Desires

IS IT OK TO WANT SOMETHING?

1 KINGS 3:5; PROVERBS 13:12

God created desire within us as a means of expressing ourselves. Desire is good and healthy if directed toward the proper object of desire: that which is good and right and God-honoring.

PSALM 73:25; ISAIAH 26:8; JEREMIAH 29:13

Our greatest desire should be to seek after God.

PHILIPPIANS 4:8

Desiring sin is always wrong. Make sure the object of your desire is good, consistent with God’s Word, and not harmful to others.

HOW DO I RESIST EVIL DESIRES?

JAMES 3:13

Keep yourself busy.

MATTHEW 6:13

Pray about it.

2 CHRONICLES 34:33

Take away the source of temptation.

COLOSSIANS 3:2; PROVERBS 15:22

Find a person willing to help you.

CAN GOD HELP ME CHANGE THE DESIRES WITHIN MY HEART? HOW?

ROMANS 7:5-6

When we commit our life to God, he gives us a new heart, a new nature, along with a new desire to please him.

EZRA 1:5

God stirs our hearts with right desires. It is up to us to act on them.....