Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everyone.

And welcome back to another morning with the masters. We're redeveloped ourselves to

the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. We are picking up with a six of our

Sikh and Seven devotional for a god-first lifestyle. There's a link to that in the description

of the podcast if you guys want to follow along with us. And as always, I'm in your

scripture and towards going to pick up with the Devo. Let's do it. And the scripture

is Psalm 42 verses one and two. And it says this, as the deer longs for streams of water,

so I long for you, oh God, I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before

him? The devotional says, I remember my first encounter with God. The feeling was indescribable.

It was heavy and light at the same time. I was empty, but it was filling in my emotions

or high. Joy was all over me. Nothing about the actual issues in my life, challenges or

unfavorable circumstances had changed physically. Yet somehow I felt better. I felt hopeful

and positive energy exuded from me. After that encounter, I wanted to feel God all the

time. I wanted to experience the tangible feeling of him in the God first lifestyle, seeking

him automatically positions you to feel his presence. His presence is strong and full.

It evokes all of your senses and can cause you to have all kinds of emotions, tears of joy,

and thanksgiving overwhelm you. And power is deposited into you. It is not fully able

to be described with words. And once you feel it, you are forever different. The only way

to understand is through firsthand experience. After an encounter, you never forget how

you felt. You always long for that feeling again. Some 42 describes how strong the desire

to have an encounter with God can be. It is like a deer's thirst for water. As we seek

after God and place ourselves in the posture for an encounter, and as we encounter God,

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