to be here again this morning. I appreciate how the Lord is making this hour what He wants it to be. And how He's reminding us of His amazing grace. John Newton was right. Amazing grace. But we pretty much talk about it like it's understandable grace. We can see why the Lord did what he did for us, because we're so good. Grace is amazing. God would do anything with you or with me is the grace of God. That it even look in your direction is the grace of God. Preachers magnified it already this morning. I appreciate everything that I've heard today, last night, and the fellowship, the opportunity to open the word of God this morning. I want you to open with me, please, to Psalm 25. Psalm 25. I don't know anything else to do but to give you what is in my heart. I want to use this thought this morning. Do you have an O? Do you have an O? Psalm 25, nine times, David uses this word, an often overlooked word, But I'm of the persuasion that every word of God is pure. I'm of the persuasion that all Scripture is given by inspiration. There's no filler. And this simple, single-syllable word can change your life. Let's look at how the psalmist uses this word and I pray that it would become one of our words today. He said, "'Unto Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. O my God, I trust in Thee. Let me not be ashamed. Let not mine enemies triumph over me. Show me Thy ways, O Lord. Teach me Thy paths. Verse 6, Remember, O Lord, Thy tender mercies and Thy loving kindnesses, for they have been ever of old. Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions. According to thy mercy, remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O Lord. Verse 11, For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity, for it is great. Verse 17, the troubles of my heart are enlarged, O bring thou me out of my distresses. Verse 20, O keep my soul and deliver me, let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in thee. Verse 22, redeem Israel, O God. out of all His troubles. I know you probably won't believe it, but the clearest, surest indication of where we are with God, a telltale sign of where we are with God right now, is if there is an O in our heart. It's true of a church. Seems like nowadays we measure churches by buildings and budgets and bands and bazaars. Where's the O? It's a measure of a preacher. It's the measure of a meeting. Is there an O? What is an O? Well, an O is a heart word. An O is a word of desperation. A word, it's an intense word. It's an emotional word. It's an inward word. You can't really translate it, but you can feel it. It's a word of desperation. Reminded of what Havner used to say that the problem today is that the situation is desperate but we aren't. Do you have an O? It'll determine whether we have the glory of God, an O, a desire, desperation. Tozer used to say that the stiff and wooden quality about our religious life is an indication of a lack of desire. And he said, before there are ever any personal manifestations of the Lord Jesus to an individual heart, there must be an acute desire. He said, God waits to be wanted. Listen to David in Psalm 25. Here's a man who's wantin' God. He's got an old. He's needin' God. He realizes he is in need. Our greatest need is to realize we are in need. Too many of us have a Laodicean spirit. We're rich and increased with goods and know not that we're wretched, poor, miserable, blind and naked. And God said, I charge you to buy gold, try it in the fire. And God said, anoint your eyes with eye salve that you may see. We're in need today. We need God. It's the greatest essential to revival. I'm convinced that a revival is reduced to an O. There's never been a manifestation of God apart from a desire, a heaven born desire in the hearts of God's people. There's a lot of I's in the church today. I did this and I did that and I think this and I think that. There's a lot of you's in the church today. What are you doing? Where were you at? You, you, you, you. There's very little oh's. There's a lot of talking. There's a lot of laughing. There's not a lot of mourning. I don't mean to knock a shout out of you this morning, but I'm here to tell you, if you'll ever get to mourning, you can get a shout. This is where a shout's born. Well, did James say, draw nigh to God, and he'll draw nigh to you. The road to revival, all you gotta go is half the way. Ain't that right? God said you move in my direction and I'll move in your direction. All you gotta go is half the way. You take one step closer to God and you're two steps closer. Because he's moving in our direction. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be afflicted and mourn. Let your laughter be turned into sorrow. It's a time to get low before God. Paul had an O. In fact, I notice when I read the Word of God, all of God's great giants had an O in their life. The I was absent. The you was absent. God knocked it out of Isaiah. He looked at a lot of different people till he saw God. And what happened? He got an O. Paul said, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me? Well, I'm challenged. I read that story our Lord Jesus told about a publican and a Pharisee. They went up together. The same place, the same time, hearing the same thing, but I'll tell you what, they left different. They weren't the same results. Why? It was a man had an O and another man didn't have an O, he had a I. I thank you that I'm not like this fella. I thank you for all that I have done. Can you imagine? Though that publican never used the word O, The spirit of an O was in his heart because he stood over there to the side. And the Bible said that he wouldn't even lift up his head, but he smote his breast. And all he could say was, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. Poor, helpless, wretched, miserable, and blind. Who do you think got something? The Bible said that man got something. I don't tell you the only people gonna get anything out of a meeting like this is those that's got an O. Israel didn't have an O for 40 years. You check the record? They got an O over there on the banks of the Red Sea when God delivered them, and they got out of Egyptian bondage, but what happened? Carnality set in, incipient religious bacteria carnality set in, and they lost their O. The only one that had an O for 40 years was Moses. Boy, did he ever have an O. The Lord Jesus had an O. He prayed and said, O Father, I thank Thee. You know, it's not hard to feed sheep that have an O. I found that out after 35 years of hitting it. Not hard to feed somebody that's got an appetite. As newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word. David's got an O. Let's look for just a few minutes. What's he got desperation about? This is Holy Ghost pressure is what I'm talking about. I mean just Holy Ghost pressure, the hand of God laying on his life and his heart and his mind. He's feeling the pressure of the Holy Ghost. He's got an O about reaching God in verse number one. Look at this, let me just highlight it and we'll go on. He said, unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. He's needing to get to God. He's needing to reach God. He's needing to access the presence of God. He's needing to find God. God isn't lost. He's where He always is. He's exactly where He needs to be on the throne. Sometimes we get misplaced. Sometimes we get distant, disconnected, and out of fellowship with God. And we lose an O. He's got an O about victory in his life. Look at verse number 2. He said, Oh my God! Boy, you hear a man praying like that, you haven't got any question about what's going on in his heart and life. He said, I trust in thee, let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. In the victory of God and His life, thank God aren't you glad this morning you don't have to be duped by the devil and bamboozled by the world. There's provision in the shed blood of the cross and the indwelling of the Spirit of God that you and I can have victory between here and the sunset. Look at verse number four. He's feeling the pressure of the Spirit of God about the leadership of God. Show me thy ways, O Lord. He needs the clear, definite direction of God the Holy Ghost. Teach me thy paths. There is a way of the Spirit. There is a way of the Lord. God's ways. The ways of God are not man's ways. He's got to know about needing to be loved of God. Look at verse number 6. Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses, for they have ever been of old. O God, I need a sense of your love. Did you know this morning that Jude said, keep yourselves in the love of God? He didn't say merit the love of God. He didn't say earn the love of God. He said keep yourself in a place and in a condition where you can sense God's loving kindness in your life. where you feel the sunshine and the warmth of heaven on your soul. That's where old John the disciple lived and he talked about himself and his gospel and he said, I'm that one that Jesus loved. You know why? He's always leaning on his bosom. Feeling that close connection with heaven and realizing he's God's property. He's one of God's young'uns. Sometimes my children, they'll just crawl up in my lap. My youngest one's 15 years old. And she just crawled up in my lap the other night. I said, come on, honey, I'll tell you, I love you. I don't mind that I want to spend some time with you. Just love on them and pet on them. That's what God Almighty's wanting to do with you and with me. We're His people and the sheep of His pasture. He's interested in letting you and I live where the shades of love lie deep, where we know something about an intimacy with God and a relationship with God. He said there in that text also, the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him. In verse number 15, He'll show them His covenant. God's got some things in mind for us. You need to be loved of God. Boy, how many times have you felt a little wounded and weak and weary? You just need to know that God's there. Boy, isn't it good when God shows up and squeezes your heart and pulls on your life and reminds you, I'm your God. I'm still here. He's got to know about the forgiveness of God. Look at verse number seven. He said, remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions. According to thy mercy, remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O Lord. Cleansing and forgiveness. He's got an O in verse number 11 about the glory of God. For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity, for it is great. For thy name's sake. He's interested in what matters to God, what counts to God, the glory of God, for thy name's sake. For thy name's sake. I want to tell you something this morning. What God is doing is ultimately get glory to Himself. That's God's agenda. That's God's interest. That's God's purpose. That's God's direction, is to get glory to Himself. I love that song the dear lady's just sang, no one ever cared for me like Jesus, but I was sitting there listening and savoring every word. There's one little line that might just be unbiblical. I'll never know why he ever came to save me till I see him face to face. That's all right, I know exactly what he means, but I wanna tell you something, the word of God tells me why he saved me. It wasn't because I needed it. It wasn't because I asked for it. It wasn't because I prayed. It wasn't because I repented. All of that was involved. But God saved sinners. Paul said to the glory of his grace that he could show himself. that He can show out, that He can reveal Himself. That's why God does what He does and He lets people see what He can do. I don't know anything else. People want to talk about proof that God exists and they want to look at trees and mountains and rivers. and suns and moons and stars. All you gotta do is go down to a little Baptist church somewhere where there's a bunch of pilgrims singing about the amazing grace of God and you can see changed lives and you can see new heavenly appetites and that, my friends, the greatest indication and proof there is of God in all of the world. Barnabas went down to Antioch and the Bible said he saw the grace of God. I thought it was intangible. I didn't know you could touch it. I mean, have you ever seen grace package? You ever saw it for sale at Walmart? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. But brother, I'm looking at it this morning. You can see the grace of God, though you may not be able to feel it. You can't touch it? What are you talking about? He went down to Antioch and he saw God at work in people's lives. He went down to Antioch and he saw the supernatural operations of the Holy Ghost of God in a bunch of heathens' lives that gave them a new nature and a new heart and a new appetite for God and the things of God. And that, my friend, is the grace of God. You gotta know about the glory of God for thy name's sake. God didn't do it because we're southern. God didn't do it because we're redneck. Are you listening? God didn't do it because we're Baptist. No, no, a thousand times no. God did it to the glory of his grace. When we get to heaven, that's what we'll be shouting about. And it's the only thing we really got to shout about while we're here. God, in His grace and in His mercy, hallelujah. Verse 17, he's gotta know about deliverance. Oh, he said, bring thou me out of my distresses. God's the only one that can. We try to push buttons and pull strings and call this brother and that brother, It's all in the hands of God. He's got to know about the protection of God in his life. In verse number 20, Oh, keep my soul and deliver me not. Or deliver me, let me not be ashamed. Protection. He's got to know about the Israel of God. Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. Let me wrap it up. I appreciate you just letting me try to talk to you from my heart. If you don't have an O, you need an O. It's going to take an O to have a revival. How do you get an O? It's gotta come from heaven. If there's anything coming out of you that's going toward God, it came from God. You didn't get it in Sunday school class, you don't get it from the preacher. It's gotta come from heaven. I can't get away from what Paul said in Romans 11. He said, of him, that is, from him, through him, and to him are all things. If there's any prayer going to go on, it's got to be born of the Spirit. I'm talking about if it's going to get back to God. The only thing that reaches God is what comes from God. That's why the only kind of shouting that touches God is the kind that came from God. You know what Brother Ray used to say? Brother Percy Ray used to say a real shout is just simply a cry to God. Oh God, don't leave me! Oh God, don't leave me! The only kind of worship that touches God is the kind that comes from God. The only kind of preaching that honors God is the kind that comes from God. The only kind of salvation, there is this side of heaven or hell, is the kind that comes from God. The only kind of desire that's gonna have any satisfaction ultimately is the kind that comes from God. You don't have an O, you need an O. Only God can give you an O. Somebody asked old brother Gypsy Smith one time, how do you have a revival? Old brother Smith looked at him and said, do you have a barn? He said, yeah, I got a barn. He said, go down there in your barn. And he said, get out there in the middle. And he said, draw you a big old circle in the dirt. And he said, fall down in that circle and beg God to revive everything that's in this circle. And I say to you, last of all, that an O is an indication of something that God wants to do in your life. If there's an O, It's a message from God of what He's got for you. There's Edwards who used to say, before God ever does a great work among His people, He always begins by calling them to prayer. He means by that is He bends us in His direction. Matthew Henry picked up on that and quoted it over and over again. When God begins to do a great work, He always begins by calling His people to prayer. He bends us in His direction. And if there's an oh in your heart this morning, if there's a cry for God in your heart this morning, it's an indication of what God is up to. Paul said it like this, we've not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but what did he say? We've received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba. That's an O. That's all that is, is an O. That little infant crying out, as Preacher Allen said last night, that little infant crying out in the night, O, I'm hungry. Where's Mama? Where's Daddy? Where's that bottle? Oh, I've been trying to go with God for 35 years, but this morning, as strong as ever in my heart, I feel like a little infant in the hands of God, crying out, where's the Father? Where's the Father? Where's the Lord Jesus? I need manna. I need strength. I need food. I need God in my life. Abba. Paul said that the Spirit Himself maketh intercession with groanings that cannot be uttered. You know what that is? That's an O. The Holy Ghost is operating, there's going to be an O. Crying out to God. I think it's time to get low, don't you? Just bow, just bend. I'm through, preacher. I appreciate your attention. That's all I got in my heart. That's all I got.