*Text: Psa. 143: 6 *
“I lift my hands to you in prayer. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain” (NLT)
Are you thirsty? Ask anyone that question today and one of the likely response you will get is: “Thirsty for what? What they are telling you indirectly through that response is that the answer to your question depends on what it is you have in mind as the object of the thirst. Is it thirst for water? Thirst for a cold drink? Thirst for a good husband or a good wife? Thirst for financial breakthrough or success in business? All these are examples of things that people can be thirsty for in the physical or worldly realm.
Out text for today however talks about a different kind of thirst, it is a kind of thirst that is spiritual in nature, it is a thirst for God. This is not the only psalm where the psalmist has expressed his deep thirst for God, earlier in Psa. 42: 1-2, he said “As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him?”
Why this thirst for God? This thirst for God is coming from a heart that knows that only God can satisfy the deep longings of man. Only in God can all our needs in life be truly and fully met. Unlike many people today who are busy running from pillar to post looking for man to do for them that which only God can do for them, the psalmist has come to realize that God is all that he needs to have all his needs met and he, just like every other person was a needy man.
Though some may hide it, trying to pretend as though they have no need whatsoever, the truth is that everyone living has one need or the other. Some are in trouble and need someone to bring them out. Some are in dire need of success in their business and they need someone to help. Some are seriously sick and in need of financial help to get treatment or in need of organ donation. The ways and means by which we all go about solving our problems differs from one person to another. Some consult fellow human beings like them whom they think are well positioned to help them, some consult herbalist and spiritualist who will help connect them to the world of demons and strange spirits. All these means however will only waste time and lead to greater complication of the problem.
The Almighty God is the one stop solution to every problem or trouble that may come the way of man. You need not look elsewhere, because there is no one else that can be compared to Him, no one is equal to Him in power to meet your needs. The psalmist realize this and that is the reason for his thirst for God. He seeks audience with God, he knows that if only he can appear before God, all his problems will receive the desired solution.
Prayer is the means by which the psalmist quenches his thirst for God. Through the weapon of prayer, he is able to come into fellowship with God, pour out his heart to Him and wait for answer from heaven.
You also can and should do same, look up to God alone and not man, and so thirst for His presence and take advantage of the weapon of prayer to quench your thirst and to get your needs met. You will be glad you did. Shalom.
Prayer Points
1. Father I praise you because you are the God that can quench my thirst.
2. Thank you for all that you have done in my life to quench my thirst in the past and even in the present.
3. Father you are the one that truly satisfy the longings in my soul, please satisfy me early O Lord with your blessings to will address the longings in my soul in Jesus name
4. Father please deliver me from every wrong step that I have taken in the past to satisfy my need which has only ended up bringing complications into my life in Jesus name
5. Lord I commit all my need into your hands please turn them all to testimony in Jesus name.
His hunger grows in me every seconds. I need more of him