The Bridled Heart: Desire, Appetite, Lust, Greed, and the Restoration of Holy Hunger (How to Optimize Christlike Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence) - Softcover

Call, Kelly L

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798186420019

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Desire is not the enemy. Unredeemed desire is.

The Bridled Heart is the fifth book in Kelly L. Call’s Heavenly Father’s Plan of Joy mini-series: Divine Maturation Through the Seven Governing Dynamics.

This volume asks one of the central questions of spiritual and emotional maturation:

What are we teaching souls to hunger for?

A soul without hunger is not alive. Human beings are created to desire, seek, love, hunger, build, create, marry, serve, worship, and rejoice. The problem is not that the soul hungers. The problem is what hunger becomes when it is not nourished, purified, bridled, and ordered under Jesus Christ.

In The Bridled Heart, Kelly L. Call explores the progression by which hunger can become craving, craving can become habit, habit can become identity, and identity can become culture. He shows why wounded and starving souls are vulnerable to counterfeit feasts, and why shame cannot heal desire.

This book explores:

• Desire as part of divine design
• Appetite without nourishment
• The counterfeit feast
• Hunger becoming craving
• Craving becoming habit
• Habit becoming identity
• Identity becoming culture
• Lust as consuming what should be reverenced
• Greed as possessing what should be stewarded
• Sacred sexuality and embodied reverence
• Emotional lust, power lust, and influence lust
• Envy, jealousy, contempt, enmity, resentment, and ambition
• Shame as a false governor of desire
• Fear as an insufficient purifier of appetite
• Charity as the governor of desire
• Sovereignability and holy self-government
• Engageability and willing consecration
• The restoration of holy hunger

The Lord’s invitation is not to destroy the heart. Alma taught, “Bridle all your passions, that ye may be filled with love.” A bridle does not kill the horse. It governs strength so power can move in a holy direction.

The Bridled Heart teaches that lust and greed are not merely behavioral problems. They are diseases of Charitability. Lust consumes what should be reverenced. Greed possesses what should be stewarded. Envy refuses gratitude. Contempt refuses reverence. Enmity makes opposition into identity. Vain ambition seeks increase without consecration.

But through Jesus Christ, desire can be redeemed.

The hungry soul can move from consumption to reverence.

From possession to stewardship.

From envy to gratitude.

From appetite to covenant.

From deprivation to consecrated desire.

This book is written for hungry souls, ashamed souls, compulsive souls, ambitious souls, wounded souls, and hopeful souls who need more than restraint. They need Christ to restore holy hunger.

The Father’s Plan of Joy is not a plan of deadened desire.

It is a plan of divine maturation.

In Christ, the hungry soul can become the bridled heart.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798186420019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 409