Isaiah 44:3-4 ‘For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:’

DAILY READING • 1 Corinthians 14:1-25; 2 Kings 8; Jonah 3

For over 200 years, The Bible Society has distributed Bibles all over the world, even into nations hostile to the Gospel.
However, it is noteworthy that this amazing organization started because of a young girl’s desperate hunger for God’s Word.
In 1784, deep in the Welsh countryside, a girl called Mary Jones was born, who grew up in poverty, raised by her widowed mother.
As Mary grew older and began hearing some of the captivating stories of the Bible, she developed a desperate desire to have a Bible of her own.
At that time, Bibles were very scarce in Wales and very few people owned a copy.
When she was ten years old, Mary began working hard, doing odd jobs around the village and saving money to buy a Bible. By the time she was 16 years old, she felt she had saved enough and trekked about 26 miles to another town where there lived a Pastor called Thomas Charles who sold Bibles.
When Mary arrived at his house, Pastor Thomas had sold out his stock of Bibles but seeing how desperate Mary was to own a copy, he went out of his way to look for where to get Bibles for her and he ended up giving her three Bibles!
Mary’s compelling desire for God’s Word, so deeply stirred Pastor Thomas, that in 1802, at a meeting of the Religious Tracts Society, he proposed that a group be formed to provide Bibles in Welsh. Inspired by Mary’s story, the group agreed to work to not only distribute Bibles locally, but also internationally, all around the world.
This marked the birth of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Today, they are simply known as ‘The Bible Society’. Working in over 200 countries they have a mission to translate, print and disseminate the Bible all over the world and make it available to every man, woman and child on the face of the earth.
Yet this great amazing organization all began because of Mary Jones’ burning desire for God’s Word.

Psalm 42:1-2 says ‘As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God…’

Our hearts need to pant after God as a way of life.
The truth is that no one can accomplish much in God’s Kingdom, without a desperate hunger for God’s Word. It is through the Word that we know God and they that do know their God are those that do exploits.

A desperate desire for the Word of God is the gateway to signs and wonders. Every great man and woman ever used by God to manifest great miracles, all came to a point of spiritual ‘desperation’ in seeking after God, until He revealed His power to them.
Likewise, if we desire to see the manifestations of signs and wonders, our hearts must greatly hunger for God.
It is a spiritual law that only the hungry shall be filled.
Matthew 5:6 says those who hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled.

God’s Spirit is poured out in abundance upon those who hunger and thirst after Him.

In Isaiah 44:3-4 God says ‘For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring. And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses’

If our desire is to see the power and glory of God, then we must be thirsting, craving, longing and panting for it through a diligent search in the Word and prayers.

Psalm 63:1-2 says ‘O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.’

Just as our physical body hungers for food to survive, our spirit man relies on God’s Word to survive and thrive. Our nutritional source of spiritual energy and power is the Word.
I Peter 2:2 talks about the sincere milk of the Word which is for the growth of newly born again believers, and Hebrews 5:14 talks about the strong meat of the Word for full grown believers to discern between good and evil.

Just as your body is weak, if it does not eat food, your spirit man if not constantly fed God’s Word, will be weak.
A spiritually weak believer finds it difficult to fight off temptations and the attacks of the enemy. But when your spirit man is well fed with the Word, you will stand strong and constantly overcome the world through faith.

God has sent His Word to heal us and deliver us from destructions. People only perish for lack of knowledge of the Word.
When you load your heart with the Word, you are loading your heart with power. It is like loading a gun with bullets. You become too dangerous for any devil to handle.

Because life on earth involves constant spiritual warfare, we must endeavor to keep our spirit man always strong and well fed with God’s Word.
When we are filled with the Word, we will be full of power and live in victory, accomplishing signs and wonders upon the earth.

PRAYER; Lord, Please grant me renewed appetite and zeal for Your Word. Please enable me to always give the study of Your Word top priority in my life, so that I can constantly be empowered to overcome and do exploits on the earth in Jesus Name.

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God’s Word is God’s ‘prescription’ for every area of your life, let God’s Word fix every situation in your life. WORDBITE 222.