Bible verses about seeking God with our whole heart

Psalm 37:4-5 (LSB) 4 Delight yourself in Yahweh; And He will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to Yahweh, Trust in Him, and He will do it.

Psalm 37:4 is a verse we hear quoted frequently.

It gives hope and encouragement!

Some might even say that this verse promises us that God will give us the desires of our heart.

And, again, He will. But only if we learn and follow what the rest of these verses say!

What do I mean by this?

Let’s look more closely so we can be sure to get all we can from this and be sure to walk in the truth of God’s word, not assumptions or half-truths.

The second half of verse 4 does indeed tell us that He will give us the desires of our heart.

But what does the first half say?

Delight yourself in Yahweh!

So, that promise of God giving us the desires of our heart is conditional.

And verse 5 gives the “recipe for success.”

What does it say?

Commit your way to Yahweh, and trust in Him!

And what will be the result of this?

He will do it.

So, you see, God does want to give us the desires of our heart. But our heart must be willing to obey as we commit our way to Him, delight ourselves in Him, and trust in Him.

And that, my friends, is the truth of God’s word taken in its proper context, and in its entirety, with no sugar added.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Psalm 63:1-2 (NKJV) 1 O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water. 2 So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory.

Early will I seek You.

This is something I try to do each day. And the older I get, the more I try to get up even earlier, so I don’t get distracted with other things.

The day will take over our time if we don’t stay determined and focused.

I love how David says his soul thirsts for God.

Have you ever felt like this? Where you needed to get with God, but everything kept taking up your time and before you knew it, another hour or day has gone by?

David is showing how much He needs God in that hour.

He says his flesh longs in a dry and thirsty land! He then shows us the intensity of it. What does he say? Where there is NO water.

But, there’s nothing there that will satisfy his thirst.

Where does he find God? In the sanctuary! That is symbolic of the place where we keep Him dear, hidden in our hearts.

That is where it all happens. We reach the point where we humbly seek Him with all our heart and let it all out before Him.

Jeremiah 29:13 (NKJV) 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

Things happen to us in life. Our hearts can become hard over time. And we may not hear or feel God’s presence in certain seasons.

But as we lay down the hard stuff that has taken its toll, He will be there to pick up the pieces and put them back together again.

Let us cry out today as David did. Our soul thirsts for You, Lord.

Amen 🙏🏻