 Excited this morning to join and seek and send our time here at Radiant Church, where we're praying both in our homes and corporately. And this is day four, and about halfway through, we're gonna be opening up and praying from Psalm 27. But this morning before we begin in worship, I wanna read out of first John four. It says this in verse 16. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love and whoever abides in love abides in God. And God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment because as he is also so are we in the world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. This morning that we calm and approach the Lord in love and say that I want to abide in the love of God, his perfect, abounding, never ending love. And that when we abide in your love, you abide in us. And so we thank you for this truth. We thank you for this mystery. And what we would be like those in John 15 that we're in the vine. The branches are in the vine, not disconnected, not broken, not fallen. And the vine dresser comes and restores us and reattaches us and puts us into the vine. So today we abide in you. We abide in the fullness of your love. And we say there is no other love that's perfect other than your love. And we thank you for your perfect, never ending love that comes and chases us down, that loves us with a never ending, compassionate love. And we wanna receive the full reality of that love today. And we thank you for your love, your peace, your strength, your kindness towards us. And we open up our heart to receive that love. And we praise, acknowledge and give you thanksgiving today that you will be honored today, honored in your love. Can we just even open up your hands and say we receive the full love of God, deposit within us your love. I wanna abide in you and no one else, not a person, not a thing. I abide in Jesus today. We abide in you, the vine today, Jesus. We bless you, we thank you in the name of Jesus. I try to pursue the great pursuer as hard as I think I'm running after you. Just as you chase us down in your love God that we would respond in praise and the beautiful exchange that your love comes after us. And it's our joy and opportunity to respond in praise and honor and glorification of you, King Jesus. We're gonna shift our time in our Seek and Send focused today, day four and Psalm 27. If you have your Bibles, we're focusing today on God's heart, walking in intimacy with the Lord. In Psalm 27 verse four, it says, one thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. God, we ask that you would help us today to grow in intimacy with you. Whatever has captured our hearts in other ways, affections that have been given to other things. God, we ask that we would shift those things towards you and to you that there's a seeking after and a gazing on the beauty of the Lord. Let our affections today be captured by the beauty of the Lord. Captivated in heart and mind that we're gazing, we're looking and we're taking in, we're beholding the beauty of God and that there's one thing that I'm after. There's so many other things that I could pursue. I could pursue happiness. I could pursue an American dream but I reject that norm culturally. And I say, I'm after Jesus today. My heart is seeking after you Jesus that I would be captivated by your love and by your beauty. Let my heart respond to your love and saying I desire more of you. I'm after you Jesus today. There's one thing that I'm pursuing, one longing in my heart. It's you Jesus. And let my affections, God, put it well up within me. And God, I say one thing, God. Let us have one heart, one pursue, one thing in mind and it's you Jesus. God, let us pursue you. Pursue you with strength, pursue you with confidence. It says that we can approach your throne of grace and we receive mercy and grace. So God, give us mercy and give us grace as we pursue you today in the name of Jesus. Once that lost sheep and you left the 99 and you came after us today, we're saying because you sought me, now it's my turn to seek after you. And even in a father, mother relationship with their son or their daughter and hide and seek in the home. And the father and the mother first come and seek the child and then you find the child and then the child is built up that they have been found and they have confidence that they've been found. And now father and mother goes to hide and the child is now seeking. So we say in verse nine, you have said seek my face and my heart says, your face Lord, do I seek, hide not your face from me. God, we're chasing you down. There's a pursuit in our heart. Yes, that we've been found but now we want to find. So we ask Lord that you would help us in our pursuit of you. Be gracious to us. God, not hiding your face from us but that you at times create distance so that we'll come after you, that there's a longing that actually builds up in our hearts and in our souls. And so we say today, there's one person that we're after that I have been sought after and now I can respond in the seeking. God, that we're coming to find you. We're coming to chase you down. We want to know your heart. We want to know your voice. You are good. You are kind. You are merciful. You're slow to anger. You're abounding in love. So God, we're after that. We're after you. The fullness of who you are. God, we want more of you. More of your love. More of your beauty. More of your kindness. God, we're seeking you. We're chasing after you today in the name of Jesus. The one who seeks finds. And God, we say that we want to be those that are called, those that have found, that we have sought you and that we have found you. And so in our seeking, God, let yourself be found. Do not hide yourself from us. Let yourself be found by us. And God, that that desire in our heart, the seeking after you, seeking first the kingdom of God and all the other things will be added unto you, God, that there will be one pursuit, one longing, one thirsting and one hunger in our hearts. It's you, Jesus. Let all the anxieties, let all the disappointments and discouragements fall away. We're after one thing today and it's Jesus. We're after your heart. We're after your word. We're after your voice. We're after your presence because in your presence there's fullness of joy that when we find you, God, we're releasing of joy in our hearts and this relationship, there's a bonding agent that takes place. And would you release joy in this seeking and this finding, God, would you release joy that in your presence you're releasing fullness of joy? So release joy into your hearts. Release joy into your children and release love, God. In the seeking and finding, one pursuit, one seeking, God, let joy be released in the name of Jesus. We see this with princes. It's what you do, what you do. Joy and in the promise in John 16 that no one will take your joy from you, that we can rest assured and be confident in who Christ is and in the joy of the Lord today. There's one thing that we're seeking after today, church and it's him, it's his heart. We thank you for this prayer time together. Thanks for joining in, bless you, be filled with joy, joy of the Lord in the name of Jesus.