Desire - Do We Want Him — David Platt

Well, good morning, if you have a Bible, and I hope you do. Let me invite you to open with me to Luke chapter 11. We're going to do things a little different, somewhat like we did last week, this morning, and instead of having some time in song, it kind of sets the stage for the Word.

We're going to let the Word set the stage for time and response, but we're going to do it a little different even than last week in that we're going to have some time in study, and then we're going to have some time in prayer, and then we're going to come back to the study and have some time in prayer.

We're going to kind of weave in and out of this text that we're going to study. You'll have to know that there might be some people that are sitting next to you that are pretty tired this morning. We had about 150 of our people get off a plane at 6 a .m. from Venezuela this morning.

We had about 100 that left yesterday to go down to Venezuela, so they swapped. We've got about 70 people in Ecuador this morning. We still have our 23 students over in Ukraine. I'm just sorry that you're here this morning.

These folks making the gospel and the glory of Christ known in all those different areas. We do have a variety of folks that are visiting with us, especially a group from Avondale. Many of our small groups have been going down to Avondale and beginning to get to know folks down there and being a part of King's Kids and some of the camps that are going on down there.

And in the last week, I think my understanding is about 28 kids have come to faith in Christ down in Avondale, so we've got a lot to celebrate. But since we're here, let's go ahead and study the Word.

Desire for God as the Heart of Prayer

And I want us to see, what I want us to see this morning is a facet of prayer that I know in my own experiences serving in context overseas, God has taught me the most about, and it's desire in prayer.

Two particular situations or circumstances come to my mind. One was the first time I had an encounter with house church believers in Asia, believers gathered in underground locations to study the Word in a country where it was illegal to be a follower of Jesus Christ and illegal to gather like we had gathered.

I remember we were sitting there, just in this small room, a circle of about 20 or 30 believers sitting on little stools, sitting in a circle there, and we began to pray. They were sharing testimonies about what God was doing in their lives, and they said, we need to pray.

And all of a sudden, they fell down on their knees and on their faces, and they began to weep, just to audibly weep before the Lord. And for the next hour, all they did was pray and weep, and they weren't praying.

I was having their prayers translated to me. They weren't praying big theological prayers. They were praying things like, God, thank you for not forgetting about us. God, thank you for loving us. God, thank you for knowing our names.

And for an hour, that's what they prayed, nonstop, just weeping before Him. And I know preachers have a tendency to exaggerate, but this is no exaggeration. When we got up off the floor, because I lost it.

I was right there with them. We got up off the floor, and literally, there were puddles of tears around the room for people who were so passionate about their God in prayer. The other situation or circumstance that comes to my mind is in the middle of Sudan, where they were on the heels of 20 years of persecution.

And we would pray, and these guys would call out to the Lord. These women would call out to the Lord with such passion. And then we'd finish praying, and we'd immediately go into dancing. They had these dances that they would do.

And it was wild sitting there dancing with these Sudanese brothers and sisters, and looking across the way, and seeing war-torn buildings, seeing their church building that had been ravaged by helicopter gunships, and to see them dancing in the middle of it.

What causes you to pray like that? What causes you to fall on your face and just weep before the Lord, to let your praying lead to dancing in the middle of a war zone? How does that happen? I think it has something to do with desire in prayer.

And based on those circumstances, I began to study prayer in Scripture, and began to see and experience prayer in entirely new ways that I had never experienced before. I believe desire in prayer is all over Scripture, and so I want us to see that this morning.

I want to lay down kind of two foundational primary truths from the start that are going to guide our time together. I think these are truths that we see all over Scripture, but especially in the passage we're going to study this morning.

Here's the two truths. You've got them in your notes. Number one, desire for God is the heart of prayer. Desire for God is the heart of prayer. Listen to what Jonathan Edwards said, preacher back in the Great Awakening who wrote a book called Religious Affections.

He said, a person who has a knowledge of doctrine and theology only without religious affection has never engaged in true religion. I am bold in saying this, but I believe that no one ever seeks salvation, no one ever cries for wisdom, no one ever wrestles with God, no one ever kneels in prayer with a heart that remains unaffected.

In a word, there is never, never any great achievement by the things of religion without a heart that is deeply affected by those things. Last week we saw in Luke 11, 1 that we pray because we need God, but I want to remind you this morning that one of the fundamental reasons why we pray is not just because we need God, it's because we want God.

Because we long for God, because we yearn for God, because our souls crave God. That's why we pray, because we want Him, and desire for God is the heart of prayer. And not just the emotion of prayer, what I mean by that is that without desire, prayer cannot survive.

Our prayer lives cannot survive apart from desire, deep, intimate desire for God. That leads to the second truth, that desire is not just the heart of prayer, but I'm convinced that desire for God is the secret to prayer.

Even last week when we began thinking about prayer, we began thinking about questions that many of us have thought all our lives about prayer, and how does prayer work? How do you have the kind of success in prayer that we see all over the New Testament that for some reason, if we're really honest with each other, is completely foreign to our lives?

And I think desire is the secret of this picture of success we see in prayer, and you've got two blanks there in your notes. If I were to, and this might be a little bit of an oversimplification, but if I were to a picture of prayer, when it comes to desire and it being the secret to prayer, in two steps that I would encourage you with this morning, that we're going to see unfold in this passage, the two steps would be this.

In your prayer life, number one, make your wants God's wants. Make your wants God's wants, your desires God's desires. Desire what God desires. This is how intimacy is created. Intimacy is created by unity of affection.

When you and somebody else, anybody else, when the two of you long for the same things, or you desire the same things, or you want the same things, it creates intimacy between you and that person. That's the way it works with God.

When we want what He wants, when we desire what He desires, and that intimacy that we talked about last week, the mystery of intimacy with God becomes a reality. When the things that are closest to God's heart become the things that are closest to our heart, we begin to want what God's want.

Once you make your wants God's wants, it leads to step number two, ask whatever you want. Ask for whatever you want, and you've got it, Jesus says, guaranteed. When your wants are God's wants, you ask for whatever you want in prayer, and you are guaranteed to get it.

You already have it. As soon as you ask for it, you know you have it. When your wants are God's wants. Now again, that's maybe a little bit of an oversimplification, but I think it's biblical. Make your wants God's wants, and then have the freedom to go to God and ask for whatever you want, and He will give it to you.

You see that desire is at the heart of prayer, and it's the secret to prayer. I want you to see that unfold in Luke chapter 11, verse 2. We studied verse 1 last week, and the whole context of Luke and Acts.

Disciples have asked Jesus to teach them to pray, and this is what Jesus says. It says, He said to them, when you pray, say, Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread.

Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation. How many of us recognize that, if not all of us recognize that as the Lord's Prayer? I'm guessing some of you are thinking that Luke left out some important things in there.

We know that Matthew chapter 6 gives us a picture of the Lord's Prayer, and he includes some things that Luke has apparently forgotten. Luke should have taken better notes when Jesus was talking, so he could have gotten it down right.

Well, that's not exactly…. Before we harp on Luke, let's realize that when Jesus began to teach them to pray, He wasn't saying, if you recite these exact words, then you're going to have success in prayer.

This is not intended to be some rote religious formula that becomes a ritual or liturgy for us that we always say, and we know we're in. There's some kind of magic, so to speak, in saying these particular words.

I know. My high school baseball team, we'd get together before every game. Before we ran out on the field, we would pray the Lord's Prayer, and it just…. It didn't work. We were horrible. We were horrible.

So maybe that's not the way it was intended to work. Now that it's bad to pray this word for word, it's certainly not a bad thing, but that's not the point. Jesus is not just saying you pray these exact words.

Even in Matthew chapter 6, we get a little confused, because when you read the Lord's Prayer in Matthew chapter 6, it ends with, delivers from the evil one, and you don't see the thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.

What's the deal with that? Did Matthew forget something too? Well, actually, 1611, King James translation, at that time, the manuscripts we were using to get the New Testament had the thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.

But a lot's happened since 1611, and during that time, we've discovered a lot more earlier manuscripts that didn't have that part, so it's probably added a little later on. And so most translations of the Bible today, when you go to that part of Matthew chapter 6, it'll have a little note at the end that says, some manuscripts say this.

And so we've kind of added that one in there, more than Matthew forgetting it. And I think we do it primarily for the sake of weddings, if you ask me. I just think, I think we like that part in the song at the wedding, and it just doesn't seem as right to end on deliver us from evil.

Okay, amen. Y 'all have a wonderful marriage. We want that thine is the, you know, just hit the high note and just let it rip. That'll be the last time I sing, but just let it rip, and that's beautiful, and it may be beautiful weddings.

The only problem is it's just probably not biblical. So anyway, we come to the Lord's Prayer, and we see not Jesus saying, these are the exact words you say. Instead, He is showing us what we're supposed to desire in prayer.

When He says, when you pray, this is what you say. That word pray, original language of the New Testament, it's two words that are put together that basically mean, in the context of intimacy or closeness, to ask for something, to request something.

So what do we ask for? You said last week, Dave, go into your room, close the door and pray. What do I do when I get there? What do I ask for? And I want you to see in Luke chapter 11, verse 2 through 4, four primary requests.

Four primary requests. Some would say there's five here. We're going to group the first two together. Four primary requests, and here's what we're going to do. We're going to look at each one of these requests, and then we're going to pause, and we're going to pray for that thing that we've just studied.

And what I want to invite you to do when we come to those times in prayer, all throughout this service, my goal is for us just to have the freedom all across this room to pray. We're going to have music where we can pray as we sing, or you can pray as you're sitting there.

I want to invite you to have the freedom to stand. I want to invite you to have the freedom to come down here to the front, kneel, or go to the sides and kneel, or just go to the aisles and kneel. You do whatever you want.

I know that's a little different, but I want us just to have freedom as we study the Word to let it become the prayed Word throughout this room, however that looks in your life. So what does Jesus tell us to ask for?

Asking God for His Glory

Number one, Jesus says, ask God for His glory. Ask God for His glory. He says, pray, Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Now here's where we've got to make sure we don't miss the point here.

For years, I thought that this was a declaration of the glory of God, of the holiness of God. God, You are holy. And therefore, you start your praying with just saying God is holy, and then you go on asking for things.

But that's not what Jesus is saying. The language here, this is not a declaration, God, You are holy. It's a request for God to hallow His name. The verb is passive. The whole Lord's Prayer is request.

Hallow Your name. Now, what does that mean to hallow His name? What does that mean for God to hallow His name? Well, this is a word that we see throughout Scripture that basically means to sanctify something.

And to sanctify something, just unpack that a little bit, can be used in one of two ways throughout Scripture. Sometimes, sanctify, most often, is the word that's used to describe how you make something holy.

As followers of Jesus Christ, the Bible says we're in a process of sanctification. God is making us holy. He's making us look more like Jesus. But when you come to hallowing the name of God, there's really not a lot of holiness to be made there.

He's already got that covered. And so the other way we see this word sanctify used in Scripture is not just to make something holy, but to treat something as holy. And so the prayer here, what we're asking God to do is to cause His name to be treated as holy, to cause His name to be hallowed, to be sanctified.

Cause Your name, O God, to be regarded as holy. That's what we're asking God to do. We're asking God for His glory. Now, here's the picture of God that we have even in the context of this prayer. You see a few different characteristics of God brought to the forefront.

Picture our God here in Luke chapter 11, verse 2. First of all, He is the sovereign Father. And we're going to dive a couple of weeks from now. In the last week in this series, we're going to look at what it means for God to be Father and the implications of that for how we pray.

But suffice to say at this point, don't miss this. The God who is sovereign over the entire universe calls you, child. Let that soak in. The God who calls the stars by name and who created the mountains and the valleys and the hills and the skies and the seas, that God calls you His son or His daughter.

He is the sovereign Father. We pray to Him as our Dad, our Father. He is the sovereign Father. Second, He is the Holy One. This picture of hallowed, make yourself known as holy, this is the characteristic of God we see throughout the Old Testament, especially emphasized.

Isaiah chapter 6 comes face to face with the glory of God. Choirs sing, holy, holy, holy. The only attribute of God that is mentioned three times in a row like that in Scripture. His holiness means He is completely unique.

He is completely other. Ezekiel chapter 36 verse 23, God says, I will show the holiness of my great name. The nations will know that I am the sovereign Lord, declares the Lord, when I show myself holy through my people.

He shows Himself as holy. Second Samuel chapter 7 verse 22, You are sovereign and great, O Lord. There is no one like You. There is no God but You. When we pray, hallowed be Your name, we pray, God, make Yourself known as the one there is nobody else like.

Show to the world that there is no God but You. No one like You, that You are great, You are holy. Not only is He a sovereign Father, the Holy One, He is the coming King. Your kingdom come. And this is where that second petition kind of comes in there.

He is the coming King. Throughout the New Testament, we see a picture of the kingdom of God being inaugurated and Christ coming to the earth, Him showing what the reign of God looks like with His life, but it also looks forward, the New Testament does, to the consummation of that kingdom when God will come and He will reign.

And God will one day eradicate all evil. He will demonstrate, manifest His righteousness on the earth. And so when we pray, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, we are praying, God, come and make Your name known.

God, come and make Your reign known. That's what we're asking God to do. We're not saying, God, hallowed is Your name, although it is. We're saying, God, make Your name hallowed. Make Your name known as holy.

That's our cry. But who are we crying that out for? For whom are we praying when we pray, hallowed be Your name? I think there's a personal dimension to this and a worldwide dimension to this. I think we're praying, our cry is, God, make Yourself known in my life.

God, make Yourself known in my life. Make Yourself known as holy. Make Yourself known as great in my life. Cause me to treat Your name as holy. I want to believe Your greatness with greater intensity.

That's why I'm praying. I'm praying that You would cause me to trust in Your power with greater intensity. You'd cause me to obey You like You are holy. You would cause me to be pure as You are pure. God, make Yourself known in my life.

Think about it. Every single one of us in this room who has a relationship with Christ, we bear the name of our Father. So how is God going to make Himself known in the world as holy? Through those who bear His name, you and I.

That's why we pray, hallowed be Your name in my life. But not just in my life. God, make Yourself known. Hallowed be Your name in all the world. I think there's a cosmic, universal dimension to this prayer.

Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come in all the world. The picture we've got the rest of the New Testament of the kingdom of God coming is a picture of every tribe and every people in every language, every nation singing praises to Him as the King.

That's where our prayers are headed. We want Him to make Himself known as great and holy and mighty in all the world. In every corner of the earth, in every corner of Birmingham, we want God's name to be known as holy.

In every corner of every country on this planet, we want God's name to be known as holy. When we pray for these teams in Ecuador, we pray, God, use these brothers and sisters of ours to make Your name known as holy in Ecuador.

For our brothers and sisters in Venezuela this morning, make Your name known as holy to them. For our students in Ukraine, make Your name known as great throughout Ukraine through them. They reported back to us this week that 50 students had come to Faith in Christ there in Ukraine.

God, make Yourself known as great and Savior in the middle of Ukraine. That's where we pray. Now, here's the beauty of it. Our cry for God's name to be hallowed and His kingdom to come, the beauty of it is, and it goes back to where we started this morning, God wants this to happen.

He wants His name to be hallowed. We've got to remember that when we pray, we're not asking God to do things He doesn't want to do. We're asking God to do that which is most passionate on His heart. He is not disinclined to make His glory known.

His whole person is inclined to make His glory known. There is nothing that is higher on God's priority list than making His greatness and His grace and His mercy and His majesty, His love known. And so when we pray for that, we're coming in line with the desires of God.

And this is why we can say, make your wants God's wants, then ask for whatever you want. Jesus is saying, He says that throughout Scripture, God's name will be vindicated. He will show His righteousness.

He will show His power and His mercy and His glory to all nations. So you pray for that and you're in on the cosmic plan of God to make His name hallowed in all the earth. He says, you have the privilege of praying this prayer into reality in your life.

I'm convinced that if the kingdom of God comes, is consummated in our lifetime, God, may it be so. If it is, it will be because the church of Jesus Christ gets serious about praying the Lord's prayer, hallowed be your name in all the earth.

I'm convinced that if we are going to do what we talked about two weeks ago and we are going to fulfill the great commission, it will be because the church at Brook Hills unites in a concerted effort of prayer where we fall on our faces day after day and week after week and we cry out together as a faith family, make your name known as holy throughout the earth.

God wants to answer that. He longs to answer that. Let me give you a picture. I got an email this week from Houston, 51-year-old man. He writes, in the spring of 2006, with the encouragement of two of my friends at work, I began for the first time in my life to study God's word and apply it to my life.

It was during this time that I began to have a burden to go on a mission trip to Brazil. I began praying and seeking God's direction. I had no idea where to turn for guidance. In September, I was contacted with an opportunity to go to Brazil in July of 2007, this month.

Because the team of 22 would come from another place, I was isolated from training and had to work and plan via the internet. This is where the church at Brook Hills plays in. In early spring of 2007, I started subscribing to your podcast.

It was during the spring and early summer that I listened to your messages on sharing my faith with people in different cultures. I can remember listening to the messages on preparing and giving our testimonies and sharing with guilt, shame, and fear-based cultures.

I didn't realize at the time what God was doing in my life. A few weeks ago, our team went to St. Helena in the northeast corner of Brazil. On Saturday morning, I was asked to share my testimony. By the way, it was less than 100 words.

I was asked to share my testimony with approximately 75 local Christians. I then shared with them how to write and share their testimonies with others. Over the next three days, through the efforts of those Christians, over 100 Brazilians came to know the Lord in a personal way.

Here's where it gets really good. Not that that wasn't good, but here's where it gets really good. I want to personally thank you and the church for all you do for the furtherance of God's kingdom. Also, I would like to thank Charles Card, Jim Shepherd, Gene Mason, and others at Brook Hills whom my wife, Pam, had contacted while I was gone to pray for God's will in our lives.

Mark it down. Guaranteed. You pray for the name of God to be hallowed in all corners of the earth, and it will happen. He will make His glory known. He will show Himself faithful. He will show Himself the Savior of the world.

He will show Himself the Lord of the nations. Let's be a faith family that falls on our knees and asks God to do it, asks God for His glory. So that's what we're going to do over the next couple of minutes.

We're going to come face to face with the glory of Jesus Christ, and we're going to ask Him to make His name known as holy in our lives, and we're going to ask Him to make His name holy in all the world, and Amy's going to sing over us, and while she's singing, you feel free to sing along if you'd like.

You feel free to just sit in prayer. You feel free to stand in prayer as you sing along. You feel free to come to the front. You have the freedom, but let's do this. Let's ask God for His glory. God, cause Your name to be hallowed in our lives in this room, and cause Your name to be hallowed in all the world.

Just to call out to God across this room in line with Luke chapter 11, verse 2, and instead of calling out, God, You are, and we fill in the blank with His attributes and who He is, I want us to call out all across this room, God, make Yourself known as, and you fill in the blank.

I want us to call that out aloud over the next couple of minutes, just to say, God, make Yourself known as, and you fill in the blank, God, make Yourself known as Savior. Make Yourself known as majestic.

Make Yourself known as holy. Make Yourself known as great. And in a concert of prayer across this room, we're gonna call out for God to hallow His name. I want to invite you to pray aloud. I'll start us, and then you, just as God leads you all across this room, let's call out to Him.

God, make Yourself known as, and then you fill in the blank. I'll start us. God, make Yourself known as Father. You make Your wants His wants, then you ask whatever you want. Ask for His glory. Second petition, second request in the Lord's prayer is to ask for His gifts.

Asking God for His Gifts

Ask God for His gifts. It says, give us each day our daily bread. Now, we come to this point, and we kind of ask the question, why is this the only thing Jesus tells us to ask God to give to us? Give us bread.

I mean, let's be honest, there are things more important even than bread. We need water more than bread. We need air more than bread. Why does He say, give us our bread daily? Well, the picture goes all the way back to God's work among His people in the Old Testament, Exodus chapter 16.

You remember, some of you may remember, when God's people were wandering in the wilderness. They had been taken out of slavery in Egypt, and they were brought into this wilderness where they were wandering.

They were hungry. They didn't have any food. So God provided food for them, literally bread from heaven, manna. They would wake up, walk outside their tents, and there'd be food everywhere. There'd be food enough for that day.

They'd be able to eat for that day, but if they tried to save it until the next day, what happened? Bread wasn't so good anymore, and so they wouldn't want to eat the bread on the next day. They learned to trust God day by day, every morning, God's going to provide us the food we need.

We go to bed at night, we don't have food for tomorrow. Wake up the next morning, He's given it to us. Now, why did God do that? Why did He lead them like that? And why would that be so important for how we pray?

Well, I think there's two truths that are fundamental to understanding Exodus chapter 16, and especially how it relates to the Lord's Prayer. Number one, God satisfies our hunger. Let me ask you a question that's going to seem very elementary, but think about it with me.

Why were the Israelites in the wilderness, why were they hungry? First of all, it was because they didn't have any food, but go deeper than that. They were hungry because God created them with that hunger, right?

The only reason we are hungry for food, the only reason we have cravings is because God has created us that way. God has created us to hunger after things, and here's the beauty of it, to hunger after things that only He can fill.

He caused them to hunger, it literally says in Exodus chapter 16. He created them that way so that they would look to Him to fulfill that hunger. He satisfies our hunger, and that leads to the second truth.

Not only does He satisfy our hunger, but He sustains our faith, and He teaches us in the process to look to Him to give us the gifts we need, to look to Him to fill those hungers in us. Let me show this to you.

Hold your place here in Luke 11, and go back with me to Deuteronomy. Fifth book in the Bible, Deuteronomy chapter 8. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, then you'll come to Deuteronomy chapter 8. This is when God is explaining why He did what He did in the desert.

This is after He had done it, and He is explaining His motivation, what His whole purpose for providing them food in that way was. Listen to Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 3, and you're going to see both these truths, the fact that He satisfies our hunger and He sustains our faith.

Look for them here. In Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 3, it says, He, meaning God, humbled you, causing you to hunger, there it is, causing you to hunger, and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known.

Two, here's the purpose, here's why God did it, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. These were a people, when they were slaves in Egypt, they had a lot of food to eat.

They even grumbled in Numbers chapter 11, said, we don't want the manna, we want the food back in Egypt. The reason God did this is He wanted to teach them that they had a hunger, that He created them so that He would fill it.

He says, I'm teaching you to trust in me to provide the bread you need. Trust in me to provide the gifts that you need. Man does not live on bread, you live on God, on every word that comes from the mouth of God.

That doesn't mean you're hungry, you eat the Bible. It means that you've thought it before, haven't you? What does that make sense? It's teaching them that God is the provider for them, and they're to seek Him to provide what they hunger for and they long for.

That's the whole point of why we get to Luke chapter 11, He says, give us today, each day, our daily bread. It's that picture of us saying on a daily basis, God, we have a hunger for food, a physical hunger for food, and only you can provide for that hunger.

We have a thirst for water, only you can provide that. We have a longing for air on a moment-by-moment basis, we don't even think about it, but we've got it. As soon as it's taken away from us, we begin immediately to long for it.

Only you can fulfill that. We have all kinds of hungers, desires, thirsts, longings in our life for peace, for love, for intimacy, for meaning, for purpose. Jesus is saying, you go to God, and you say, only you can provide these things for me.

Now this, this whole request seems really strange in our culture today, because let's be honest, we don't very often ask God to give us bread today, to give us food today. Today, not one of us in this room was worried about the fact that we may not have anything to eat today.

So why would our main request for God to give us something be for bread, when in our culture, most, if not all of us need less food, not more. Why do we ask for daily bread? Because Jesus is saying that you need to pray, and prayer will be the guard in your life, to guard you against thinking that you can provide bread for yourself on your own, apart from Him.

And prayer will be the hedge of protection to keep you from thinking that you can provide what you need, and you can provide for your hungers by going to the things of this world, instead of going to God.

I'm convinced, when I look at my own life, when I look at the state of Christianity in Western culture, that one of the reasons that we are so flippant and so casual with prayer is because we actually believe that we can, we can do this thing on our own, and we can sustain our lives on our own.

And we believe that because we've got the things to prove it. And we have bought the bill of goods, the materialism has sold us, that said we don't need God, we just need our things. We can make it without God because we've got all our things.

And Jesus says the core of prayer is you realizing that you have a Father in heaven who desires to give every good and perfect gift to you, and you need Him, not bread, you need Him. Not water, not air, not all of these things that you hunger and long for, you need Him, and He will provide those things for you.