When you become famished by life, pray this prayer of King David. He understood heartache and brokenness, but also knew where to go in his time of need, his only saving hope, God.
God proved Himself faithful since the day he slew the giant with only one stone. Even through all his mistakes, he did not run from God, he ran to Him, and God loved His broken child so much, He forgave him every time.
David longs for God’s love and comfort, especially in the dry and parched times in life. But the fact is, God gives every one of His children the same treatment. The Bible gives us examples of personal testimonies of this, as we have our testimonies of Gods faithfulness through our failures, hurts, rejections, uncertainties, victories, blessings, restorations, reconciliations….it goes on. God’s blessings overflow. Sometimes we must walk through dry places but may our souls long to overflow with Gods Spirit. He alone can satisfy. So as the deer pants for the cool streams of water, may our souls long for nothing but You Lord.
“As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember, and I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God, With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival. Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence. O my God, my soul is in despair within me; Therefore, I remember You from the land of the Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me. The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime; And His song will be with me in the night, A prayer to the God of my life. I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.”
~Psalms 42:1-11 NASB1995~
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