Psalm 62:1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation...
7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
In the drought, who but Christ
What other source can satisfy
Broken cisterns bear deadly drink
Leave me fainting, cause me to shrink
My Bridegroom and my Friend
On no other can I depend
In the furnace, I thirst! I thirst!
O, Fount, I die unless Thou burst
For Thee I yearn on my journey
I am weak and I am weary
This open valley, so very dry
Give me Christ – or else I die
On the wall I watch by faith
By Jacob's well I pray and wait
My expectation is firm and bound:
Grace upon grace in Thee is found
In Your temple, my soul I pour
Bless me from Thy treasure store
Your gifts are pure and unalloyed
Moth and rust will never destroy
Precious dew, heavenly shower,
Fall like rain in my driest hour
Purge my dross, o, sanctifier!
Lift me up higher and higher
O, rend the heavens! Glory! Fire!
To behold Thy beauty my chief desire
O, my strength, my all in all,
Descend to me, renew my soul
Drop a word, heavenly dove
Send refreshing from above
Who but Christ, the fairest one
Shineth brighter than the sun
Bread of Life, abundantly supply
To play the harlot - the vilest crime!
How dare the living seek the dead?
The Body's spring flows from the Head
No other beloved is altogether lovely
O, to sit and sup with great delight under the tree
To drink of Thee, the living fountain
To leap with Thee on Zion's mountain
Revive me so I may again rejoice
In Thee alone with gladsome joyful voice
The Spirit, like dew, descends on your souls.––"I will be like the dew" (ver. 5). If you are this day united to Jesus, the Spirit will come like dew upon your soul. The Spirit is given to them that obey Jesus: "I will pray the Father." When all nature is at rest, not a leaf moving, then at evening the dew comes down–– no eye to see the pearly drops descending, no ear to hear them falling on the verdant grass: so does the Spirit come to you who believe. When the heart is at rest in Jesus, –– unseen, unheard by the world, the Spirit comes, and softly fills the believing soul, quickening all, renewing all within. "If I go away, I will send Him unto you." Dear little ones, whom God hath chosen out of this world, you are like Gideon's fleece: the Lord will fill you with dew when all around is dry. You are His vineyard of red wine; He says, "I will water it every moment"––silently, unfelt, unseen, but surely. But, ah! that Spirit is a Holy Spirit. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God." He cannot bear an idol in His temple. When the ark of God was carried into the temple of Dagon, the idol fell flat before it; much more when the Holy Spirit comes into the heart will He cast out the idols.
Luke 18:1 ... men ought always to pray, and not to faint...
Grace issues from his throne;
Whoever says, “I want no more,”
Confesses he has none.
Related:
- Advent #1 WHY HAS JESUS COME? that we might have life & life more abundantly
- Why not pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit?
- trusting the eagles' wings
- a single crumb, a drop of wine ~ do not despise the Savior's sacrifice
- Two Fountains ~ Where are you drinking? What is flowing? Don't waste your drinking!
- As a deer pants ... Is your soul panting for God? (Psalms 42 & 43)
- Series Links: The Present of Pentecost (and other posts on the Holy Spirit)
- "I thirst! I thirst!" Whitefield's experience of joy (letter 51 on assurance & fighting for joy)
- John 3:36a Whoever believes in the Son HAS eternal life (letter 64 on assurance & joy)
- "give me also springs of water" - Will you be an Achsah? (letter 66 on assurance & fighting for joy)
- Do you know the LORD as your portion? | a hymn by John Newton - letter 80 on assurance & joy
- the pilgrim's Assurance ~ His Sovereign pouring | letter 110 on assurance & fighting for joy
- Can there be more? | letter 113 on assurance & fighting for joy
- Are You not a fountain? (let a drop fall here for me)
- "Bread of Heav'n on Thee I Feed"
- This reed bruised, This flax smoking
- In this valley, in the midst of this valley (Ezekiel 37:1-14)
- In darkest place
- a word in doubt
- In the multitude of our anxieties, the Lord's comforts alone delight our souls
- He dawns on them like the morning light
- the Lord God must be my strength and my portion
Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Holy Bible.
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