All right, looking forward to the Psalms. Getting back into the Psalms, it's been a while.

So tonight we're going to pick it up where we left off.

Last time we were in the Psalms, we finished with Psalm 62, so I'll pick it up in Psalm 63.

And Lord willing make it to Psalm 66. I'm so sorry about the cough. I hope it won't be a distraction. I'll do my best to take

lots of fishermen's friends so it won't be. Why don't we pray? And we'll ask God's blessing on our time

together in His Word. Lord, thank you so much for the book of Psalms and just the richness of its meaning

to our lives and especially for those of us who find ourselves going through a trial and a difficult time.

Lord, these Psalms are such a soothing balm on a hurting heart.

And so, Lord, tonight we're looking forward to our time together in the Psalms.

And we would just ask that you, the Holy Spirit would speak into our lives,

minister to us in our lives, in our time together. We pray. In Jesus' name, amen. All right,

let's jump in. Verse 1.

Now we're told that Psalm 63 is a Psalm of David and we're told specifically that it was during

a time when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

Verse 1, O God, you are my God. Early will I seek you. My soul thirst for you. We just actually,

if you didn't notice, and I appreciate it when David does this, but we just actually sang

this Psalm in part.

So he says, my soul thirst for you, my flesh longs for you, in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water,

having just come back from Israel and being there in the wilderness

and seeing just how dry it is. There's nothing but rocks and it's so dry. And you can just imagine

David describing and sort of comparing his soul to the dry and thirsty land where there is no water that he finds himself in.

So what's he going to do? Verse two. So I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory because your loving

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