{"id":18380,"date":"2024-10-13T06:10:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T11:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=18380"},"modified":"2024-10-13T06:10:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T11:10:28","slug":"the-heart-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=18380","title":{"rendered":"THE HEART OF GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/F3AF7351-547A-448E-B2D5-0C13ABA08683-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/F3AF7351-547A-448E-B2D5-0C13ABA08683-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/F3AF7351-547A-448E-B2D5-0C13ABA08683-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/F3AF7351-547A-448E-B2D5-0C13ABA08683-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/F3AF7351-547A-448E-B2D5-0C13ABA08683-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/F3AF7351-547A-448E-B2D5-0C13ABA08683.jpeg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve heard this verse misused many times and it\u2019s so easy to do. This verse doesn\u2019t mean that God will give you whatever you want. Praise the Lord because my \u201cwanter\u201d is all kinds of messed up in most cases. This passage invites me to \u201cdelight myself in the Lord\u201d, which means to abide in Him and so align my heart with His that I will find myself wanting the best things that He wants\u2026not the wrong things that my sinful heart can so easily drift towards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of this chapter goes on to explain how to delight yourself in the Lord\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>commit your way to the Lord<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>be still before the Lord<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>refrain from anger<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>turn away from evil<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>wait for the Lord and keep His way<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>mark the blameless and behold the upright<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>God is faithful. He is working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve heard this verse misused many times and it\u2019s so easy to do. This verse doesn\u2019t mean that God will give you whatever you want. Praise the Lord because my \u201cwanter\u201d is all kinds of messed up in most cases. This passage invites me to \u201cdelight myself in the Lord\u201d, which means to abide in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-study","category-integrity","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/F3AF7351-547A-448E-B2D5-0C13ABA08683.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}