• The stirring is hunger pang: the prerequisite of a progressive future begins with a dissatisfaction of the present.

“Yet no one calls upon your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins.”  - Isaiah 64:7 TLB

• The “place by Me” is an exhausting self-sacrificing journey. In order to get where He is you must leave where you are!

Moses penned “And the Lord said, ‘Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.’” - Exodus 33:21

• The “cords” are repentance and sacrifice. Hunger! Hunger! Hunger!

The Psalmist declared, “God is the Lord, and He has given us light; Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar - Psalms 118:27

• God says, If you want more of Me, I want more of you.

“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
- II Chron. 7:14

• A hungry person has no manners

“As the deer pants after the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.” - Psalms 42:1

David was a man “after” God’s heart!