I Will Pour Water Upon Him That is Thirsty

Amen, Father, we come in the name of Jesus. We give you thanks, we give you praise, Lord God, almighty, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. And Father, we desire and long that grace and salvation would flood our hearts continually, Lord. And Father, that the wells of living water would flow abundantly in our lives, oh God. So Father, here today, I'm asking in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for your blessing upon your word and upon this congregation, Father. Lord, that you would speak to us and you would reveal, Father, truths from your heart to our heart, Lord. Oh God, we pray that today would indeed be a day of grace and salvation, joy in the presence of the Lord. Hallelujah, we bless you and we praise you in the name of Jesus. Oh God, I'm asking in Jesus' name, would you fill your servant with your Holy Spirit? Deliver me from the evil of pride or arrogancy or any acts of the flesh, oh Lord. And Father, have mercy upon me and have mercy upon all of us, Lord. And Father, Lord, bring revelation and illumination by the Holy Ghost of God to your children. We love you and we praise you in Jesus' name, amen. You may be seated. So good to see you all. Good to be together in the name of the Lord Jesus. Open your Bibles to Ezekiel 36 in verse 25. Ezekiel 36 and 25. Couple of weeks ago, we shared a message entitled The Promise of the Father. And today, we'd like to continue in that. The message a couple of weeks ago, we were looking at the matter of the promise of the Father and a call to an honest and a good heart to receive from the Lord. And today, I'd like to just continue in the promise of the Father. And let's look at Ezekiel 36 and verse 25. There'd be a lot here, but we're not going to review long. We wanna press on into the word. But Ezekiel 36 and 25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them and ye shall dwell in the land that I gave your fathers and ye shall be my people and I will be your God. We'll see there, a new heart will I give you. A new spirit will I put within you. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and ye shall be my people and I will be your God. This is the heart of our heavenly father that we would walk in his spirit in such a manner of connection and abiding in Christ's life that his life flows out of us. He says I will put my spirit within you and I will cause you to walk in my statutes. This is speaking of something much greater than just humanistic reformation of my life. This is something way beyond self-effort of man. You know, self-improvement. This is talking about a day when God by his Holy Spirit will indwell and inhabit his people. This is talking about the new covenant that God made with his people in our day of grace. I will put my spirit within you and I will cause you to walk in my statutes. Philippians tells it this way. It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. It is God that enables you. It is God that strengthens you, that quickens you and gives you that longing desire and the ability to walk in his will. The promise of the Father. All the promises of God are yea and amen in Christ Jesus. You know, sometimes I can make a promise and I have every good intention to keep it but no matter how good my intentions are, sometimes I fail. Have anyone else ever done that? You've made a promise, you know, and you really intend to keep it but somehow, sometimes you come up short. When God says, this is the promise that I make to you, he will keep his promise. He said, I will pour out my spirit upon you. I will cause you to walk in my statutes. I will create in you a clean heart. I will renew within you a right spirit. I will sprinkle clean water upon you and cleanse you from all your idols. I will break the power of the enemy in your life. I will set you free. I will deliver you. This is the promise of the Father. It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do, the promise. The promise of the Father. Just listen, we'll turn to this one. Joel 2.28, and it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out of my spirit. How many times did God say, I will? He said, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. He said, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your old men shall dream dreams and your young men shall see visions. Oh, the promise of the Father. Oh, the possibilities from our heavenly Father to our sons and our daughters. Doesn't this excite you young men? You shall see visions. You shall prophesy, prophesy. You shall proclaim the name of the Lord. The name of the Lord shall be upon your lips. I will pour out my spirit upon my servants and upon the handmaids in those days. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all gathered together with one accord in one place and the spirit of God fell upon them. It came upon them with cloven tongues of fire and they all began to prophesy. They all began to proclaim the name of the Lord and they spoke with other tongues as God gave them utterance. God wants to give you the anointing of his Holy Spirit. He wants to pour out the Holy Spirit upon you so that you may prophesy. And all those around will hear the glorious, matchless, majesty and splendor of our God who has so blessed us and anointed us. And they will say, what's with these people? Yeah, you might be mocked. Some might mock you and say, well, you're just full of new wine. But you know, in that day, Peter stood up and he said, these aren't drunken. He said, this is the promise that was spoken by God unto the prophet Joel. This is what this is. This was the birthing of the church of Jesus Christ. This is it. Wow. And brother, sister, we live in that day. We live in that era of the new covenant of the promise of the father to be poured out upon our sons and our daughters. The promise of the father. All people were musing. Could it be? Is this the Christ? They were in wonder. And they were in awe. And they were thinking, might this be the Christ? But when John Baptist was asked whether he is the Christ, he said, I indeed baptize you with water. But there's one mightier than I that is coming. He is so mighty. Though John the Baptist is the greatest of the prophets, he is so mighty that this one who will baptize you with the Holy Ghost, I'm not even worthy to stoop down and unloose his shoe. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire. Oh, it will be such a baptism that will refine you. It will change your life. It will so change you into a new person and a new creation in Christ that you will not be the same as you were before. You will be endued with power from on high. You will be endued with the Holy Ghost and you will have a new authority and life in Christ. Jesus flowing out of you. Ah, yes, it'll burn up every human effort, every prideful thought, every selfish motive. It will quench and thoroughly purge the floor of your heart. There will be nothing left of self if we let God have his way and that's what he wants to do in our hearts. And it's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. It's a gracious thing of God to be baptized in the Holy Ghost and fire whose fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly purge his floor and he will gather the wheat into his garner but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. The promise of the Father. Jesus, he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. Let's turn now to the Gospel of John. John chapter 14. We'll be spending a bit of time here in the Gospel of John concerning the promise of the Father. John chapter 14 and we'll drop in on verse 26. Wanna establish in our hearts that this is scriptural. It's biblical. It's Bible to be baptized in the Holy Ghost. This is the teaching of our Lord Jesus. John chapter 14 verse 26. But the comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. The comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name. Now let's drop up to John chapter 14 and verse 16. And I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter. Who is the comforter? The Holy Ghost. Who is the comforter? The Holy Ghost. I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever. Oh, praise God. Even the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but ye know him. For he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. This is amazing. The Old Testament prophets got a glimpse of this new covenant era when God would dwell with his people and be Christ in you. And they wondered with amazement and desire to look into these things. And today we have the privilege and we have the honor to bear in our body the Holy Ghost. We are the temple of the Holy Ghost as God has said. I will dwell in them. I will be their God and they shall be my people. Oh, brother, sister, this is amazing. This is life changing. This is transforming. He dwelleth with you and shall be in you. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more but ye see me. Because I live, ye shall live also. Praise God. Because I live, ye shall live also. If that same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, brother, sister, he shall quicken your mortal bodies by that same spirit that dwells in you. Oh, this is exciting. And at that day ye shall know that I am in my Father and ye in me and I in you. Oh, glory. Christ in you. Brother, sister, Christ in you. This is what Jesus bought and paid for on Calvary's cross, brother Irvin. Christ in you. That the life that you now live in the flesh, you should not live it according to the flesh but by the faith of the Son of God who loved you and gave himself for you. Oh, it's beautiful. It's transforming, my young people. The power of God indwelling. Whoa. It makes that big truck with the wheels jacked out and jacked up and all kinds of horsepower loud rattling engine look pretty pale in the comparison to have the living God dwelling within you and the anointing and power of the Holy Ghost in you and you being full of the Holy Ghost to prophesy and to declare the matchless glorious gospel of Jesus Christ which can change a life. The promise of the Father. Yes, glory to Jesus. The comforter which is the Holy Ghost. I will not leave you comfortless. The disciples were a bit dismayed and in despair because Jesus was talking about going away and they wonder what are we gonna do when Jesus is no longer with us and they were troubled and perplexed in their heart. Ah, but Jesus said, I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you. The comforter which is the Holy Ghost. I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever. In the gospel of John chapter 15. Gospel of John chapter 15. This is so beautiful. We'll drop in in verse 26 for just a little opening verse there in this continuation. But when the comforter is come, John 15, 26, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. Yes, you cannot separate the Holy Ghost from the Holy Lord Jesus Christ. So I give a little warning here. There's a lot of stuff floating out around there that they say is of the Holy Ghost. But if it doesn't agree and harmonize with the ministry of Jesus Christ and the spirit of Jesus Christ, it may well be another spirit that is masquerading behind just saying the right words. So beware, beware my brother, my sister. Try the spirits because there are many spirits going out into the world as we heard from Brother Tim the other Sunday. There are many deceiving spirits going out into the world as the scriptures teach us and as Tim taught us the other Sunday. So brother, sister, the Holy Spirit of God, the comforter which proceedeth from the Father shall glory in Jesus. He shall reveal Christ. John 16 verse seven, nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It is expedient for you that I go away. For if I go not away, the comforter will not come unto you. But if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, this comforter, this Holy Ghost, he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment, of sin because they believe not on me, of righteousness because I go to my Father and you see me no more, of judgment because the prince of this world is judged. One thing that always accompanies the baptism of the Holy Spirit is an enhanced awakening and consciousness to sin. Brother Paul drew it on the board. The closer we get to God, the more we see of our sinfulness. The apostle Paul at the end of his life, he said of sin, he said, whom I am chief of sinners. The Holy Spirit enlightens us and lumens our hearts and shows us our utter dependency upon God. It causes us to walk in humility and brokenness before the Lord, recognizing, as our brother Dwight would say, my dependency, my need is 100%. It's total, it's total. I am what I am by the grace of God, by the tender, loving mercies of God. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. How be it, ah, he says, I finished. How be it when he, the spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth. For he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will show you things to come, and he shall glorify me. For he shall receive of mine and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine, as I said before, that he shall take of mine and shall show it unto you. A little while, and ye shall not see me. And again, a little while, and ye shall see me. Ah, yes, the pure in heart shall see God. We shall see Jesus now in this life. We shall see Jesus. Yeah, but through a glass darkly, but we shall see Jesus. And as we see him, we shall be transformed and changed. For we shall see him as he is. Glory to Jesus Christ. This is good news, brother, sister. The promise of the Father. And there'd be a whole sermon right here, but I want you to get this very clearly, brother, sister. When he, the spirit of truth is come, the comforter is not an it, not sort of a spare tire of the fourth person of the Trinity. No, the comforter is the third person of the Trinity. The comforter is the Holy Ghost of God. The comforter is Christ in you. The comforter is Christ and God, the Father, one and one in you. Oh, it's beautiful. That's not me saying that. That's Jesus teaching that. I and the Father are one. Oh, brother, sister, the promise, the promise of the Father. Yes, the promise, the promise. And what God has promised, he is well able to perform. The promise, just listen to these words from the prophet Isaiah in 44, chapter 44, verse one. Hear now, oh, Jacob, my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. Thus saith the Lord that made thee and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee. Fear not, oh, Jacob, my servant, and thou, Jessarim, whom I have chosen. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground. I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine offspring, and they shall spring up as among the grass and willows by the watercourses. Doesn't this sound familiar? Doesn't this sound a bit like Joel? I will pour my spirit out upon your sons and daughters. I will pour my spirit upon the handmaids and the servants. I will pour water upon him that is thirsty. I will pour out my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine offspring. I will, I will pour water upon him that is thirsty. Are you thirsty this morning? I will pour water upon him that is thirsty. I thought of putting a picture up here of just stacks and stacks of cases of soda pop of all kinds, just stashed up. Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, Coke, and you could name for a long time. Then put another picture up of a beautiful mountain stream of just clear water, river of clear water, and a deer and a fawn standing at the edge of the water taking a drink. I will pour water upon him that is thirsty. Am I thirsty this morning? Do I long for and desire the anointing of God and the baptism of the Holy Ghost of God in my life more than anything else? You know why often we're not thirsty or hungry? For the real good stuff, it's because we're feeding on something that is of lesser value, something that has lesser nutrition, something that just sort of gives a short high, you know, that jolt drink or whatever it is, and it gives a short jolt and maybe we feel better for a little bit, but then it lets us down. What are you drinking from? Oh, drinking from the streams of living water. Happy now am I, my soul is satisfied, a drinking from the streams of living water, a bountiful and wonderful supply. I butchered a little there at the end, but a bountiful and wonderful supply. The promise of the Father for the anointed life and the spirit-filled life has one requirement, to those that are thirsty. He was hiking down into a deep canyon and all by himself, and he had with him a little canteen of water because he was gonna hike down and hike right back up the same day. But as he was hiking down that canyon, he slipped on a rock and fell and broke his femur off the beaten path, down over the edge of the trail, lying there in pain and unable to walk, unable to get himself up, barely able to roll over on his back and try to prop his leg up a little bit for a little bit of relief from the extreme, exasperating pain. Thankfully, his arm wasn't broke, he could still reach back and get his canteen of water that was supposed to last him for that day. Every now and then, when he'd hear a little noise, he'd cry out, help! It got hotter and hotter in that canyon. It reached 110 degrees and thirst was so strong. But he thought, I don't know how long I'll be here. I need to ration my water. It got dark, it got cold. You know, those canyons, those arid desert canyons can get cold at night. It dawned on a second day and it got hot again and his water supply was very small. And every now and then, he'd cry for help. When his water was gone and hope beginning to fade, he realized, my situation is getting grave. I need someone to find me and help me. And the thirst became almost unbearable in the heat. Brother, sister, are you thirsty for God? Am I thirsty for God like that? You see, God is not gonna pour out his Holy Spirit upon a casual drinker who's drinking the soda pops of the world and being refreshed in those and then, oh yes, I need a little bit of God over here. Let me get a little $5 worth of God. But that's enough, I don't need much. I really love my soda pop. You know, I don't wanna park there very long. I wanna take us on to the goodness of our Heavenly Father, to the promise of our Heavenly Father. But here's a question. The reason that you might be experiencing less of God than you would desire and less than you see your brother or sister have and you see them walking and leaping and praising God and full of the joy of the Lord and you wish you could have what they have, ask them, ask them for their testimony, ask them. Oh, I remember those days. I looked with longing at some other Christians who were full of grace and love and joy and I knew, I knew that brother, that sister, they've got something I don't have. I believe I'm born again, I believe I'm saved, but they've got something I don't have. And so to be theologically correct this morning, that you don't throw out my message because you say it's off doctrinally, I don't believe you can be born again without being born of the Spirit, Romans 8, 13. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is not of his. So to be born again, you are born of the Spirit. Jesus said to Nicodemus, you must be born of the Spirit. And so to be a Christian, you must be born of the Spirit. But I also believe this. Ah, yeah, Ephesians, be filled with the Spirit. Be filled with the Spirit. Well now, why if we're born of the Spirit, do we need to be filled with the Spirit? Think about it, think about that for a moment. Be filled with the Spirit. In the book of Acts chapter four, I believe about verse 32, it says that they were all together again in one accord, praying after Acts chapter two, the first outpouring of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost. And in Acts chapter four, they're together praying. They're saying, oh God, have mercy on us. Stretch forth your hand that your holy child Jesus may be seen in us. And the place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. And they went out with the anointing and power of the Spirit and God with them bearing witness. Oh, glory to God. Do I believe in a second work of grace? I believe in a second and a third and a fourth and a fifth. I believe in being continually filled with the Spirit of God. Be ye filled with the Spirit of God. I'll not share too much of my testimony because I see my time is fast running out. But I leave us with this question for now. Are you thirsty? Are you thirsty that it drives you to push away the soda pop, the counterfeit of the world that gives a little pleasure, a little bit of high for a moment, a little sugar high, a little caffeine high, and then it lets you down? Do you want the real thing? Are you thirsty? God promises to those that thirst. Turn now to John 7.37, a very familiar Scripture, where in that last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. John 7.37 If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. And he that believeth on me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. How shall this be, Lord Jesus? I'll tell you, Jesus said. He said, This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive. For the Holy Ghost was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. The promise of the Father. If any man, if any woman thirst, any man. This is not just for the preacher. This isn't just for dad. This is for you, son. This is for you, youth. This is for the sons and the daughters. This is for the handmaidens of the Lord. This is for the young people, the youth. Yes, this is for you. If any man thirst, I urge you today, seek for a personal encounter with God. May I be so bold as to say, a personal Pentecost. Because God wants to meet you there. Long, earnestly, fondly for that river of life that Jesus promised. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly or innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. Are you tired of trying to pump it up? Are you tired of trying to manufacture it? Over at the little one-room school right next to our house, they had one of those old pumps there, you know, with a big long handle. And boy, you had to pump that thing. And you had to pump maybe about six strokes before any water came out. Well, I encourage you today, God wants to give you something better than an old pump that you're just pumping yourself and try to work up the Christian life. But God wants to give a well within you that shall flow out of you a river of living water by the Holy Ghost of God indwelling you and quickening you. Yes, well, are you thirsty? I believe our relationship, I believe it's a direct correlation between whether we are filled with the Spirit of God continually in relation to our thirst. I really believe it. It's taught so much in the Scripture, the promise of the Father, the promise of the Father. It's not God's will that we be living a defeated, deflated, miserable existence as a child of God, just barely scraping along. Jesus said, I have come to give you life and to give it more abundantly. I want you just to listen to this. Jesus used a story. You know, Jesus often told stories. He illustrated truth by stories. And in Luke 11, he gave this story. He said, you know, which of you, if you have a friend coming to you and your friend is needy, he comes at a bit of an hour, he comes at midnight, and he's hungry and you need something to give him, but you don't have what he takes. So you go over to your friend and you say to him, a friend on a journey has come to me and I have nothing to set before him. And so your friend from inside the house at midnight is sorry to be awakened from his sleep and disturbed. And he says, oh, please let me alone. Go away. Don't you know it's time to be sleeping? Besides, if you don't soon be quiet, you'll get my children awake. My children are with me in bed and we're all asleep here. Don't trouble me. The door is now shut. I cannot rise and give thee. So Jesus gave that as a story to get the people's attention. And then he said, I say unto you, though this man won't rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. Because of his importunity, because of his unabashed, unashamed, continuing to knock, continue to bother and disturb his friend's sleep, saying, I really need it. I mean, I am desperate. I need it. How much thirst do you have today? Do you feel that compelling need? I need the power of the Holy Ghost in my life. I am sick and tired of living a defeated Christian life. I know I'm a child of God, but I need the power of the Holy Spirit in my life. I am ashamed that I don't testify of Jesus. Jesus on my lips. I'm ashamed that the weak, low life I'm living, I need the power of the Holy Ghost. Now listen to the heart of the Father. This is so beautiful. And I just wanna bring this to a close with this. This is so lovely. Because of his importunity, his persistence, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. What do you need today? How many loaves do you need? How much grace do you need? How much victory do you need? How much deliverance do you need? He'll rise and give him as many as he needeth. So I say to you, ask and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened unto you. For everyone. You should underline that in your Bible if you're okay to do that. For everyone that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Everyone. Everyone. Oh, the goodness of our heavenly Father. Oh, the provision of our heavenly Father. Now he says, okay, just in case you still need a little more affirmation, let me give you another example. We'll illustrate it this way. You have a son. You love your son. And your son is hungry. And he says, dad, I'm hungry. Please give me something to eat. Please give me some bread. I'm hungry. Dad, would you make me an egg with the bread? How about we do a breakfast menu? Some bread? And some egg? And dad, I'm really hungry. How about some of that dried fish that's hanging back there? Put a little of that dried fish in there. Jesus says, if you who have a sinful nature, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? For me, it was quite a journey because I was wrestling between that baptism of fire. I wanted the baptism of the Holy Ghost, but oh, not the fire. Oh, Lord, the fire. And to me, the fire was, trust me with your life. Surrender all to me. You see, my dad said something to me when I was about 12 years old. He said, you know, son, I'm not sure exact words, but he said, you know, someday, you're going to preach the word of God. That frightened me down to my toes. I was like terrified. Pop, why did you say that? And from then on, I began running. From God, Lord, I'll do anything for you. I'll do anything except preach because I can't, Lord. And it's true. I was so bound by fear and gripped that when I get in front of a crowd and even just half a dozen people or a dozen people, I would choke up. I couldn't say anything. Sometimes I would actually get so paralyzed by fear that it would just grit me in my throat and just like get a hold of me and squeeze me until I actually puked in front of the people and was made totally ashamed and a fool of myself. And I said to Janice, I'm sorry, I'm not going. I'm not going. I'm not going to that family gathering. I'm not going to that youth group thing because they're going to want to play volleyball or do something and they're going to want to engage me and then I'll make a fool of myself. I needed a savior. I needed deliverance. I needed a baptism of fire. I said, Lord, I see this Christian over here who's full of joy and has the life of Christ abundantly flowing out of him. I want that. He says, you can have it, but surrender. Ah, yes. Lord, I surrender everything but. And see, there was the stickler. There was the key. There was the hold, you know. And so it's amazing how long we'll wallow around. I remember Emmanuel saying one more night with the frog. For Pharaoh, you know. Okay, don't take them away tonight. Wait till tomorrow. You know, one more night with the frogs. One more night with my bondage and my fear. One more night. Lord, just one more night. But anyway, long story short, praise God. The Lord took me to the bottom. He took me to the corner. He took me into the woodshed and spanked me real good. And finally I said, okay, Lord. Okay, uncle, I surrender. Change me if you can. That's how weak my faith was. But God touched me and changed me. And my life has never been the same since. Praise the Lord Jesus. He delivered me. Hallelujah. And what he's done for others, he'll do for you. It is no secret what God can do. And for you, it may be very different. Sometimes I hesitate to share my testimony because don't you go seeking my similar experience? Because God won't give it to you. You seek the Lord and him and longing for him, desiring him, the Lord Jesus Christ, desiring the comfort of the Holy Ghost in your life. And he will meet you there. Yes, God is a good father. Yes, if you then being evil know how to give good gifts. How much more? We could spend the rest of our life answering that question, how much more? How much more? How many miles more? How many rivers more? How many oceans more does God want to and able to? How much more? Are you thirsty? Are you ready to push aside the things that don't satisfy? And say, Lord, I'm not letting you go till you bless me. Lord, I'm jealous. I long for those rivers of living water that Jesus promised that I admit. We have to be honest and honest to good heart. Lord, I admit I'm bankrupt. I'm broken. I don't have it. Lord, please have mercy upon me. But then not only that, we pray the promises of God back to him. This is powerful. Lord God, you said you're gonna pour out your spirit upon all flesh. You said your sons and your daughter, my sons and my daughters shall prophesy. Lord, this is what you said. Lord, I believe you. I believe you in spite of all that I see. I believe you, Lord. I'm sorry. I should drink more water. I believe you, Lord. So I wanna encourage us today they obtained the promises by faith. It is the will of God for his children to be filled with the spirit. And I wanna encourage you today, you can. When you seek for me and search for me with all your heart, you shall find me. That man that I spoke about in the Kenyon, he did get rescued. Maybe you feel like you're in that Kenyon, you're in a dry and a thirsty land and you're very thirsty. You cry out to God, he will rescue you. Amen. Thank you for your attention and listening. God bless you with thirst.