Delight is defined as a high degree of gratification or pleasure, joy, or something that gives great pleasure.

This past week, I worked diligently to prepare for the Spring Market. Building a publishing business is not for the faint of heart. Without knowing the outcome, prayer, faith, work, effort, and investment are required. I sold a few Cross Donkey books at the market, promoted Whose Manger is This?, and plugged for an upcoming devotional for women and my next picture book project. I encouraged women to visit my website at lisarobbinsauthor.com to receive free weekly devotions.

I must press onward in obedience to fulfill my call to publish. Since I’m pressed financially, I’ve taken on part-time work cleaning homes and organizing. The Lord is providing monetary means, and I’m thankful. The Lord has also provided great caregivers through the TN Choices program to care for Mom while I work. With all this busyness added to caregiving, I was exhausted Saturday night. The promise that God would give me the desires of my heart settled in my soul. I couldn’t sleep until I read Psalm 37:4. The condition to receive my heart’s desires is to first delight in the Lord. This also settled in my soul. 

I asked the Lord to reveal what delighting in the Lord required. Perhaps daily obedience, surrender, prayer, Bible study, and witnessing are ways we give allegiance to our Lord. My commitment to God above writing, publishing, and promoting is the way to place a high degree of gratification or pleasure to my Lord Jesus Christ. The result is joy in someone, Jesus Christ, not something like publishing.

Above the desire to sell books must come the willingness to point women and children to the gospel truth. Seeking and saving the lost was the reason Jesus left Heaven and came to Earth. His love for man compelled Him to give His life to make a way of eternal salvation to all who believe. I’m incapable of saving souls, but I can strive to share God’s truth for His glory with a longing to see others saved from sin.

I ask that you pray for me as I travel this journey and for our brothers and sisters in Christ striving to serve our Savior. Homemakers obeying the command to keep their homes and to love their husbands and children need prayer. Preachers and their families, who weekly live and preach the gospel, need prayer. Caregivers need prayer, as do their loved ones who are suffering from terminal illnesses or handicaps. Believers building businesses to invest in kingdom work need prayers. Many scenarios that need prayer come to mind, but none more important than praying for lost souls to seek the Savior for salvation. This is the heart of Christ and should be our utmost desire.

Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Psalm 37:4