What I saw over and over again was I just want to know God I want to know God I want to know God I want to walk with God I want to experience God I want to love God treasure God be faithful to God I want to see God and I don't want anything to get in the way whether it's stuff or power.

What does it mean to want God more than we want anything else?

That's the question John Piper answers from Psalm 73 in this

episode of Light and Truth. This message was originally given in Phoenix, Arizona

at the Desire and God 2006 Regional Conference.

My prayers included in those days.

Psalm 73 versus 24 and 25.

I can remember there was a season in the early 80s, actually on into the mid to late 80s, 86, where almost every time,

it seemed like I had to do a spontaneous prayer in a service or at a meeting or somewhere out of my mouth would come.

Whom have I in heaven but you? And on earth there is nothing that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but you are the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

It was just woven into my mind.

Whom have I in heaven but you, and on earth there's nothing I desire besides you? you.

John Bloom, who just led worship next door and will lead here in this room tomorrow, wrote a song, and and John you're listening so maybe maybe we'll sing

it tomorrow I don't know whether you've planned to sing it or not but John turned this

into a song because it was so much in our lives in those days.

So much in our lives.

Whom have I in heaven but you?

Answer nobody, even though my mother's there, and it would be pleasant and sweet to see

her again. Whom have I in heaven but you?

And on earth there is nothing that I desire besides you and you read that you say you can't mean that you just

can't mean that what what possibly could that mean?

Since I have other things here that I enjoy.

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