LET MY DESIRE BE YOU

Romans chapter 12












Today we are walking in: Let My Desire Be You










Deuteronomy 6:5




And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, H3824 and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

















Today we look to the word- HEART- H3824 lebab--inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, understanding










The Torah Testifies.............................








Exodus 14:5




And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart H3824 of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?




Leviticus 19:17




Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: H3824 thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.







Deuteronomy 11:16




Take heed to yourselves, that your heart H3824 be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;







The prophets proclaim..................








1Samuel 6:6




Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, H3824 as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?




1Samuel 7:3




And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, H3824 then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts H3824 unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.



Isaiah 10:7




Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart H3824 think so; but it is in his heart H3824 to destroy and cut off nations not a few.







The writings bear witness.............








Joshua 2:11




And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts H3824 did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.







Job 22:22




Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart . H3824







Job 34:10




Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: H3824 far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
















LET MY DESIRE BE YOU




There is a deeper question heaven is asking us tonight: not what do you want Elohiym to give you, but what do you want most? Because desire is never silent. Desire is a voice. It speaks through your priorities. It reveals itself in your habits, and it quietly determines your direction even when your lips are saying something else.




Many people are entering a new year asking Elohiym to bless plans He never authored. They are asking Him to accelerate ambitions He never assigned. And then we wonder why prayer feels heavy, why progress feels forced, why peace feels distant. It is because before Elohiym answers prayers, He examines appetites.




Now hear this truth slowly. You do not move in the direction of your prayers. You move in the direction of your strongest desire. What you want most will always win. It will win over discipline. It will win over excuses. It will win over distractions. If you desire comfort most, you will always avoid growth. If you desire applause most, you will eventually compromise conviction. If you desire money most, you may sacrifice purpose on the altar of urgency. Desire determines direction, and direction eventually defines destiny.




This is why Yahusha did not say seek success first. He did not say seek comfort first. He did not say seek influence first. In MattiYahu (Matthew) 6:33 (CĒPHER) He said to seek first the Kingdom of Elohiym and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. In other words, get your desire right and your outcomes will follow.




However, many believers have reversed the order. We seek things and ask Elohiym to add Himself to our plans. We chase results and ask Elohiym to endorse our direction. We want peace, but we do not want submission. We want blessings, but we resist alignment.




And yet Tehilliym (Psalms) 37:4 (CĒPHER) says to delight yourself in Yah, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Notice it does not mean He grants every desire as it is. It means when you delight in Him, He reshapes what you desire. He becomes the filter. He becomes the compass. He becomes the standard. And suddenly what you want begins to look like what He wants.




Now pause here and reflect. Some of you are frustrated not because Yah is slow, but because your desires are divided. You want Yah, but you also want control. You want purpose, but you also want convenience. You want growth, but you do not want process. And Yah in His mercy will not give you what will destroy you. So He waits, not to punish you, but to realign you.




This is why before Dawiyd ever sat on a throne, Yah dealt with his heart. This is why before Yoseph ruled Mitsrayim, Yah refined his appetite in prison. Because elevation without alignment produces collapse.




Now let me say something that may shake you a little. Prayer does not override desire. You can pray for discipline, but if you desire comfort more, comfort will win. You can pray for focus, but if you desire distraction more, distraction will dominate. You can pray for growth, but if you desire ease more, ease will sabotage progress. This is why the most dangerous prayer you can pray entering 2026 is not “Yah, give me more,” but “Yah, change what I want.” Because when Yah touches desire, behavior follows naturally. Discipline becomes sustainable. Focus becomes steadier. Obedience becomes joyful.




So as we stand at the doorway of 2026, heaven is not asking how big your goals are. Heaven is asking how pure your hunger is. Because whatever you desire most will sit on the throne of your life. And tonight, before we ask for new doors, new seasons, new breakthroughs, there must be a quiet but powerful surrender rising from our hearts that says, “Yah, before I ask You for more, adjust what I want.”




Now consider this. Every life is being pulled by something. Nobody lives desire-free. The question is not if you are being led by desire. The question is which desire is leading you. Some people think they are undisciplined, but the truth is they are simply disciplined toward the wrong appetite. Others think they lack motivation, but in reality their strongest desire is comfort, not growth.




Desire is never passive. It is a force. It drags your time, your energy, your decisions, and eventually your future in its direction. This is why Scripture is brutally honest about desire. Ya’aqov (James) 1:14–15 (CĒPHER) says every person is tempted when they are drawn away by their own desire and enticed. Then desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to action, and action matures into consequences. Notice something powerful: sin does not begin with behavior. It begins with appetite. Failure does not start with a mistake. It starts with a craving left unchecked. Long before a life collapses publicly, it has already shifted privately at the level of desire.




Yet desire is not only dangerous. Desire is also divine when aligned. Mishlei (Proverbs) 4:23 (CĒPHER) says to guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it flow the issues of life. In other words, your life does not flow from your intentions. It flows from your heart. And the heart in Scripture represents your deepest desires, your loves, your hungers. What you consistently feed inside will eventually shape what you experience outside.




Now let this sink in. Two people can hear the same message, sit in the same assembly, read the same Scriptures, pray the same prayers, and still produce completely different lives. Why? Desire. One desires transformation, the other desires inspiration. One desires obedience, the other desires comfort. One desires Yah, the other desires what Yah can give. And desire always exposes itself through choices. You do not need to announce what you want. Your schedule already preaches it. Your spending reveals it. Your consistency confirms it.




So many people are waiting for Yah to change their circumstances while Yah is waiting for them to confront their cravings. Because until desire shifts, cycles repeat. You can change environments and still carry the same appetite. You can enter a new year and still run on the same hunger. This is why some people enter 2026 with new calendars but old patterns. They set new goals, but they are driven by the same desires that sabotaged the previous year.




Now hear this carefully. Desire is what makes discipline possible. Nobody forces you to do what you truly want. You do not need reminders for what you crave. You do not need motivation for what you value. That is why Yahusha does not begin with behavior; He addresses the heart. Because once the heart is aligned, discipline becomes natural. Consistency becomes normal. Growth becomes sustainable.




This is the uncomfortable truth. If Yah is not your strongest desire, He will always feel like an interruption instead of a priority. Prayer will feel optional. Obedience will feel heavy. Waiting will feel frustrating. But when Yah becomes the desire, everything changes. Obedience becomes joy. Discipline becomes worship. Waiting becomes trust. Suddenly you are not forcing yourself to grow. You are hungry to grow.




So as we move forward tonight, do not ask yet for speed, success, or results. Ask for clarity of appetite. Ask Yah to reveal what truly drives you. Ask Him to expose any desire that competes with His will. Because when desire is healed, direction is corrected. And when direction is corrected, destiny begins to unfold.




Stay attentive, because this is where many people miss it. Yah is not against your dreams, but He is deeply concerned about what is driving them. Heaven is not intimidated by your ambition. Heaven is cautious about your appetite. Because ambition without alignment becomes idolatry, and desire without surrender becomes destruction. This is why some prayers are delayed, not denied. It is not that Yah is unwilling. It is that He is unwilling to fuel a desire that will pull you away from Him later.




You see, many people think the opposite of discipline is laziness. But that is not true. The opposite of discipline is misplaced desire. You are already disciplined, just not always toward the right things. You wake up early for what matters to you. You stay up late for what excites you. You make sacrifices for what you truly want. So the issue has never been ability. The issue has always been appetite. What you desire most will always command your obedience.




This is why Scripture does not tell us to casually manage desire. It tells us to guard it. Mishlei (Proverbs) 4:23 (CĒPHER) says to guard your heart with all diligence, because out of it flow the issues of life—boundaries, direction, outcomes, and consequences. Your future is leaking out of your desires right now. Not your plans, not your resolutions—your desires. And if those desires are unchecked, they will quietly override every good intention you make for 2026.




Now consider this carefully. You can desire success and still be far from purpose. You can desire progress and still be out of alignment. You can desire growth and still resist Yah. This is why Yahusha made the statement in MattiYahu (Matthew) 6:33 (CĒPHER) to seek first the Kingdom of Elohiym and His righteousness. That word first is critical. It means before, above, and beyond everything else. Because when Yah is first in desire, He does not compete with other areas. He governs them.




And here is the liberating truth most people do not realize. When Yah becomes your primary desire, He does not take things away—He puts things in order. You do not lose productivity; you gain focus. You do not lose ambition; you gain direction. You do not lose dreams; you gain discernment.




Tehilliym (Psalms) 37:4 (CĒPHER) says that when you delight yourself in Yah, He gives you the desires of your heart. That does not mean He hands you everything you want. It means He reshapes your heart until what you want will not destroy you. This is why some of you are uncomfortable right now. Because Yah is not calling you to do more in 2026. He is calling you to want differently: depth over display, obedience over applause, purpose over popularity, Him over outcomes.




Because once desire is corrected, discipline follows naturally. Productivity stops being stressful. Growth stops being forced. Peace stops being conditional. So do not rush past this moment. Do not rush into declarations and vision boards yet. Let this prayer rise slowly: Yah, examine my hunger. Reveal what drives me. Heal what competes with You. Because whatever I desire most will shape who I become.




Now understand this. Yah never starts a new season by changing your environment. He starts by confronting your appetite. That is why some of you prayed for a new year, but heaven is responding with a new heart. You asked for speed and Yah answered with stillness. You asked for increase and Yah answered with pruning. Not because He is withholding from you, but because He is preparing you. Because if your desires are not aligned, the very thing you pray for can become the thing that pulls you away from Him.




This is why so many people are productive but empty, busy but unfulfilled, successful but restless. They achieved what they wanted only to discover they wanted the wrong thing. And Yah in His mercy is saying, before I take you where you are praying to go, I must deal with what is pulling you there. Because desire is a steering wheel. It may look small, but it controls the direction of the entire vehicle.




Now pause and reflect. When pressure comes, what do you crave? When you are tired, what do you run to? When no one is watching, what feeds you? Those answers reveal your true desire—not your confessions, not your declarations, but your default. And Yah is not intimidated by your honesty. He is not shocked by your struggle. He is inviting you into alignment because you cannot walk deeply with Yah while desiring something else more than Him.




This is why discipline feels hard for some people. It is not because they are weak. It is because they are divided. A divided heart is always exhausted. A divided desire is always frustrated. You want Yah’s peace, but you crave control. You want Yah’s will, but you desire speed. You want Yah’s presence, but you are addicted to noise. And Yah will not compete with idols He never asked you to build.




Now hear this gently but clearly. Yah is not asking you to stop desiring things. He is asking you to let Him reorder them. Because when He becomes first, everything else finds its rightful place. Work becomes worship. Discipline becomes devotion. Productivity becomes stewardship. Growth becomes obedience. You stop striving to prove something, and you start building from rest.




So as we stand at the threshold of 2026, let this be the defining moment: not a louder prayer, not a longer list of goals, but a deeper surrender, a quiet alignment, a settled decision that says, “Yah, I do not just want what You can do. I want You. Shape my hunger. Govern my desires. Lead my direction.” Because when desire bows, destiny opens.




Now mark this moment, because awareness without decision changes nothing. Yah does not reveal truth just to inform you. He reveals it to invite a response. There comes a point where hearing must turn into choosing. And the choice before you as 2026 approaches is not between success and failure, but between appetite and alignment, between craving outcomes and craving Yah.




You cannot sincerely desire Yah more and remain the same. Transformation begins when desire bows. Romaiym (Romans) 12:1–2 (CĒPHER) calls us to present ourselves as living sacrifices and be transformed by renewing the mind. God does not need you to promise perfection. He is asking for permission—permission to lead, permission to interrupt, permission to correct. Because when Yah is truly desired, obedience stops being conditional. You obey because He is Master, not because He is useful.




This is where discipline is born—not from pressure, not from guilt, but from hunger. When you desire Yah more, prayer becomes something you miss when absent. The Word becomes nourishment. Time with Yah becomes the anchor of your day.




You will never outgrow the level of Yah you are willing to desire. You can admire Him from a distance, or hunger for Him deeply. And hunger attracts heaven. Tehilliym (Psalms) 63:1 (CĒPHER) says, “O Elohiym, You are my Elohiym; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You.” That is not poetry. That is posture.




So do not rush this alignment. Let your heart decide: in 2026, I will not be led by pressure. I will not be ruled by comparison. I will not be driven by empty ambition. I choose to desire Yah more. Because once that choice is made, discipline, productivity, growth, and peace begin to fall into place.




Now we move from resolve into redirection, because a realigned desire demands a restructured life. You cannot desire Yah more and keep the same rhythms, the same distractions, the same excuses, and the same inconsistencies. Desire always organizes life around itself. When something matters, you do not negotiate time for it—you protect time for it. When something is valuable, you do not fit it in—you build around it.




This is why Yahusha said in MattiYahu (Matthew) 6:21 (CĒPHER) that where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Your heart follows what you invest in consistently. And many believers want spiritual growth but refuse spiritual structure. They want clarity but live in constant noise. They want direction but never slow down long enough to listen.




And Yah is saying, if you truly desire Me more, then give Me access to your time, your attention, and your habits. Not because He is demanding, but because alignment requires space.




Productivity with Yah is not about doing more. It is about doing what matters most. It is removing what drains you so you can invest in what develops you. It is learning that rest is not laziness. Silence is not wasted time. Discipline is not punishment. These are tools Yah uses to sharpen focus and preserve purpose.




If Yah is truly your desire, He will challenge how you spend your mornings, how you end your nights, how you respond to pressure, and how you handle distractions. Not to restrict you, but to free you. Because scattered lives produce shallow growth, but ordered lives produce lasting fruit.




This is why Tehilliym (Psalms) 1:1–3 (CĒPHER) describes the blessed person as one who delights in the Torah of Yah and meditates day and night, and that person is like a tree planted by streams of water—stable, nourished, fruitful in every season. So do not resist the adjustment. Do not fear the pruning. When Yah touches your schedule, your habits, your focus, it is not to remove joy. It is to protect your future. Because desire without structure fades, but desire with discipline matures into destiny.




Let this be your commitment: Yah, if You are my desire, You have permission to rearrange my life.




Now recognize this. The moment you decide to desire Yah more, resistance becomes clearer. And resistance does not always look like temptation to do evil things. Sometimes it looks like staying distracted by good things, busy things, acceptable things, comfortable things. And this is where many lose momentum. They love Yah but never confront the quiet thieves of focus that starve hunger.




Whatever competes with Yah for your attention will compete with Him for your affection. And whatever competes for affection shapes obedience. That is why Yahusha warned in Luqas (Luke) 10:41–42 (CĒPHER) that Martha was troubled about many things, but Mary chose the one thing necessary. Martha was not sinful. She was distracted. And distraction can be more dangerous than rebellion because it feels justified.




You do not fall away suddenly. You drift slowly. You gradually replace hunger with noise—responsibility, pressure, comparison, constant stimulation. And Yah is saying, if you desire Me more in 2026, silence what dulls your hunger.




Discipline protects desire. Yahusha Himself practiced withdrawal. Marqus (Mark) 1:35 (CĒPHER) says He rose early, while it was still dark, and went to a solitary place to pray. If Yahusha needed withdrawal to maintain alignment, how much more do we?




Some of you do not need more information. You need fewer distractions. You do not need louder prayers. You need deeper attention. Hunger cannot grow in chaos. Desire cannot deepen in constant interruption. Whatever you repeatedly choose over Yah becomes what you truly desire—not always intentionally, but gradually. And Yah is calling you back through invitation, not condemnation: come away with Me. Choose Me again. Desire Me deliberately.




Now we arrive at the turning point: desire that survives resistance must be anchored. You do not keep desiring Yah by emotion alone. You sustain desire through intentional devotion. Feelings fluctuate, but devotion creates stability. Passion may ignite desire, but devotion keeps it burning.




You will never accidentally grow. You grow by design. You grow by returning again and again to the place where hunger is fed. Yahusha said in Yochanon (John) 15:4–5 (CĒPHER) to abide in Him. Abiding is not emotional. It is deliberate. It is choosing connection over convenience, presence over productivity, depth over display.




Some of you run to Yah only when things break. Desire deepens when Yah is not just an emergency contact—He becomes your dwelling. Tehilliym (Psalms) 27:4 (CĒPHER) says one thing have I desired: to dwell in the house of Yah all the days of my life. That is devotion. That is a person who knows Yah Himself is the reward.




And when Yah is your desire, your work is no longer driven by anxiety. It is fueled by assignment. You stop chasing validation and start stewarding responsibility. You stop measuring success by speed and start measuring faithfulness by obedience. Qolasiym (Colossians) 3:23 (CĒPHER) teaches that whatever you do, do it as unto Yah and not unto men. Discipline becomes worship. Consistency becomes an offering. Growth becomes testimony.




Desiring Yah more does not make you less effective. It makes you more precise. You waste less energy. You chase fewer distractions. You produce fruit that lasts, not results that only impress. In 2026, Yah will not just be Someone you believe in. He will be Someone you abide with—intentionally.




Now we shift from anchoring desire to living it daily. Because a desire that never becomes action will weaken. Real hunger for Yah shows up in how you live when no one is watching. Desire produces obedience.




Yahusha said in Yochanon (John) 14:15 (CĒPHER), if you love Me, guard My commandments. He did not say if you love Me, feel deeply about Me. He said obedience is proof of love. Not perfect obedience, but willing obedience. Not forced obedience, but surrendered obedience.




Many say they want Yah more, yet resist His instructions. They want peace but ignore boundaries. They want direction but override conviction. And Yah says if you desire Me, trust Me enough to follow Me. Obedience is not control. It is confidence.




This is where self-discipline becomes spiritual. You begin to say no to what drains you, not only because it is wrong, but because it is distracting. You choose consistency over convenience. Growth over comfort. Partial obedience reveals partial desire. Delayed obedience often exposes competing appetites. But when Yah becomes your desire, obedience becomes quicker because trust is deeper.




Debariym (Deuteronomy) 5:33 (CĒPHER) says to walk in all the ways Yah has commanded, that you may live and prosper. Prosperity follows obedience. Clarity follows alignment. Growth follows surrender. Desiring Yah more will require courageous obedience, quiet obedience, sometimes inconvenient obedience, but always fruitful obedience.




Let this be your inward commitment: Yah, if You are my desire, I will follow You even when it costs comfort.




Now we move into the consequence: transformation. When desire, devotion, and obedience align, your nature begins to change. Yah is not primarily interested in modifying behavior. He renews nature. Behavior can be managed temporarily, but nature must be transformed for a lifetime. This is why many start strong and finish weak: they change habits without surrendering desire. But when desire surrenders, habits follow.




Romaiym (Romans) 12:1–2 (CĒPHER) calls for living sacrifice and renewed mind. Transformation does not happen by force. It happens by exposure. What you behold, you become. When Yah becomes your desire, His mind shapes your thinking, His values influence decisions, His wisdom directs steps.




Some of you are asking for new outcomes while Yah is working on your thinking. You want new results, but Yah wants a new perspective. Because if He gives a new season with an old mindset, you will misuse it. That is why Yah slows you down sometimes, allows pressure, allows discomfort—not to harm you, but to rewire you.




When Yah is your desire, you begin to outgrow old patterns. What once satisfied you no longer fulfills you. What once distracted you now feels heavy. That discomfort is not confusion. It is growth. Sometimes growth is restraint. Sometimes it is silence. Sometimes it is walking away.




Galatiym (Galatians) 2:20 (CĒPHER) speaks of being crucified with the Messiah and living by faith. Growth requires death: death to ego, pride, control. But every death in Yah produces higher life. Desiring Yah more will cost you, but it will never leave you poorer. You may lose excuses, but gain clarity. Lose distractions, gain focus. Lose familiarity, gain direction. When Yah transforms you, He does not just improve your life—He redefines it.




So let this settle as we enter 2026. You did not step into a year of mere adjustment. You stepped into a year of transformation—not because circumstances will be perfect, but because desire is being purified. And when desire is purified, growth becomes inevitable.




Now as we stand here, understand this final truth: Yah has not been preparing a year for you. He has been preparing you for the year. 2026 is not waiting on your resolutions. It is waiting on your alignment. Heaven is not impressed by what you plan to achieve. It is moved by who you are becoming.




You heard tonight that desire is not a feeling. It is a force. It governs direction, sustains discipline, and ultimately defines destiny. That is why Yahusha said in MattiYahu (Matthew) 6:33 (CĒPHER) to seek first the Kingdom of Elohiym and His righteousness. When Yah is first, everything else finds its place. When Yah is desired most, everything else becomes manageable. When Yah is loved deeply, life begins to make sense.




Now listen. Yah is not asking you to abandon your dreams. He is asking you to submit them. He is not asking you to stop wanting more. He is asking you to want Him.