1 So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. 2 Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness. Then you’ll grow up mature and whole in God. 3 You’ve had a taste of God. 4 Welcome to the living Stone, the source of life. The workmen took one look and threw it out; God set it in the place of honor. 5 Present yourselves as building stones for the construction of a sanctuary vibrant with life, in which you’ll serve as holy priests offering Christ-approved lives up to God. 6 The Scriptures provide precedent: Look! I’m setting a stone in Zion, a cornerstone in the place of honor. Whoever trusts in this stone as a foundation will never have cause to regret it. 7 To you who trust him, he’s a Stone to be proud of, but to those who refuse to trust him, The stone the workmen threw out is now the chief foundation stone. 8 For the untrusting it’s . . . a stone to trip over, a boulder blocking the way. They trip and fall because they refuse to obey, just as predicted. 9 But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God’s instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you – 10 from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted. 1 Peter 2:1-10 The Message Bible

Shared hunger and shared prayers will lead to the glory of God and fullness of His presence.

1. Church experience should be a place we DON’T hide our hunger
2. Cultural behavior is not behavior of the kingdom
3. Southern decorum should die when in the presence of our brothers and sisters
4. Love sickness is the atmosphere of the kingdom of Heaven
5. Even God labors in pain to commune with us
6. He groans in pain to receive our love and our communication as the CHURCH
7. Nations will mature in God’s presence when we give up our false control and false proper behavior
8. Our church should not be subdued because we will only mature in our desperate search of the glory as a BODY
9. God invites us to be desperate for HIS GLORY because we think we are David when we are actually David’s wife
10. David’s wife’s false maturity led to her to barrenness

The Body of Christ is not called to BARRENNESS. We should give ourselves over to the lovesickness for God and for Jesus! Resetting our church culture—Watch the video below. I love Emma Stark!