(Third part)
Memory verse (Ps63: 1-2): " O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory ".
Thirst and hunger lead us to relentless seeking and searching. Men always pursue what they are thirsty for. Can you imagine a person who is so thirsty and he just sit or lie down lousily and just keep telling anyone who passes by: “ Am thirsty, oh, am very thirsty”. He walks to the bedroom or through the corridors of the house just telling every one how thirsty he is! Thirst and hunger have so great power that no one can afford to hunger or thirst and reluctantly carry on with any other businesses. Thirst will stop you from whatever you do and seek for what to quench it. It will distract your routines, it will disrupt your sleep in the middle of the night, it will take money out of your purse to purchase what will quench it; it will discomfort your comfort.
If you want Jesus to release the mighty gush of this river of the Holy Spirit, cry out to him to fill your heart with thirst. Once the thirst is there, then begin to seek him vehemently, search for the fullness of the Spirit relentlessly. Never settle for anything less than the fullness, don’t settle for just a cup, don’t settle for just a dose, but go for the overflow. David said: " you’ve anointed my head and my cup over flows ”. Jesus has a river to let to flow into and through your life. He has more than what you need. The degree of your thirst is the limit. Don’t settle only for a well that can only satisfy you alone, but go for a river that will fulfill your needs and flow out of you to touch your friends, neighbors, family, workplace, community, nation and your generation.
I don’t know what measure of the river of the Holy Sprit is functioning in your life, but I challenge you to stretch out for more, thirst for more, seek and search for more, cry out to the Lord for more, pray if you have to, fast if you have to, whatever the Lord leads you to do, do it for sake of keeping this river of life flowing in and out of your life. Seek the Lord in the morning, seek him in the night watches, my friend, seek, seek and seek. Stop being complacent, stop being lazy about your Spirit heritage (Heb6: 12).
Tomorrow’s subject: “ Holy Spirit activity in your life ”
