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“When the Lord is our joy, when Christ thrills our soul. I mean when you can’t wait to fast because you’re delighting in the Lord in the thought of a season of getting alone with the Lord is a delight. Why? Because you find Him beautiful. You want to gaze upon His beauty; like the Psalmist, you want to enquire of Him, you find the Word from His lips to be more precious than gold or silver; you find His direction, guide me; acknowledge Him in all your ways… And you want that and you cherish Him and you appreciate Him and you’re just looking for the opportunity to go before Him. Brethren, that’s one way it’s for the Lord. When you basically show that you think He is worth more than anything else, you’re willing to take a whole week and maybe put aside television, put aside all the garbage, put aside the trivial stuff in your life because He’s precious to you and your heart is irrupting with that. Certainly! God looks at that and says “I’m pleased, that shows that they count Me more worthy than all of that stuff here” ~Tim Conway