{"id":274,"date":"2019-08-25T12:19:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T12:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warapungamonday.wordpress.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2019-08-25T12:19:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T12:19:47","slug":"spiritual-desires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Desires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday Morning to this week 35 of 2019<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong>\u201cTake delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Psalm 37:4\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The interpretation of the Bible has its many options,\u00a0 variations, questions and methods.<br \/>\nYou might have heard many of\u00a0 the arguments, here a few:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Bible should be understood literally whenever possible.<br \/>\n\u2022 The customs and culture of the biblical world must be understood.<br \/>\n\u2022 Knowledge of the structure of a passage can be valuable for interpretation.<br \/>\n\u2022 Identical things must be distinguished from similar things.<br \/>\n\u2022 The word \u201call\u201d can be used in a universal or limited sense.<br \/>\n\u2022 The Bible is full of small words with big meanings.<br \/>\n\u2022 Time, and time words, are essential to proper interpretation.<br \/>\n\u2022 It is important to understand biblical prophecy.<br \/>\n\u2022 It is necessary to distinguish between a believer\u2019s permanent spiritual standing before God and his \u201cwalk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For example Psalm 37:4 many only see the second part, and then mention the first. , \u201cHe will give you the desires of your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only seeing this you miss a lot: if you follow the first part of the verse, and take delight in the Lord, those desires of your heart are going to change to what God desires for you. Many go to this verse when they\u2019re already desiring something badly. They think that if they just take the minimum required delight in the Lord and wait\u00a0a bit, then bam! What they desire is delivered to them. &#8230; not really! . This verse could be saying much more,\u00a0 that the more you delight yourself in the Lord, <strong>the more your heart reflects His.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interlinear<br \/>\nOf your heart the desires you, He shall give Yahwe in, and delight yourself.<\/p>\n<p>New International Version<br \/>\nTake delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.<\/p>\n<p>New Living Translation<br \/>\nTake delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart\u2019s desires.<\/p>\n<p>King James Bible<br \/>\nDelight thyself also in the LORD, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary English Version<br \/>\nDo what the LORD wants, and he will give you your heart&#8217;s desire.<\/p>\n<p>Good News Translation<br \/>\nSeek your happiness in the LORD, and he will give you your heart&#8217;s desire.<\/p>\n<p>NET Bible<br \/>\nThen you will take delight in the LORD, and he will answer your prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Aramaic Bible in Plain English<br \/>\nHope in Lord Jehovah and he will give you the requests of your heart.<\/p>\n<p>GOD&#8217;S WORD\u00ae Translation<br \/>\nBe happy with the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.<\/p>\n<p>JPS Tanakh 1917<br \/>\nSo shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD, And He shall give thee the petitions of thy heart.<\/p>\n<p>Brenton Septuagint Translation<br \/>\nDelight thyself in the Lord, and he shall grant thee the requests of thine heart.<\/p>\n<p>Webster&#8217;s Bible Translation<br \/>\nDelight thyself also in the LORD, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart.<\/p>\n<p>Young&#8217;s Literal Translation<br \/>\nAnd delight thyself on Jehovah, and He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.<\/p>\n<p>Or some Cross References<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 58:14<br \/>\nThen you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.&#8221; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 7:7<br \/>\nAsk and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 145:19<br \/>\nHe will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry and will save them.<\/p>\n<p>John 15:7,16<br \/>\n<strong>If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Proclaiming the many deep truths, with the many angles of interpretations of this verse for your life and the week ahead!<\/p>\n<p>A prayer: \u00a0&#8220;Lord, all my desire is before thee&#8221; (Ps 38.9); and I know You form the desires of my heart more like those of your heart! (Ps 37.4).<\/p>\n<p>blessings<br \/>\nPhilemon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday Morning to this week 35 of 2019 \u201cTake delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.\u201d Psalm 37:4\u00a0 The interpretation of the Bible has its many options,\u00a0 variations, questions and methods. You might have heard many of\u00a0 the arguments, here a few: \u2022 The Bible should be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/?p=274\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spiritual Desires&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}