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The psalmist pictures his soul thirsting for God the way a deer pants for water, and then does something unusual: he speaks to himself, asking his own soul why it is downcast and commanding it to hope in God. Faith here…
Chapter study
…at times, verse 12, and in 2 Corinthians 11:27 he speaks of hunger, thirst and cold. Scripture does not hide that. Do use it where Paul uses it: as the reason a Christian can give away what he might have kept. The…
Chapter study
…of every one of them. Sheep do not lie down while they are anxious, thirsty or aware of a predator. If this sheep is lying down, the shepherd has already dealt with everything that would keep it standing. The rest in…
Dig Deeper
…to him in the wilderness because his people were hungry, weary and thirsty while he fled from his own son. He knew both sides of Paul's sentence long before Paul wrote it. Read that way, the psalm is not the confidence…
Dig Deeper
…at times, verse 12, and in 2 Corinthians 11:27 he speaks of hunger, thirst and cold. Scripture does not hide that. Do use it where Paul uses it: as the reason a Christian can give away what he might have kept. The…
Reading plan
…the past is meant to fund confidence in the present. Psalm 42 Spiritual thirst The psalmist pictures his soul thirsting for God the way a deer pants for water, and then does something unusual: he speaks to himself,…
Verse study
…is arranged, not achieved A sheep will stay standing if it is hungry, thirsty, frightened, or bothered by other sheep. Rest is the sign that all four have been handled by someone else. The grammar concedes something…
Reading plan
…in our place. Isaiah 55:1-13 Free grace God invites everyone who is thirsty to come to the waters, and whoever has no money to come and buy wine and milk without cost. It is an invitation to receive grace freely, not to…
Reading plan
…a good man and others a deceiver, while Jesus stands up and offers real thirst a real answer: whoever believes in him, rivers of living water will flow from within them. John 8 Freedom Jesus refuses to condemn a woman…
Devotional
…pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? WEB This psalm is written by someone in exile, remembering better days,…
Devotional
…to do, in Your time. Amen. The chapter opens with an invitation to the thirsty and the hungry to come without cost, and it closes with this promise about the reliability of God's speech. Isaiah is writing to exiles who…
Devotional
…Mount describing a life that reflects God's own character, hungered and thirsted for in Matthew 5:6. Matthew 6:25-34 The full passage on anxiety, birds, lilies, and seeking the kingdom first. 1 Kings 3:9-13 Solomon asks…
Devotional
…are surprised, in verse 37, asking when they saw the King hungry or thirsty. Their service was not performed to earn recognition; it flowed from who they were, and Christ reveals what it meant afterward. The setting is…
Devotional
…yet he is the one who offers living water so that whoever drinks never thirsts again. He knows the weariness of waiting from the inside and offers a strength that is not his alone to give.
Devotional
…follows, feeding an enemy who is hungry and giving drink to one who is thirsty in verse 20, only makes sense because justice has been entrusted to someone else. Believers can extend kindness to those who have wronged…
52 Week Journey
…pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? WEB I Have Calmed My Soul Prayer can end in quiet contentment, not only…
Reading plan day
Written from a wilderness, this psalm turns physical thirst into a picture of spiritual longing. David says his soul thirsts for God the way his body thirsts for water in a dry and weary land, and he lets that longing…
Reading plan day
God invites everyone who is thirsty to come to the waters, and whoever has no money to come and buy wine and milk without cost. It is an invitation to receive grace freely, not to earn it, extended to a people who had…
Reading plan day
…a good man and others a deceiver, while Jesus stands up and offers real thirst a real answer: whoever believes in him, rivers of living water will flow from within them. John 7:37-38 Bring your unspoken thirst to Jesus…
Biblical concept
…John 4:14 Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. John 7:38-39 Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water; this he spoke of the Spirit. Revelation 22:17 Let him that is athirst…
Word and phrase
…of God in him. Matthew 5:6 Jesus calls those who hunger and thirst for righteousness blessed, showing it is also something to long for and pursue. Righteousness first appears attached to a person's standing before God…
Place in Scripture
…The manna came daily and only daily, and the people still walked, thirsted and buried their dead. God's provision in the wilderness is enough for today, which is exactly what Jesus teaches us to pray for. Exodus…
Bible question
…to be filled and to be hungry. 2 Corinthians 11:27 lists hunger, thirst and cold, and Hebrews 11:37-38 describes faithful people destitute and afflicted. God's care includes the smallest creatures Matthew 6:26 Your…
Bible question
…about contentment while in custody, after a life that included hunger, thirst, cold and shipwreck, 2 Corinthians 11:25-27. He was given strength through Christ and grace called sufficient, 2 Corinthians 12:9, rather…
Bible question
…the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. It is done echoes Christ's word from the cross, tetelestai, it is finished. The same voice that…
Bible question
…1:14 The Word became flesh. He grew, Luke 2:52, was tired, John 4:6, thirsty, John 19:28, and wept, John 11:35. 1 John 4:2-3 makes confessing that he came in the flesh a test of true teaching. He is the Christ promised…
The Sunday Study
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