The answer isn't what you think.

God, help me to interpret my desires. I don't sometimes

know why I want what I want. And neither did Paul.

He was like, what I want to do, I don't do.

What I don't want to do, I don't do. That

didn't make any sense. If you want to do it,

you want to do it. What do you mean you

want to do it, you don't do it? He's like, well,

there's flesh, there's the spirit. I got a new nature.

I love God.

And then four minutes later, I really.

I really still love God, but I love something that's

the opposite of God too. And I don't know what

to do. And I need the Holy Spirit to show

me why I want what I want. Because if the

Holy Spirit doesn't interpret my desires.

I will run around my whole life trying.

To get what I want. And then when I get it,

I won't even want what I've got. God, Help me

interpret my desires. Because sometimes what will happen is it's

not like one desire is divine and one is demonic

and there's no devil and no angel. Sometimes what the

enemy will do to me is he'll take a God-given.

Desire and distort it.

And what I really want is not a bad thing.

It's not a bad desire. I notice a lot of

people these days seem to want to be famous. Famous

for what? Famous so I can be famous. Have you

noticed that fame is like the number one cultural value now?

And I was thinking about that as to why everybody

wants to be famous. I mean, you think about it,

fame is kind of a weird thing. People aren't really

built to receive that amount of attention. And when you

see the number of famous people who are famous and

don't even want to go on living, it should cause

you to question fame. what is the real thing that

i want is is it really fame is it really

followers on some platform full of people who don't even

know me but only the presentation and projection that i

choose to stage the props that i put in my

life is that really what i want do i really

want to be noticed or do i really want to

be known because i think a lot of times we're

trying to be noticed and the real desire is we

want to be known And the Spirit of God can

show you your real desire to say, I know that

you're doing all this to try to get people to

notice you, but I'm the only one who really knows you.

And see, when people know you from a distance and

they notice things about you, but they don't know the

real you and you still feel lonely, it's so important

that you ask the Spirit of God things like this.

What am I really spending 14, 16 hours a day

working for? Is it really to give my kids the

life that they... Is it really that? Are you really

trying to prove something to somebody who's not even paying attention?

Like early in Joseph's life, he's like, you were all

bowing down to me. It was awesome. 20 years later,

he's the one crumbling on his knees because he realizes

that the desire God gave him was not so he

could be important, but so that he could have influence,

not so he could have status. but so that he

could be a servant. So God, show me my desires.

Show me which ones come from you and help me.

You know, I used to always pray Psalm 37 for

it says, delight yourself in the Lord and he will

give you the desires of your heart. And an immature

interpretation of that is God's going to give me what

I want. You know, God's just peeling them off. You

know what you want, what you want, what you want.

Now I look at it like he will give me

the right desires.

He will give me, impart unto me the right desires.

I don't just come up wanting to impress people, but

I start asking God, how can I be a blessing?

I cannot simultaneously be a blessing if I'm trying to

be impressive, so I want to get out of my

own way and ask God to interpret my desires. God,

I want you. I want your presence in my life. God,

I want your pleasure, your smile. God, I want harmony

and peace with you, even if it costs me sometimes

position with people.

God, I don't want to just be popular. I want

to live a life of purpose. I want to know

that this matters and means something at the end of

it all. So I need the power of interpretation for

my desires.

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