they are a drug dealer, and they have got the best car, and everything is just going their way. Hang on, friend. It is not over, you know. Verses number one and two deal with that.

Now let us keep going. Verse number three, let us move along quickly because they are trying to get someone here this morning. Verse number three, he says, “Trust in the Lord.” Do not get fretting. Do not worry about all the evil out there. Do not spend your time trying to follow all the dirt in the world. You can say amen right there. That is a miserable way to live your life. Do not get shook up about that. They are going to be soon cut down. God is in control. Then he said, verse number three, he says, “Trust in the Lord and do good; so shall thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.”

Can I just put it this way? You do right, God sees that. God is going to take care of it. He is just and righteous. He is a righteous God. You just hang in there to do right at the end of the day. God sees what is going on. He is the judge of the universe. I am paraphrasing a little bit here, but let me say a little bit more here. Sometimes you do right just because you know what is right to do. It is like you are doing it out of character. You have been watching, you have been worried, fretting about what all the evildoers are doing, and now you have got envious about it. He said, no, no, they are going to be soon cut down. Then he says, “Hey, trust in the Lord.” At those times, you have your eye… our heart is not in it like we want to be in it. But do right out of character, do right because you know what is right to do. Do right out of faith; one day God will bless you for it. See? He said, do not… you just trust in the Lord. He is going to take everything in.

By the way, there are going to be times that you do right because it is right to do, and your heart is not in it. Be honest: how many times have you gone to church and your heart is not really in it? You heard about the preacher who told his wife? I messed up the whole joke with the guy that told his wife one morning. He said, “I do not want to go to church. Those people do not like me. They talk about it, but they do not listen to me.” And he said, “Give me one good reason why I ought to go to church.” And she said, “Because you are the pastor.”

Everybody goes to church sometimes and your heart is not in it, but friend, it is still right to go. You go because he told us, “Do not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as a manner of some is.” It is still right. By the way, that is what the Bible means in Proverbs 23:19. Listen to this. I am just going to read a phrase of that verse. He said, “And guide thine heart in the way.” The world’s philosophy? Let your heart guide you? No, God says, “Guide thine heart in the way.” You know the verse, many of you, Matthew 6:21: “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” We think where your heart is, there goes your treasure. Well, no, no, no. God said, no, no, where you put your treasure, there goes your heart. So do not necessarily follow your heart. You guide your heart because sometimes your heart is going to be like, well, the wicked are doing so good, and you are fretting over the goodness of the wicked. In those times, trust in the Lord. Do good. Your heart is not in it. Just keep doing the right. It is right to do right even if your heart is not into it. That is right. It is biblical.

By the way, desires of your heart change frequently. How many have ever thought, “Man, I want to be a great prayer warrior”? The next morning when the alarm clock goes off, you do not want anything to do with prayer at that time. Our heart changed. “Man, I want to be a soul winner.” Then you get down; the last thing on my heart and mind is to witness to someone right now. Come on, you are there for that, yeah. I mean, it is just our heart changes. It is fickle. So if I am going to do right because my heart is right, man, I am not always going to do right. It is not sinful to do right even when your heart is not into it.

By the way, remember over there, 2 Timothy 4:2. Second Timothy 4:2. And Paul, under the inspiration of God, is speaking to the young preacher; he said, “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season.” Even preachers have in season and out of season. What did Jesus? Jesus over there in the garden. Now listen to me, we are going somewhere with this, y’all. Y’all still with me this morning? We are trying to travel on down this path. We are trying to get somewhere—yes, lunch later on—but we are trying to get somewhere before lunch, all right, now, you know. Jesus said that; he said, “Lord, would you remove this cup?” Well, that is what he prayed. That is what he wanted at that moment. He is praying a prayer. But then he said, “Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done.” He was doing right when his heart was not there, per se. Now, I know Jesus never sinned; I am not trying to act like he sinned. But he is not a perfect example, and his heart was not really… Now, his heart changed and got into it. But he is praying, “Lord, remove this thing.” So it is right to do that. But, but…

What do you do? How do you get your heart aligned with the right desires? I mean, how do you get back into it where your heart is into it? Sometimes our hearts… What do I do? How do I get my heart back into this thing? You know what I am saying? The Bible gives us a clue on how to get the right desires in my heart in verse number four. That is really the key verse we are after here, verse number four. Let us go back to that verse. We have read it and tried to quote it here. What is the very first word of verse number four? That is the key word: “Delight thyself also in the Lord.”

Now, when I was younger, I used to think, “And he shall give you the desires of the heart.” I used to think, “Well, that means God is going to give me that Corvette because he is going to give me the desires of my heart,” and that is what a desire actually… What God is saying here is: you delight in the Lord, and He will give you the very desires. He will give you the desires. He gives you what to desire, if you will. Now, He brings it to pass later on; we will get to that here in a minute. But here he is not saying whatever you want, then God says, “I will give it to you.” Actually, maybe there is a touch of that, because when you delight in Him, you really want Him. And you do get Him. He rewards those that diligently seek Him. How does He do that? By giving Him. But here is the great truth he is trying to say: the way I get my heart back into it is by delighting in the Lord.

It is very interesting that word, “Delight.” Strong’s Concordance. How many have ever looked up a Bible word in Strong’s Concordance? It will give definitions; it will give you the Hebrew word and the Greek word. I do not follow everything he says, but it is a great, great study tool. The Hebrew word that is translated “Delight” here, the Hebrew word is anag, which is pronounced amag. It is spelled A-N-A-G, but it is pronounced amag. And it means this, according to Strong’s Concordance: to be soft or pliable. I delight in the Lord. Let me give you an illustration here. This illustration is very important; I want you to listen here. Years ago, we had a good man, a very talented, very knowledgeable man in the area. He was over a ministry in our church, more knowledgeable than I in this area, in fact. But it was very interesting—that is never true with God; He is always more knowledgeable than us—but he came to me one time. He said, “Pastor,” and I really do not know where this came from to this day, but this is what he said, and it is a good thing. He said, “Pastor,” he said, “I want to get your vision on this ministry.” That is what he said. He said, “You are the pastor.” He said, “This is very interesting. I do not want to be where we are on the same page. I want to be on your page.”

Delighting in the Lord is when you go to the Lord and you say, “Lord, I do not want to just yield to what you want. I do not want us to be on the same… I will try to get you over here. I want to be on your page.” It is where you are very pliable to the Lord. The Lord can change your heart. You want God. Not just, “Lord, I will yield my will. I will give in to what you want.” All right, Lord, that is what you want; I will do it. It is more than that. You said, “Lord, I want you to change my will to fit your will.” Wow. You are pliable to the Lord. He can mold you. He can change you. Delight is not just yielding your will to His will. It is asking Him to change my will to fit your will. When I get to that point, and I am so pliable to the Lord, the Lord could just move me any way He wants to. When I get to that point, God begins to change your heart, and He gives us the actual desires we desire. By the way, I have watched it so many times: someone comes to our church, and they do not have maybe sinful desires, but fleshly, worldly desires. As they grow in the Lord, it becomes less about them and their fleshly desires, and more about God’s desires in the way. And their heart changes. It is not about them getting everything they want anymore. It is about God getting everything He wants. And God gives them the very desires of their heart. It is amazing. It is amazing.

You can get to the point—now listen—you can get to the point where everything you do… I like this part: even eating or drinking. I like to do both of those. Come on. Zero sugar Dr. Pepper. Somebody say amen right there. Come on. I am not talking about that other stuff now. I like to eat for sure, you know. You say, “Well, what are you talking about?” Well, that is what the Bible says: “Whatsoever therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” How do I get the word “everything”? By the way, that means everything you do can be… God gives rewards for it. How do I get to that point? You get to that point by becoming so pliable. You want God. “I want you to change my desires. I do not care. Please, it is more than I will yield to you what you want. I want you to change my very will, the very things I want. I want you to change it.” That is what he means over in Philippians. He says, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will”—that is the desires of God—“both to will and to do of his good will.” Same thing, same principle.

My old preacher said one day he was out watching the trees. It was not wintertime when there are no leaves on the trees, you know. He was just out watching the trees, and whichever way the wind blew, that leaf would just go that way. You know how the wind is? It will change. And boy, that leaf would just bend, and he said, “Lord, I would like to be just like that. Whichever way the wind of Your Spirit is blowing, I want to go that way. I want to be just…” You know, sometimes God has to hit us over the head and make us do something. He said, “Lord, I do not want that. I want to be like a leaf on a tree, just whichever way You blow. I want to go that way.” When I get like that, I am delighting in the Lord. He becomes my desire. I am after Him. “Lord, I want to please You.” That is when God begins to give us the very desires of our heart. And our heart changes.

By the way, that is why the world does not know anything of charity because this thing of charity in the Bible. Charity is deep love. It is love on the highest level. First Corinthians 13, we often say the love chapter. I get that, but it is not the love chapter. If you read your Bible, it is the charity chapter. It is the deep, the fullest meaning of strong, deep, real love. You cannot have charity—now you have somewhat of love—but you cannot have this thing like charity unless you say, “Lord, I want to be so yielded.” As you begin, God begins to change your very heart, and it is no longer about you. It is about God and others. And boy, your heart starts getting back into the things of God. No longer are you coming to church out of drudgery and out of obedience and out of character. Now that cold heart begins to get warm, and things inside that heart say, “Well, I do desire the Bible. I do want God to speak to my heart during this sermon. I would like to have that tender heart towards other people,” and God begins to change the very things of our heart. Now it is still right to do right when your heart is not into it, and you have your eyes on the world and you are fretting about all that and you are envious. It is still right to do right. Trust in the Lord. Do good. He will take care of you. But the next step is start delighting in Him. And God says, “I will change your very heart.” Now you have got a heart for the things of God. Now I want God to use me. Now I like to influence the next generation for the Lord. Now it is not necessarily so much about what I want. It is about God and others.

You say you are repeating yourself because repetition is the key to learning for you. “I lost my fingers.” You say, “What happened?” “I was chopping that log and that axe came down. I got my fingers.” No, that is not what happened. I was picking my nose. Someone hit me in the nose. That is what happened, you know. Most of you know; you have heard me tell the story about the accident where I lost my fingers years ago—1992, I lost my fingers in the accident. It is very interesting at first. Some of you just woke up; you are starting to listen. My goodness now, you know. When I started talking about picking my nose, that is when you woke up there, you know. I was reaching in, trying to pull a piece of metal out, and it cut right there on that knuckle where it cut my finger. I did not have any thumb. That night, they did the first surgery, and they took my finger that was here and they sewed it over here on my thumb. This looks like… I do not know if you cannot see all that, but it looks like a thumbnail. That is actually my finger. Then they pulled the skin up and did a skin graft there, you know. You have got to have a thumb to pick up anything, you know. So I have a little bit of a thumb there. I am hoping to open my… I can pick up things. I have a little bit of a thumb. They had it sewn together for about a month, and it was still getting blood supply from here and whatnot. By the way, they offered to put my big toe on for a thumb. Would you like to have a pastor that eats with his feet, his thumbs, you know, big toes, you know?

I said all that so my finger, for about a month, they had pins in it so it could not bend, and they had a little cast over that. Those three fingers were not even moving for a while, you know, due to trauma and all that. So I had that surgery. They cut that off there. I got a little bit of a thumb now, you know. Now you have got to go to therapy. I thought, “Good. They are going to tell me how to use this thing, you know, and bend it and whatnot.” Well, you know, the first thing they said was, “We have got to start working on those fingers there and get them back mobile.” One of the first things they have—they have a lot of different things—but one of the things they have is just running my finger, my hand through popcorn at first, just kind of desensitized so it would not hurt so much, you know, and different things. But then they got to a point where they gave me this very loose, if you will, Play-Doh. It was just very… you could just… it was almost like slime, you know. It did not come from anybody’s nose; I checked to make sure I did not… now, you know. Some of you are thinking, “Quit talking like that,” you know. But anyway, it was very, almost like slime. They put that in my hand, all right, squeeze that, and I would squeeze it until I ran out of fingers. They would do that for a week, and they would send it home with me. The next week, it was a little bit, just a touch thicker. You take that, squeeze, squeeze through your hands all week long. The next week, it was even thicker and harder. At the end of that part of therapy, man, I tell you what, you grab that Play-Doh, and it was just really hard to even just to squeeze it. Ms. Wanda, I am not going to mess the flowers up now, you know. I do not want to lose any more fingers now, you know. At the end, it was just so hard even to make impressions in it; you had to squeeze hard.

Delighting in the Lord is when you say, “I do not want to be the hard Play-Doh.” I want to be like that slime, if you will. I want to be so mobile and pliable and soft. My desire is not getting all this here; no, my desire is You. God says, when you delight in Me, you make Me your idol, you make Me the thing you are after, God. You are delighting in the Lord. God says, “I begin to change your heart.” That is when you become godly, Christlike. You resemble Him. God changes the core of you. Your heart is in the right things. It is no longer drudgery anymore. You want to do this. You begin to have a burning, a desire, a fire. Have you ever seen somebody who has caught their own fire for the Lord? That is because they have gotten pliable, and God began to change their very heart. That is what it is saying: “Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”

Now let us keep going. Let us keep going. Look in verse number five, if you would please. Verse number five. We have not read this verse here yet. Psalm 37. We are in verse number five. Are you in verse number five? All there this morning? Amen. Good deal. Verse number five. Watch this. He says three things here in verse number five. He says, “Commit thy way unto the Lord.”

So that person who became—they delighted in the Lord, God changed their very heart, gave them the desires of the heart—and you start living for the Lord. You try to put Him first, you want to exalt Him. It is not about you and what luxuries and everything I want; it is about the Lord. He will give you all those things, but that is not what you are after. You are after Him. When you get there and God gives you that, and then you start living for the Lord, you know what happens? The rug gets pulled out from underneath you. And that is when you get committed. You say, “I am going to commit my way unto the Lord.” Whether it is a good day or whether it is a bad day, I am going to live for the Lord. Whether I get everything I want or I do not get everything I want, I have committed to live for the Lord. Whether my neighbors like it or my neighbors do not like it, I have committed to live for the Lord. Whether my friends at school like it that I am going to church and carrying my Bible or they do not like it, I am committed to live for the Lord. Whether my spouse likes it—you are a good spouse; I am not trying to say, do not be a good spouse—but not always at the spouse’s level when you are living for the Lord. But you say, “I am just committed to live for the Lord.” No matter what, you commit your way unto the Lord. Whether I am rich or whether I am poor, whether I am… blessed, as we say, or things are going bad, I am committed to live for the Lord Jesus Christ. “Commit thy way unto the Lord.”

Do you see the formula? Your heart is not there, and you are just doing it. Man, your heart is over there. Well, look at the wicked, how good they are doing. And I am worried about them taking over the world and what is going to be like in the end time and all the rest of that. “Fretting not thyself because of evil doers.” He said, do not get stuck on that, and do not get envious of them. Just trust the Lord, do good. He will take care of all that. But then the next step: delight in the Lord, and He changes your heart. Then he says you commit your way unto the Lord. “I am just going to serve You, Lord. I am in Your hands. If everything goes my way, I like that. But if it does not, I am committed to live for You.” Commit my way to the Lord.

It is so interesting. What is the next thing he says in verse number five? He says, “Trust.” What is the next word? Why does he say “also”? Well, because up there in verse number three, he started with that, “Trust in the Lord,” and now you have grown your hearts into it. There are problems; you will still have problems, by the way. It is not a bump in the road; it is a bumpy road down here. But you committed your way; you are going to live for Him no matter what. Then what does he say? He says, “Trust also in Him.” That is when things do not turn out like we think they ought to. That is when the cancer comes, or the bills come, or the problems, or the kids do not turn out exactly like we think they should. What do you do during those times? You trust. I trusted Him up there to do good. I was living by faith. My heart went into it just trying to do it out of character. That is good. That is right. But even after your heart is into it, there are going to be times you just have to trust Him. I love that little phrase in the soul: “O for grace to trust Him more.” “Trust also in Him.” You just keep trusting in Him.

Then notice what he says. Notice what he says. The last… we are going to be done here pretty soon. You say, “Preacher, it is only 11:47. You are not going to be done until after 12:00.” Amen. You know, let us see miracles happen still in our day and time. We will see what happens with this thing here. Look at verse number five. Let us finish it out. Verse number five. He says, “Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in him.” Here is number three: “And he shall bring what?” It. What is the “it”? Those desires He gave you in verse number four. “And he shall bring it to pass.” We have already mentioned, but that is Philippians 2:13: “For it is God which worketh in you both to will”—He changes your heart—“and to do of his good pleasure.” God brings it to pass. In His time, in His way, He brings those good desires. It is going to take time. Abraham, after he patiently endured, he obtained the promise—at least 25 years. Joseph was stuck in prison, and his brothers hated him. It took at least 13 years and even longer before those dreams were fulfilled. “And he shall bring it to pass.” Job lost his children, his finances. You are getting into money, you are poor, your health is gone, your wife is saying, “Curse God and die.” Hang on, Job. In God’s time, “and he shall bring it to pass.” Yes, God’s time.

Now, let me say this. Typically, those desires God gives are not about material things. They are about the Lord and people. It is about God using you in people’s lives, making a difference for the Lord. I am going to read a letter, and we are going to be done this morning. I am going to try to read this letter. This letter really gets me for sure. It says this: It is from someone that used to come to our church. By the way, it mentions myself or my wife, but it is not about me or my wife. It is about the church family. I love this girl, and I mean that, years ago. That is the honest truth. But this is what she writes. She says, “Hello. I am not sure if you remember me or not. My maiden name is…” (and I am not going to say her name). “I was friends with your daughter, lived on…” (I won’t say the name of the road), “and attended Rutherford County Baptist Church around the teen years. The reason I am writing you today is to tell you and Miss Tammy thank you. I appreciate you both and all you did to pour into me as a child. Long story short, during my teen years, I fell away from my faith. I started using drugs to cope with anxiety, confusion, depression, and shame. It got to the point where I had been admitted to Trust Point psychiatric hospital a couple of times. The pain and weight of anxiety and shame had crushed me. It left me feeling hopeless. I became a drug addict who could not function without drugs. After four years, I finally got to the place where I was at the end of myself. I was at a loss trying to figure out what to do. Then one day I was crying on my floor and I remembered… Jesus.”

I am reading this letter, and I am going to finish it. I am reading because, at the end of the day, He brings it to pass. It is not about us being all that. It is about God using you to help people. God changes your heart; it becomes about that right there. I like to make a difference in somebody’s life. She goes on. She says, “I had been taught about Jesus. So I cried out to God and said, ‘God, I can’t run my life anymore. I keep messing it up. Will You forgive me? Will You come into my heart and my life and show me how to live? My life is Yours.’ From that point on, my life was forever changed. God placed me in a small group, and I started attending church again with Him. That was four years ago when I prayed that prayer. Since then, God has freed me and is still freeing me from things. He has freed me from drugs and depression and many more things. He is currently freeing me from anxiety and shame. He has truly given me a new heart and a new life. I am now devoted to Christ. I am married to an amazing, godly man named so-and-so and have a two-year-old (I won’t say her name) and another daughter on the way. I wanted to tell you and Ms. Tammy thank you. In that very dark time, I was able to remember Jesus because you guys—that is the church family—you guys had taught that to me as a child and gave me that knowledge of who He was, save your father, friend. I still remember Sunday school, the church bus, church camp, the lessons you and Ms. Tammy taught that still have impact on me to this day. Thank you for being the first people to introduce me to Jesus. I did not know where I would be today if you all had not taken the time to teach me about God and invite my family to church. I wanted to write to you and tell you how much of an impact you had in my life. I am so thankful beyond words. The work that you and Ms. Tammy do for the kingdom of God truly matters and has impacted my life forever. It has been a blessing to know you both. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. God bless.”

I will not say her name. I am saying at the end of the day, when God changes your heart, it is not about material things. It is about God working in life. By the way, I cannot change one life. I cannot even change my own life. “And he shall bring it to pass.” Put your heads down and close your eyes. Our heads are bowed and eyes are closed.

Maybe you are at the stage right now where you are just doing right. Your heart is not there. And by that, it is not sinful to be there. Not sinful. Jesus said that, “Not my will, but thine be done.” But you say, “That is where I am at right now.” But I am going to keep doing right out of faith, out of trusting the Lord. I know He is in control. I am going to keep doing right for the time being. That is where I am at right now. Just being honest, but I am going to keep doing right out of character and out of love for the Lord and faith in Him. My heart is not there, but I am going to keep doing right. If that is you this morning, you lift a hand for the preacher. That is me. That is me. God bless you. God bless you. It is right. It is right. It is right. It is right. All of us, if you live for the Lord over the years, you are going to go through… I have been through those so many times. Oh, yeah. Been there. Been there. God bless you. God bless you. Thank you so very much. You can put your hands down.

Maybe you are here this morning. You are saying, “Now, preacher, I am at this part. I want to delight in Him. I want to make Him my first. I want to make Him what I am after. I want to seek the Lord while He may be found. And I am asking Him to change my heart to fit Him. I am asking Him… I am going to do my best to delight in Him. And I am asking Him to give me the very desires of my heart. I want my heart back in that. I am asking God. I am going to do my best to delight in Him.” If that is you this morning, you slip your hand up: “Preacher, that is me. That is me. That is me.” God bless you. Oh, that is right. God bless you. Oh, that is right. That is God’s formula. God’s oil. That is a good thing. Maybe there will be someone else. “I am going to do my best to delight in the Lord, and I am trusting Him. I am claiming this promise: ‘You give me the desires of my heart.’” Anybody else? God spoke to my heart. I am going to delight in Him. God bless you. God bless you. Anybody else? God bless you. Good, good, good, good. Anybody else? That is God bless you. Good, good, good. Anybody else? That is good, good. Anybody else? “I am going to do my best to get my heart in Him.” Anybody else? God bless you. Thank you so very much. You can put your hands down.

Two more questions. You are here this morning. You say, “I am going to commit. I am out of there, commit. I am just going to be a committed Christian. I am going to trust also in Him. I am just going to stay in there. Sometimes it takes years to bring it to pass, but I am going to commit to live for Him. I am… I am going to… I am going to trust also.” God spoke to my heart about that part. That is where I am at. I am going to commit to live for Him, trust also, and God’s… what? That is you this morning. Slip your hand up: “Preacher, that is me. I am at that phase right there.” God bless you. God bless you. I understand. God bless you. Good, good, good. God bless you. Thank you so very, very much. One more question. We are done. We did not talk a lot about salvation, but the foundation, the start of it all, is you getting saved. It comes a time in your life. God is working, He is drawing, but it is a time in your life when you are born again, when you come to Jesus. Say, “Jesus, I am a sinner. I cannot save myself. I know You died on the cross for me. I want to trust fully in You to get me to heaven. I am calling on You. I am trusting in You, Jesus.” The beginning of all is you becoming a child of God. Your destiny at that point changes from hell to heaven because of Jesus.

Maybe you are here this morning, and you say, “Preacher, I have never done that. I have never trusted fully in Jesus to pay for my sin. As we are saying about, wash me in the blood of Jesus.” And I have never been born again. I need to do that this morning. If that is you right there where you are seated, whether it will be online or whatever, but you want to go to Jesus right now, put your full faith in Him to pay for your sin, give you a home in heaven, take you to heaven. If that is you right there where you are seated, would you pray something like this: “Dear Lord? I admit it. I am a sinner. I understand I cannot save myself. But right now I am asking You, Jesus, to save me. Would You pay for every one of my sins? Would You give me a home in heaven? Help me to live for You, Jesus. In Jesus’ name I pray.”

Our heads are still bowed and eyes are still closed. You said, “Preacher, I just prayed and asked Jesus to save me. I have never done that before, but I just prayed and asked Jesus to be my Savior.” If that is you this morning, you lift your hand up: “Preacher, that is me. I just prayed and asked Jesus to be my Savior. I never have, but I just asked Jesus to be my Savior.” Anybody like that? Anybody like that? God bless you. God bless you. I see one hand. Let us all stand if you would, please. We are going to have a word of prayer. We will not be alone, but we are going to have a word of prayer. Would you spend some time with the Lord? If He is leading you down to an old-fashioned altar, that would be a great place to come to; there is something sweet about that. If He is leading you to stand where you are at, you follow whatever He calls you to do; you be obedient to Him. Let us say, “Lord, I want to be that very pliable Play-Doh. And I want You to change my heart to fit Yours. Give me the desires. I want to delight You.” You let Him know that. Would you do that?

Father, thank you for your word and the truth in it. Lord, help our hearts; change our hearts. Give us the desires of our heart. Thank you for the promise at the end, verse number five: “He shall bring it to pass.” Help us to claim that today in Jesus. And we pray, amen. That word “delight” can mean so many different things to each of us at different stages of our life. If your heart is not there, it may be a good thing. Lord, help me to delight in You. Just put it on your prayer list: “Lord, show me what I need to do to delight in You.” As I… Lord, I want to delight in You. It is amazing how He starts to change my cold heart. Before you know it, over there in Hosea, he says He reigns righteousness upon us; man, our hearts are in tune with Him. That is a wonderful place to be and a great place… Let us say that verse out loud, Psalm 37:4. All right, we are going to get out of here. I understand we did not come to leave, though; we came for God to work in our hearts. Amen. You know, but let us… let us say that Psalm 37:4. “Delight…” That is all right. Here we go. Here we go: “Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” Oh, it is a great, great promise. It is a great, great promise. And it is sweet when He gets your heart in there. There is just nothing in all the world like it. It is just sweet. That is the best way to put it. So praise the Lord, just focus on that promise. Lord’s Supper tonight. Lord’s Supper tonight, and just a good time just remembering what Jesus did for us tonight. So glad you are here this morning. Okay, it is not before noon, but we are not too bad today. That is not too bad. We can take that, you know. It is an honor to have Kyle and Tina Cooper, the son and daughter of Kevin and Teresa. It is an honor to have them up, and just a great young couple.

Original File: 2026-01-12 - Pastor Paul Chisgar ＂Delight thyself also in the Lord＂ - Sunday AM 1⧸11⧸2026