 I wanna encourage you if you have your Bibles right now, wherever you're at, open them with me to two passages, Matthew chapter six and Hebrews chapter 11. Matthew chapter six, Hebrews chapter 11. We're gonna start at Hebrews chapter 11. This new series is called The Seekers Reward. As we're going into a season of seek, it's important that we understand what the goal of seek is. And so we're gonna find a little bit of what that goal or what the destination is of our fasting and our prayer, and really our relationship with God, of really going after God every single day of our lives. What is the reward for those who will seek the Lord? Hebrews chapter 11, verse six says this, says without faith, it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God, must believe in two things, that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently seek him. That he is, or the ESV says that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently seek him. Flip over to Matthew chapter six. These are Jesus's words in the midst of the sermon on the Mount when he's teaching on prayer. And he says in verse number six, but when you, when you pray, go into your room and when you have shut the door, pray to your father who is in the secret place and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly. Some translations say he will reward you publicly. In other words, a life of private pursuit results in a life of public reward. There is, here's the connection between these two verses and very rarely do I ever preach thematically. I'll most often, you'll notice, I'll take a large section of scripture, I wanna teach it within context. But in this particular instance, I wanna bring the context and the theme around this idea that God promises that there is a reward in both of these passages that is available to those who will make a decision. And the decision that we are called to make is to seek him with all of our heart. Jeremiah 29, we all know verse 11, we've all got the magnet on the fridge that says I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to bless you and not harm you, plans to give you a future and all, it's a wonderful scripture and we all love that, we've got the bumper sticker, it's the magnet on the fridge, it's quoted at almost every wedding. But what we oftentimes miss is verse number 13 of that. In Jeremiah 29, 11, beginning of verse 12, he says, then you will call upon me and pray to me and I will hear you, you will, when you pray to me, you will find me and when you seek me with all of your heart, he says, I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you back. So God has this promise, he says, if you'll seek me, then you'll find me. When you seek me with all of your heart, then I will be found by you and when you find me, there is a reward that's connected to that pursuit and to that journey of going after the heart of God. And the reward itself is available only to those who will seek God. You see, oftentimes we think, well, everything that we get from God is free. Well, you're absolutely right. Everything that we receive from God, we receive by grace. I'm grateful today that our salvation is not determined upon our good works. Ephesians two is very clear that we're not saved by works less than any man should boast, but it's the grace of God. By faith through grace through faith, we are saved less no one should be able to boast. No one can brag and say, oh, God saved me because I did enough good things. But let me tell you this, salvation is absolutely free, but walking in the full reward and the blessing of God will cost you everything because it has to do with what you're pursuing with your heart and with your life. And the blessing of God is conditional. We told our kids this a long time ago. We said, look, we love you unconditionally, but our blessing has conditions. We're not gonna just hand over the keys to our family and the family car and give you money and resources if you're irresponsible. Why? Because that's detrimental to you. We're gonna love you, but you're gonna have to, you're gonna have to put some work in. You're gonna have to prove yourself. You're gonna, I wanna see what's really on the inside of you before I begin to hand over the keys to the car, the family car. I wanna know that you've taken driver's training, that you're responsible, that you're doing something on your part. When my kids were really little, they're full grown, Jane and I raised three awesome kids who are adults now, but when they were little, they loved to play hide and seek. At that time, when they were real small, we had a small little house and we'd play hide and seek and they loved it when I would come home and say, Dad, let's play hide and go seek. And so I'd say, all right, guys, here's the deal. You guys close your eyes real tight and count to 50 or count to 100 or whatever they could. And I'm gonna go hide and you've gotta find me. And so they would close their eyes real tight. All right, go dad. And it's like, one, two. And I would book it into another room of the house. Now, here's the deal. If I wanted to hide from my kids, they would never have found me. I could have gone into that little crawl space in the attic behind something that they never would have gone to. And I could still be there today. In fact, some of you parents are like, that's a good idea. That's how I can get a little quiet time to myself. But what I would do is I would run and I would go into a different room or down to the basement and I would hide behind a piece of furniture. But what I would always do is like leave my foot out a little bit. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Leave your foot out or kind of be, you know, turn around and kind of half out in the open. Why? Because I wasn't trying to hide from my kids as much as I was trying to hide for my kids. I wanted them to experience the journey because they found great joy in it. They come around the corner and go, dad, we see you. And it's like, oh no, and everybody'd run and they'd tackle or, you know, whatever. When kids hide from you, you know, you have to play that up. It's like, where are you? You're right there in front of me hiding next to the bean bag, but that's okay, where are you? You've got to play it up with kids. Why? Because it's part of the journey. It's part of the interaction. The joy that they experience in finding you produces joy in your heart that they would come and look for you. When God says, seek me, it's not God in his austerity crossing his arms and saying, well, I'm pretty deep and I'm pretty wise and I'm pretty powerful and I'm way beyond you. So if you want to know more about me, then let's see what you got. No, it's God saying, come on, I want your whole heart. Come on, I want your focus. Come on, I want your time. Come on, there's a journey. There's a father, child engagement that can take place. If you are willing to not just go through the motions, not have a peripheral pursuit, not allow God to stay in the blind spots of your life because your eyes are set on other temporal treasures, but every time we go into a season of prayer and fasting and really every single day as we calibrate our hearts towards the presence of God, it's like the Heavenly Father saying, come after me, if you'll seek me with all of your heart, then you'll find me. I'm not hard to find, but you've got to give me your full attention. And if you'll do that, you'll find me. And when you find me, there's a reward. So it's important if we're gonna talk about a seeker's reward over the next couple of weeks, we have to define some terms. We have to talk about what is a seeker and we need to talk about what is the reward for the seeker and then we need to clearly understand what does it take to become a seeker? Do we have to be theologians? Do we have to forget everything else in our lives in order to really seek after God? Let me define some terms for you this morning as we set the stage. Number one, what is a seeker? Here's the definition of a seeker. A seeker is someone who is searching, looking or pursuing a greater proximity to God and God in his presence, someone who has set their heart on a journey towards him. That's a seeker. And I want you to know in your relationship with God, there's actually two seekers. If you are seeking after God over the next 21 days, and maybe this is all brand new for you, maybe you're a new Christ follower or you used to have a close proximity to the Lord, you experience God in a very powerful way, but some time has kind of doled your heart and you're saying, all right, Lord, I want to start this new year often, I want to new me and I want to really go after you and I want a new relationship with you. And so now you're like, okay, I want to be a seeker. I'm coming after you, I want a greater proximity and I want the reward that you have available. There's one seeker and that's you, but there's another seeker and that's him. You see, because Jesus said in John chapter four, when he was engaged in a conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob, he said that the father is seeking for those who will worship him in spirit and in truth. God is seeking for people to worship him in spirit and in truth. What does spirit and truth mean? Well, there's a lot of layers to that, but one primary definition of that is you're seeking after God with authenticity, with genuineness and with your whole heart. That's what God is looking for. Not your religious obligations, not just going through the motions, not just showing up, not saying a quick little prayer, but you're really going after them. The Lord says, I'm seeking that. And here's what I know is when you seek God and God is seeking you, there's going to be a holy collision of his goodness and his grace and of his presence in your life. Listen, if you really set your heart on seeking him, you will never be the same. I guarantee it, not even a 90 day money-back guarantee. I'm talking like forever and ever and ever, your life will be changed. It doesn't happen sometimes, it happens every single time. God is looking, his eyes roam throughout the earth, seeking those whose hearts are loyal and faithful to him. This is what God's looking for. And here's the good news, God knows that you're not good at this. He knows I'm not good at this. He's not looking for perfection in the pursuit. He's looking for singularity in the pursuit. Our whole heart, say, God, I'm a wreck, I'm a mess. Anybody ever messed up in your life, raise your hand if you've ever messed up. Then you qualify to be a seeker. God's like, I know you're a wreck, I know you're a mess, I know you're every thought, I know how many times you've failed, I know how many times you've tried. I've seen you're fasting, it's terrible. It's, I've seen you cheat by getting into the line at Chick-fil-A when you think nobody else sees. That was me. And eating that 12 piece nuggets and then repenting afterwards, the Lord says, I see that, but I also see that you repented and you came after me and your fasting was never the issue to begin with. It was what fasting could produce in your life and the fact that you made a decision to come after me. So that's what a seeker is, but what is the reward? If it says that he will reward those who diligently seek him, if it says that you must believe that God is and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him, if Jesus says that if we privately pursue him, then God will publicly reward us. What is the reward? Is it wealth? Is it fame? Is it healing? Is it emotional well-being? Is it the relationship that we've been longing for? Is it instantaneous knowledge of the Bible in a way that we've never had before? Is it favor? Is it a promotion? What is the reward? The reward, according to what God himself said to Abraham, who is the father of the believer's journey of faith, in Genesis 15 verse one, he says this to Abraham. He said, Abraham in a vision, he said to him, do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield and your exceedingly great reward. God says, I'm your reward. I'm your reward because if you have God, you have everything. If you have him, and I'm not just talking about possessing him, but if you are close to him and you're pursuing him and he's pursuing you and your relationship with God grows and all other things have died, all other glittering shining things have lost their fascination and your heart ever gets locked in on drawing near to him and surrendering your life to him and his word being the truth in your life. Then it says that not only is he gonna be able to set you free, but he's gonna bring you back from exile. Jeremiah 29 talks about this, I'm gonna bring you back and that means in the places of your life where you've been broken, there's gonna be healing. In the places where there's been pain, there's gonna be healing and satisfaction, but it's not because God's just giving you something. It's because of the one that you are living in the presence of. If you have God, you have everything. You have peace, joy, love, patience, faithfulness, goodness, gentleness, self-control. You have power from heaven. You have forgiveness, you have salvation, you have community, you have identity, you have everything. You will never face a giant that you can't defeat. You will never face a mountain that cannot be moved. You will never cross a river that God can't separate and tear open so that you can walk over in the dry ground. You will never be in a position where there's lack to fulfill the purpose and the calling of your life because when you have God, you have everything. And we spend so much of our time living our lives in pursuit of everything else thinking, if I chase that down, that will solve my problem. Or if I chase that down, that's gonna satisfy me. Or if I possess that, that's gonna make me complete. Or if I am that, then other people are going to look at me and envy me and I'm gonna have this sense of satisfaction of fame. If I have enough followers, if I have a big enough house, if I climb the corporate ladder, if I marry this person, if I look this way. And none of those things in and of themselves are wrong unless they become the object of our pursuit. But when Jesus said, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all these other things will be added unto you, this is what he means. He says, don't seek those things, seek me because if you find me, everything else will be put into place. God himself is the seeker's reward. The seeker's reward is receiving more of him with every step made in his direction. So let me ask you a question this morning. In your relationship with God, are you a spiritual seeker or a spiritual wanderer? Because if you're a seeker, you know what you're going after. But if you are a wanderer, you're just kind of open and saying, whatever's gonna happen, gonna happen. If you're a seeker, you are on course. If you are a wanderer, you don't even know whether you're on course or off course because as Yogi Berra used to say, if you don't know where you're going, you might end up someplace else. And so many people, if you ask them, do you love Jesus? Yes, do you want God's best for your life? Yes, what are you going after? Just kind of open to whatever. I wake up every day going, oh, I hope today's better than yesterday. But if we set our hearts on the journey, that Psalm 84 journey, say, God, I'm coming after you. Blessed is everyone who sets their heart on a pilgrimage. It says, I'm coming after you, Lord. Even the birds of the field make their nest in your presence. And even though I go through the valley of Baca, God, you're even gonna take that water or that was my tears and turn it into springs that don't just refresh me but refresh other people. And I know that I will see the goodness of God in the land of the living. That's what it means to be one who is a seeker. And it's the seeker that receives the reward. So what is it that is the master key? What's the master key? How do I go from being a wanderer to a seeker? There's one master key. One master key to engaging or even beginning on the journey of being a seeker. What is it? Well, I'm gonna talk more about that tonight, but I'm gonna give you the introduction to it this morning. What is the master key to opening the door to a greater relationship with God and receiving the seeker's reward? It's one thing and here it is. It's spiritual hunger and thirst. Spiritual hunger and thirst. Jesus said in Matthew five verse six, blessed is he who hungers and thirsts after righteousness for he shall be filled or they shall be satisfied. Hunger and thirst. You know, we really don't understand hunger and thirst in our context. I mean, if we haven't eaten in five minutes, we're like, I'm hungry. Most of the time we're hungry because we're bored. Didn't the Grinch say that? I eat because I'm bored. When Jesus says hunger and thirst, think about those. Those are the most primal driving appetites in the human reality. They move us and we will do just about anything to have them satisfied. But when you're not hungry and you're not thirsty, when you're just kind of in a stasis or a state of status quo, when you're satisfied, people can put wonderful, glorious, awesome food in front of you and you can take it or leave it. You will walk by a thousand drinking fountains. You can go into a gas station and there's refrigerators full of aquafina and Evian and all kinds of water and you don't even pay a second attention. But when you're thirsty, man, you're willing to drink out of a garden hose. When you're really thirsty and you see you're searching for water, you will drink it from wherever you can get it. The same is true with hunger. When you're hungry, it's amazing what you will eat. Can't tell you how many times I've gone to the cupboards. Hungry and not even really hungry, but hungry. It's like, I got pickles and low carb tortillas and chocolate chips. Let's go. A pickle and chocolate chip burrito, here we go. I mean, hunger will drive you to seek whatever it is that you're hungry for. And the key with being a seeker of the presence of God, of growing closer to God is spiritual hunger. If you have spiritual hunger, you are at the beginning of a journey to receive the seeker's reward. And here's the thing, as you may be here this morning, wherever you're at, and you're in a state of spiritual hunger. I'm so tired of the world. I'm so tired of my sin. I'm so tired of binging on the junk that the world has. I'm tired of all that. And I don't even know how to get there, but I'm just hungry for you, God. Jesus says, plus are you. But spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst is different than natural hunger and thirst. And it's different in this way. When you are naturally hunger, hungry and thirsty, and you find food or water and you drink it, you become satisfied. The more you eat, the more you're satisfied. But spiritual hunger is the exact opposite. The more you eat, the hungrier you get. The less you drink, the less thirsty you are. And so if you are today in a state of, I don't, if I'm being honest with myself, I don't feel intensely spiritually hungry. The key is don't wait till you are. The key is to prime the pump by doing the things that produce spiritual hunger in you. That's what fasting does. That's what prayer does. Prayer and fasting are not what we do when we are spiritually hungry. Fasting and prayer is what we do to become spiritually hungry because in that state of spiritual hunger, we will then set out to find that which only can satisfy our longings. And so if you're spiritually hungry already and you're part of our family and we're going into this 21 days, blessed are you. But if you're like, I'm a little bit hungry and I'm a little bit thirsty, but I want to be ravenous. I really wanna go after God. Let me give you some keys that are gonna help produce spiritual hunger in you over the next 21 days. And you can make a decision about these things and they will stir spiritual hunger in your life. Number one is this, here's the things to say yes to at God's invitation. Number one is seek God first. If you will seek God first, make a decision. I'm gonna seek God first. It will produce spiritual hunger and thirst in your life. What do I mean by seek first? Well, number one, seek Him early. Seek Him early. That means get up early. Get up early. Wake up, wake yourself up. Set your alarm clock. 15 minutes, a half an hour, an hour earlier than you normally do. Well, you know, that's really tough too because I watch Netflix till like two in the morning and then I gotta be at work at seven. So I really can't do that. What are you hungry for? Go to bed at 11. Wake up at four or whatever. But if you really want hunger to stir and you say, God, before I go to work, before I work out, before I do anything else, the first thing I'm gonna do in my life, it's the law of priority. I'm going to this next 21 days, starting on Monday morning, I'm gonna get this old body out of bed, out of bedside Baptist, get my head off a pillow, pentacol still and I'm gonna seek you in the secret place. I'm gonna get my Bible and I'm gonna say a prayer. If you don't even know what prayer to pray, pray the Lord's prayer. Open up the book of Psalms, pray a Psalm and go to you version and get a Bible reading plan and read one chapter a day. And it might take you five, 10 minutes if you've never done it before, but just set a precedent. Just say, God, I'm seeking you first. I read the Bible and I prayed a terrible prayer today. And then guess what? I'm doing it tomorrow and I'm coming after you and you better be ready and God's like, bring it on. Come on, bring it on, come after me. God's not in heaven, go, I'm not gonna do it. I like reading the Bible finally. Shaking the foundations of the world now. It's like I might have to answer some prayers. No, we don't realize how badly God wants to meet us. Seek God early. What does it mean to seek God first? Seek Him early, but it also means seek Him as a priority. In every area of your life, make a determination right now. When it comes to my family, we're putting God first. When it comes to my finances, we're putting God first. When it comes to my dreams, I'm putting God first. When it comes to my job, I'm putting you first. It begins with your pursuit first. You begin to put God first and ask questions like, what does it mean for God to be first in our family, in our marriage? What does it mean for God to be first with our finances? And you begin to say, God, I don't know how to all do this, but I'm saying I want that. When you begin to want that and take some tangible steps, what will happen is your heart will begin to awaken. So many people say, I wanna read the Bible. I just, I don't like it. You know how you like it? Read it. Read it. And the Bible is the only book that when you're reading it, it's reading you. You're just gonna read it and all of a sudden your heart's gonna go, wow, I never saw that before. That's encouraging. Or you might read and go, that's a fending. Or you might read and go, that's complicated. Or you might read and go, that's a genealogy. Why? And why are they killing animals? And I mean, you're gonna read stuff, but it's gonna stir your heart to begin to think and to wrestle and to reach out to God. So seek God for a second thing that you can do that will produce spiritual hunger in your life is seek God often. Build a habit. Develop an appetite. Seek God habitually. Psalm 105 verses three through four says, let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice. Seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his presence continually. Build a habit over the next 21 days. You can build a habit. Every day, wake up, read the Bible. Here's a habit. You ready? Come to a prayer meeting. Some of you have never been to our prayer room. It's like, oh, I love that our church has a prayer room, but it's downtown. It's a long ways away. Listen, you don't live hours away from the radiant city center. There are a lot of weird people downtown. Yeah, there are a lot of weird people that need you. You're not weird, so show up. Because your prayers are changing our city. Changing our region. God's called us to the heart of the city. You've never showed up to a prayer meeting. Here's a radical idea. Say, you know what we're gonna do? Once a week, or even here. Crazy radical. I'm going to a prayer meeting every day for 21 days. He said, I can't possibly do that. Well, maybe you've gone to the gym every single day. There are some people that when they're on vacation, they go to the gym. They're just gym rats. It's like, I wake up every day, gotta go to the gym, get up. And then they're like posting on Instagram. And every single day and they're on vacation. You know, they're in the middle of Alaska and Antarctica. And they're just like, where's the nearest plan of fitness? And it's like, there's no purple gym and an article. What am I gonna do? It's great. You've got a habit. Wonderful. Physical discipline profits you a little. Spiritual discipline, it will develop you in ways that you can't even fathom. Develop a habit. I've never prayed 21 days in a row. Do it. Come to a prayer meeting. Come to one. Come to one a week. If you can't, we're on 8 a.m. on TV every morning, on YouTube TV. Like your computer or your phone, whatever. But go to the radio channel on YouTube. Prayer from the city center. And join in every single day. Develop a habit. How many of you have ever gone to Costco before? How many go regularly? How many spend way too much at Costco? You go into Costco, like we need three things. And you come out having mortgage at your home. I get it. But here's how it happens. You go into Costco. One of my favorite times to go into Costco is like on Fridays and Saturdays, Jane and I will go in and that's samples. And we time it sometimes when the samples are like out. And I'm not talking like the bad sample. I'm talking about the, there's like, there's a window of time when they're all out. And we're pushing our cart and I'll just slide into an aisle. It's like, what do you got? And got their little tortillas and, you know, with the little, I don't know, the almond sauce on there, a bitram sauce, or whatever it's called. I probably shouldn't say that in church, but that's what it's called. Sorry. I'm, I'm, I'm seeking the Lord. I'm seeking the Lord. Jesus. Okay, so the bitch and sauce. And then you go to the ice cream section and they've got the Vitamix person there with that. They've got the little chocolate coconut almonds. How many have had those? And they've got the Danish thing and everything. And you, you can have lunch at Costco, the little tostido thing, the little rollers with the beans. And it's, it's, and if you don't get enough, just go get that dollar 50 hot dog. But do you know why Costco hands you samples? It's not because they're generous. They're not going, well, how can we bless the people who come into our store with a little snack? No, they know if you taste, it's going to develop an appetite. Here's why. You can't get hungry for something you've never had. Anything that you ever crave, it's because you've tasted it before and it was good. And then it develops an appetite. So Costco, they're like drug dealers. They're just like, first one's always free. Go ahead. We know you're coming. It's over there. I don't do the vitamins. It's like, what does the Bible say in Psalm 34? Taste and see that the Lord is good. You know what God's saying to you, leading into this 21 days? Hey, I know that this is maybe outside of your normal, but let's, let's taste and see. Come and see that I'm good. Come and see what it's like to be closer to me. Come and see what it's like to fast. Come and see what it's like to experience my presence in a tangible way in a prayer room. Come and see what it's like if you'll get up early when I'll meet you. Come and see what it's like to not just be a spiritual wanderer, but actually a spiritual seeker is very intentional. Taste and see it because you will become addicted to following hard after God. And the third thing that's part of this master key is seek God first, seek God habitually, seek God together, seek God in community. One of the reasons why we pray together in the prayer room and have corporate prayer meetings and believe in corporate prayer is we need personal prayer, we need personal relationship with God, but we also need one another because there's something that happens in a corporate prayer meeting and a corporate church service and even special revival night services that we're gonna have where we gather together that cannot happen by ourselves. And the reason for that is the way that God's designed the church. None of us have the full totality of the grace of God. There's power in the diversity when we come together. Jesus calls the church a body of Christ. That means there's many members. We need one another. And Jesus can be your personal Lord and savior, but he can't be your private Lord and savior. We need one another. And when we come together, we grow best in community. We grow best, revelation encounters with the Lord oftentimes will happen when we're feeding off of one another's faith. Acts 242 says they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and fellowship to the breaking of bread and to prayers and all came upon every soul. Many signs and wonders are being done through the apostles. They did this together. And the best way that I can illustrate today, the power of coming together intentionally making a decision to draw near together is when Jane and I were first married, we lived in Kansas City, had a little townhouse, and we got our first charcoal grill. I got my first charcoal grill. I didn't grow up. We never barbecued anything. So it was like, I want a charcoal grill. And so we got it. We put it, set it up on the outside, a back of our townhouse on a little cement slab. And I said, we're gonna barbecue some chicken tonight. I was so excited. I got the charcoal briquettes and the long matches and the lighter fluid and set it all up. And I took the charcoal briquettes out and I lined them up perfectly on the bottom of the rack, spaced about a half inch apart. It looked like a perfect grid because I wanted the whole surface to be covered. I poured the lighter fluid on through the match in, put the lid on, came back about five minutes later, nothing. Charcoal briquettes were still black. There was no fire. So I did it all again, lit it. I'm like, okay, there we go, put the lid back on, came back a few minutes later, nothing. I'm like, I got some bad briquettes. And just about that time, the guy next door came around a little partition. He goes, what's going on? You got a problem? I said, I think I got some bad charcoal. He goes, well, let me see what you got going. And he lifted the lid off and he's like, what are you doing? Trying to get some fire going. He's like, that's not how you get the flame going. The way you get the flame going is you got to make a pile, stack them on top of each other. And he like rearranged them all, stacked them up. I'm like, well, that's a mess. And he's like, no, this is how you do it. And then he struck the match at lit and about 10, 15 minutes later, the edges started getting white, heat started coming off of it. He's like, you scatter it after you've gathered them. Then you spread the heat out. We're trying to spread the heat out by keeping our space and our distance from one another. Thinking if I can just get the fire on me, that's gonna be enough. And listen, the real fire falls when we're stacked on top of one another, when we gather together as the church and we worship Jesus together corporately. That's when the fire, that's when the heat comes. We feed off of each other's heat. And then he scatters us throughout the city. Then he scatters us to our seeker places in our private prayer rooms. But then we come back together. That's where the heat comes. Jesus is inviting us. He's inviting us to seek him with all of our heart. And to receive the seeker's reward. Wherever you're at, would you stand up with me? This morning, I want to do something out of the ordinary. Tonight at six, we're gonna have our first revival night service. And I'm gonna bring a message out of the life of David on what spiritual hunger does and our response to the Lord. I really think it's gonna be a now prophetic, powerful word for us together for you. I think it's just one of those type of messages that I just sense God has fresh oil and fresh life on. But before we get to tonight, because I know Sunday mornings, a lot of times this is where we see the vast majority of the members of the church. I want to invite you to make a decision before you leave the building. And the decision is this. God, I want to be a seeker. God, I'm going to be a seeker. I'm going to seek you with all of my heart. Maybe you've never done that before. I'm praying that right now across the room the Holy Spirit's doing what only he can do which is stir just enough desire and hunger in our hearts. That it primes the pump for us to then build and add on to that. And the way I'm gonna ask us to respond to this message this morning is if in your heart here, I wanna be a spiritual seeker. I'm going to be, you might already be there. You might be the nuclear center of this church where you're just going hard after it. You're praying, you're all in fasting is nothing new to you. But this isn't just for those. This is for everybody. This is for the novice. This is even for the person who's not even sure that they have a relationship with God. But in your heart this morning and in this era and portion of your life you know that you want and you need more. You're saying yes to God. I'm gonna ask you to consecrate yourself. Put yourself on the altar to say, I don't know how to do this well but I will make a decision Lord and saying I'm gonna put myself in a position to seek you with all of my heart to the best of my ability and God if you'll grace me I'll go all in on this. I'm coming hard after you. I'm gonna ask you if that's you to step out of your seat and to make your way up to the front and to fill up this front like an altar as much as we can and when we fill it we'll fill the altars. You might only be able to take one step but I'm gonna ask you to take that step and get as close to the front and then we're gonna pray and consecrate this moment together. You just come. If that's you, you're saying Lord I'm seeking you. I'm gonna be a seeker. This might be new to you. It's like stepping out of my seat. Yeah, this is out of our comfort zone because that's what seek is all about. It's putting ourselves in a position where we're not comfortable to seek the Lord. And even if it's filling up that might be fine but you just get out of your seat and get in a row. It's not the place. It's the posture of our heart that matters most.