Delight ~ LOOK UP!

TEXT:         Psalms 37: 1-8

THESIS:      Look up ~ God is there!

ACTION STEPS:

1.        Do not fret

2.      Commit ~ hands down

3.       Trust ~ lean hard

4.      Delight ~ look up

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I.                    Delight is an __________________________ of the spirit.

A.      The psalmist says, “I delight to do Thy will, O my God.”  (40:8 KJV)  (“desire” NIV)

1.  “Attitude” is an _________________________ term.

a)      You are either climbing, flying level or in a nose dive.

B.       The psalmist challenges us to find our delight in the _________________________ and not in circumstance, success or honors.

II.                 Delight comes in _________________ God in prayer.

A.      In prayer we can find God.

1.     In prayer we tap into God to find _________________________ to our problems, _________________________ to make the ______________________  __________________________ and _________________________ that everything will work out.

B.       God is good company.

III.               Delighting yourselves in the Lord _________________________ God to give you the desires of your heart.

A.      A parent’s love is __________________________ by a child’s affection.  “A natural God=given God response.”

1.    The heart is moved when another person _______________________ positively to their kind advances.

2.    We must desire the __________________________ more than the gift.

B.       God will __________________________ our desires so that what we want comes in line with His will.

“Be transformed by the renewing of our minds.”  Romans 12:2

C.     Delighting __________________________ keeps us in the “cycle of victorious living.”

“Rejoice in the Lord always.”  Philippians 4:4

D.      Delight is _____________________________!

1.  If you have it, others can catch it!  You cannot give what you do not have.