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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a friend.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 2: You know, we all want God to do great things

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Speaker 2: in our life. I think the cry of our heart

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Speaker 2: is God, do something in me and through me. But

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Speaker 2: you know what's interesting about God's promises is they always

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Speaker 2: come with a condition. Usually we have to do something

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Speaker 2: and then God will do something. It comes with a condition,

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Speaker 2: a stipulation. You know. I find it very interesting because

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Speaker 2: if God can get us to move, then he can move.

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Speaker 2: It's almost as if his condition prepares our heart. It

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Speaker 2: postures us to receive what he has. You see, if

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Speaker 2: we just wish all day, if we're just fishing in

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Speaker 2: the wishing pond, we're not doing anything. God says, I

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Speaker 2: am a partner with you. We are joint heirs in

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. He wants us to be active and participate

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Speaker 2: in what He wants to do in our life. So

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Speaker 2: as we're standing here saying, God, do something amazing through

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Speaker 2: me and in me. Bring forth my desires. Listen to

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Speaker 2: what God's condition is. It's found in Psalm thirty seven five,

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Speaker 2: and the Bible says it like this, Delight yourself in

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Speaker 2: the Lord, and he will give you the desires of

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Speaker 2: your heart. When you delight yourself in God, he will

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Speaker 2: shape in you his desires so that he can bring

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Speaker 2: the best out of you. God wants to shape in

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Speaker 2: you his desires. We all want our desires to come

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Speaker 2: to pass. Oh, we love to hear God's promises. We

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Speaker 2: want God's promises. But what are we delighting in?

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Speaker 3: What do we see?

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Speaker 2: What are we given our time to? You see? The

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Speaker 2: scripture says that when we delight in the Lord, which

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Speaker 2: means when we find joy and happiness and pleasure in God,

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Speaker 2: it will shape those desires for God. You see, sometimes

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Speaker 2: we have the wrong desires and we're struggling trying to

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Speaker 2: make those things happen. I think sometimes we get it backwards.

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Speaker 2: We have a desire and we forget to find out

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Speaker 2: what we delight in. We forget what gives us fulfillment.

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Speaker 2: We forget to pursue those things that give us joy,

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Speaker 2: peace and strength and allow those things to shape us

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Speaker 2: our delight shapes our desires. When Jewel and I first

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Speaker 2: started dating, I worked in my family's jewelry store. I

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Speaker 2: worked on Saturdays, so I would take off on Fridays.

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Speaker 2: Jewel worked at the church, so Sunday he would tape

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Speaker 2: his father's messages, he would edit them, get them ready

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Speaker 2: to be broadcast on television. And so he worked on

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Speaker 2: Sundays and I worked on Saturday, so we basically didn't

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Speaker 2: going to take off on Fridays. The only thing was this,

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Speaker 2: on my day off on Friday, I wanted to go

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Speaker 2: to the mall. I wanted to run errands, I wanted

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Speaker 2: to do the things that I needed to do on

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Speaker 2: my day off. But you know what was really great

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Speaker 2: is Joel didn't care. Joel wanted to be with me.

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Speaker 2: So Joel would go to the mall. He would go

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Speaker 2: spend the day with me. He delighted in that when

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Speaker 2: we first started dating, Joel had season tickets to the Rockets.

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Speaker 2: In fact, this was the former compacts. For those of

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Speaker 2: you who don't know. And our first date was right

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Speaker 2: here at a Rockets basketball game. He was such a fan.

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Speaker 2: He loved the games. And I love Joel. I love

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Speaker 2: to be with him. Anyway, at that point, you could

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Speaker 2: say I delighted in Joel. So it motivated me to

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Speaker 2: enjoy being with Joel, I doubt I would have been

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Speaker 2: so ambitious to go to all those basketball games. And

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Speaker 2: I can tell you this. If Joel wouldn't have found

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Speaker 2: joy in being with me, he wouldn't have been in

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Speaker 2: liked being with me. Do you get what I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to say here? Our delight shapes. It wasn't the mall

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Speaker 2: Wasn't that I was such an avid fan. I just

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Speaker 2: Isn't it interesting when we delight in the Lord, we

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Speaker 2: the things that are important to God. All of a

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Speaker 2: sudden become very important to us. You See, God wants

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Speaker 2: you find fulfillment in him, He wants to put those

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Speaker 2: you to dream big dreams, but He already has a

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Speaker 2: the apostle Paul said this in Second Corinthians six, and

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Speaker 2: this is the message translation, and it really sums up

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Speaker 2: what I'm trying to say. It says the heart regulates

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Speaker 2: the hands. Paul was saying, what you have in your heart,

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Speaker 2: what you find delight in, You're gonna put your hands

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Speaker 2: to see. What is in your heart is gonna drive

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Speaker 2: heart go together, just like your delight and your desire. See,

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Speaker 2: the apostle Paul was saying, when your heart's right, you'll

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Speaker 2: put your hands to the right thing. God wants your

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Speaker 2: heart to be his garden. He wants to plant his

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Speaker 2: dreams and his desires in your heart because he wants

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Speaker 2: to bring forth god opportunities. He wants to bring forth

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Speaker 2: out of you. God miracles God moments in twenty seventeen. Listen,

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Speaker 2: don't let the wrong desires cause you to struggle. Spend

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Speaker 2: your time with God. Find out what he wants you

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Speaker 2: that he is your God, that he shows you that

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Speaker 2: his plans for you are good and not evil. They're

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Speaker 2: to give you a future and a hope. You See,

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Speaker 2: God wants our best. He doesn't want our leftovers. God

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Speaker 2: doesn't want the end of your day when you're tired

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Speaker 2: and a little miserable. God wants the best of your day.

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Speaker 2: Get up every morning and Greek God with a good morning.

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Speaker 2: It's not as Oh God, it's mourning. See, God wants

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Speaker 2: our first fruits throughout the day. We should have conversation

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Speaker 2: with God. We should consult him for our decisions, bring

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Speaker 2: him into our relationships, take him on the job with us.

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Speaker 2: Put his word in our heart. Because when his word

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Speaker 2: is in our heart, what will happen is it will

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Speaker 2: come up out of us. It will guide us and

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Speaker 2: give us great counsel and wisdom. Joel's dad used to

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Speaker 2: say it like this. Put God's word in your heart

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Speaker 2: when you don't need it and they'll come out of

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Speaker 2: you when you do need it, God's wisdom will come out.

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Speaker 3: Of you, you know.

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Speaker 2: Psalm thirty seven says, delight yourself in the Lord, and

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Speaker 2: he will give you the desires of your heart. Then

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Speaker 2: it goes on to say, commit your ways to God

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Speaker 2: and he will do this. And it begins to say

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Speaker 2: how you will overcome. You will any challenge you face.

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Speaker 2: He will be there. Your enemies won't get the best

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Speaker 2: of you. You see. He's talking about delighting yourself, creating

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Speaker 2: a desire for God. Then your roots go down deep

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Speaker 2: so you can be committed. You see, I delighted in

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Speaker 2: mean with Jeel, I delighted in his friend. I delighted

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Speaker 2: getting to know him. My desire was formed that he

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Speaker 2: I'm committed to that guy. My roots are down deep. Hey,

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Speaker 2: through the highs and through the loads. He's mine and

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Speaker 2: I'm his. There's a commitment that's been formed. See, there's

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Speaker 2: a system to this. God is saying, delight before desire,

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Speaker 2: desire will take route, and commitment will steady you, strengthen

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Speaker 2: you and anchor you, and I will do this. He's saying.

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Speaker 2: When you're committed, you'll do what you don't feel like doing.

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Speaker 2: He's saying, when you're committed, you'll realize even when it's

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Speaker 2: hard on the other side, there's a great reward.

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Speaker 2: Sooner or later, my way is the best way. Be

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Speaker 3: God is a faithful God.

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Speaker 2: He wants our heart. He wants our heart so that

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Speaker 2: we can put our hands to his business, to his kingdom,

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Speaker 2: so we can be successful. We can be happy. Listen,

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Speaker 2: we serve a happy God. God is up in heaven,

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Speaker 2: the Bible says, laughing and enjoying things, and he wants

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Speaker 2: us down here accomplishing, laughing, enjoying, overcoming, going from victory

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Speaker 2: to victory. We serve a God who is committed to us,

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Speaker 2: so let's be committed to him. I believe if we

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Speaker 2: our God, that he will ignite those passions and those desires,

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Speaker 2: and we will abound in his grace, and we will

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Speaker 2: be committed. Our hearts in our hands will be moving

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