I love David’s words in Psalm 63:1. I made it my prayer years ago. It says, “O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.”

Verse 8 in the Amplified says, “My whole being follows hard after You and clings closely to You; Your right hand upholds me.”

I highly recommend A. W. Tozer’s book, The Pursuit Of God.” His words awakened something deep in my spirit back in the 70’s. I loved his prayers at the end of each chapter. They spoke of a longing I had never experienced before.

I began to adopt them into my own prayer life. Words like, “I long to long for you; I want to want You; I need to need You more, I thirst to be thirsty still, etc. When I published my first book, chapter one was “Are You Thirsty?” In Proverbs 8:17 wisdom says, “I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.”