Chapter 6
Setting Up an Ambush

Hunger for God is one of the greatest signs of life a person can have. It reveals an inner awareness of the existence of greater destiny and personal fulfillment. Some people have a theological concept about God’s presence being with them, but they are stuck with no true interaction or experience. We must press past intellectual awareness to hunger for heartfelt encounters that change and transform.

The desire itself is testimony that there is more, and the fact that we possess this desire to seek God should encourage us to pursue these encounters. It is nearly impossible to hunger for something that does not exist. I crave sweets only because sweet things exist. In the same way, my heart cries out for God because I was created to find complete fulfillment in Him alone. And the more I come to know Him, the more I become sure that He will be faithful to satisfy the desire He put in me.

One of Jesus’s most important promises was given to His disciples just prior to His death. “He who loves Me . . . I will love him and manifest Myself to him” (John 14:21, NKJV, emphasis added). He promised that they would see Him again. This is clearly not merely a promise that they would see Him in heaven, because that was a given. It was also not a promise for these disciples only, but rather for all who love Him. (Otherwise we might think that this promise only referred to the appearance Jesus made to His disciples before He ascended.)

This promise was for every generation of believers, and it can mean nothing less than that He would make Himself conspicuous to us and that we would surely see Him again and again. We are not only to receive the Holy Spirit in power; we are also to see Jesus over and over again. That has to be the best of both worlds. God has given us these promises explicitly that we might seek Him with abandon, confident that He will be found by those who love Him and seek Him with all their hearts.

God Looks at the Heart

God reveals Himself to those who love Him. What kind of people are those who love Him? If we made a list of people in Scripture who illustrate what it looks like to love God, David would probably be at the top of the list. It’s amazing to see what this love for God led him into.

God turns His face of favor toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.

When God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint the man He had chosen to replace King Saul, He explained to him that He didn’t look on outward appearance but instead looked on the heart. It was from that perspective that David was chosen over his brothers, who were all better suited for greatness in the natural. Yet David’s heart of passion for God attracted God to David. As a result, he was chosen to be king. While God is very capable of multitasking—of giving His undivided attention to each person on the planet all at the same time—He is drawn the most strongly to the ones whose hearts have been refined in their pursuit of Him.

David’s passion for God was first seen on the backside of a mountain while tending his father’s sheep. In the quiet part of our day, when no one is looking, the true desires of our hearts can be seen. So it was with David. David was a skilled musician who wrote songs of worship to God. He did this long before this was a normal expression of worship. Up to this point in history, Israel had been instructed to offer the blood sacrifice to God as their basic worship expression. But there had been very little instruction about the sacrifice of thanksgiving and praise that could be given from the heart. David discovered that this was important to God as he pursued God. He learned that what really pleased God was the offering of a broken and contrite heart. And David was eager to give it. His zeal for God became evident as he gave himself to the privilege of worship and ministered directly to the Lord.

David embraced responsibility to watch over his father’s sheep with equal zeal. (Many have passion for their life’s goals and ambitions, but David was rightly directed.) When a lion and a bear attacked his father’s sheep, he put his own life at risk to save them. Remember, he did this when no one was looking; it was not done so others would recognize him as a brave young man. It came out of his identity with God. He killed them both, and such courage and integrity set him up for the moment God allowed him to kill Goliath when everyone was looking. A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face of favor toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.

Many years after David’s rule there arose another king. The prophet Elisha gave him instruction to strike the ground with arrows. The king followed his command and did so three times. The prophet became angry at his casual approach to the assignment and announced that if he would have struck the ground five or six times, he would have annihilated their enemies. But instead he would enjoy only three temporary victories. All of Israel would suffer the consequences of his passionless act. The sobering fact is this—leaders who lack passion cost everyone who follows. Not so with David. He endeared himself to God as a man of great passion—for God and for life.

The Striving Is Over

David’s great love for God led him to discover the truth that God will be found by those who seek Him. A great command found in Psalms reveals one of King David’s secrets in life. “Rest in the LORD and wait patiently for Him” (Psalm 37:7). The word rest used in this verse means one of two things, depending on the context. One is “to be still.” That would be consistent with our use of the word in the English language. The other definition is rather fascinating, though. It means “to take a leisure walk.” I think automatically of God and Adam walking in the Garden of Eden together in the cool of the day. This illustrates that true rest is found in a right relationship with God.

We know that all that was stolen because of Adam’s sin is restored in the Last Adam, Jesus Christ. So, to rest in the Lord means basically that the obstacle to the relationship is removed and the striving is over. I don’t need to fight to gain God’s attention. I already have His favor and will walk favorably with Him in the adventure of a developing personal relationship. All of this is provided for in the gift of salvation. It is amazing to realize that David discovered this power of waiting on God while under the old covenant.

I serve from Him, not merely for Him. This simple progression really is the key to ministry.

Many people work for God’s attention and favor instead of learning to work with God because of His favor. They become so exhausted working for Him that there’s little strength left to work with Him when He opens the doors for significant service. At the root of this problem is ignorance about Christ’s acceptance of each of us, and it has cost us dearly. We work so hard to gain favor from God that we might be accepted, when all the while that’s the opposite of how life works in the kingdom.

Because Jesus is my righteousness, I am already accepted. From that acceptance comes favor, and that favor gives birth to authentic Christlike works of service. I serve from Him, not merely for Him. This simple progression really is the key to ministry. This was the model that Jesus gave us. He only did what He saw His Father do and said what He heard His Father say.

The classic example of this is the story of Mary and Martha. Mary chose to sit at Jesus’s feet while Martha chose to work in the kitchen.1 Mary sought to please Him by being with Him while Martha tried to please Him through service. When Martha became jealous, she asked Jesus to tell Mary to help her in the kitchen. Most servants want to degrade the role of the friend to feel justified in their works-oriented approach to God. Jesus’s response is important to remember: “Mary has chosen the better part.” Martha was making a meal that Jesus never ordered. Doing more for God is the method servants use to get God’s attention that they might increase in favor. A friend has a different focus entirely: they enjoy the favor they have and use it to spend time with their master.

To say we need both Marys and Marthas is to miss the point entirely. And it simply isn’t true. Perhaps you’ve heard it said that nothing would ever get done if we didn’t have any Marthas. That too is a lie. That teaching comes mostly from Marthas who are intimidated by the lifestyle of Marys. Mary wasn’t a nonworker. Rather she was beginning to be like her Master, who only did what He saw the Father do. Jesus was talking, so Mary set aside other distractions and sat down to listen. She didn’t get caught up in making the sandwiches that Jesus didn’t order. She was learning that working from His presence is much more effective than working for His presence.

Another Look at Waiting

One of the problems that we have in our study of Scripture is that we tend to interpret things through our own experience and culture. Waiting patiently for God is a great example. For most of us, this statement brings a passive image to mind. Many have found this to be a way to blame God for their spiritual laziness: “Oh, we’re just waiting on God.” And they’ve done so for years, wasting valuable time, hoping that God will invade their lives with some sense of significance.

However, waiting on God is not a passive, “lean-back-in-the-recliner” attitude that says, “When God wants to touch me, He knows my address.” There are still people who sit back and say, “Boy, I hear God is doing great things all over the world. I just wish He would move in my life or my church. I wish He’d do something great in my city.” This kind of waiting on God attitude is not the one we see in the Scriptures.

This Hebrew word patiently is in the Bible fifty-three times. Four times it is defined as “waiting patiently,” “to wait,” “waiting,” or “waited.” Forty-nine times it is defined as “writhing in pain, as in childbirth” or “whirling in the air in dance.” The characteristics involved in childbirth and the dance give us the needed insight on how to practice waiting patiently on God. We could never watch someone involved in giving birth to a child or dancing skillfully to music and think that they were passive about what they were doing. Passion is the nature of both expressions. And passion leads the way in waiting patiently on God.

In our culture, patience connotes the attitude expressed by words such as these: “I’m just going to put up with this annoyance for another day, because I’m patient.” That’s not the biblical patience David was talking about. If waiting patiently is seen in the activity of leaping and whirling about in a dance, then the person who is waiting will have to be incredibly focused. Their love for the dance takes them into a discipline that brings out creative excellence. Dancers must be intensely focused on their bodies, the music, and where they’re going to land. At minimum, without that much-needed discipline and focus, injuries would be certain.

The same kind of intense, all-consuming focus characterizes giving birth to a child in the midst of incredible pain. I had the privilege of being present for the birth of each of my children. When my wife was giving birth to our third child, Leah, I made the mistake of turning my head toward someone else in the room during a contraction. I quickly discovered that it was definitely the wrong time to have done so. When I turned my attention elsewhere, it affected her ability to keep her focus, which was essential in keeping her writhing in pain at a minimum. I made this mistake when my wife needed my help the most. Her death grip on my arm helped me to return to my senses and realize that there was really only one person who should have all my attention at that moment.

There’s something about both the dance and giving birth that requires incredible resolve to reach an intended end. This is waiting patiently for God. It has intense focus, disciplined resolve, and a conviction that nothing else will satisfy. God is attracted to people who have that kind of tenacity and who are not satisfied with inferior things.

There’s More

David uses another word to expand his portrait of our waiting on God. “But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land” (Psalm 37:9, emphasis added). Here the word wait means, “to lie in wait,” as in setting up an ambush. That is about as far away from the passive definition as can be imagined. It is almost militant, still carrying the discipline of the intense focus mentioned earlier, but along with an eager pursuit. Isaiah expressed the same idea: “And I will wait for the LORD who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even look eagerly for Him” (Isaiah 8:17).

If I want to hunt deer, I won’t set up an ambush on Wall Street in New York City or in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. To set up an ambush with any hope of success, I must do so in areas that deer frequent. But many do not realize that the same is true of waiting on God. There are many who need a miracle, but they won’t go across town to a church where miracles are common. We play a mental game of pride when we refuse to humble ourselves and go to lie in wait in the places that God frequents.

Now, please don’t stumble over the concept of ambushing God as though it violates His sovereignty—He is the One who has promised to be found by us if we seek Him with all of our hearts. And He is the One who said He would make Himself conspicuous as we pursue Him. This is His idea. It is our test to see if we believe Him enough to look eagerly for Him. God is looking for someone who will get out of his or her routine and set up an ambush.

Some people get really upset when they see believers traveling all over the world because those believers have heard that God is doing something significant in a particular place. Their reasoning: “God is everywhere. Seek Him where you are, and He will come to you.” Similarly, preachers with little breakthrough anointing will say, “You’re not supposed to follow signs. They are supposed to follow you!” That looks good on paper and carries a measure of truth. But as I said in the first chapter, if signs are not following you, you had better follow them until they follow you. Remember, signs point to a greater reality. We are not to follow them for their own sake but because they lead us to the One who created them. Getting in touch with Him is how we become those whom signs follow. While they may not realize it, many who travel anywhere at any cost just because of their hunger for God are doing exactly what David taught about waiting on God. They go to where He is working and lie in wait, anticipating His every move, looking for the chance to reach out and touch God.

Matthew described such an extraordinary act in the story of a woman who had been hemorrhaging for twelve years. She positioned herself in such a way that she was able to touch the hem of Jesus’s garment as He was making His way down the road.2 It was no easy feat. There were large crowds of people pressing in upon Him. Yet she was the only one who saw the dimension of heaven that He was carrying and touched Him in a way that put a demand on the anointing of the Holy Spirit that was resident in Him. That is the kind of faith that pleases God. It is the classic example of how God welcomes being ambushed.

Following in Jacob’s Footsteps

There are several notable characters in Scripture who illustrate clearly what it looks like to wait on God with this intense focus and passion. I want to consider three of them, beginning with Jacob.

Jacob, despite his deep personal issues with deception and manipulation, had an intense desire for the blessing of the Lord. He would not be well liked today by those who criticize the ones who are constantly looking for God’s blessing. He simply wanted God to be real in his life. His pursuit culminated when he had to face what he believed would be the most dangerous situation of his life—meeting his brother Esau for the first time after obtaining Esau’s birthright and stealing his blessing. The circumstances were desperate—he believed that his brother wanted vengeance. Not everyone turns to God in desperate circumstances. Some might throw up a last-ditch prayer, but few take the step of grabbing onto God as their only hope and holding on for dear life until His answer comes. Jacob did this, and it was this focused passion and faith that attracted the Lord to him. In response God sent an angel to make a visit.3

Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” But he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

—Genesis 32:24–26, emphasis added

In response to his persistence, Jacob received a name change. This name change reflected the character change that had occurred with him in his pursuit of the blessing. His name was changed from Jacob (“deceiver”) to Israel (“God strives”). He was injured in this encounter with God, and he limped for the rest of his life—that was the cost for his persistence. Such resolve always has a cost:

So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.” Then Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there. So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved.” Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh.

—Genesis 32:27–31, emphasis added

I guess that when you realize you survived looking at the face of God, surviving an angry brother seems easy. Significantly, when Jacob later met Esau and found favor with him, he said, “No, please, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present from my hand, inasmuch as I have seen your face as though I had seen the face of God, and you were pleased with me” (Genesis 33:10, NKJV). This episode clearly reveals the power of the blessing and favor that came upon Jacob’s life after his encounter and name change—his brother treated him like a completely different person.

But it was the quest for God’s face that started the change in Jacob. His life is a great reminder that one does not need to be perfect to begin this journey. In fact, it is this quest that perfects. The ultimate encounter in life was given to Jacob. His conclusion was, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved.” It saddens me to see the great number of people who feel they have to clean up their lives before they meet the only One who cleanses. It’s an impossible task that creates pressure and striving for a relationship with God. Just being able to follow, without distraction, our hearts’ desire to know God—that’s what causes more transformation than any list of rules found in religion.

Following in Elisha’s Footsteps

Elisha provides another great example of waiting patiently, and, like Jacob, he illustrates that the capacity to wait is the thing that determines whether we will experience spiritual breakthroughs that release a new measure of power and authority in our lives.

Elisha spent years in training as Elijah’s assistant, and eventually the time came for the Lord to take Elijah home. The whole prophetic community, as well as Elisha, seemed to know the day on which this was to occur. Strangely, on this day it also seemed that Elijah tried to ditch his spiritual son at every turn. But Elisha followed Elijah like a shadow and wouldn’t let him out of his sight. When Elijah asked him what he could do for him before he was taken, Elisha shot for the moon. He said, “Please, let a double portion of your spirit be upon me” (2 Kings 2:9). Elijah’s personal experience was already the high watermark for all prophets. What Elisha asked for was very difficult because of the price involved. The Lord showed Elijah how Elisha would be tested to see if he had what it would take to carry a double portion of Elijah’s anointing.

This lesson is huge. Gifts of the Spirit rest best on the fruit of the Spirit. That’s why the Bible says that faith actually works through love. The word for works or working in Galatians 5:6 is energeo, from which we get our word energy. In other words, faith is energized through love. Gifts are energized by character. And without the energy of character flowing through our lives, we won’t be able to exercise the gifts consistently and with excellence. The anointing of the Spirit from which these gifts flow is given to bless and release the reality of heaven to Earth. But it is weighty.

Only integrity joined with passion could enable Elisha to carry a double measure of Elijah’s anointing. The test was simple but not easy. Elijah said, “You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so” (2 Kings 2:10). It is interesting to note that the Lord chose to test Elisha in the very thing he was already doing—keeping his eyes on his master. Elisha was probably already dogging Elijah’s steps to the point where Elijah couldn’t go to the bathroom without Elisha being present. God simply arranged the circumstances in order to see whether what he was doing out of instinct had enough force of character behind it to be sustained in spite of the kind of distractions he would face, should he be entrusted with a double portion. Here we see what kind of distractions they would be:

As they were going along and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire which separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind to heaven.

—2 Kings 2:11

As Elisha kept his assignment to watch Elijah, the unexpected happened. A chariot of fire came down out of heaven. The chariot didn’t take Elijah to heaven, as some have surmised. The Scriptures tell us that Elijah was actually taken up in a whirlwind. So what was the chariot of fire for? It was the test. If Elisha were to carry a double portion of Elijah’s anointing, it would mean that there would be many unusual signs and wonders surrounding his life. Could Elisha keep his eyes on his assignment (Elijah in this case), even when the activities of heaven invaded the atmosphere? Could he anchor his heart into the will of God and not be pulled away by the wonder of his gift? Most of us would have failed this test. After all, how could we go wrong by putting our attention on God’s activities? But Elisha’s quest for the double portion anointing was fulfilled in this encounter, for Elisha wouldn’t be distracted by his own gift and anointing.

God desires to release gifts to us more than we desire to receive them. He is just too merciful to release gifts upon us that He would have to judge us for later because we failed to carry them with integrity. However, we must also realize that even when we pass a particular character test and are entrusted with a greater measure of anointing, we have not arrived. We all know those who have begun well in the race of faith and have been entrusted with a wonderful anointing to bless the body of Christ, only to fall later in life. This is a lifelong race that we are running, and God works in every part of it to groom us to carry what He wants to give us, both for this life and the next.

Following in Jesus’s Footsteps

Our key to running a successful race is the same as Elisha’s. As Hebrews tells us, the key is to fix our eyes on our Master. We are successful when we fix our eyes on Jesus precisely because He is the One who has run the race ahead of us. He had to undergo the same tests of character that Elisha faced and that we must face. He modeled success for us by keeping His eyes fixed on the Father at all times. Like Elisha’s ultimate test, Jesus’s test required Him to keep His focus in the face of separation from His Father.

In His journey to the cross, Jesus demonstrated the ultimate example of the kind of passionate focus that we’ve been considering. He set His face toward Jerusalem, knowing He was about to die: “Nevertheless I must journey on today and tomorrow and the next day; for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem” (Luke 13:33).

It’s important to realize that Jesus pursued this focus without any support from those closest to Him. He carefully took the time to prepare His disciples for His death. But no matter how much He talked with them, they didn’t understand. Not only did they not comprehend the issue of the cross, they opposed the little they did understand. At one point Peter actually rebuked Jesus for His repeated references to His personal death.

His death was to be unlike any other in all of history. Jesus Christ was without sin, yet He would bear the sins of all mankind from all time. The weight of such a burden is beyond comprehension. In His death the Son of God was separated from His Father for the first and only time. This separation is another unimaginably difficult experience that Jesus embraced for our sakes.

And yet we read that Jesus did what He did “for the joy set before Him” (Hebrews 12:2). His eyes were fixed on something beyond the cross—the reconciliation of many sons to His Father. Likewise, in the race of each of our lives, God has set a joy before us, and it is the joy of sharing in this reconciliation that Christ has purchased for us. But as we become people who can drink of that joy in its fullness, we may pass through testing and sacrifice when it feels like God has turned His face from us.

It is a precious and vital secret to discover that, for those who seek the face of God, these moments are actually God’s invitations into greater power and intimacy.

Another Paradox

We live in an hour when the face of God is being revealed in a wonderful outpouring of the Holy Spirit. There’s no limit to what is possible for one person, church, city, or nation to experience. The Bible points to what has been made available, but how, when, or how much of it can be accessed has never been defined for us. Boundaries have never been set. While the glory of God in its fullness would kill us, there are measures of His presence that have been enjoyed by people in the past that far surpass what we now experience. It is my personal conviction that God has made available to us whatever measure of His glory our bodies can handle.

We were born to live in the glory of God.

It may seem like a strange thing to encourage people to go after something in God with reckless abandon and in the same breath to exhort them to rest. But somehow it’s the unique combination of those two things that define our challenge in this hour. This is the “rest that pursues.” What God has done for me is so far beyond my wildest dreams. In one sense I could live in this place with God forever because He is so completely satisfying, yet being with Him stirs up dreams and passions that won’t allow me to be stationary. There is so much at stake. I am alive for more!

Be Still and Experience God

I love the privilege of spending time with God—the more the better. Being still before Him is an often-underrated activity by those of us who like to accomplish and achieve things in prayer for the King and His kingdom.

This is how it looks for me. Sometimes I’ll take just a few minutes in the middle of a workday for His pleasure. I get before the Lord and say something to this effect, “God, I’m here, but I’m not going to ask for anything or perform in any way for You. I’m just going to sit here simply as an object of Your love and let You love me.” This is a big deal for me, because my usual prayer time is about 75 percent worship and 25 percent petition. Not doing stuff is sometimes hard. Sometimes when I enter that place of rest I get a picture of Him pouring a honey-colored oil all over me as a symbol of His love. It’s an overwhelming picture of drowning in His love. Something wonderful begins to happen as He awakens every part of my life to His presence.

David said, “My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You” (Psalm 63:1). Think about this—before it was possible to be born again through the blood of Jesus, David said that his body actually hungered for God. It is possible to be so drenched in the glory of God through a lifestyle of worship that our bodies discover one of the great purposes for which they were created. We were born to live in the glory of God.4 Whether it is five minutes or five hours, taking the time with God outside of the need for Christian performance is one of the most important decisions we can make.

The Creative Moment

When I sit before the Lord for this time of inactivity, I often remember things that must be done or ideas that will be good for my life or ministry. In my younger years I thought that this was always the devil trying to distract me from my time with God. But as I get older I realize that God is merely showing me that He is concerned about whatever concerns me. Time with Him releases a creativity that is paramount to fulfilling our assignment in life.

I now bring a pen and paper with me into that time with God. As ideas come I give thanks to God and write them down. By doing so I don’t have to try to remember what God has said, but I can return my attention to Him. Not having the pressure to remember details releases us into a creative process. In this kind of prayer time I don’t go before Him to get answers and directions.
I am there simply to experience His love. But I have found that in that place of communion and love it is His pleasure to give revelation that satisfies our hearts. I just don’t want anything to become the chariot that pulls me away from my opportunity to delight myself in the Lord. So I receive what He’s giving me and then turn my attention back to the Giver Himself.

The Necessary Fruit

As I’ve stated, we will need to develop the capacity to sustain great passion and focus if we are going to become those who set up ambushes for God. There’s a word in Scripture that describes this capacity: it is the word self-control. Self-control is first and foremost a fruit of the Spirit, which means that you can only get it through intimacy with Him. The fruit of our lives is not something that we work to produce; it is merely the evidence of whatever we spiritually commune with. Self-control in our lives is the evidence of the Holy Spirit’s control and influence over us.

There are many people in the world who appear to be very self-controlled because they have very disciplined lives in certain areas. Religion offers plenty of ways to control our behavior, as do popular psychology, prescription drugs, and diets. But the practice of these disciplines fails to bring people to the place where the qualities of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit are continually present in their lives.

In contrast, those who are the most fruitful in the Spirit are not necessarily those who make a first impression of being very controlled and disciplined. If you get to know them, you will find that they are indeed disciplined, but that discipline is in fact an inadequate factor for measuring their success in life. It’s like coming into the home of a proverbial loving couple and describing the husband as disciplined for going to work and the wife as disciplined for keeping the house clean and cooking dinner. They would probably reply that discipline has nothing to do with it—if they are disciplined, it is simply the fruit of their love and commitment to each other.

Likewise, the center of the Christian life is passion for God, and it is this passion that defines the boundaries of our lives. Self-control is the by-product of living in covenant with God. To demonstrate the character trait of true self-control, one must be able to illustrate what it looks like to live in perfect harmony with the values of the Spirit of God. We also show self-control in the way we protect our connection with God from other influences that could distract and dissuade us. But self-control is not only the ability to say no to all the options and voices that are contrary to the values of the kingdom of God. It is also the ability to say yes to something so completely that all other voices and values are silenced. Jesus demonstrated this best of all. He set His face to go to Jerusalem and die. Nothing could distract Him from His purpose.

The same challenge is yours: set your face toward His purposes, and you will experience the greatest privilege known to humanity. Set your face, and you’ll see His face.