ThirstPsalm 42:1, 2a

Thirst

• The desire for food and water are the strongest appetites we have as human beings.

• We all thirst for something:– to feel loved.– to experience happiness

and joy.– to find meaning and

significance in life.

Thirst

• Many have a Sahara desert soul…a dry soul.– Psalm 42:1, 2a

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• Looking for something to satisfy our thirst goes in two main directions – carnal or religious.– Isaiah 55:1-3– John 7:37, 38– Isaiah 12:3– Exodus 17:1-7

Thirst

• Looking for something to satisfy our thirst goes in two main directions – carnal or religious.– I Corinthians 10:1-4– John 7:37b – “If anyone thirsts…”– Psalm 63:1

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• It’s not an obligated thirst or a duty thirst, but rather a thirst for the pleasure of His presence and purpose.

• Matthew 5:6

SCRIPTURES (New King James)

Psalm 42:1, 2a1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,

So pants my soul for You, O God.2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

Isaiah 55:1-31 “Ho! Everyone who thirsts,Come to the waters;And you who have no money,Come, buy and eat.Yes, come, buy wine and milkWithout money and without price.2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread,And your wages for what does not satisfy?Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,And let your soul delight itself in abundance.

Isaiah 55:1-33 Incline your ear, and come to Me.Hear, and your soul shall live;And I will make an everlasting covenant with you—The sure mercies of David.

John 7:37, 3837 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

Isaiah 12:33 Therefore with joy you will draw water From the wells of salvation.

Exodus 17:1-71 Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Therefore the people contended with Moses, and said, “Give us water, that we may drink.” So Moses said to them, “Why do you contend with me? Why do you tempt the LORD?” 3 And the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and said, “Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

Exodus 17:1-74 So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me!” 5 And the LORD said to Moses, “Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Exodus 17:1-77 So he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

I Corinthians 10:1-41 Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

John 7:37b“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.

Psalm 63:11 O God, You are my God;

Early will I seek You;My soul thirsts for You;My flesh longs for YouIn a dry and thirsty landWhere there is no water

Matthew 5:66 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.