Louie Giglio - Our Dilemma of Spiritual Dehydration
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We’re in a season at Passion City Church where we’re really just wanting to say to God, «We want You.» Amen. Not, «We want You to do A, B, C, or D.» Although we all need God to move in our lives in certain ways, we’re in a season where we just want to say to God, «We want You.» We don’t just want You to answer our prayer; we want You. The reason we’re in this season is that we were created for God. Yes, we have a heavenly Father who wants to move, answer prayers, provide, heal, change, and intervene in situations. Of course, we do. As a heavenly Father, He wants to do that, just like every father in this room wants to do that for his kids.
In the same way that we humans have a heart’s desire to be with our Father, a father has a heart’s desire to do more than just provide for his child. He wants to be in a relationship with his child. We understand this because we’re made in the image of God. We have a heavenly Father who wants us. He wants you today, and He has put a desire for Him in your life. When you recognize that’s what you’re longing for, you can identify two things: A, something is missing in my life; I need more in my life; I want more in my life. Then B, you add to that. The thing missing in my life is not another boyfriend. It’s not another swipe on a dating app. It’s not another promotion at my job, accomplishment, recognition, success, or pleasure.
What I’m really longing for is the God who created me for Himself. When you can recognize those two things, something’s going to change in your life. See, most people don’t even understand that they’re thirsty. They just go around chugging everything they can get their hands on but haven’t clued into the fact that they’re thirsty. There are others who are thirsty and know it’s not working right now, but they haven’t dialed into the reality that what they’re thirsty for is a person — the God who made them-and that they’re thirsty for a relationship with God. I have a feeling that you’re somewhere on that journey right now because you’re in this room today. I believe many of you showed up today and, although you couldn’t put your finger on it, you came through the doors saying, «I need something.»
And that something I need is greater than the stuff I’ve been trying. I need something more in my life. The psalmist came to this realization and says something powerful in Psalm 42. Look at the way he says this: «As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for You, my God. My soul thirsts for God.» Amen. For the living God — not one of these little gods- but for the living God. Then he asks this question: «When can I go and meet with God?»
Now, obviously, the context here is the Old Testament; you physically went to the temple. You physically went into the courts of worship. You physically gathered with the people in worship. So he’s saying, «When can I go to the courts of God? When can I go and meet with God?» I want to still be the person who says, «When can I get to God?» Not just «When can I book a table at that restaurant?» or «When can we take that trip to Italy?» or «When can we make it to 3A?» or «When can we get into the game?» I want to have in my heart the desire that says, «When can I get to God?» because my soul is thirsty for God; my soul is panting for God. He said, «My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, 'Where is your God? '»
In other words, he’s in a bit of distress, and people are mocking him: «So, where’s God? When’s He coming through for you?» But he said, «These things I remember. I remember God. I remember the courts of God and the house of God as I pour out my soul. I remember how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.» Have you ever noticed those two words in the Bible before? He said, «I remember when I used to go to the house of God, to the courts of God. I remember the shouts. I remember the praise. I remember the festive throng.»
Can I just say this is why we gather today? Because there is something different about coming together in this space with a common heartbeat, a common mindset, and a common passion for something — in this case, someone-that we love. When that happens, it’s different. So you can’t just say, «Hey, you know what? You don’t need church to follow God. You don’t have to go to church to be a Christian. You don’t need to go to church to have a relationship with God.» Of course you don’t. But you want to. You want to come into this place. Why? Because you hear the shouts, you hear the praises, and you’re with the festive throng.
It’s like going to the Georgia-Alabama game last night. Did anybody go to the game last night? Hello? No? People who went to the game aren’t here today. But anyway, you walk into that stadium, and when you do, it’s crazy; it’s nuts. Why? Because everyone in there is like-minded, like-hearted, and has like passion. They don’t all come from the same walk of life; they don’t all come from the same demographic; they don’t come from the same socioeconomic spectrum. But when they walk into that stadium, they are like-minded, like -hearted, and like-passionate, and it comes out; it would be wild if you went there and got right in the middle of all those people and someone said, «I’m so excited to be here tonight. This is going to be amazing.» Oh, there come the dogs. Go Dawgs! Time for kickoff! You’d be like, «What? What? What is wrong with you?»
But yet we come to church and it doesn’t say it, and the psalmist is saying, «I remember going to church.» And you know what I remember? I remember the shouts. I remember the praise. I remember the festive throng. I remember what it felt like when people who were like-minded, like-hearted, and had a common passion for the same Jesus came into that space together, and it absolutely went off. I miss that. When can I go and meet with God?
I’m preaching a little bit here, but it’s not, «Hey, what’s my schedule this week? It’s too bad; I’ll have to miss. Well, I’ll go next week.» No, this is a heart that says, «I’m thirsty, people! I am hungry, people! My soul longs for God.» You know how a deer pants for streams of water? Well, my soul pants for God like that. I want God. I am desperate for Him. One of the places I find God is in the gathering of the people of God. I can’t wait to go and be with God. I can’t wait to get into my quiet space. I can’t wait to get into our community space. I can’t wait to get into the gathering space. Or if you’re going to clap, clap or don’t clap. If we’re going to clap, let’s all clap. Can we all just say, «I want to be in the house of the Lord? I want to be in the house of God.» And that’s what it means to be desperate.
We’re talking today about desperation for God, living in a land of spiritual dehydration. We’re becoming a desperate people, a people who say, «God, I want You. I want to come like the deer to the streams of water. I want You.» I just wondered, and I was asking the question, how many people in America are dehydrated? So, I looked it up. Seventy-five percent of people in America are dehydrated. You can find that everywhere. You can Google it right now if you want to. Ask ChatGPT; they’ll tell you. Seventy-five percent of people in America are dehydrated. But there’s no scientific evidence to back that up, so that’s kind of like one of those things that just got out there and now it’s real.
There are a couple of other things going on. There is scientific evidence to support that if you’re older — any older people here? Can I see a show of hands? Thank you. Can you still lift your arm? Yes, great! I’ve got mine up. Seventeen to twenty-eight percent of older people are dehydrated for real. They also conducted an opt-in study, asking Americans, «Do you think you’re drinking enough water?» Let' s take a survey right now. How many of you across our locations today think you’re drinking enough water every day? Show of hands. Oh, strong at 5:15! I’ll back that up at 5:15 because I hear the Stanley water bottles fall over while I’m preaching pretty constantly. Can we get an amen on that? I know someone wanted to say it. I’m the man who’s going to invent the insulator for the Stanley water bottle. I’m going to make a million dollars doing that.
How many of you do not think you’re drinking enough water every day? Show of hands. Okay, that’s the survey. Eighty percent of Americans when asked said, «I’m not drinking enough water every day.» The average person in America, this is crazy, is drinking two and a half cups of water a day. All the water bottle people have got them out right now. Somehow, I triggered something. We’ve got one here, here, here, and here. There’s one right there. There’s one right there. Everybody’s like, «I’m going to drink some more right now. Right now. Right now. Right now. I’m going to up the survey!»
I saw a lady this week pushing a wagon with a long straw. So, she’s pushing up the average. Two and a half cups of water a day average -we’re dehydrated. And that’s a big deal, but we’re also spiritually dehydrated. And that’s a bigger deal. God is wanting to say to us today, «Your soul was made for Me.» Do you know it? Can you tell that you’re thirsty? And do you know what you’re thirsty for? Because if you do, you can take a complete shift in life today. The enemy has a plan for you, and it’s to dry you out. Jesus said it differently: «The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy.» Jesus said, «But I’ve come that you might have life and have it to the full.»
I think you can paraphrase other scriptures to say the enemy wants to dehydrate you and dry you out until you become brittle, then crack, crumble, and blow away in the wind. But I have come as the river of living water that satisfies your soul. This was the plan from the beginning in the Garden of Eden. You might be wondering how the Garden of Eden has to do with being like a deer who pants for streams of water. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve walked with God in the cool of the day. Why? Because they were made for God. They weren’t just made for the garden; they weren’t just made for the mission and the mandate to rule over the earth. They were made for God -made by God and for God, made in the image of God.
So, what you see in the garden is not just an assignment; you see a relationship. And when Adam and Eve disobeyed God because they were tempted by the enemy-who had a plan to dry them out -they sinned and were separated from God. A curse came on the serpent, a curse came on the woman, a curse came on the man, and a curse came on the land. At the end of Genesis 3, I went back to read this and found it absolutely sad. The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. The Lord God said, «The man has now become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.» What does that mean? It means he’s dead spiritually, separated from God. If he were to eat from the tree of life and live forever, he would live forever separated from God.
So God has to do everything He can to prevent him from eating from the tree of life because he’s already eaten from the knowledge of good and evil and spiritually has died. God didn’t love this moment, but we see the ultimate arc of the story of the gospel in His mercy. The Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After driving the man out, He placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. I read that, and I pictured Adam and Eve in their garments of animal skin looking over their shoulders with their half-eaten fruit as they walked away from the source of life.
I wonder how many people in this gathering right now can vaguely remember what it was like with the festive shout, but you’re walking away with your half-eaten fruit, chugging everything you can to try to satisfy a longing in your heart for God. The beauty of this story is that God always had a plan to make a way for us to come back. When Jesus entered Jerusalem on Passover week — the triumphal entry when He was riding on a donkey and they put palm branches on the ground -they shouted, «Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.»
This is Jesus riding in for His last ride into Jerusalem before He gives His life. Did you know that Jerusalem has four gates? Jesus came in the east gate. They went out the east gate with empty-handed, half-eaten fruit. Jesus came in the east gate to give His innocent life as a sacrifice so that we could be restored -not just to get to heaven, but to be reconciled to the relationship with the source we were created for.
The enemy’s plan for you is to get you away from the source, and Jesus' plan and gospel mission is to get you back to the source. Amen! Praise God! We see this in what this could look like in the life of a man named Joshua. You know Joshua, he’s the one who led the people across the Jordan River into the Promised Land. Moses had led them to the Promised Land but not into it. Joshua, his young aide, was going to take the reins and lead the people to take this land that God had promised to their forefathers.
It says in the midst of this story of them wandering in the wilderness that Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the tent of meeting. Anyone inquiring of the Lord would go to the tent. Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances of their tents, watching Moses until he entered. As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance while the Lord spoke with Moses. The pillar of cloud by day, fire by night -that’s how these people moved through the wilderness. God was saying, «I’m before you. I’m behind you. I’m with you. I’ve got a future for you.» They were rebelling the whole time, complaining the whole time, not getting it the whole time, but He still was there with them — cloud by day, fire by night.
The cloud would move onto the tent when Moses went in it. It says that when the Lord spoke to Moses and all the people saw the pillar of the cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped, each at the entrance to their tent. The Lord spoke to Moses face to face as one speaks to a friend. Why? Because we were created for a relationship with God. So here we have Almighty God, Yahweh, in a tent of meeting with a cloud over the tent, and the Lord God speaking to Moses like a man speaks to his friend. I’m sorry; have we been around this too many times to think that it’s possible for you and me to speak to the Creator of the universe like a man speaks to his friend?
Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua, the son of Nun, did not leave the tent. If you need me, he said, «You’ll find me right here at the tent because I want God. I’m desperate for God.» I wonder if that could be said about you and me. If you need me, as a friend of mine said a few days ago, «You’ll find me at the tent.» When I was growing up, I had a mentor, a man after God. That’s all I know to say about him. I had never met anyone quite like him before. He was a younger guy who made an impact on me when I was in high school and ended up leading a big Bible study here in Atlanta in the'80s. Thousands of single adults would come every week. He spoke at our youth camps when I was growing up. This guy, all I knew really about him was that he was fun, funny, a good tennis player, and he wanted God.
He made me want God. He died in a plane crash while I was a student at Georgia State University. I grew in my faith a little bit and I started realizing that this was in the era of cassette tapes, with no computers or podcasts. If you didn’t know them, you didn’t know them. Maybe you had a cassette tape of somebody from somewhere, but that’s all the people you knew spiritually — your pastor. That was kind of the way it worked. You didn’t have 78 pastors, is what I’m trying to say; you just had a pastor. And when he died and my faith started growing more and more, I realized when I discovered another pastor from the generation before named A.W. Tozer that Dan was channeling Tozer to us all those years. No knock on Dan; he was phenomenal, but I started realizing I had heard Tozer and thought, «Hmm, I’ve heard that before. Thank you, Dan.»
I started reading books like «The Pursuit of God» and «The Knowledge of the Holy,» these classics by Tozer- books that people don’t read much anymore. I started devouring these books and realized there are holy men of God who only want God, and Tozer was one of them. I read his biography a while back, and at the end of it, they said Tozer spent innumerable hours in prayer. This is from his biography: «Most of his prolonged prayer time, with his Bible and hymns as his only companions, took place in his church office on the back side of the second floor. He would carefully hang up his suit trousers and don his sweater and raggedy old prayer pants, sitting for a while on his ancient office couch. After a time, his spirit would drift off into another realm. Eventually, he would abandon the couch, get on his knees, and lie face down on the floor singing praises to the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.»
I thought, «No wonder when I’m reading this man, something is gripping my heart.» Some of his assistants have told stories about coming to his office at 5:20 or 5:30 in the afternoon and quietly knocking on the door, cracking it open to see him lost in prayer with God — hungry for God. They’d say, «Dr. Tozer, I’m going to have to go home now.» He’d be startled and ask, «Well, what time is it?» They' d say, «It’s after 5:00 in the afternoon.» He' d been in there since 9 in the morning, missing every appointment of the day. People would come and sit in the waiting area for two hours, realize he wasn’t coming out, and go.
I read in another place, anecdotally, where he missed an entire speaking engagement one time because he was in prayer with God. Growing up, what trickled into my life was this: There are people who have a passion to know God above everything else. And he wasn’t useless to the world because he was so tuned in to God; he actually ended up making a massive mark on the world. He did make it to a bunch of his preaching engagements. He did pastor an amazing church. He did see God use him in phenomenal ways. But there were times where it was, «I’m sorry.» You know how a deer pants for streams of water? Well, my soul pants for God like that.
I have been asking again today, «When can I go and meet with God?» Oh, I can tell my schedule. I know when I’m meeting with you. I know when I’m having coffee with them. I know I’ve got to show up for that. I know we have dinner plans, but when can I go and meet with God? I know that saying that-and even reading that again about Tozer- feels a little extreme and a little unrealistic. I mean, we have people in this gathering right now who have been walking with God almost as long as Moses has. You’ve been there. And we have people in this gathering right now who are like, «If you asked me to say grace over lunch today and there were two people I didn’t know there, I would freak out.» We’ve got everybody in between.
You don’t have to become Tozer today. You don’t have to get raggedy prayer pants — whatever those are. I haven’t seen those sold at any Christian event, and I hate using that word; we try not to here at the merch area. Maybe they’ll come back -get the cool hoodie, hat, t-shirt, raggedy prayer pants. But you don’t have to go from zero to 100 in one day. You just have to know that you can. You have to decide, «I want to be a person who wants God.»
Just a quick show of hands, well, we don’t have to do a show of hands. Just a quick question: How many of you in the last 30 days have spent 30 minutes to an hour uninterrupted? So, not 10 minutes back, 10 back, 20 back -just 30 minutes to an hour working out. See? Those people want to raise their hands. They want you to see that bicep when it goes up. You see that right there? When I say that, I’m talking about yoga, hot yoga, pilates, F45. Is that still with us? The gym, box, crossfit, running, on a bike, or on a treadmill — 30 minutes to an hour in the last 30 days. Let’s see a show of hands.
What a fit group! How many of you have spent 30 minutes to an hour uninterrupted watching something-either Netflix, a film, or a documentary in the last 30 days? Just hold them up. A little higher. A little higher. How many of you spent 30 minutes to an hour playing a video game in the last 30 days? A little higher. Okay, not too many gamers in the house. How many of you spent 30 minutes to an hour reading? That’s respectable. How many of you spent 30 minutes to an hour — in the last 30 days-scrolling? No? Come on, let’s just all put them up. Let’s just all put them up.
And what do they call it now? No? Say it again.» Doom scrolling.» No, say it like you mean it: «Doom scrolling.» What does that mean? It means at the end of the 30 minutes to an hour, you feel terrible, depressed, divided, angry, frustrated, jealous, judgmental — wasteful and convicted-all of the above. You’re like, «No, and when I doom scroll, you don’t know who I’m following. When I’m done, I am in a euphoric state of oneness with God.» So the big question is obviously — you know where I’m going, and please don’t raise your hands on this -how many of you in the last 30 days have spent 30 minutes to an hour uninterrupted with God alone in prayer, in His Word?
The answer for some of us is never. But I wanted us to see today — not to push in but just to see today-that it’s not unreasonable if that’s what you want. See, the enemy right away tries to think, «What are you going to do? You spend 45 minutes with God in His Word alone?» Well, what in the world would you do? Ten seconds went by. I want us to know today that it’s not unreasonable if it is your desire to be a person after God’s own heart.
So, real quickly, we’ll close. What would I do there? It’s kind of like going on vacation knowing they have a really cool fitness center at the resort. Has anybody done this before? You haven’t worked out; don’t plan to work out, but they have a really cool fitness center, and you’re on vacation -why not show up, right? You walk in there, looking around, «I haven’t been in a workout in a while now. What do I do here? Get the little stretchy thing and do the little isometric things where I’m doing that? Do I sit on the ball and roll around?»
I’ve seen people doing that. I don’t really know what that is or how you do it, but I’ll try that for a minute. Do I try some of the dumbbells over here? I’ve seen people doing that, working on biceps. «Do I do that? Do I get on the exercise bike and, oh that’s making me sore! Okay, I’ll get off that. I’m going to get on the treadmill for a minute.» You have no idea what you’re doing. You know there’s a lot of stuff in there; you just don’t know what you need to be doing.
And you really don’t want to ask the guy that works in there, «Hey, I’ve got 30 minutes and I don’t work out; can you just tell me four things to do?» Well, let me tell you four things to do really quickly because on Tuesday, we’re having a day of prayer from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at our Cumberland location. For a lot of you, you’ll come right in, and you’ll be able to come for a half hour or an hour. Some of you will come for a couple hours and know what to do. You’ll roll in with your Bible and your journal, and your heart will be ready, and you just can’t wait to get in the space and be with God.
You’ll know what to do. Others of you will walk in, looking around at all the equipment, going, «They said we should come to this thing and be with God. I have no idea how to be with God.» A couple of simple things, and we’ll close. The number one thing to do when you come to be with God is to just be still. Psalm 46:11 says, «Be still, and know that I am God.» So you don’t need to get all worked up because, on Tuesday, there will be times that it’s led, and by led, I mean, spontaneously, in the flow, led. I’ll be leading some of it. Some of our worship leaders will be there-very chill, acoustic, or on a keyboard.
The section I’ll be leading — I’ll lead with a couple of our worship leaders. We have no plan, just so you know. But when we get there, I’ll come in with some thoughts and God’s Word. I’ll ask the Holy Spirit to put some passages on my heart. We’ll get in the flow with God and lead; some of it will be quiet, some of it will be led, some of it we’ll sing-it might be amazing. So don’t come in going, «Oh, this is like Sunday, and I come down, sit in my seat, and they’re going to do stuff, and I just kind of follow along with what they do.»
This is a space for you to be with God. In the early part of the day, there’ll be leadership from our team; middle part of the day, leadership from our team; in the end, there’ll be leadership from our team. In the middle two sections, there will just be worship music playing. There will be some prompts coming up on the screen for you just to be with God. The first thing you want to do when you walk in is just be still. Turn your phone off and set it down. Bring a real Bible; do not come to read your Bible on your phone. Why? Because you’re going to get a notification from somebody. Bring a pad and a pencil because as soon as you come to be alone with God, I promise you, you’re going to remember all the things you’re supposed to do that day that you forgot.
Oh, I have to get to the cleaners today! I totally forgot about that, and I’ve got to get over there this afternoon. Just write down «cleaners» on your little pad and then go right back to God. You always need a distraction pad when you want to meet with God. Okay, thank you. I’ll get to that in a minute -back to God. Oh man, I forgot that other thing. Back to God. Start by just being still. «God, I’m just here, and I just need to calm down. I need to let my mind settle. I need to let my heart settle. I just want to tell you, I just want to be with You.»
The second thing you’ll want to include along this way somehow is to open the Word of God. Jeremiah 15:16 says, «When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight.» So when you come to pray, you say, «I thought it was a prayer meeting, not a Bible study.» They’re one and the same. You come to meet with God; you better have a Bible because you don’t want some crazy thoughts coming from places you don’t know. You want God’s thoughts coming right into your life.
So bring your Bible and just read it. Let Him lead you. Read Psalms of praise to Him. Turn to places where He’s speaking to you. Read His Word and connect with Him through it. Jeremiah said, «When this came to me, I ate it.» Can you imagine just being alone with God saying, «I have a few minutes to be with You, God. I want to eat this Word. I don’t want to just read it; I want to eat it. I want it in me.»
The third thing you’re going to want to do when you get in that space is worship. You can worship quietly; you can sing. You can worship standing; that’s okay. On Tuesday, you can worship kneeling. You can find a quiet corner in the stairway and just sit down by yourself with God. You can come to the front and worship. You can be somewhere else in the room and feel like you need to walk a bit in worship, but you want to worship God.
What Tozer taught me was to start examining the character of God. I spent years in my formative spiritual journey every day taking an attribute of God and praising Him for it, meditating on it, focusing on it, and eating His Word about it. Every single day. «Today’s all I’m thinking about is the righteousness of God. I’m going to eat it, eat it, eat it. I’m going to worship Him for it. I’m going to praise Him for it. I’m going to take it in. I’m going to try to embrace it in every area of my life.» Tomorrow, I’m talking about the mercy of God. The next day, I’m talking about the kindness of God, the omnipotence of God, the truth of God — there are enough attributes for you to go a long, long way.
At the end of the day, you have information -no, you understand the facet of the diamond that is God. You may want to kneel; you may want to stand; you may want to lift your hands; you may want to cover your face. «Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the rock of our salvation» — Psalm 95. There’s praise, lots of words, but then he comes to the end a few verses later and says, «Come, let us bow down in worship, and kneel before the Lord our Maker.» Ecclesiastes 5:1 — 2 says, «Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Guard your steps when you come Tuesday to the day of prayer.»
As you’re getting out of your car, coming across the parking lot, getting out of your Uber, coming to the door, guard your steps. Think about what am I doing today? I’m coming into the house of God. What am I doing today? I’m coming into the presence of Almighty God. What am I doing today? I’m not just showing up for a prayer meeting. I’m walking into the presence of God. Say, «Guard your hearts when you go into the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools who do not know they do wrong. Do not be quick with your mouth; do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth, so let your words be few.»
Sometimes the best time with God is when we walk away and didn’t hardly say anything. I remember when Shel and I started dating. You have those moments, and fortunately, she’s really outgoing and gregarious while I’m more introverted, trying to think about what to say next. Our conversation was great; we’d sing together, we’d worship together, we’d laugh together. But I remember distinctly the moment in our relationship where we could ride in a car for a long time without saying a word- and it wasn’t weird; it was just communion without words.
Anyone know what I’m talking about? Sometimes that’s the most beautiful time with God. You went to the prayer thing — what’d you say? Not a lot; I just wanted to be with God. I knew we could be together without me talking the whole time, and we could have communion together because that’s what prayer is — constant communion with God. I hope you’ll come Tuesday because we’re saying as a house, «God, we want You.» If you can’t make it to Cumberland on Tuesday, please carve out time somewhere during your day from 7:00 to 7:00. Go out in your car in the parking deck; get in a quiet place in your house; go for a walk in the neighborhood and say, «God, I just want to join our house today. I couldn’t get to Cumberland, but I want to join our house today in saying to You, Lord, that we want You. I want You, God. I recognize I’m thirsty, and I recognize that I’m thirsty for You.»