24-1202P_LONGING FOR GOD PT-2
Psa 42:1 To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Psa 42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Psa 42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Psa 42:4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Psa 42:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psa 42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Psa 42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Psa 42:8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Psa 42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psa 42:10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Psa 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Jer 29:9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.
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.
*BUT YOU SEE, THAT GOD MADE A MAN TO
THIRST, TO THIRST AFTER HIM. HE WANTS TO THIRST AFTER GOD.
THIRSTING.FOR.LIFE_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_ 60-0304
E-47 Now, listen close. The reason
people do that is because God made them to thirst. "My soul thirst after Thee, like in a dry land, thirsting."
Well, God made a man to thirst. But you see, that God made a man to thirst, to
thirst after Him. He wants to thirst after God.
Now, the devil tries to satisfy that thirst by the things of the world. And he will never do it. Now, if he could take and make you thirst after dancing, make you thirst after the televisions, and rock-and-rolls, and all these other sinful things...
* IT'S GOT TO BE A THIRST BETWEEN DEATH
AND LIFE, AND THEN SOMETHING TAKES PLACE.
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56 Now that deer knows, unless he
finds water he's gone. He just can't live. I have tracked them many times after
being wounded. When he hits a stream of water, he will cross in and get a
drink, go up over the hill; come back down, cross, get a drink of water and go
up. You'll never catch up with him, as long as he'll follow that stream. But once when he leaves
the stream, if he can't find another water brook somewhere, you'll catch him
right away. And now the deer knows that, so he'll stay right with the water,
where he can get to it right quick. Now could you imagine a deer with
his nose up, he has been caught out somewhere where there is no water?
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57
And he says, "As
the hart thirsts or panteth (is a thirst) after the water brooks, my soul
thirsts after Thee, O God. Unless I can find You, Lord, I'll perish. I--I--I
can't go unless I find You!"And when a man or woman, boy or girl, gets that
kind of a thirst for God, he is going to find something. See?
58 But when we come at it, just kind of halfway, "Well, I'll kneel down and see what the Lord does." See, you're not really thirsting yet. It's got to be a thirst between death and Life, and then something takes place.
AND THAT SENSE IN HIM IS JUST ONE THAT GOD GIVE HIM, SENSES TO HIM, TO
LIVE BY.
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59 The deer, also here he's... We find that he also has another sense, of smell, that sets off an alarm in him when his enemy is near. He is possessed, this little creature, with a--a sense to protect himself. And he's--he's got a little alarm in him, a little something, that he tickles his nose when the enemy is near. You can get in the wind of the enemy, and he knows that you're there, and he is gone. Sometimes a half a mile away, he can smell you and get away, or the wolf or any danger. He is able to sense it because that he is made up that way. He is a deer, by nature. And that sense in him is just one that God give him, senses to him, to live by.
*YOU MUST STAY RIGHT EXACTLY WITH THAT
WORD. AND, NOW, AND WE ARE SECURED WITH THAT SENSE AS LONG AS WE ARE IN THE
HOLY SPIRIT.
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60 And I thought, comparing the deer with a man that's thirsting for God, before the enemy gets there. There is something about a child of God, that when you once are born into the Spirit of God, receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, there is something about the person that can sense the enemy. You can take a man when he's taking the Scripture, and reading the Scripture and try to inject something to that Scripture, that's contrary to the Scripture, a man that's filled with the Holy Ghost can [Brother Branham snaps his finger--Ed.] sense that, right quick. There is something out of the way. When he gets into a place, and--and that little certain sense in there, that it's done to protect your life. You, you mustn't, you mustn't never go for anything unless it's exactly the Word of God. You must stay right exactly with that Word. And, now, and we are secured with that sense as long as we are in the Holy Spirit.
*AT ONE TIME MAN HAD PERFECT FELLOWSHIP
WITH GOD… THAT'S THE REASON IT'S A CRAVE IN YOUR HEART, IS A LONGING FOR
SOMETHING, A CONTACT.
FELLOWSHIP.THROUGH.THE.RECONCILIATION.OF.THE.BLOOD_ MACON.GA SUNDAY_ 55-0605
E-15 Now, fellowship. Man wants... The greatest
fellowship that man could ever have is fellowship with Christ. I love to
meet men. Men, we all love to fellowship with all one another, sometimes go out
and have a bite to eat. The neighbor women talked across the fence, coming
around having little parties where they meet together, fellowship.
But the greatest fellowship that any mortal can
know is when he's in the blessed Presence of Almighty God. No fellowship could take its
place.
At one time man had perfect fellowship with God.
That was God's purpose. That's the reason it's a crave in your heart, is a
longing for something, a contact.
FELLOWSHIP.THROUGH.THE.RECONCILIATION.OF.THE.BLOOD_ MACON.GA SUNDAY_ 55-0605
E-16 I've ministered in many heathen
nations where people didn't even know which is right and left hand. But I never
seen a human being in my life, regardless of how far back, how primitive he may
be but what he worshiped something. He will worship the sun. He will worship
the wind. He will worship the stars. He will make an image of something. Because it's just in him. It's an instinct to worship, have
fellowship. Then it's our duties to take even the message of the living God.
In the beginning when God made man in His own image, put him in the garden of Eden. He had a perfect fellowship. In the late of the afternoon, the evening time when the twilights was falling, I can see the great Jehovah come across the top of the palm trees and the roaring of the thunder, when Adam and Eve gathered out there in the great open air cathedral and worshipped God, had fellowship, talked with Him.
*…AND WHEN YOU CAN LIVE CLOSE TO GOD, AND
GOD THROUGH HIS GRACE OPERATES THROUGH YOU, THAT THE MORE GOD YOU GET, THE MORE
GODLY YOU BECOME.
BELIEVE.FROM.THE.HEART_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 57-0623
E-44 …..Notice, I have begin to think this, that it is possible, that when a man, like the apostles, and when you can live close to God, and God through His grace operates through you, that the more God you get, the more godly you become. The more Eternal Life comes in, the more of the intellectual it pushes out. Now, I don't mean to be a fanatic. I mean to be a real sane sound believer (See?), not a bunch of isms, but a real solid true sensible intelligent believer.
BELIEVE.FROM.THE.HEART_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 57-0623
E-45 And now watch. I've seen it
work. And to think that if you'll get into that contact
with God, it becomes till it isn't your voice any more. It's not your thought
any more. It becomes God's thought and God's voice. You are just a vine, or just a branch. He's the Vine. And if His Spirit that goes in
and energizes, as long as you can get yourself out of the way, He will fill it
up. And then you can be a witness just like Noah's ark was a witness,
like Jesus was a witness of God.
He become so full of God, till him and God was One. God dwelt in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, the very expression.
*HE CAN DECLARE HIS CHARACTER THROUGH THE WORK OF YOUR YIELDING.
BELIEVE.FROM.THE.HEART_
JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 57-0623
E-46 A man's work declares his
character. Christ was God's work. And Christ declared
God's character, His feeling for the sick, His longing for saving of souls,
till even He gave His own life. God's work... God's
character was declared in Christ.
And if you can just empty your own intellectual thoughts
out and give God the right of way, He can declare His
character through the work of your yielding. Empty out; get the world,
get your doubts out of the way.
If you come to the altar to be prayed for, say,
"I'll go up and see if I get healed," God can never declare His
works. You've got to get your own thoughts out of the
way and let Him fill you.
Psa 107:1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psa 107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
Psa 107:3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
Psa 107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Psa 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Psa 107:6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psa 107:7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Psa 107:8 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psa 107:9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Psa 107:10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Psa 107:11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Psa 107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
Psa 107:13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
Psa 107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psa 107:15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psa 107:16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Psa 107:17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Psa 107:18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Psa 107:19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
Psa 107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Psa 107:21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psa 107:22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
Psa 107:23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
Psa 107:24 These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
Psa 107:25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Psa 107:26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psa 107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Psa 107:28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Psa 107:29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Psa 107:30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Psa 107:31 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psa 107:32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Psa 107:33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
Psa 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Psa 107:35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
Psa 107:36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
Psa 107:37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
Psa 107:38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Psa 107:39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
Psa 107:40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Psa 107:41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Psa 107:42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
Psa 107:43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
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