And I've heard great things about the meeting up to this point, and I wish I could have been here sooner, just been right here now. And I'm excited, honored to be here, appreciate Brother Simpson and the good preaching, and appreciate him and his spirit. We've gotten to be together, all of us here have lately quite a bit, and I enjoy that. Just about once a month, it seems like, and maybe we'll just go on the road together. That'd be good, wouldn't it? We'll just do something, we'd all go broke together. brother Adam Borden's here and he wanted me to make sure they knew that he's a world-famous southern gospel musician if you didn't know that he's right back there and Yeah, stay stay stay in here. You'll be all right. All right, man. I'm not preaching on music You can stay Matthew chapter 5 mom kid Matthew chapter 5. Thank you brother Morgan for letting me come I sure appreciate that and we'll read one verse of Scripture And I've never preached on this before, but I got some time in my study yesterday and then today. And so God spoke to my heart about this. And I want to try to speak to you with what God spoke to me about. It's good. Oh, by the way, it's good to have folks from our church here. Evan Sprague's here. He's one of the biggest givers in our church. his wife's a loud mouth but I mean he's a anyway it's good to have folks from our church. Matthew chapter 5 verse number 6 the Bible said blessed or blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. I want to ask you this question what if I told you that there is more to God than you've ever experienced before Would you desire to experience that? The problem lies in if really you hear a statement like that and then you say, I'm good. I'm content. I'm all right where I'm at. It's not a bad thing to have a hunger. That shows signs of life. It's a bad thing when you're never hungry. I was looking at some statistics and it says 733 million people around our world suffer from hunger. And that would be about one out of every 11 people. And I read that and thought, we don't know much about that in America because even the poorest among us really don't know what it is to truly be hungry. Because everybody pretty much has access to food in one way or another. The sad state in America is not that we're hungry, it is that we fill ourselves with things that are not good for us. I thought about that and how it applies to the church. Really you can't say the church in America has no access to that which could fill us either. I believe it's just that we are filling ourselves with all the wrong things. We are so full and yet in reality we are so empty. For a little while, just for a few minutes, I want to preach on this thought. I'm hungry. And I'm happy about it. I'm hungry and I'm happy about it. Let's pray. God, I need your help to preach. God, I pray for power and liberty. I pray you'd help me to get this truth across. And I pray you'd give a Christian today a desire for more God in their life. Please, in Jesus' name, amen. You can be seated. I looked up the word hunger and here's what the dictionary said hunger is. Hunger is an acute need that produces an irrepressible urge. It reminds me of what the hymn writer must have had on their heart when they wrote, I think of my blessed redeemer. I sing of him all the day long. I sing because I cannot be silent. His love is the theme of my song. It's probably what the hymn writer had on their heart when they wrote the hymn, nearer my God to thee. It's probably what the songwriter thought of whenever they penned the word, my Jesus, I love thee. I know thou art mine. Hunger is something that's just hard to suppress. When hunger sets in, it controls every aspect of your life. It intrudes upon your mind. It controls your action. Everything about everything wraps itself around the fact that you are hungry. For a little while, I want you to think with me on this thought. I'm hungry. And I'm happy about it. In Matthew chapter 5, we join Jesus at what we call the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus has moved up on this mountain and the crowds have followed Him there. And as Jesus preaches, the Galilean breeze makes for a perfect sound system to amplify His voice and to carry it out to His audience. You begin to read down through this chapter and you notice it begins with several sentence sermons that begin with the word blessed or blessed. Many times we refer to these as the beatitudes. That word beat or the beatitudes is taken from a Latin word that simply means happy or blessed. So what we find are several statements that give us this promise that if we will pursue the statement before us, We can have a life that is filled, a life that is satisfied, a life that is blessed, or a life that is happy. Now, every one of these sentence sermons can stand alone, and it is more than sufficient by itself. But I think that if you take all of those statements together, and then you pour them out, they empty us into the verses we find in verse 13 through verse 16 where the Lord tells us to be salt and to be light in our generation I think what we see here is a recipe and a resume for a believer that can have an impact and a believer that has influence their day that if you and I would plug these principles into our life we can make a difference in this day and in this hour now what I want to do for just a few minutes is I want to lift out verse number six and hone our hearts in on this statement I was preaching one time in a rural area, and there was a diner there, just a country store, and it had a sign, thank you brother, had a sign in the window, it said, don't stand outside and be empty, come on in and get filled up. Well, that is my prayer this afternoon, is that you and I would get discontented with being on the outside looking in and living on empty, and we get a desire to enter into God's presence and be filled. It is convicting for me to think about this, that if in my life I lack money, if in my life I lack health, if in my life I lack sleep, if in my life I lack physical food, if I lack some commodity in the physical realm, I will worry about it. I will race to fill it. I will do whatever I can to make up for the lack in my life. When it comes to the physical in my life, I am not happy being empty. I want it to be filled. It doesn't matter the area. It doesn't matter what we're talking about. If I find some area of life that is lacking, I want to go make up FOR THAT LACK. I DON'T THINK ANY OF US HERE TODAY WOULD CONSIDER GOING HUNGRY PHYSICALLY IF OUR BELLY BEGAN TO GROWL. IF OUR THROAT GOT DRY, WE'D RUN TO THE FAUCET AND GET A DRINK OF WATER. IF WE GOT UNCOMFORTABLE, WE'D GET UP AND GO CHANGE THE THERMOSTAT. IF OUR MONEY GOT FUNNY AND TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, THEN WE'D GET A budget or extra hours at work to try to make up for that lack of money. Can I say that is an indictment against the people of God if we would put more zeal and effort and energy into making that physical lack come up to surplus and yet we live spiritually on empty all the time. We stand on the outside empty when God says come on in and you can get filled up. Here's what I've noticed about my flesh. My flesh is not content to live on empty. It wants everything that it desires and it wants it now. It wants it to the fullest extent. It's not going to take some mediocre or some halfway point. It wants all of it. It wants all the lust it can get. It wants all the gossip it can get. It wants all the comfort it can get. It means all that this world has to offer it. Well, how much more should that new man on the inside have a hunger for God and a desire for Him and make me pursue after righteousness? It is so discouraging today to notice in my own life and the life of many Christians that we are satisfied. We are satisfied with a mundane status quo, don't rock the boat, baby, kind of Christianity. We are happy as long as we have a church to sit in, a pet-a-pew for our backside, a dollar for the offering plate. a little token special, five minutes of an ultra prayer, a little sermonette that never penetrates the soul, and then we can go home feeling like we met with God. I say to hell with that mess, the days are too dark, the time is too short, the hour is too late to live on empty. I don't wanna go through life sucking air, I want God to fill me up, and I say today I'm hungry, and I'm happy about it. I'm afraid a lot of Christians are dead and delighted to be dead. They're cold and content to be cold. They're shallow and satisfied that they're shallow. Well, I say, don't you get close to me unless you wear a mask, because if that stuff's contagious, I ain't looking to catch it. I don't want to live that way. I want to have all of God that I can have in my life. You look at this promise, it begins, it's a two-fold promise, blessing and filling. I like that, favor and filling. That word starts with that word bless. God's advertising like the red light in the front window of the Krispy Kreme, good things are on the way if you'll just pull in. He said if you'll just follow what comes behind this, you can live a life that is fulfilled, a life that is happy, and a life of favor. By the way, that's not just blessings to come. That is blessings right now. He said you can have a happy life today. You can have a satisfied life right now. You don't have to be miserable. You don't have to be discontented. You can have it all today. But not just favor. He said you'll be filled. I like that. He said you shall. Be filled. He didn't say you might be. He said you're gonna be. If you'll pull up to this table and say no to the troughs of this world, you'll find there's a lot better food on his table than there are on the troughs of the hog pens of this world. And he said if you'll pull on up, you can have favor and you can be filled. Not just that promise, but look at the pursuit. He said what are you pursuing to be filled? You're pursuing righteousness. Isn't that amazing how it's tied together? Happiness and holiness. Happiness and righteousness. Blessings and God. He doesn't say you'll be blessed if you run after money. He doesn't say you'll be blessed if you run after things. He doesn't say you'll be blessed if you run after popularity. He doesn't say you'll be blessed if you run after comfort. He said, if you want to be blessed, you run after me. He said, you run after righteousness. I like that. He said, everything you want, you'll find it in me anyhow. So the promise is, I'll be favored and I'll be filled. The pursuit I'm after, I'm running after righteousness. I like the price tag he puts on it. You say, where do you see that? I don't. He doesn't mention any price in the verse. He just says whoever wants to come and get some, then come and get some. I like that. He doesn't say you have to march around the walls seven times. He doesn't say you have to climb a 10-step ladder to heaven. He didn't say you have to do this, that or the other. He said you just need to get real hungry. That's all you need is a desire. And he said you can come and you can be filled. But watch this precondition. It all starts with that hunger. A hunger is a desire. A hunger is a longing. A hunger is a craving. A hunger is a passion. A hunger is an overwhelming pursuit. Now remember this tonight, Jesus is the master preacher. He knows how to take something simple and give us something profound. He can take something natural to teach us something spiritual. That's why he used fig trees and sparrows. That's why he used wine and wolves. That's why he used bread and sheep. He knows how to speak to our heart. So here in the text, he uses something that everybody knows a little bit of something about. We might not all know everything, but all of us knows what it is. When our throat gets dry, We all know what it is when our belly begins to drow. And so he takes this natural phenomenon to give us a spiritual principle. And he said, if you want to have a happy life, if you want to be fulfilled, he said, you better get a hankering. You better get a desire. You better get a longing. You better get a drive on the inside of you that runs after righteousness. He's saying with all the energy of a man that hasn't had a drop of water hit his throat in weeks. Like a man who hasn't had bread hit his belly in days. That man would take all of his energy and he'd focus it in on that one thing. I just got to get some of that. I just have to have a drink of that water. I gotta get a bite of that bread. I mean, like honeycomb dropping from heaven, God puts this verse before us and says, man, you can have more of me if you want. You can have things you've never seen before. You can have more touch on your life. You can know more about the power of God. But it starts with you being hungry. Hunger advertises a need. Hunger advertises a lack. When you and I are hungry, that is our body telling us that you're getting low on that which fuels you and empowers you and sustains you and it's time to fill it up again. A hungry man takes all of his energy, puts it on his hunger. He takes all of his efforts and puts it on his hunger. He takes all of his expenses and he puts it on his hunger. Hunger would haunt his dreams. interrupt his thoughts, torment his day, joins him every step of his journey. While he's sleeping, he's hungry. When he wakes up, he's hungry. Every hour on the clock, he is hungry. He's got a craving. He's got a longing. He's got something that he wants. And so Jesus is saying, I wish you'd run after me. I wish you'd pursue God. I wish you'd go after holiness. The way a starving man would search out a morsel of bread. He's saying, anybody that wants it. Oh, everyone that thirsts it. He said, if that's you today and you want more God in your life, if you want to have fulfillment and satisfaction, you can get that. But it all starts with getting hungry for God. Hunger is a reaching experience. Everybody knows about it. It's a reoccurring experience. You have to get filled every day. But it's a relieving experience when you get filled. I like it. If somebody's hungry, they can feel it. You say, I don't feel anything. Well, if somebody's hungry, they don't just feel it, they can feed it. You see what I mean? If you go to a hungry man and you say, what's wrong with you? He said, I'm hungry. And you offer him clothes, won't help him a bit. Offer him shelter, that's not what he needs. Offer him things, that's not what he's looking for. I say there's only one thing that'll satisfy a hungry man. and that has put food on his table. Here's what I'm afraid of today. I'm going to apply it. Here's what I'm afraid of, that we are living with a church today and Christians in our hour that do not have a spiritual hunger pain at all. They're content to go through the motions. They're content to have the form. They're content to just do what they've always done. And God never shows up and God never blows through and God never speaks to their heart. and they're satisfied with it. We live in this generation that doesn't know anything about the power of God, and they don't even care. They don't see anybody saved, and they don't even care. They don't have prodigals coming home, and they don't even care. The altars are empty, and they don't even care. The Sunday school died out, and they don't even care. The pews are half full, and they don't even care. The wardrobe's getting worldly, and they don't even care. The music gets contemporary, and they don't even care. The church closes on Wednesday, and they don't even care. They lay off on Super Bowl, and nobody even cares. And then we get mad at God for judging America with Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or whoever else gets in there. We get mad at Christians for being the way they are. But I say shame on you and I that know better that we don't even care to pull up to the table and ask God to fill it up. When's the last time you felt empty? When's the last time you had a hunger pain? When's the last time you desired God? Oh, it's time to get hungry again. I promise you this, open your ear and he'll speak. Open your heart and he'll enter in. Open your mouth and he'll fill it up. I'm afraid we live in a crazy day where Christians got some weird taste buds. They got some crazy cravings. Dogs run back to their vomit. Pigs run back to their mire. The prideful man runs after exaltation. The praying man runs after blood. The pervert runs after flesh. But Christians are running after some weird things too. You talk to the average Christian today, most of their prayer life centers around what they want and not what they need. They're looking for God to fill up their bank account. They're looking for God to give them a new truck. They want God to make them lose weight. They're praying God won't let them have any hardship. But when's the last time you just anchored yourself down in prayer and said, God, all I really want and all I really need is you. I'm afraid in this generation, we got a lot of young preachers being raised up. They don't know anything about hungering for God. They think they have the touch of God if they have a tweet out there in the public and some people recognize them. They'll put their initials on the side of their little Ford Focus and drive them down the interstate and think they're a man of God. And they never paid the price and walked with him alone. They've never been in the prayer closet on the backside of a mountain. They don't know what it is to shed tears. Can I say what you need more than anything else? more than a suit and tie, more than a good calfskin Bible, you need to have a hunger for God on the inside of your life. I mean like a blind man wants to see, like a leper wants to be made whole, like a crippled man wants to walk, like a freezing man wants some fire, like a hot man wants a breeze, like a wet man wants to be dry, like a dry man wants to be wet. I mean like a man in a valley wants a mountain, and a man on the mountain wants the valley. I'm talking about a man in darkness wanting light, You and I ought to have a hunger for God. God give us somebody who'll stand up and say, hey, for me, his word is my bread. His spirit is my life. His truth is my water. His righteousness is my clothing. His house is my desire. His people are my family. His will is my meat. His presence is my joy. His power is what I long for. I'm not casual. I'm not apathetic. I'm not lukewarm. but a zealous pursuit after the things of God. God is my goal, and Christ is my aim. His calling is my mark. He's my sufficiency. He's my all in all. He's my God. He's my Lord. He's my Christ. He's my King. He's my Savior. He's my sustainer. He's my friend, and He's all I want. When's the last time you said, you know what, He's the panting of my soul? He's the longing of my heart. He's the resting place for my spirit. The psalmist said, oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. He's saying if you'd ever just give him a try, you'd want to give him a second one. Oh my, if you ever got one helping, you'd come back for another helping. If you could just experience God, and all of who He is, then you'd want more of that. I'm afraid if we're not careful, we get this thing down to a science. It is not a science. It is supernatural. We get this thing down to marketing. It is not marketing. It's something higher than that. We need more than just everything being right and in the right place. We need God to move and manifest Himself in what we do. In my Bible reading, I need God. In my prayer life, I need God. In my soul wedding, I need God. In my marriage, I need God. In my meetings, I need God. I'd rather die. I'd rather do something else if I do this and God not be in it and God not be on it. When's the last time you were hungry for Him? Let me ask you a couple questions. If you're not hungry, you gotta ask yourself why. Here's why I think we're not hungry. Not all these will apply to everybody, but all these probably apply to somebody. We're not hungry, number one, because dead men don't get hungry. In John 11, Lazarus is in the tomb and he's not hungry at all. In John 12, he's at the table. You know, while something happened between John 11 and John 12, Jesus passed by and made that dead man live again. When he was laying in the tomb, he didn't care if he ever had a meal or not. Dead men don't feel hunger pains. I think the reason why we don't have a hunger for God is a lot of folks who wear church clothes, hey, they don't have anything on the inside. They just have church clothes on the outside. They're no more saved than the devil himself. They sing amazing grace and don't know anything about it. Have a Bible in their hand and none in their heart. They go through the motions, but God isn't living on the inside. They've never been born again. Can I say this thing is more than you repeating a prayer? It is more than you tying on a tie. It is more than a skirt that drags the pavement. It's more than coming to a camp meeting. You gotta be made alive. You see, you and I are dead in trespasses and in sins, and there's nothing that can resurrect a dead man but the resurrection himself. It wasn't choir singing that resurrected me. It wasn't tithing that resurrected me. It wasn't dress clothes that resurrected me. It wasn't a church that resurrected me. There was a day when Jesus passed by, and he came by my tomb, and he walked by my casket, and he said, Justin, come forth. And then all of a sudden, I just started living, And you know what happened to me? I got a new appetite. My belly ran after other things. All of a sudden, I wanted more of God. You say, I'm here today, and I don't really care if God moves. Well, you better get saved. You say, you don't think I'm saved? No, not at all. I don't think you're saved at all. If there's a new man on the inside, that new man craves after God. He hungers for God. And if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Hey! You say, I just don't even care. I can come to church, go right out of the building and sin, don't even care, don't feel bad about it. I go to church and scroll my phone. I never read my Bible and pray. Well, then you're not a Christian. You might be saved, but you're definitely not a Christian. And I really have a hard time believing you're even saved if you don't have any desire for spiritual things. Come on now, if we're not careful, we're as much a cult as the Jehovah Witnesses are. We just wanna throw a new suit on an old man so that we can put out a post saying, look at so and so, the real deal just got saved. Hello. And then we say, well, they just carnal, no such thing. They might get carnal, but I mean, a new creature, they're gonna grow a little bit. I believe there'll be some fruit in their life. Dead men don't get hungry. If you're today and you don't care about the things of God, then you're not saved properly. All I know is what I can go on my life. It changed my life. I was a drunk. I was a rock and roll guitar player. I was in and out of places I wouldn't tell you about, done things you wouldn't want to know. And when I got saved, I quit drinking. And I quit playing bad music for the most part. Some of that Hank Williams is not as bad as you think. But a lot of it I gave up. All I'm saying is God is so big, if he moves inside of you, he gonna stick out and change some areas. Dead men don't hunger. Number two, dozing men don't hunger. Romans 13, 11 says in that, knowing the time that now it is high time to wake out of sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The reason some Christians don't hunger for God is because they're not even alert enough to discern that Jesus is coming. And that you'll stand before God one day at a judgment seat and give an account for the life you have lived since salvation. And your works will be tried according to their quality, not their quantity. And God will judge the agenda and the motive behind it all. And can I say, an old preacher told me, Brother Cooper, live every day judgment seat ready. And listen, I fall short of that by far. But I wanna live every day knowing that one day I will stand before God. You say, well, I really don't care. Hey, well, it's gonna be a bad day at the judgment seat. We sing those songs, when we all get to heaven, he'll wipe every tear from our eye. Yeah, but there's a judgment seat first and you'll stand before the Lord that knows you better than you know yourself and give an account for the effort you put into this Christian thing. Dead men don't hunger, dozing men don't hunger. Number three, delighted men don't hunger. Mark 4, 18-19 says, And these are they which are sown among thorns, such as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lust of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. These are people that are satisfied and full of everything but God, so that there's no room for God. Satan attempted Christ with bread. What he's saying is, fill yourself up with this temporal stuff. He does the same thing to you and I. He'll say, fill your life with these things that won't last. I think a lot of folks are just content. Because Christians in America have it better than any Christian that's ever lived before. We got nice houses and nice clothes. We got phones and cars. We got stuff saved up, maybe some of y'all do. I don't, I'm in the wrong line of work for that, but for retirement, I mean, you got all these kind of things. We got a bow, I do have that bow and a gun. I mean, we got golf clubs, if you're not very spiritual, brother heaven, all these things we have in our life. And we just go on, kick back in the lazy boy, watch college football and we're good. And I'm not preaching against all that. I like watching football and all that mess too. But man, that's our God. We have delighted ourself on the fancies of this world. Let me give you a couple more that are less popular than those. All right, what about this? Deceived men don't hunger. Revelation 3, 17, because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. Here's what I'm afraid of with our churches. We are more impressed with garnish than meat. You go to a fancy restaurant, they put that little worthless piece of whatever that is, marijuana there on the plate. I mean, you're sitting there. I'm like, man, I didn't order marijuana, but I'll take it. And anyway, they put it right there on the plate. I mean, what in the world is that? It's just for looks. What it does, it makes them look fancy. You got to drink your sweet tea with your pinky in the air. You got not just a fork, but you got a salad fork. You got one of them little old spoons, and I don't even know what that is. I bet you got all these different things out there. And it looks good. Hey, but can I say something? That's not really any more nourishing than what you're going to get at the house anyhow. It might look fancy, but it's no better. I'm afraid today we're like that lay out of sea in church where we think we're rich. We're increased with goods. We got big steeples and Wi-Fi. We got screens behind the platform. We got an internet and we got a website account. I'm going to entertain. You go to those places and preach. If God showed up there, man, they'd run you out of town. You'd have to throw a visitor tag on God. He ain't never been there before. They're dead, and they want to stay that way. They need an undertaker, not an evangelist. They think they got it going on because they got to open the city council meeting in prayer. Hey, when's the last time you made a difference? Hey, man, I think they got it on. They get to go down to the dog catcher and take a picture of the dog catcher and pray over his new dog pound. And they, man, we're really making a difference. and the world's dying and going to hell. Nobody ever walks the aisle, nobody ever gets baptized. They could care less about running an old van or bus through their neighborhood. They just say, let the world go to hell, we're comfortable. I think we are deceived in this day. The average dope dealer's a lot better at reaching people than you are. And I am. Those dope dealers don't sleep on their prospects. They'll check in on them all the time. I'm afraid the pill pusher's better at reaching people than the soul winner. Deceived men don't hunger. Let me give you this one. Discriminating men don't hunger. Psalm 81, 11 says, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide and I'll fill it, but my people would not hearken to my voice, and Israel would none of me. Why am I not hungry? Because you're too picky. Well, I'm not gonna eat unless that preacher's preaching. Well, I'm not going to that meeting unless they let me sing. Well, I'm not gonna read my Bible unless the church puts out a Bible reading calendar that we can get a merit badge for at the end of the year. Well, I ain't going to that Saturday night prayer meeting because so and so don't ever come to Saturday night prayer meeting. And so we're picky about it. That's about as childish. My little boy's a picky eater. Lincoln eats chocolate donuts and Oreos for breakfast. That's just what he wants. Sugar all the time. And then he'll eat very fancy Italian cuisine for lunch. Chef Borardi or something like that. I mean, he's just very picky. If we go out to eat, it doesn't matter where you're at. He wants chicken nuggets. That's just what he's going to get to eat. And the boy's just picky. But God help us spiritually not to be that way. We're saying, well, I'm just not in it today, I just don't feel like it. The choir missed a note, I didn't like that song. The preacher's tie's a little bit crooked, I'm gonna shut her down. Hey, you're not gonna be hungry if you're that way. And then let me give you one more. Defeated men, defeated men don't hunger. In Acts 27, verse 20, Paul is in that storm and he makes the statement, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away. Later in the chapter, verse 33 through verse 34, he talks about it being the 14th day that those men hadn't eaten anything. You know why they hadn't eaten anything? They were so wrapped up in despair, trying to keep their ship from sinking, they forgot to be hungry. They thought all hope is gone anyhow, what's the use? Just put all of our effort into keeping this sinking ship floating another day. Defeated attitude. You know, I think we don't have folks who are willing to get out on a limb and pray for God's power and lose sleep at night and fast and seek His face and get in the pulpit knowing they've got the touch of God because they've just resigned themselves to the fact America's going to hell and it's all over. We'll never have revival. You just can't do it in this day and everything is pessimistic. Everything is disparaging. Everything is, it's dead and it's dead and it's over and it's over. Everything is hopeless. And so we come places like this and we go through it and get a shout, but it doesn't ever do anything to stir us. And we never take it home and we never throw another stick on our own fire and go home to do a work for God. Can I say that is not where I'm at right now. I still believe God can do something in our day. I don't believe God is done. I don't believe this thing is over. I'm not ready to throw in the towel. I still hold out hope that God is God and He's on His throne and God can still send revival and God can still use our life. I'm not ready to forfeit my faith because it's been bad here lately. I still think God can turn this thing around. Let me close. So many folks are drinking from a cup when you could drink from the fountain. You're running after crumbs when you could sit down at the banquet table. D.L. Moody said, it's not hard to find a thirsty man. He said, it's not hard to find a hungry man. He said, if I came in this building today and there was somebody in here thirsty and I had a barrel of water, I wouldn't even have to advertise it. He said, I just sit that barrel of water right here. And if a man was thirsty, he wouldn't wait for me to invite him, he'd run to the water. He said, if a man was in here hungry and I brought in a plate of food, he said, I wouldn't have to ask, who's hungry? He said, just the sight and smell available to all of us. But it starts with us being hungry. I'm gonna pray and Brother Morgan will come, but I pray in this day God will give us an appetite, a hunger, a hunger for him. Lord, I pray that you'd help us today. Help me in my life. to hunger and thirst after you. God, I pray we wouldn't get satisfied. Please, I pray for these preachers, God, that you'd renew their fire and fervor for you, increase our faith in these days. God, I pray that you'd help us, Lord, to anchor ourselves to the throne and to seek you and to desire you and to run after you. God, I pray you'd help us to run out to this world and say our God is on His throne And God help us to stay faithful in Jesus' name. Altar's open, folks have come. If you need to come, you come. Brother Morgan's gonna come.