Heavenly Father, as hard as this is for me, I'm asking you to search me. Search me, God, and know my heart.

God, test my motives, reveal to me my anxious thoughts. Show me anything in me that offends you.

God, I want to see in me what you see in me so I can become more like Jesus. God, I ask you to search me.

I am very excited to dive into this three-part message series when I welcome all of our churches.

All of our network churches, everybody at church online. The reason I'm really excited about this and I just want to tell you upfront is I have this very real sense that for some of you, one of the next three messages will become what I call an anchor message.

What is an anchor message? I look back over my relationship with God over the past almost three decades. There are maybe three or four different messages that I remember.

When I heard that, everything changed. I call it an anchor message. When I heard that one message and was in God's presence, my life really took a different direction.

I really believe that for a significant portion of you, one of the next three weeks has the potential to be an anchor message where you hear from God in such a way that it impacts your life and the trajectory of your life actually changes for the better.

What we're going to do is we're going to really start praying three new prayers. I want to warn you, these are not easy prayers, these are not safe prayers, these are not benign prayers.

We're calling them dangerous prayers, but they're dangerous in a good way. In fact, if you ask my opinion, most people I know in this part of the world, most people's prayers are way too safe.

What do we often pray for? God bless us. Safe? Okay? God help us. Good, but safe? God protect us as we travel. W safe, right?

What I want to do is I want to arm you with some prayers that are not safe to pray. In fact, just know going into them. When you pray these prayers, you're really asking God to do something that will often take you out of your comfort zone.

Next week, for some of you, next week will be one of those anchor messages. We're going to talk about a very dangerous prayer where we ask God to break us, break me, God.

You want to pray a dangerous prayer. You ask God to break you. That's the last thing any of us want, but on the other side of brokenness is a real intimacy with God and a dependence on Him that you cannot get to any other way, but through brokenness.

We can number three, for some of you, this will be it. It will change the direction of your life. We're going to pray, send me. Instead of saying, God, I'll do what I want to do for you. We're going to say, God, I'm signing a blank contract basically, whatever, whenever, however God I'm available to you, whatever you want to do, my life is yours. You send me.

Today, we're going to start with an equally dangerous prayer, and we're going to look at a prayer that David prayed in Psalm 139. David prayed this after his enemies and God enemies were kind of on the attack and accusing David of having wrong motives.

Instead of saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, in defending himself, he actually prayed a very dangerous prayer before God when he asked God to search his heart. Psalm 139 will introduce our dangerous prayer for the day. I'll read verses 23 and 24. Then I'm going to ask all of our churches to just say this prayer allowed the second time. This is what David prayed a very dangerous prayer. He prayed, search me, God.

Know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way ever lasting. A very dangerous prayer. If you wouldn't mind at all of our churches, just kind of to move our hearts toward prayer, let's just say this, allowed together.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way ever lasting. In order to digest this, what I want to do is break this prayer down into four sub parts, and we'll talk through each of these, and this will arm and equip you to make this prayer a regular part of your prayer life.

The first thing that David praises this number one, he prays, search my heart. He says it very directly in verse 23, search me, God, and know my heart. Now, for some of you, you may look at that, now, why would we ask God to search our heart? He knows it, and I've got a good heart anyway. I mean, you've got a good heart, and I've got a good heart, right?

Actually, we need to understand that without Christ, we do not have a good heart. It's a very common saying, well, she's got a good heart. Actually, she's got a wicked heart, if you want to be completely accurate. Jeremiah 17.9 says this, the human heart is what, let's all say it aloud. The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and what is it? It is desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?

We need to understand that without Christ, our heart is not a good heart that we deceive others, we deceive ourselves. In fact, we're all liars. How many of you are liars raise your hands? Raise them up. Leave them up for a second. Leave them up if you will. Look at everybody's hands not up in the air. Just stare at them for a moment. Call them. Just go ahead and say it. Lie, lie, pants on fire. We're all liars. We lie. We lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. And I'm going to argue that often the most common lie that we tell is to ourselves. We lie to ourselves.

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