Back in the 70’s I read “Pursuit Of God” by A. W. Tozer. It changed my life. I loved his prayers at the end of each chapter. They awakened something in me as I began to pray them. I made his prayer after chapter one into my first person. ’I want to want You; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still.’ 

I love Psalm 63:8 in the Amplified. It says, “My whole being follows hard after You and clings closely to You; Your right hand upholds me.” 

I am presently memorizing Philippians 3:8-14. Paul was in prison. Verse 8 says, “Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.”

Paul had amazing credentials. Verses 4-7. Yet he counted them as nothing. The Amplified says, “…refuse, dregs…” Anything that we pursue apart from the Lord becomes a heart idol. It blocks our intimate communion with Him.