Well, it's good to be back here. The last time I was here, if my memory serves me right, it was the weekend of the Cardinals winning the World Series. And on Friday night, I predicted they would win it and close it out in five. So I'm predicting today they'll lose. Well, it is a blessing to be back. I was thanking the Lord this afternoon driving from Kentucky. Just the blessing and the preciousness of Christian friendships just almost brought me to tears. And I began to thank God for friendships that I have. I am going from here toward Liberty, Missouri tonight. and will be in Liberty tomorrow, the Lord willing, to see my longest, closest Christian brother. We started second grade together. We went through high school together. The first year in college, he and I were converted one month apart. He sought me out a month after his conversion to share the gospel with me. And that night I had not been interested in Christ. I had gotten out of church. I had no conviction happening. I had no spiritual interest whatsoever. And that night as He talked to me, the Holy Spirit just arrested my heart, brought conviction to me of my sinfulness, showed me for the first time ever in my 19 years that Jesus Christ really had died for my sin, and the love of God flooded my heart, and I was converted. Within a couple of years, we were licensed to preach together in our Southern Baptist Church in Texas. Anyway, he's my age, 55, and three weeks ago, without any warning, No sign except a cough that wouldn't go away. He goes to the doctor and finds out he has terminal cancer. He has six months to live. He has a tumor the size of a grapefruit connected to his lung. The cancer is in his spine. And he is resting in Christ and he's rejoicing and he's trusting Christ. And whether God heals him, all will be well. Whether He takes him, all will be well. So you pray for me as I go see Him tomorrow. We have 48 years of the deepest relationship two humans could ever have. And it might be my last time with Him before heaven. And we're going to have probably 10 hours together. So I just ask your prayers that God would really use that time. So that was one of the things that made me begin Praise God for earthly friendships in Christ. We ought to treasure them. We ought to thank God for them. We ought to see what a great means of grace Christian brothers and Christian sisters are in our lives and how worse we would be doing if we didn't have them. And for pastors and elders and leaders and teachers, we ought to ever be so, so thankful. Well, tonight I want you to turn to the 119th Psalm. Hold your finger there. And then I want you to turn to also look at one verse in Acts chapter 13. Psalm 119, Acts 13. We'll read Acts 13 first. I want to speak tonight on this subject. Developing a long-term, passionate pursuit of Jesus Christ. Developing a long-term, passionate pursuit of Jesus Christ. If I had to give it another title, it would be this. How did David become a man after God's own heart? So, Acts 13. I have to get to Acts like you are there now. Acts 13, verse 22. Luke records God's testimony about David. And here's what God says in Acts 13, 22. I have found in David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart who will do all My will. Now, as we turn back to Psalm 119, I want us to pause and pray. And you ask the Lord to speak to you, and I would ask you to pray for me as well. Let's pray for one another. Heavenly Father, I thank you for the privilege of Being with your people, I thank you for the blessing of being here at Rockport once again. And Father, tonight we thank you that you have said in so many ways in your Word, blessed is the one who makes the Lord his trust. And Lord, we do ask you tonight and we look to you and we trust you to speak and help us to speak, help us to hear Your voice. Lord, it will do us no good to hear the voice of a man unless we hear Your voice through the message. So, Lord, we ask You to override my human weakness and my lack. And in spite of me, we pray You'd speak through Your Word. Thank You, Lord, You've said that You do not desire sacrifice and offering, but You have given us an open ear. It says there in Psalm 40. And we would say, Lord, with David, that we desire to do Your will. O God, Your law is within our hearts. Thank You. You've promised that You will not hold back or restrain Your mercy from us, that Your steadfast love and faithfulness ever preserve us. So we give this time to you, and we expect our gracious Father, we expect you to be good and faithful and honor your Son and honor your Word. Make this time a time that truly is in the Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. It was 1978, I'm sorry, 1977 that I met a man named Leonard Ravenhill. He lived in Texas and I heard him preach and he invited some of us to begin to come to his Friday night prayer meeting that he would hold. And there would be about 70 people there. And this young fellow about my age would come in, curly hair, t-shirt, jeans, bare feet, and he'd plop down at the piano and he'd play the hymns and we'd sing, Holy, Holy, Holy, or Blessed Assurance. And this young guy's name was Keith Green. And we would sing for 30 minutes And then Leonard Ravenhill would preach for an hour or an hour and a half. And then we would pray for an hour and time would stand still and eternity seemed very, very real. And one of my favorite songs in all of my Christian experience was Keith's song, I Want to be More Like Jesus. And in that song, he has a stanza or a phrase that says, the end of all my prayer is to care like my Lord cared. My one and only goal, His image in my soul. Now, if you've never heard that song by Keith Green, seek it out and listen to it. And as I think about those words, I often have to ask myself, is that true of me still? If someone said that about you and your journey, would it be true? Do you have an ongoing, continuing, developing, growing, passionate pursuit of Christ? Or are you in a rut and you're having to play the game? You sure wouldn't want any of your Christian friends to know that you're not hotly in pursuit of Christ. So you have to carry on the lingo, the talk, the image, the persona, and yet the reality is not there in the heart. David, God said, is someone... He said, here's a man that is a man, a person that is a person after my heart. And so, as I think about that, I think that that must be at rock bottom, at the bottom line of our lives, there must be a heart that is in pursuit of Christ. As Psalm 42 says, as the deer pants for the streams, for the water brooks. So, there is a panting, there is a desire within my heart for the living God. Thirst. Now this is a grace from God, and it is a responsibility we have too. We are to hunger and thirst. We are to desire Him. And we are to have our hearts and our wills and our minds And our focus engaged to pursue Christ. And so as I thought about this, I usually read through the Psalms every three months. And every time I come to Psalm 119, I get excited because it's all about that. How many verses are in this Psalm? Don't look. I saw you look. How many verses in it? 176. 171 of them talk about the Scriptures, the precepts and the commandments and the statutes and the testimonies and the law of the Lord. David was consumed with wanting to know it. He was consumed with regularly being in it. He developed a discipline to get it stored up in him. He was immersed in it. And as you look at this psalm, here's one way to think about it. Every time you read Psalm 119, you ought to think about it this way. What the psalm says he did is what made him be a man after God's own heart. And what David did in the psalms, we can imitate. We can do. We can build into our lives, and that's how we will become a person who is in pursuit of God, who is in pursuit of Jesus Christ passionately, and who will continue to grow deeper to know Him. But there are no shortcuts. Every time you see a book that says, 10 Certain Easy Steps to Spirituality, burn it. Or, as Tozer said, cut it up and cover the bottom of the birdcage with it or something. It's a lie. There are no shortcuts. There is no easy road except to follow Jesus Christ and get yourself in this book with consistency, with regularity. Let me give you a little testimony. After being a Christian a long time, and even after I was preaching, I was inconsistent in reading the Bible to feed my heart and just for growth. I'd cram for a sermon, but I'd miss days. And then I'd struggle with this temptation or that. Things would easily get me down. And there was inconsistency in my Bible reading. And I finally got embarrassed about it, grieved over it, disappointed, and I would try to change it. No change. So finally, I came to a place of saying, you know, I cannot change myself in this. I cannot make myself get consistent. I don't know what to do. And so the Lord just kind of said to my heart, why don't you ask me to help you? I mean, I'm not trying to be funny. And I saw something that just ignited in my mind, and that is, any inconsistency, any battle with sin, any besetting sin, any negligence of spiritual discipline, I saw if I had a desire for that to change, I should begin to ask God to give me the desire of my heart. I began to ask Him, Lord, give me a desire to be consistent in Your Word. And then as I'm able to read, as I do it, let me enjoy it and let my heart get addicted to it. And you know what? God began to do that. And now, after several years of this, by His grace, nothing has interrupted feasting on this Word, being in it, 10 chapters, 12 chapters, 15 chapters a day, praying through it, meditating on it. marking, cross-referencing, thinking about it. None of us have an excuse because we do what we desire to do. I was talking to a young man today in Kentucky over lunch, and he was asking me about, you know, what about growth? And I said, well, how much time do you spend in the Word? Well, I'm a little bit ashamed to say I listen to a lot of Paul Washer sermons, but you know, I'm kind of inconsistent in the Bible. I said, you know, God's better than Washer, so let's get this straight right now. You can listen to that all day, but that doesn't mean you're going to grow. And I began to tell him what to do to get consistent. He's single. And I said, look, I have six children. And I have a lot more responsibility than you do. You're not married. You have an enjoyable job with a Christian ministry." I said, you have no excuse. And I showed him what to do to begin to consistently get in the Word. And it just ignited in his heart. And I think it's going to work. The question is this. How do we move... Well, let me back up. How did David, with his flaws Big weaknesses. How did David move progressively toward becoming a consistent person after God's own heart? What did he do? And what he did, we can do. How do I more become a person after God's own heart? Well, I want us to look at a sprinkling of a few verses in this psalm. Don't worry, we're not going to read the whole psalm. Though I'll expound all of it in summary. Because what we're going to look at shows us what David did to pursue God. Now think about this with me. Let's begin at verse 9. David says here in verse 9, How can a young man keep his way pure? Now let's stop and say, when the Bible uses man in general, or mankind, that's generic. Ladies, young ladies, girls, you're not off the hook. It's talking about you too. How can a person, how can a believer, how can a follower of Jesus Christ, how can they keep their way pure? Answer, by guarding it according to your words. So here's the first thing that David did. He guarded his ways. He learned to guard his ways and put truth as a hedge about him to fence him in from evil and from pursuing sin. He refused to become what theologians would say an antinomian, without living without law, living without boundaries. And so he began to say, all my ways need to be hedged in by Scripture. Can I date this girl? She's not a believer. That answers it. God says no. Can I date this guy? Maybe I can win him to the Lord. He's an unbeliever. Scripture says no. You hedge your ways in by Scripture and you guard your ways according to the Word of God. That's how you begin to grow. You keep yourself from evil by pursuing what Scripture says. The Word of God, the Scripture, as David meditated in it and looked at it, it guarded his ways. Now, did it all the time? No. One time, he and his men were traveling through an area, and he sent word to Nabal, a wicked rich guy, that he wanted some refreshment and wanted to be able to pass through. And Nabal wouldn't do it. And Nabal embarrassed David's men. Long story short, David got so angry and he was fixing to wipe out Nabal and all of his men and all of his family. And if Nabal's wife Abigail hadn't come with humility and promptness and sincerity to appeal to him, God's truth and grace through her Heads David's way to keep him from doing what was foolish. But here's another time in the days when kings go out to battle. David stayed behind in his loft. He wanted to chill. He wanted to just hang. He wanted to watch some DVDs. He wanted to eat some wings, drink some Pepsi. That's living Bible translation. He stayed back. He takes a nap early evening. He walks outside. It's still daylight. He's probably stretching himself and he looks and from his rooftop he looks down and what does he see? He sees a beautiful young woman and the rest is history. What if he had Sense the conviction of God's presence. What if the fear of God had made him be sensible or he had responded to it? What if instead he had run back in his room, fallen on his knees, and cried out to God? He would never have fallen. He would never have had a baby that died under the judgment of God. And grief and misery would have never come to his household the rest of his days. He didn't, at a point in time, when He was alone, when He was tempted, when there was nobody there to check Him, He didn't hedge His ways up with truth. And you talk about having regrets in His soul. This is what He did and this is what we must do. to have the Word of God guard our ways. Now, how do you get there? Well, the way you get there is what he says in verse 11, and it's the second thing. To be a person that's in a passionate pursuit for Jesus Christ, we must have a stored-up heart of truth. He says there in verse 11, I have laid up, or hidden, or stored up Your Word in my heart. Now, how do you get there? You get there by being in it every day. Every day you be in it. Find the best time of your day, but you don't let family, you don't let work, you don't let school, you don't let Christian friends, you don't let sermon CDs or blogging or the computer, you let nothing rival your time with God in this Word. Because the only way to store up the Word in your heart where your mind gets renewed is to spend time getting it in you. No shortcuts. Listening to the best sermons won't do it. Reading Piper 30 times a week won't do it. You've got to get in the Word yourself that it might get in you that you might not sin against God. Question. How much time do you spend in the Bible? Consistently. Just take that one question before the Lord this week and examine yourself. Examine your walk. If you're inconsistent or if it's not existent, that's the root of your spiritual struggle. Paul Washer has told me several times, he said, when young men come to me complaining about lust, I ask them, well, how much time do you spend watching TV? And how much time do you spend on the Internet and going to watch filthy movies or unclean things? Don't complain to me about your struggle with sin if you're letting vile things enter your mind and produce wrong desires. See, we must have the word to wash our minds and cleanse us. And the only way to keep your mind renewed, the only way to keep a right perspective of reality in this vile world, with all we get exposed to, is to keep this truth continually coming into you. Storing it up in your life. That is how David became a man after God's own heart. Now let's hurry on. Thirdly, look at verse 14. How did David become a man after God's own heart? He says, in the way of your testimonies I delight. Now the word testimony there can be the word ways, God's ways, God's purposes. So David became a man after God's own heart by cultivating a heart that delighted in and enjoyed the things of God. Do we delight in and take joy in and enjoy the things of Christ? Or is it a drudgery? See, this is where you get back and you begin to pray. If you see it's a drudgery, you pray, Lord, change this. Church sometimes is a drudgery. Change this and make it a delight. Reading and prayer is a drudgery. Obedience sometimes, I don't want to do it. Give me a heart, Lord, that delights in these things where it's real and it's not just religious. Now, I'm not saying you don't stay faithful in public worship if you don't feel a delight in it. No. You continue to Do what's right, but you want to see God engage your heart where you have a delight in it. David delighted in the things of God. Do we? What else did he do? Look at verse 20. He says, My soul is consumed with longing for Your Word at all times. My soul is consumed with longing." This is passionate desire. This is a depth of desire that's single, that's pure, that's focused, that is a deep well, that runs deep, where David longed for, with acute desire, more than anything else, God Himself. The hymn writer says, My goal is God Himself, not joy nor peace, nor even blessing, but Thyself my God. It is Yours to lead me there to You, no matter what the cost." Do we desire Jesus Christ enough? Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. So, consumed with longing, but I'm afraid, Oftentimes, we don't go on with Christ. We're slow in our sanctification. We're slow going deeper with Him. We don't increase in the knowledge of God quickly enough and deeply enough because we're lazy about our pursuit. Are you lazy after Christ or are you hot after Him? See, this is what David exemplifies to us. And the beauty of it is we have more than David ever had And we can become like Him spiritually. Oh, we'll never write Scripture. We'll never be a king. But we can have a passionate pursuit for Jesus Christ like He had. But we can't be lazy. Tonight, I encourage you to ask the Lord. Begin to ask the Lord. Lord, deliver me from spiritual laziness. Deliver me from spiritual slothfulness and half-heartedness and make me passionate. Make me all out. Next thing David did, look at verse 24. He says, Your testimonies are my delight. They are my what? Counselors. The way David became a person after God's own heart was He let truth counsel him about all matters. He let Scripture decide on the issue. Can I do this? Can I go here? How do I view this? What's the truth about this? And Scripture was the final word on it for David. It must be our only counselor about issues. Young people, you don't know what to believe about some area? When every voice among your peers and out in the world is screaming this, and it sounds good, and they can say the lie more eloquently than we can say the truth, you've got to find out what the truth is. You search it out right here. You've got to determine, is this book true for me? I know Dad believes it. I know Mom believes it. I know my brother believes it, but where do I stand? Is it true or is it not? Francis Schaeffer, after he was an adult and a Christian, came to the place where he came back and he said, Is there truth? And is God a reality? And is this book true or not? And in a hayloft, in Europe, he determined it. He said, it is true. God is true. God is real. God is there and He has spoken and I believe Him. Scripture must be our counselor about everything. That's how David became the kind of man he was. Now look in verse 25. Just a few more I want to share here with you. David here says, My soul clings to the dust. That's a word picture saying, I am as low as I can get. I'm down. I'm depressed. It's a dark time. I'm so discouraged. I can't get any lower. I'm defeated. If David was ever anything with God, he was transparent, he was honest, he wasn't afraid to pour out his complaints to God. He told God in prayer exactly where he was and exactly how he felt. But I'm afraid we don't do that. Think about this. The last time you really got frustrated and somebody, or angry, did you have the freedom to come before your Father and say, Lord, I'm so mad at them right now. I'm so angry. I'm so frustrated. I don't like them. I don't want to be around them. Can we pray with that kind of honesty? David did. And here he says, My soul is clinging to the dust. Now notice what he asked God to do because that was true in verse 25. What did he pray for? Give me life. That is the idea that here he is a believer. He is low in a bad spiritual state or struggling. He can't pull himself up by his own bootstraps. He can't change himself. He cries out to God. for fresh, new spiritual life. He's empty. Lord, I need fullness. He's weak. Lord, I need strength. He feels dead. He feels no spiritual reality or life. And he says, quicken me, renew me with life. How often we would know that if we cried out to God for it. But how seldom, I'm afraid, we often do. Here was a man who needed fresh spiritual renewal. And he not only faced it and knew he needed it, he didn't just say, well, you know, I need to read more. I need to talk to my friends. I need to talk to my pastor. No. He cried out to God to give him fresh life. And you know, when a Christian does that, if you keep asking the Lord for that, He will always hear. He will always answer. 1 John 5, 14 and 15, right in there. This is the confidence we have in Him. That if we ask anything according to His will, stop right there. It is His will for us to be renewed and to be helped and to be strengthened and to be full of the Spirit and to walk with Him and to glorify Christ. Is that God's will? This is the confidence we have in Him that if we ask anything according to His will, He is hearing us. And if we know that He hears us, we know that we have the petitions we desire to Him. That's a wonderful thing. Lord, give me new life according to Your Word. He was saying, Lord, You've promised life You promised renewal. You promised spiritual quickening. So, I'm asking you for it according to your Word. That's why he was a man after God's own heart. You see, David did these things to get there. We want to get there, but we neglect the path that will take us there. If you want to go to Dallas, you can't drive north. And if you want to drive, if you want to get to Hawaii, you cannot drive. You have to fly. Well, see, if you want to be a person after God's own heart, you want to go deep with Christ, you want to glorify Him, you want to walk with Him, you want to enjoy Him forever, you want to have communion with Christ, this is the path to get there. We must walk it. We must pursue as David did. A couple of more. Look at verse 29. What does he say here? Put false ways far from me and graciously teach me your law. Here was a man who wants all false ways out of his life. Gone. This is such a challenge. Because the tentacles of the world, sitcoms, Grey's Anatomy, movies that even Christians will say, well, that was a neat movie. It took God's name in vain. It had vile sexual things in it. And yet it emotionally moves people. So Christians compromise. The world still has its tentacles in believers. And there's false ways in our lives that haven't been removed. Would to God that we got honest about it and we had the grace and the courage to pray, Lord, I'm coming. I want to ask you, this is scary, but I want to ask you that everything in my life that is of the world and not of the Father, everything in my life that is false and not from you, everything connected to my life that is carnal, that is of this world, I pray you deal with it and deliver me from it. David said, put far from me. All false ways. Now we're really talking about reality. And you know, we don't even know the degree that the world still affects us and still conforms us into its mold. But we need to be delivered from it that we might have a passionate pursuit of Jesus Christ. Look at verses 36 and 37. David says this, Incline my heart to your testimonies and not to selfish gain, not to vanity. I think one translation says, Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things. Here was a man who needed a turned heart and turned eyes. And we can't do that for ourselves. How much do we set our hearts upon that which is impure? How often do we, without wanting to, whether billboards or other things, our eyes behold something that's worthless or impure, or we willfully set our eyes upon it? And impurity enters in. And David knew this was so big for him that he didn't say, I'm going to turn my heart away. I'm going to turn my eyes away. No, he said, Lord, You please turn my heart. You please turn my eyes. Deliver me from this. Now, God can work that miracle in a Christian's life. He can just begin to deliver us. from turning our hearts toward that which is not of Him, and turning our eyes toward looking at that which is not of Him. That's how David became a man after God's own heart. And then it makes me wonder, when I see this, it makes me wonder, well, I can sing the praise songs, I can talk the talk, but when it gets this real, how much do I really want the blessing and the presence of God in my life. Last thing. Well, two more. Look at verse 63. He says, I am a companion of all who fear you. How did David become the man he was? He became that by being a man who made believers His main friends and His constant companions. Question. Are your closest friends, are your closest influences, Christians or unbelievers? Here's what you do for a grade school science project. Get 50 apples in a basket, healthy, fresh, good apples. You could eat any one of them. Take a rotten apple. Stick it down in the middle, and in five days, that rotten apple will be healthy, won't it? Right? No? What will it do? We know. You have mainly ungodly, wicked people closest to you. You have mainly unbelieving friends, closest friends that you hang with. You'll be like them. They're not going to gravitate to being like you. They can't. They're lost. They need Jesus Christ to transform. But you hang out with them, and you talk their talk, and you watch what they watch, and you be with them, you will start being like them. You cannot grow deeper and strong having unbelievers as your closest friends that you hang with. Impossible. Scripture, 1 Corinthians 15, verse 33, be not deceived. Evil communications corrupts good manners. So, you want to be wise? You walk with who? You walk with the wise. You want to be godly? You want to know truth? You hang out with those who know it. When I came to Christ, I didn't know anything. I couldn't have found anything in the Bible. I knew nothing. But one thing I learned soon, if I hung out with my old friends, I wasn't feeling very strong. And the more I would be around strong believers who really were serious about Christ, the more that would rub off on me. And the more I wanted to be like that. And so, in my life, the one thing I've succeeded at is being a spiritual leech. When I see a man of truth, I just latch on and I want to learn. I ask questions. When I see praying men, I like to get around them. I can't pray like they do, but I get with them and I like to hear them pray and it affects me and it helps my prayer life. Become a spiritual theological leech on those who are stronger than you around your life and you'll grow. David said, Believers, my constant companions. But you get isolated by yourself or you're mainly around unconverted people, you will be weak and struggle and you'll wonder why. Last one. Look at verse 67. David says, Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep your word. Also 75, I know, Lord, that your rules are righteous and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. Here's a person. David became who he became because he received and he was changed by God's correction and God's chastening. When hardship was brought to David in the sovereign providence of God, by God's grace, He let it change him for the better. He yielded to it. He humbled himself under God's mighty hand. And it changed him. It sanctified him. David was sanctified through the affliction, be it sickness, the chastisement and consequences of sin, the hard providences that come that you have no control over, parents divorce, and you're affected by it. You can't do anything about it. Every affliction, every trial, every hardship, every grief, every sorrow, by the hand of Christ and by His Spirit, through His Word can be sanctified to our lives to make us better, to make us more Christlike, to mold us into His image. Think it not strange concerning the fiery trials which are to try you and test you as if something strange is happening. When you fall into various kinds of trials and temptations, rejoice, the Bible tells us. And as we yield to God's gracious mercies of difficulties in our life, we can't escape them. We have to go through them. We will come out on the other side knowing Him more, loving Him more, being wiser. Job said, I know that when I Come through this, I will come forth as gold." And He did. How much do I really want to become a person after God's own heart? Let me challenge you to do this over the days ahead. Take Psalm 119. Closely and prayerfully read it. Not only see what it says, see what David said, and see what he did, and begin to ask God to build those realities in your walk and in your life. And you begin to ask Him to, He will. And you will begin to see realities that maybe you hadn't been seeing. The end of all my prayer is to care like my Lord cared. My one and only goal, His image in my soul. Can we pray that tonight? Let's just bow in prayer now. And let's just ask God for a new work of grace in our hearts. What He has spoken to you tonight, before you go to sleep, Go to Him about that. Be honest with Him. Tell Him where you are. Pour out your heart to Him and seek Him. And ask Him. You might need to tell Him, Lord, I'm afraid. I fear even asking You to make me a person after Your heart because I don't know what it would cost me. I don't want to lose this friendship. I don't want to go through cancer. I don't want to have to go through pain that I don't think I can bear. Lord, I don't even know if I want to ask You to make me a person after Your own heart. But I'm asking You to search me. I'm asking You for mercy. I'm asking You to give me grace because I do know that I want to love You and I want to have a passion for Jesus that I don't have now. I want to go deeper. I want to get stronger. I want to run this race of following Him. I never want to go back to this world to sin. I want to be real. Lord, keep me. Help me. Father, we do pray that right now tonight. We ask You for grace and mercy right where we are. We ask, Lord, that the depths of our heart would open up and tonight, this week, we would find ourselves just desperately wanting You so much that we get before You and we just cry out to You. We just cry out to You. We just tell You that we want You. We want to know You. Lord, work these things in our lives. And I pray you'd make every one of us here tonight a person after God's own heart that has a passionate and growing pursuit of Jesus Christ. Thank you that this is your will and that you hear such a desire and such a cry. We pray in His name. Thank you. Amen.