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Psalm chapter 27 verse 4.

One thing have I asked the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord

all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.

This verse is so powerful and convicting. One thing I've asked of the Lord that I will seek after.

One thing, you know, sometimes when my family is sitting around the dinner table,

so we're sitting around with our four kids, they're 12, 10, 7, and 5 years old and we'll play kind of just kind of conversation games where okay if you had one wish, what would you ask for?

And so that's kind of what I've got in my mind

when I read the beginning of Psalm 27.

One thing I've asked to the word,

that I will seek after.

So if you could have anything, if you could ask for one thing what would you ask for

I think about that in your life but what would you ask for if you have one thing

and I think for many of us, like if we were really honest, what comes to our mind is,

yeah, some thing, some gift that God might give, some way that he might provide, something that he might do.

It might be in our lives, might be in somebody else's life.

So what one thing will we ask for?

And what I love about

Psalm 27 verse 4 is that what he asked for is just to be with God.

One thing I asked for, this is the one thing I I seek after I just want to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to gaze upon his beauty

That's what I want more than anything. And where I'm really convicted is, if there's any inclination in me, if I was going to ask for one thing to ask for this gift or this provision or God to do this or that in a certain way, then I think what I'm showing

is that what I really want is something besides God.

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