Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

This is the key to obedience of faith.

We desire what delights us.

Psalm 17:15 As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

Knowing His will for us is discovered in righteous behavior. When we desire something besides Him, the Holy Spirit works at turning our faces back to look for our Lord.

We don’t have to sin to lose focus. Repentance is for committed sins. Loss of focus is allowing our attention to be distracted by seeing the world.

2 Corinthians 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Turn our heads towards a distraction and without even realizing it our course has changed.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Keep looking at a thing and before you realize it you will scheme to have it.

When I am driving my wife will often comment on things she sees. I don’t see those things, my focus is on my responsibilities.

Here is another little secret about Psalm 37:4.

Ezekiel 36:26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Psalm 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.

Psalm 73:26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

If you want to know God’s will for you, give Him your heart.

Daniel 2:21 He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;

Now being justified by faith in Jesus Christ we enter into a new season of our lives. We have entered into the Kingdom of God where Jesus is on the Throne and in charge of our lives.

I must admit when I accepted His offer of salvation that His Sovereign reign was not at the forefront of my mind. I just wanted a different life but I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I just wanted to understand what was happening to me in this newness of life that was promised.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

What I was doesn’t matter, but who am I now?

I made wrong decisions in my past life, so I don’t trust myself. Since Jesus is seated on the Throne and all things are in His hands, then He gets to make all the decisions for this life of faith. How do I receive my orders?

Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Learning to hear by faith cannot be done by human will. We need to hear the Holy Spirit who will teach us all things and hopefully teach us who we are to become and what to do by faith.

Isaiah 32:1-4 English Standard Version

A King Will Reign in Righteousness

1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
2 Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm,
like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
3 Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention.
4 The heart of the hasty will understand and know, and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.

This is a promise in prophecy in which we cannot make it happen, by faith it just happens. If I read this right, and I hope I do, then the hasty heart will be overwhelmed. That was my first lesson in discovering I was no longer in charge of my life of faith.

Hear, believe, obey, yes but we still have to choose to obey.