Day 003: After God’s Own Heart

To sum it up, let me switch the order to show the real sequence of how we become people after God's heart. David first passionately pursued the revelation of the desires and emotions of God's heart. Second, he obeyed God's commands, and third, he moved into the fullness of God’s power and purposes. We’ll dive into these critically important topics in later chapters.

This journey to being a person after God's own heart begins with a revelation into the emotional makeup of the heart of God.

That is the first, most life-changing step, and there is no way around it. David conveyed what he saw in God's heart in dozens of ways through the songs and prayers he wrote. He prayed that he would be able to drink from the river of the pleasures of God's heart (Ps. 36:8). God's heart was depicted as a river, even a raging, crashing river of rushing desire for human beings. David understood that God's heart is like whitewater rapids, tossing and tumbling with fierce emotions so strong and determined that they even drove Him to the extreme of being incarnated and hung on a cross. In His love for us, He would simply not be denied relationship with us, and so He pursued us to the very end. That is the God we serve.“ - After God’s Own Heart by Mike Bickle

NOTES

• David’s Desire Path maps we’ll over my own personal encounter of Jesus