24-1125P_LONGING FOR GOD

Jer 29:10  For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. 

Jer 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 

Jer 29:12  Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 

Jer 29:13  And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 

Luk 16:15  And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 

Luk 16:16  The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. 

Mat 5:6  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. 

Amo 8:11  Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 

Amo 8:12  And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. 

Jas 1:12  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 

Jas 1:13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 

Jas 1:14  But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 

Joh 4:7  There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 

Joh 4:8  (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) 

Joh 4:9  Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. 

Joh 4:10  Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 

Joh 6:35  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. 

Joh 7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 

Joh 7:38  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 

Psa 94:11  The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. 

Psa 94:12  Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; 

Psa 94:13  That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. 

Psa 94:14  For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. 

Psa 94:15  But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. 

Psa 94:16  Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? 

Psa 94:17  Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. 

Psa 94:18  When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. 

Psa 94:19  In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. 

Psa 1:1  Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 

Psa 1:2  But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 

Psa 1:3  And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 

Psa 65:4  Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. 

*YOU'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING FOR GOD TO HONOR.

DESPERATIONS_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-1  SUNDAY_  63-0901E

  7      You've got to do something for God to honor. You see? You show Him. The people that's got everything handed to them so easy, they don't usually... They--they don't do nothing for it, you see. You got to... The gift is free, that is true, but you've--you've got to...

8    It seems like that, you know, like they say, "If you was born with a silver spoon," you've heard that, "you don't appreciate." But when you have to work for it, you appreciate the valuation of it.

*…DON'T YOU NEVER TRY TO GET TO HEAVEN OUTSIDE OF THAT DEEP LONGING AND LOVE OF GOD IN YOUR HEART.

THIRSTING.FOR.LIFE_  CHICAGO.IL  SUNDAY_  57-0630

E-51    ….. There's only one thing that longing was put in you for, that's right here. Here's where you long to be. The devil's trying to get you not to see it. But I'm praying in my heart as I'm standing here, "God, open the eyes of their understanding." I love you.

But listen, a real daddy will be honest with his children. If he has to whip them sometime, he's--he's a real daddy. Yes, sir, a real dad will correct his children. And, friends, I want to tell you; don't you never try to get to heaven outside of that deep longing and love of God in your heart. If you haven't come acquainted with that great fountain that I spoke of at the beginning, where God gushes forth... Now, he perverts that. You see. As it comes forth, Satan perverts it, say, "Oh, well, this, and this, and this." Be careful; it's got to be genuine.

THE.EAGLE.IN.HER.NEST_  CHICAGO.IL  FRIDAY_  57-0705

E-35    If there's something in here calling for a deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. Before there's a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water for him to swim in, or he'd have had no fin. Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth first or there would been no tree.

THE.EAGLE.IN.HER.NEST_  CHICAGO.IL  FRIDAY_  57-0705

  E-36    And otherwise, before there is a creation there has to be a Creator to create the creation. There's not a man and woman in here, that's ever had a taste of God, but what right now you're longing for more of God. You're reaching out for more of God. If there is a desire in here for more of God, there's got to be more of God to receive somewhere. We just ought to jump off the post. That's it.

And as I heard that going on, I seen that rainbow color; I thought of Joseph's coat, the many colors. I thought of the rainbow in Revelations 1, the covenant God made in Genesis with the people of the earth and confirmed it through Christ. And as I was going around that tree like a mad man, just screaming to the top of my voice... I didn't care. There was something down in me that I couldn't hold my peace. I could see God in the rainbow; I could see God in the sunset. I hear God calling through the wolf; I could hear God calling everywhere. If you get God on the inside, you'll see God anywhere you look. That's right. He's got to come in here first. He's got to change you from a chicken to an eagle. He's got to give you a desire in here to do something. That's right.

*GOD MADE THEM THAT WAY, SO HE COULD COME IN THERE AND SATISFY EVERY LONGING THAT YOU HAVE.

WHY_  PHOENIX.AZ  SATURDAY_  61-0128

E-29    And that's what's the matter today. What makes people drink, and lie, and steal, and commit adultery, and do and act the way they do? It's not because we haven't got something to satisfy that. It's because that they take a substitute for the real thing. They try to hush that... quench that holy thing inside of their heart.

When God made a man, he gave him... He let... The devil took his head. God chose his heart. The devil through his imagination makes him imagine anything--gives him intellectual conceptions of the Scripture. But God gets in his heart and leads him by the Spirit; makes him believe things that his intellectual don't know nothing about. Amen! That makes me feel a little religious when I think of that, see.

When God gets a hold of a man, he comes into his heart. That's God's control tower. And the reason people drink, smoke, gamble, lie, steal, and carry on the way they do, they're trying to satisfy that longing in their heart. God made them that way, so He could come in there and satisfy every longing that you have. But, how dare anybody to try to hush that precious thing with the things of the world?

*BUT NOTICE, WHEN A MAN IS HUNGERING AND THIRSTING FOR GOD, GOD WILL DRAW NIGH TO THE MAN ALWAYS. SEE? GIVE UP, SURRENDER YOUR WILL TO GOD.

SHOW.US.THE.FATHER_  TUCSON.AZ  THURSDAY_  63-0606

E-24    Everybody wanted to find God down through the age. Job of old, he said, "Oh, if I only knew where He was." In his trouble setting there on the ash heap scraping his boils... God dealing with a saint in this case... There he was setting there scraping his boils. Some of his church friends come to him, set with their backs turned to him, not much consolation. But Job wanted to know, "Oh, if I only knew where His house was. (In other words.) If I'd go knock on His door, He'd come out and talk to me." That's what he wanted to do.

But notice, when a man is hungering and thirsting for God, God will draw nigh to the man always. See? Give up, surrender your will to God.

*AND WHEN THERE'S A HUNGER AND THIRST IN A HUMAN'S HEART, FOR SOMETHING, THERE'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING TO RESPOND TO THAT, OR THE THIRST WOULDN'T BE THERE.

 SHOW.US.THE.FATHER_  TUCSON.AZ  THURSDAY_  63-0606

 40      And surely, if there is a human desire in a human's heart, who is a creature of God, calling out for God, there has got to be a God somewhere to respond to that call. But when the deep calls to the Deep, there's got to be a respond to that call. Before a deep can be in here, calling, there has to be a Deep out there, to respond to that call, or there'd be no call in here.

41    As I've often said, before there was a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water, first, for him to use that fin, or he wouldn't have had any fin. Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth, first, or there wouldn't have been any tree. And as long as there is a creation, there is a Creator to create that creation. See what I mean?

SHOW.US.THE.FATHER_  TUCSON.AZ  THURSDAY_  63-0606

  42      And when there's a hunger and thirst in a human's heart, for something, there's got to be something to respond to that, or the thirst wouldn't be there. So, tonight, we are here, saying, "Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us." And now, if there is a God, which we know there is, and the call in our heart to see Him, then why can't we see Him? If there's a call here that tells us we want to see Him, there's got to be some reason that we... some way to see Him.

*THOSE WHO ARE LONGING TO KNOW THE TRUTH, GOD IS OBLIGATED TO REVEAL THE TRUTH.

WHEN.THEIR.EYES.WERE.OPENED.THEY.KNEW.HIM_  TULARE.CA  V-22 N-10  WEDNESDAY_  64-0212

91    That's who He comes to, to those who are looking for Him. And we find out, today, He is not coming to those who is not looking for Him. There is no such a thing as Divine healing to--to those who don't believe in it. There is no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost to them who don't believe in It. It's just for those who believe it. That's right. That's all. So then we find out, those who are longing to know the Truth, God is obligated to reveal the Truth. He says His Word, then comes and fulfills It, gives His Own interpretation.

*I THINK THAT THE LOVE OF GOD CAUSES DESPERATION.

DESPERATIONS_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-1  SUNDAY_  63-0901E

66    Desperation! When the wife was about to die with cancer, he knowed that God could heal her. And if God could heal the wife, God can heal the boy. And it throws it into a state of desperation. See? You must come; and when you're desperate, then God is going to listen to you. But if you're just slothful, you don't care whether He does or not, well, then that's different. You say you do, but it takes desperation to do it.

DESPERATIONS_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-1  SUNDAY_  63-0901E

  67      I believe that the reason we don't have desperation is because it's a lack of love, God, the love of God. I think that the love of God causes desperation. If God is in you, the Token inside of you, and you see the conditions of times, and people wading in sin the way they are, it'll throw you into desperation. I believe it will.

Psa 84:1  To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! 

Psa 84:2  My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. 

Psa 84:3  Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. 

Psa 84:4  Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. 

Psa 84:5  Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. 

Psa 84:6  Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 

Psa 84:7  They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 

Psa 84:8  O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 

Psa 84:9  Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. 

Psa 84:10  For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 

Psa 84:11  For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. 

Psa 84:12  O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. 

Pro 8:32  Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. 

Pro 8:33  Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 

Pro 8:34  Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 

Pro 8:35  For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. 

Pro 8:36  But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. 

Jer 17:7  Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 

Jer 17:8  For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 

Jer 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 

Jer 17:10  I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 

Jer 17:11  As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. 

Jer 17:12  A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. 

Jer 17:13  O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters. 

Jer 17:14  Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. 

Jer 17:15  Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now. 

Jer 17:16  As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee. 

Jer 17:17  Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil. 

Jer 17:18  Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. 

Jer 17:19  Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; 

Jer 17:20  And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: 

Jer 17:21  Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; 

Jer 17:22  Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.