Your Desires Fulfilled is God's Tree of Life. Proverbs 13:12

This video contains a secret to joyous Christian living that I didn’t discover until I had been a Christian for decades. I sincerely want to save you years of struggle and pain. I believe this spiritual truth will empower you to live a victorious Christian life.

 00:00 My story – alcoholic to Christ

4:14 The Key to Deep, Lasting Change: Your Desires

5:15 Desire Fulfilled is a Tree of Life

6:56 It’s Your Choice

8:12 Delight in the Lord and He Will Fill Your Desires

8:31 Activation

 A. My Story 

I met a lot of Christians from all over the world. And I discovered a pattern. Many believers are born again, but not transformed. 

God can transform your heart in a fraction of the time and without all the pain that I experienced. 

Romans 12:2 NLT says, “Let God transform you into a new person.” 

 So, How can I Be Born Again, but Not Transformed?

The Key to Deep, Lasting Change is Your Desires

You see, sin is the fruit of us filling our desires by ourselves for ourselves. 

God gave you desires that will draw you to Him. 

Philippians 2:13 NLT

For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. 

The purpose of these desires is to drive us to God. God made us with desires only He can fill.  He made us to be incomplete without Him. If you ever feel empty, incomplete, or inadequate it's because you are - without God. God doesn't want you to feel that way. The desires he placed in you draw you to Him. He fills the deepest desires of our hearts through relationship with Him and with other believers. 

Desire Fulfilled is a Tree of Life

Proverbs 13:12 NASB

But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

There were 2 trees in the Garden of Eden. Adam & Eve ate forbidden fruit. They wanted to be like God through their own effort.  It was the first sin. And Satan has trapped million of people in the same sin over the thousands of years since. The fruit looks good, but it leads to death not life.

God created us to live for more than our selves. 

Our lives are not our own. 1 Corinthians 16:9 NIV says: "Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price."

Jesus paid the price for our sin when he died for us. God now offers each of us the choice to live with Him, as a son or a daughter. 

It's Your Choice

Others choose to go their own way and live for themselves. 

Ephesians 2:3 NIV

When I was an alcoholic, I turned into one of the most selfish people on the planet. When I craved alcohol, I would do almost anything to get it. I didn't care about God, about friends or family or anything but filling the all-consuming desire for alcohol.

The irony is that by pursuing what I wanted, focusing on my own self-centered desires, I was sentencing myself to a life of unfulfilled desire. No alcoholic or drug addict ever has enough of his drug of choice. No one who pursues power, fame, wealth or any of Satan's twisted desires ever has enough. Like a dog, chasing it's tail, Satan keeps people running meaninglessly in circles until we have wasted our lives.

When I turned my heart to God, he healed the desires, the emptiness within me, that drove me to alcohol. 

Psalm 37:4 NIV

Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

The one thing that will save you years of frustration and pain is to turn your heart to God and let Him fill the desires of your heart. Once your desires are filled by God, the sin that you continue to struggle with will fade away.

Activation