Quotes about Desires

God's saving grace ignites in the hearts of all his children a radical shift in ambition. Where once our thoughts, desires, words, and actions were motivated and directed by our ambition to achieve our definition of personal happiness, by grace they are now shaped by our ambition for the kingdom of God to achieve all God has designed for it to achieve. Where once we were ambitious for what we want, we now are ambitious to do the will of God.

if you begin to want things out of ministry and leadership that you shouldn't want, other areas of calling will not receive the attention from you that they need.

Idolatry occurs when anything created to point you to God replaces God in the thoughts and desires of your heart.

Here it is. When the enemy somehow tricks you into squeezing the size of your life to the size of your personal dreams, wants, and needs, he has got you right where he wants you.

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. JOHN PIPER9

Now, O king, come down whenever your soul desires, and we will be responsible for delivering him into your hand.”

Then Abner said to David, “Let me go at once, and I will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may rule over all that your heart desires.” So David dismissed Abner, and he went in peace.

But as for you, I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your heart desires, and you will be king over Israel.

But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.

Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.