March 10, 2011

• the pilgrim's Assurance ~ His Sovereign pouring | letter 110 on assurance & fighting for joy

  
  
  Isaiah 48:1a
  Hear this, O house of Jacob,
  Who are called by the name of Israel,
  And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah

  I pour water on the thirsty
  I pour floods on the dry land

  I grow fruit in the barren womb
  I fill to overflowing the empty hand

  I provide manna for the hungry
  I fully nourish the pilgrim band

  O, My adopted children, why do you delay
  Blessings and pleasures await you, glorious and grand

  Have I not promised, have you not heard
  I will not forsake you, your borders I will expand

  Your scattering is for a greater gathering
  O ye of little faith, do you not yet understand

  I have been with you in affliction's furnace
  Every trial My love's chastening divinely planned

  My sovereign Spirit yearns to pour upon you
  Come now, my sister, my spouse, take My hand

  All ye who are of My sheep, hear My voice, be led
  Taste and see, enjoy Me in My pleasant pasture land

  Hear this, O house of Jacob,
  Who are called by the name of Israel,
  And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah

  I am rest to those who labor
  I strengthen the faint and weak

  I satisfy early with My mercy
  I am found by those who seek

  I draw near to the brokenhearted
  I revive the humble, rejoice the soul of the meek

  O, My kingdom children, why do you delay
  Press in so I might carry you to My mountain peak

  Have I not promised, have you not heard
  In the shadows see My goodness, no more be bleak

  My blood was poured, My flesh was ripped
  The veil torn, enter in, My bride, so we might meet

  Leave your broken cisterns, come to the wellspring
  Escape the desert bondage, flee the country of stifling heat

  My sovereign Spirit yearns to pour upon you
  Dawdle no more, elected ones, hasten to Zion's mercy seat

  My lambs, take your rightful place in My bosom
  My love come, drink and delight, enjoy refreshment sweet

  Isaiah 44:1 Yet hear me now, O Jacob My servant,
  And Israel whom I have chosen.
  2 Thus says the LORD who made you
  And formed you from the womb, who will help you:
  ‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant;
  And you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
  3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
  And floods on the dry ground;
  I will pour My Spirit on your descendants,
  And My blessing on your offspring;
  4 They will spring up among the grass
  Like willows by the watercourses.’

  

  Luke 11:9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
  

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  Related:

  My other letters on assurance and fighting for joy, including:

  a conversation with Jesus about trials & joy (Letter 34 on assurance & fighting for joy)
  in your mourning, go to the God of all comfort (Letter 35 on assurance & fighting for joy)
  Shall we not drink the cup the Father has given us? (Letter 53 on assurance & fighting for joy)
  our Father's discipline, William Cowper on trials & sufferings (letter 61 on assurance & joy)
  "give me also springs of water" - Will you be an Achsah? (letter 66 on assurance & fighting for joy)
  Are you a radiant Christian or a drunken old woman? (letter 82 on assurance & fighting for joy)
  Rejoicing here on the Potter's Wheel (Psalm 66) | Letter 96 on assurance & joy

  when grace delays, has Love gone astray? ~ a hymn of assurance
  Two Fountains ~ Where are you drinking? What is flowing? Don't waste your drinking!
  Where are you lifting up your eyes? Psalm 121:1-2
  What is your attitude toward trials and sufferings? ~ Whitefield's Journals
  Where do you go when the world is unlovely? (Psalm 84 & the theology of Biblical counseling)
  Blessed Thirst in the Valley of Baca ~ Psalm 84
  "So you led your people to make for yourself a glorious name" (Isaiah 63:14b)
  the door, the sword, the crown ~ through faith & patience (Hebrews 6:11-12)
  Bible Reading-Isaiah: When We Think the LORD Has Forsaken and Forgotten Us
  Naphtali News: God speaking to me about my failures & the one thing needful
  Why not pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit
  Are You not not a fountain? (let a drop fall here for me)
  "when man reaches the lowest depths of unbelief" (William Williams' "The Experience Meeting")
  my God, my God, have You forsaken me?
  Forsaken

  Scripture quotations marked are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

  Desert Qatar found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desert_Qatar.JPG  / CC BY-SA 3.0 (PD)

  Claude Monet's "Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow" found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Monet,_Water-Lily_Pond_and_Weeping_Willow.JPG  / CC BY-SA 3.0 (PD)

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