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Delight Yourself in the Lord Delight
A high degree of pleasure, or satisfaction of mind;
joy. That which gives great pleasure; that which affords delight.
Delight is a more permanent pleasure than joy, and not
dependent on sudden excitement. It also has the implication in the Hebrew of
making oneself "pliable", ie. allowing yourself to be changed by the
experience of delighting yourself in God.
(Psa 1
KJV)
Blessed is
the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the
way of sinners,
nor sitteth in the
seat of the scornful.
{2} But his
delight is in the law of the LORD;
and in his law doth
he meditate day and night.
{3} And he
shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that bringeth forth
his fruit in his season;
his leaf also shall
not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
{4} The ungodly are
not so:
but are like the
chaff which the wind driveth away.
{5} Therefore
the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the
congregation of the righteous.
{6} For the
LORD knoweth the way of the righteous:
but the way of the
ungodly shall perish.
(Psa 37:4-11
KJV)
Delight thyself also in the LORD;
and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
{5} Commit thy way unto the
LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
{6} And he shall bring forth thy
righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the
noonday.
{7} Rest in the LORD, and
wait patiently for him:
fret not thyself because of him
who prospereth in his way,
because of the man who
bringeth wicked devices to pass.
{8} Cease from anger, and forsake
wrath:
fret not thyself in any wise to do
evil.
{9} For evildoers shall be
cut off:
but those that wait upon the
LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
{10} For yet a little while, and
the wicked shall not be:
yea, thou shalt diligently
consider his place, and it shall not be.
{11} But the meek shall inherit
the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of
peace.
Psa 104:33-34
(KJV)
I will sing unto the LORD as
long as I live:
I will sing praise to my God
while I have my being.
{34} My meditation of him
shall be sweet:
I will be glad in the
LORD.
Psa 145:17-21 (KJV)
The LORD is
righteous in all his ways,
and holy in
all his works.
{18}
The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him,
to all that
call upon him in truth.
{19} He
will fulfil the desire of them that fear him:
he also
will hear their cry, and will save them.
{20}
The LORD preserveth all them that love him:
but all
the wicked will he destroy.
{21} My
mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD:
and let all
flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
(Psa 43:3-5 KJV)
O send out thy light and thy truth:
let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy
holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
{4} Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto
God my exceeding joy:
yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my
God.
{5} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art
thou disquieted within me?
hope in God:
for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my
countenance, and my God.
(Isa 58:10-14 KJV)
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and
satisfy the afflicted soul;
then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy
darkness be as the noon day:
{11} And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and
satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones:
and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a
spring of water, whose waters fail not.
{12} And they that shall be of thee shall build the
old waste places:
thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations;
and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach,
The restorer of paths to dwell in.
{13} If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from
doing thy pleasure on my holy day;
and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the
LORD, honourable;
and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor
finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
{14} Then shalt thou delight thyself in the
LORD;
and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of
the earth,
and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father:
for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
it.
1 Pet 1:3-9
(KJV) Blessed be the God
and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which according to his abundant
mercy
hath begotten us again
unto a lively hope
by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead,
{4} To an inheritance
incorruptible, and undefiled,
and that fadeth not away,
reserved in heaven for you,
{5} Who are kept by the
power of God
through faith unto salvation ready
to be revealed in the last time.
{6} Wherein ye greatly
rejoice,
though now for a season, if need
be,
ye are in heaviness through
manifold temptations:
{7} That the trial of your
faith,
being much more precious than of
gold that perisheth,
though it be tried with
fire,
might be found unto praise and
honour and glory
at the appearing of Jesus
Christ:
{8} Whom having not seen,
ye love;
in whom, though now ye see him
not, yet believing,
ye rejoice with joy unspeakable
and full of glory:
{9} Receiving the end of
your faith,
even the salvation of
your souls.
John 15:4-9 (KJV)
Abide in me, and I in
you.
As the branch cannot bear
fruit of itself,
except it abide in the
vine;
no more can ye, except ye
abide in me.
{5} I am the vine, ye
are the branches:
He that abideth in me, and I in
him,
the same bringeth forth much
fruit:
for without me ye can do
nothing.
{6} If a man abide not in
me,
he is cast forth as a branch, and
is withered;
and men gather them, and cast
them into the fire,
and they are burned.
{7} If ye abide in me, and
my words abide in you,
ye shall ask what ye will, and it
shall be done unto you.
{8} Herein is my Father
glorified, that ye bear much fruit;
so shall ye be my
disciples.
{9} As the Father hath
loved me, so have I loved you:
continue ye in my
love.
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