Desire

Spiritual

• Deuteronomy 4:29 But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
• Psalm 9:1 I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will recount all Your wonders.
• Psalm 17:1 Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer— it comes from lips free of deceit.
• Psalm 22:26 The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
• Psalm 24:6 Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah
• Psalm 25:5 Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
• Psalm 25:15 My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.
• Psalm 27:8 My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
• Psalm 27:14 Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
• Psalm 33:20 Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.
• Psalm 34:10 Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
• Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
• Psalm 37:7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
• Psalm 37:9 For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
• Psalm 37:34 Wait for the LORD and keep His way, and He will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
• Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
• Psalm 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.
• Psalm 40:8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
• Psalm 42:1–11 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God. …
• Psalm 51:1–17 Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. …
• Psalm 62:1 In God alone my soul finds rest; my salvation comes from Him.
• Psalm 63:1 O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
• Psalm 63:8 My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.
• Psalm 68:28 Summon Your power, O God; show Your strength, O God, which You have exerted on our behalf.
• Psalm 69:3 I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Psalm 69:32 The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!
• Psalm 70:4 May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!”
• Psalm 81:10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.
• Psalm 84:2 My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
• Psalm 86:11–12 Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name. …
• Psalm 86:16 Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.
• Psalm 94:19 When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.
• Psalm 105:4 Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
• Psalm 118:17 I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.
• Psalm 119:2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
• Psalm 119:10 With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
• Psalm 119:20 My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
• Psalm 119:40 How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
• Psalm 119:77 May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.
• Psalm 119:88 Revive me according to Your loving devotion, that I may obey the testimony of Your mouth.
• Psalm 119:116–117 Sustain me as You promised, that I may live; let me not be ashamed of my hope. …
• Psalm 119:122 Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.
• Psalm 119:133 Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.
• Psalm 119:149 Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.
• Psalm 119:156 Great are Your mercies, O LORD; revive me according to Your ordinances.
• Psalm 123:1–2 I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven. …
• Psalm 130:5–6 I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope. …
• Psalm 143:5–6 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands. …
• Proverbs 2:3–5 if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, …
• Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.
• Proverbs 8:34 Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
• Isaiah 8:17 I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
• Isaiah 8:19 When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
• Isaiah 26:8–9 Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls. …
• Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
• Isaiah 55:1–2 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! …
• Isaiah 55:6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
• Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
• Lamentations 3:25–26 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. …
• Lamentations 3:41 Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
• Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
• Habakkuk 3:2 O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!
• Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
• Luke 6:21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
• Luke 10:42 But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
• John 12:20–21 Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast. …
• Philippians 3:12–14 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. …
• Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God. For anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.