Access God’s Blessings: Receiving the Desires of Your Heart
Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4 NKJV).
Abraham had many promises from God regarding his descendants.
God told Abraham that his seed would be as the sands of the sea and the stars of Heaven.
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies (Genesis 22:17 KJV).
There were two promises of seed given to Abraham. God said his seed would be as the sands of the earth. That promise represents the natural, physical nation of Israel. These were the people of the Old Covenant.
However, God didn’t stop there. He also promised that Abraham’s seed would be as the stars of Heaven. These are the people of the New Covenant, the exalted people. That’s the Church. We are exalted in Christ Jesus. We, too, are seed of Abraham. We are the stars of Heaven.
God had more plans for Abraham’s descendants than to simply start a new nation on earth. He planned a new spiritual Kingdom that will last forever. The plan started as a seed, but it ended up as stars.
The only thing between the seed and the stars was the woman. Can you see why Sarah herself had to receive strength to conceive a seed when she was past childbearing age? Because the old man gave her a seed, she gave him the stars of Heaven. Whatever God gives you, He wants it to be multiplied in the womb of your spirit. When you bring it forth, it shall be greater than the former.
Prayer
Father in Heaven and in my heart, thank You for the promises You have given all who believe. Those in the Old Testament and those in the New are recipients of Your promise to give us the desires of our hearts. Lord God, the desire of my heart is to worship and praise You every day into eternity. Create in me the desire to fulfill Your will in my life. In Jesus’s name, amen.
Declaration
The desire of my heart is to fulfill the will of God in my life!
Blessings
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God (Deuteronomy 28:2 NKJV).
Every aspect of creation that receives anything gives it back to God. The mineral kingdom gives strength to the vegetable kingdom. The vegetable kingdom is consumed by the animal kingdom. Everything reaches the point of return.
Near my home, crouched in the valley beneath the proud, swelling mountains of West Virginia, runs a river whose rushing waters cannot be contained. The Elk River cannot keep receiving the cascading streams of water from the ground in the mountains without finally pushing its blessing on into the Kanawha River. This river, though larger, is no less able to break the laws of the kingdom. It drinks in the waters from its sources and then turns its attention to its destiny and gives back its waters to the system. So the mighty Ohio River says amen.
From the Ohio to the Mississippi and on into the Gulf of Mexico, each body of water receives only to give. You see, my friend, success is not success without a successor.
We as Christians reach fulfillment when we come to the point where we bring to the Lord all that we have and worship Him on the other side of accomplishment. This need to return an answer to the Sender is as instinctive as answering a ringing phone. There is a ringing in the heart of a believer that requires an answer.
Why do we answer a phone? We do so because of our insatiable curiosity to know who is calling. God is calling us. His ring has sounded through our triumphs and conquests. A deep sound in the recesses of a heart turned toward God suggests that there is a deeper relationship on the other side of the blessing.
As wonderful as it is to be blessed with promises, there is still a faint ringing that suggests the Blesser is better than the blessing. It is a ringing that many people overlook. The noise of the bustling, blaring sound of survival can be deafening. There must be a degree of spirituality in order to hear and respond to the inner ringing of the call of God!
Prayer
Dear Blesser, I have so, so many blessings to thank You for—from my family and friends to the birds and the trees, to the most generous Blessing and Gift of all: Your Son, Jesus Christ. You are the all-time best Blesser, and I am so very grateful. May your blessings multiply from one to another worldwide, Lord, and may I pass along to others Your abundant provisions.
Declaration
God’s blessings will overtake me because I obey the voice of the Lord my God.
