The following resource is from desiring God.org.

Let's pray together.

I invite you to pray with me.

Father, I ask now that the miracle of the new birth, the miracle of the awakening of a

supreme desire for Jesus of all things

would be granted to thousands.

I pray that every Christian would be awakened fresh to desire Christ above everything. I ask this in Jesus' name, amen. For over 20 years now, the flag that's been flying over passion conferences, is from the Prophet Isaiah

chapter 26, verse 8, and find it on the website, you can read it on the screen.

It goes like this.

Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your truth, we wait eagerly for you, for your name and your

renown are the desire of our soul. and your

and your renown are the desire of our souls.

It's never changed from 1997, your name, oh God, your renown, your fame, is the desire of our soul. So yes, Lord, we wait for you.

We want you, we desire you.

And the reason that I say, and not just your name or your fame is first because that's

what the text says we wait eagerly for you, but because that's what the name means.

Your name is your being in the Bible.

When God revealed his name in Exodus 3,

he said, I am who I am. My name is my am. My name is my amness, my being. So when you desire

the name, you desire the person.

And when you desire the renown, you desire the fame of the person. Now on this side of the incarnation he has another name. His name is Jesus. I don't know if he's, you're as amazed as I am by these outrageous things Jesus said, the most outrageous

thing Jesus ever said was before Abraham was I am.

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