Our Dilemma of Spiritual Dehydration - Louie Giglio

0:17 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 or B or C or D, although we all need God to move in our lives in certain ways, but we're in a season where we're wanting just to say to God, we want you, God. we don't just want you to answer our prayer, we want you. And the reason why we're in that season is because we were created for God. And yes, we have a heavenly father who wants to move and answer prayer and provide and heal and change and intervene in situations. Of course we do. And as a heavenly father, of course, he wants to do that, just like every father in this room wants to do that for your kids.

1:17 And in the same way that we, as humans, have a heart desire to want to be with our father, and a father has a heart desire to do more than just provide for their child, but to be in a relationship with their child, we get that because we're made in the image of God, and we have a heavenly father who wants us. He wants you today. And he put in your life a desire for him. And when you recognize that that's what you're longing for, and you can identify two things. A, something's missing in my life. I need more in my life. I want more in my life. And then B, you add to that. And the thing that I know is 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 sin pleasure what I'm really longing for is the God who created me for himself and when you can recognize those two things something's going to change in your life see most people don't even really understand that they're thirsty they're just going around chugging everything they can get their hands on. But they haven't really clued into the fact that they're thirsty. There are other people who are thirsty and Noah's not working right now, but they haven't dialed into the reality that what they're thirsty for is a person and it's the God who made them.

2:53 And 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. And I have a feeling a lot of you showed up today and maybe you couldn't put your finger right on it, but you came through the doors today going, I need something. And the 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 he says something powerful in Psalm 42. Look at the way he says this. He says, 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 g-gods, but my soul thirsts for the living God.

3:50 And then he asked this question, when can I go and meet with God? Now, obviously, the context here, Old Testament context, you physically went to the temple. You physically went into the courts of worship. You physically went to gather with the people in worship. And so he's saying, when can I go to the courts of God? When can I go and meet with God? I just want to still be the person who says, when can I get to God? Not just, when can I book into that restaurant? When can we get that trip to Italy? When can we make it down to 30A? When can we get into the game? But I want to have in my heart that desire that says, when can I get to God? Because my soul is thirsty for God. My soul is panting for God.

4:46 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 little bit of distress and people are mocking him like, hmm, 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.

5:55 And 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 shout. You hear the praise. You're with the festive throng. It is like going to the Georgia-Alabama game last night. You walk into that stadium. Did anybody go to the game, by the way, last night? Hello. No, people went to the game aren't here today. But anyway, it's like, well, there were no hands. So there you go. you go into that stadium, and when you walk into the stadium, it's crazy. It's nuts. Why? Because everyone in there is like-minded, like-hearted, have like passion. Oh, 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 all the same socioeconomic spectrum. But when they walk in that stadium, like-minded, like hearted, like passionate, and it comes out. It would be nuts if you went there. Crazy, crazy town. If you went there and got right in the middle of all those people and somebody said, I am so excited to be here tonight. This is going to be amazing. Oh, there comes the dogs.

7:22 Go Dawgs. time for kickoff you'd be like what what is wrong with you But yet we come in church and it... I didn'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 and 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? And I'm preaching a little bit here, but not, hey, what's my schedule this week?

8:23 Eh, too bad. I'm going to have to miss. Ah, well, I'll get there 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 the streams of water, well, my soul pants for God like that. And I want God. I am desperate for God. And I'll tell you, one of the places I find God is in the gathering of the people of God. And 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 in our community space. I can't wait to get in the gathering space. 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 a house of God. And that's what it means to be desperate. We're talking today about desperation for God.

9:18 Living in a land of spiritual dehydration, we're talking about 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. 75% of the people in America are dehydrated. You'll find that everywhere. You can Google it right now if you want to. Ask chat GPT. They'll tell you 75% of people in America are dehydrated, but there's no scientific evidence to back that up. So that's kind of like, you know, one of those things that just got out there and now it's real. But there are a couple of other things going on. There is scientific evidence to back up the fact 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 got mine up. 17 to 28% of older people are dehydrated for real.

10:13 And then they just ask an opt-in study. So they ask Americans, do you think you're drinking enough water? We'll just 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 515, which I'll back up at 515 because I hear the Stanley water bottles fall over while I'm preaching pretty constantly. Can we just get an amen on that, everybody? I know somebody wanted to say it. I'm the man who's going to invent the insulator thing 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. 80% of people in America, when asked, said, I am 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 got them out right now. Somehow I triggered something. We got one here, here, here, and here.

11:17 There's one right there. There's one right there. Everybody's like, ooh, 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, and she had a wagon with a thing in it with the long straw that she was pushing. 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 and 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.

12:29 and it's to dry you out. Jesus said it differently. He said 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 take other scriptures and paraphrase that to say, the enemy wants to dehydrate you and dry you out until you become brittle and then you crack and 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're like, how does the Garden of Eden have to do with being like a deer who pants for the streams of water? In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve walked with God in the cool of the day. Why?

13:21 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 him 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. A curse came on the land. And then at the end of Genesis 3, I went back to read this. It just absolutely is so sad. The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

14:13 And 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 and 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.

14:36 So God has got to do everything he can to prevent him from eating from the tree of life because he's already now eaten from the knowledge of good and evil and spiritually he has died. And so 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. And after he drove 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 got in my mind a picture of Adam and Eve in their garments of animal skin looking over their shoulder.

15:36 with their half-eaten fruit as they walked away from the source of life. And I wonder how many people in this gathering right now can vaguely remember what it was like with the festive shout that you're walking away with your half-eaten fruit, chugging everything you can to try to satisfy a longing that is in your heart for God. the beauty of this story is that God always had a plan to make a way for him to come back and when Jesus, this is what really blew my mind.

16:42 I hadn't really seen it before. The east side of the garden is where the cherubim stood with a flashing sword to keep him from coming back to the tree of life, but when Jesus entered Jerusalem on Passover week, the triumphal entry, when he was riding on the donkey and they put the palm branches on the ground, they shouted, Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord and this is Jesus riding in for his last ride into Jerusalem before he gives his life do you know that Jerusalem has four gates to it and Jesus came in the east gate they went out the east gate with empty-handed half-eaten fruit and Jesus came in the east gate to give his life his innocent life as a sacrifice for men and women so that we could be restored not so that we could get to heaven so that we could be restored reconciled to a relationship with the source that we were created for Thank you.

17:49 the enemy 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 and what this could look like in life in this 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 the promised land. And Joshua, his young aide now, was going to take the reins and lead the people in to take this land that God had promised to their forefathers. It says right in the midst of this story of them wandering in the wilderness, Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the tent of meeting. And anyone inquiring of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent. As Moses went into the tent, hello, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance while the Lord spoke with Moses. Pillar of cloud by day, fire by night. That's how these people are moving through the wilderness. God is saying, I'm before you. I'm behind you. I'm with you. I've got a future for you. They're rebelling the whole time.

19:19 They're complaining the whole time. They're not getting it the whole time, but he's still in there with them. Cloud by day, fire by night. But the cloud would move onto the tent when Moses went in it. And it says that when the Lord spoke to Moses and all the people saw the pillar of the cloud standing at the entrance of the tent. They all stood and worshiped, each at the entrance to their tent. And the Lord would speak to Moses face to face as one speaks to a friend. Why? Because we were created for relationship with God.

19:54 So here we've got Almighty God Yahweh in a tent of meeting, cloud over the tent now, 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 And then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide, Joshua, the son of Nun,

20:40 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, a friend of mine said a few days ago, I loved it, you'll find me at the tent.

21:26 When I was growing up, I had a mentor, and he was 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, had impact on me when I was in high school. ended up leading a big Bible study here in Atlanta in the 80s. So thousands of single adults would come. Thousands of people would come every week. He spoke at our youth camps when I was growing up. And this guy, all I knew really about him, he was fun. He was funny. He's a good tennis player. He wanted God. and he made me want God.

22:15 He died in a plane crash while I was a student at Georgia State University, and I grew in my faith a little bit, and I came to figure out, because this was in the era of cassette tapes and no computers or podcasts, or 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 and your pastor. You know, that's 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 this guy, Dan DeHaan. But when he died and my faith started growing more and more and more, I started realizing when I discovered another pastor who had passed away in the generation before named A.W. Tozer, that Dan was channeling A.W. Tozer to us all those years. Now, knock on Dan. Dan was phenomenal. But I started going, I'm hearing Tozer going, hmm, I've heard that before.

23:08 Thank you, Dan. And I started reading books like The Pursuit of God, The Knowledge of the Holy, these classics by A.W. Tozer, the kind of books people don't read much anymore. And I started devouring these books and devouring this book, and I realized there are holy men of God that 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 immaculate hours in prayer. This is lifting up out of his biography, one of them. Most of his prolonged prayer time with his Bible and hymnals as his only companions took place in his church office on the backside of the second floor. He would carefully hang up his suit trousers and don his sweater and raggedy old prayer pants and sit for a while on his ancient office couch. After a time, his spirit would drift off into another realm.

24:03 In time, he would abandon the couch, get on his knees, and eventually lie face down on the floor, singing praises to the lion of the tribe of Judah. I'm like, no wonder when I'm reading this man, the pursuit of God, something is coming off the page and gripping my heart. Some of his assistants anecdotally have told stories about coming to his office at 5.20, 5.30 in the afternoon and quietly knocking on the door and cracking the door to see him lost away in prayer with God, hungry for God. And they would say, Dr. Tozer, I'm going to have to go home now. And he'd kind of be startled and say, well, what time is it? And they're like, it's after five in the afternoon. He's been in there since nine in the morning, missed every appointment of the day, missed everything that he planned on his calendar that day. People would come and sit in the waiting area, sit for two hours, realize he ain't coming out, they'd go. Another one would show up, they would go. I read in another place anecdotally where he missed an entire speaking engagement one time because he was in prayer with God.

25:05 and growing up that was what was trickling over into my life there are people who have a passion to know God about everything else and he wasn't non-useful to the world because he was so tuned into God he actually ended up making a massive mark on the world and he did make it to a bunch the 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, or my soul pants for God like that, and I was just asking today again, when can I go and meet with God? Oh, I see my eye cow. I know when I'm meeting with you. I know when I'm having coffee with them. I know when I got to show up for that. I know we got dinner plans over there, but when can I go and meet with God?

26:01 and I know just saying that and even reading that again about Tozer it feels a little bit extreme eh and a little unrealistic I mean we've got people in this gathering right now you've been walking with God almost as long as Moses has I mean you've been there and we have people in this gathering right now and you're like if you asked me to say grace over lunch today and there was two people I didn't know there I would freak out. And we've got everybody in between. And you don't have to become Tozer today. You don't have to go and get raggedy prayer pants, whatever those are.

26:44 I will say I've never seen those sold at the, and I hate using the word, we try not to use it here, at the merch area at any Christian event. I haven't seen them yet. 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. And you have to decide, I want to be a person who wants God. and you can. Just a quick show of hands. Well, we don't have to do a show of hands. We've already done a lot of that today. Just a quick question. How many of you in the last 30 days have spent 30 minutes to an hour uninterrupted?

27:35 So not 10 minutes back, 10 back, 20 back. You spent 30 minutes to an hour uninterrupted working out. See, those people want to raise their hands. They 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, the box, CrossFit, running on a bike, on a treadmill, 30 minutes to an hour in the last 30 days. Let's just see a show of hands. Anybody? What a fit group. How many of you have spent 30 minutes to an hour uninterrupted watching something, either Netflix or 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 bit higher, a little higher. Okay, not too many gamers in the house. How many of you spent 30 minutes to an hour reading? That's a respectable thing. How many of you spent 30 minutes to an hour in the last 30 days scrolling?

28:50 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. No, say it. Say it like you mean it. Doomscrolling. What does that mean? It means at the end of the 30 minutes to an hour, you feel terrible. You feel depressed, divided, angry, frustrated, jealous, judgmental. wasteful, convicted, all the above. You're like, no, and when I doom scroll, you don't know who I'm following. When I get done, I am just 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 uninterrupted 30 minutes to an hour with God alone in prayer in your word.

30:00 The answer for some of us is never. but I just wanted us to see today, not trying to push in, but just wanted us to see today that it's not unreasonable if that's what you want. See, the enemy right away is trying to think, what are you going to do? You spend 45 minutes with God and his word alone. What in the world would I do? 10 seconds went by I just want us to know today that it's not unreasonable if it is your desire to be a person after God's own heart.

31:06 so real quickly we'll close what would i do there's kind of like going on vacation and knowing they have a really cool fitness center at the resort anybody done this before and you are not working out have not worked out do not plan on working out but they have a really cool fitness center and you're on vacation why not show up right and you walk in there and you're looking around and they haven't been in a workout in a while now and i don't know what i go over here and get the little stretchy thing and put it down and do the little you know isometric things where I'm doing that? Do I sit on the ball and roll around? I've seen people do 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 and working on the biceps. Do I do that? Do I go over here and pull down on the thing or I get on the exercise bike for a little while and, oh, this will make me sore? Okay, get off that. And I'm going to get on the treadmill for a minute. And 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 like four things to do?

32:12 Well, let me tell you four things to do really quick. Because on Tuesday, this Tuesday, we're having a day of prayer from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at our Cumberland location. and for a lot of you you'll come right in you'll be able to come for a half hour an hour some of you come for a couple hours and you'll know what to do you'll roll in with your bible and your journal and your heart will be ready and you'll just you can't wait to get in the space and just be with God you'll know what to do others of you'll walk in and just 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 number one thing to do when you come to be with god is just be still psalm 46 11 be still and know that i am god so you don't get all worked up because on tuesday there will be times that it's led and by led i mean like 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 be leading with a couple of our worship leaders. We have no plan, just so you know. But when we get there, first thing we're going to do is whatever. I will come in with some thoughts in God's Word. I will ask the Holy Spirit to put some passages on my heart. We'll get in the flow with God and we'll just lead. And some of it will be quiet. Some of it will be led. Some of it will sing. I don't know. It'd be amazing.

33:50 And so don't come in going, oh, this is like Sunday and I come down and sit in my seat and then 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. So in the early part of the day, there'll be leadership from our team, middle part of the day, leadership from our team, end of the day, leadership from our team. In the middle two sections, there'll just be worship music playing. Be some prompts coming up on the screen for you just to be with God. And 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 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 that you're supposed to be doing that day that you forgot. Oh, I got to get the cleaners today. I totally forgot about that. I got to get over there this afternoon. Yeah, just write down cleaners on your little pad and then go right back to God.

34:51 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. And 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 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 in the same you come to meet with God you better have a bible because you don't want some crazy thoughts that you don't know where they're coming from you want God's thoughts that you know are coming from the Holy Spirit right into your life.

35:54 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 just connect with him through his word. 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.

36:17 I want it in me. the third thing you're going to want to do when you get in that space is you're going to want to 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 and feel like you need to walk a little bit and worship but you want to worship God. What A.W. Tozer taught me was start examining the characters of God. I spent years of my life in my formative spiritual journey every single day taking an attribute of God and praising him for it, meditating on it, focusing on it, eating his word about it every single day. His righteousness today, that's all I'm thinking about today is the righteousness of God. I'm going to eat it, eat it, eat it. I want to worship him for it. I'm going to praise for it. I'm going to take it in. I'm going to walk in it. 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. And there's enough attributes for you to go a long, long, long, long way. And at the end of the day, you have information? No. You understand the facet of the diamond that is God.

37:39 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. So there's praise. There's lots of words, but then he comes to the end a few verses later, and he says, come, let us bow down in worship and kneel before the Lord, our maker. Ecclesiastes 5, 1 and 2 say, 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 to 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.

38:35 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 that 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 greatest time with God is when we walk away and we didn't hardly say anything I remember when Shelly and I started dating you know you have those moments and fortunately she's really outgoing and gregarious and I'm more introverted and trying to think what I say next but our conversation was great we'd sing together we worship together we'd laugh together but I remember distinctly the time in our relationship where we could ride in the car and most of you remember this that have been in a relationship for a long time I remember when we could ride in a car for a long time and not say a word and it wasn't weird it was just communion without words anybody know what I'm talking about?

39:53 and sometimes that's the most beautiful time with God you went to the prayer thing well what'd you say not a lot I just wanted to be with God and I knew that we could be together without me talking the whole time and we could have communion together because that's what prayer is. It's 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 into the building Tuesday, please carve out time somewhere during your day from seven to seven. 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.

40:47 I couldn't get to Cumberland location, but I just want to join our house today in saying to you, Lord, that we want.