1. The cost of living a life seeking God’s presence

2. And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.”…
(Exodus 33:15–17) 

3. 1. Losing your time and plans

4. 2. Losing your logical answers, clear strategies, neat patterns, and formulas

5. 3. Not being recognized, acknowledged, applauded

6. 4. Constant pruning

7. 5. Losing your life

8. “Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.””
(Mark 10:29–31)