Beth Moore Simulcast

Do not fret because of evil men

or be envious of those who do wrong;

for like the grass they will soon wither,

like green plants they will soon die away.

Trust in the Lord and do good;

dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

Delight yourself in the Lord

and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the Lord;

trust in him and he will do this:

He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,

the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;

do not fret when men succeed in their ways,

when they carry out their wicked schemes.
Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;

do not fret--it leads only to evil.

For evil men will be cut off,

but those who hope in the Lord

will inherit the land.

Psalm 37:1-9

This Friday and Saturday I had the opportunity to take a group of 25 women to see a Beth Moore Live Simulcast at a neighboring church here in Oregon, including my cousin, Katie. I absolutely love Beth Moore. If any woman has been given the preacher chick gift - it's her! God uses her in big ways to share His Word. The passage above was her topic - The Desires of our hearts!

She pulled 7 facts out of those verses: 1) Nothing dictates our lives like our desires - at the end of the day what we want wins! 2) Beneath the desires of our hearts is the heart of our desires. 3) Delighting in the God adapts our desires into inevitabilities. 4) Nothing external can steal our right to delight. 5) To make room for delight we've go to commit. 6) Nothing is passive about patiently waiting for desire to turn into delight, and 7) Till faith becomes sight trust God & do good!

It would be forever long for me to go into detail about each of those points. But there is one statement/acronym that she used to really hit home number 4 - Nothing external can steal our right to delight. We give away our joy all the time and sometimes we give it to people. It's not their right to take it from it. So here was she pulled from it!

"What's taking a bite out of my delight because delight is my right."
When your delight is fading take a look at your own JAW.

J - Jealousy (vs. 1) - Jealousy is a desire tinged w/resentment. We become jealous because we want something someone else has.

A - Anger (vs. 8) - Anger is a desire of the flesh that displaces our holy delight. We get mad because we don't get something our way.

W - Worry (vs. 1, 7 &8) - Worry comes from our desire to control everything. We worry when we aren't the ones to determine the outcome of something.

We were created for holy passion and holy desires! However, we substitute these fleshy desires for what God intended for us and our delight is strangled out of us!
So when we are unable to delight in the Lord, we first must check our JAW to make sure that we aren't allowing something to steal our delight.

Beth also talked about the difference between the desires of heart and the heart of our desires. When it seems that we are doing everything right and we aren't getting the desires of heart, we can be sure that God sees the true motive (the underneath girting of our desire) and He's going after that heart of that desire for His glory!