Peter explained that we need times of refreshment from the Presence of the Lord. In these hours, we must come into the Presence of God and come to the well that we might drink and be refreshed, renewed, and restored.
“How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! Therefore the children of me put their trust under the shadow of Your winds. They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house, and You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.”
Psalm 36: 7-9
The Lord is looking for thirsty people who have a deep cry in their spirit that only He can satisfy. Smith Wigglesworth said:
God is love. “He who abides in love abides in God” (1 John 4:16). God wants to take ordinary men and bring them into extraordinary conditions. God has room for the thirsty man who is crying out for more of Himself. It is not what we are, but it is what God wants us to be. Beloved, let us rededicate ourselves afresh to God!
All those who come thirsty, not alone will He satisfy, He will give them living water. Do we hear the cry of the Master:
“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
John 7: 37, 38
He calls all who are thirsty to “Come!” Will we hear His voice and come to the treasury of His heart? He has an abundance to give us. Smith explains:
The Word of God changes a person until he becomes an epistle of God (2 Cor. 3:3). The Word transforms the mind, changes the character, and gives us an inheritance in the Spirit, until we are conformed-God coming in, dwelling in us, walking and talking through us. There is no God like our God.
If we are thirsty, then we will receive from Him! How often we come to Him but refuse to receive, but when we are thirsty, everything changes. How many of us have been Jacobs, those who want to do great things for God, but we are the ones trying to make it happen? It looked impossible that the promise would happen unless Jacob took action. Have we done the same as Jacob? Have we stood on a promise that seemed impossible, and we think we must do something to make it happen? We have become weary and drained. All our efforts have failed and brought us to a place where we are at our end.
But as we come to His Presence, He calls us to come and drink so that we might be refreshed, restored, and renewed. Smith explained:
Let us save ourselves from all this trouble by letting the Holy Spirit fill our hearts. Don’t depend on any past tense, any past momentum, but let the anointing be upon you, let the presence and the power be upon you. Are you thirsty, longing, desiring? Then God will pour out of His treasures all you need. God wants to satisfy us with His great, abounding, holy love, imparting love upon love and faith upon faith.
We must understand that if we don’t come and get refreshed, we will never be able to face tomorrow. Without a drink, we don’t have life, peace, or joy.
“But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
Isaiah 40: 31
The Lord calls us to come to be strengthened, stirred, and encouraged. The Lord wants to lift us and cause us to mount up so that we might reach new heights.
When you are weary and tempted and tried, and all men are against you, consider Him who has passed through it all so that He might be able to help you in the trial as you are passing through it. He will sustain you in strife. When all things seem to indicate that you have failed, the Lord of Hosts, the God of Jacob, the salvation of our Christ will so reinforce you that you will be stronger than any concrete building that was ever made.
The Lord seeks to free us from all sense of failure and cause the vision to come forth with greater clarity. He wants us to see that He is the Almighty God and will bring it forth in His power. All human power will fail, and we will find ourselves dry and weary. We need a drink of living water.
Paul wrote:
“For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.”
2 Corinthians 5: 4, 5
Oh, to come and drink that we might be swallowed up in the Holy Spirit until we are utterly transformed. In the past, we have sought to make it happen in our power. We have tried everything to see our loved ones saved, or our call breaks forth. We come to an end, and our hope seems to have faded. But in Secret Place, we are swallowed up in the Spirit. All our past efforts were by us in the natural order or according to our ability. Now we are lifted and brought into the abundance of the Spirit. Our natural strength is limited and fails us most when we need it. But when we come and drink, we are consumed by the Spirit and brought into His perfect strength.
Smith explained:
Yes, you can, beloved! God says it in the Scriptures. Oh, beloved, loved, it is weakness that is made strong (2 Cor. 12:9). It is the last who can be made first (Matt. 19:30). What will make the whole situation different? Confessing our helplessness. God says that He feeds the hungry with good things, but the satisfied He sends away empty (Luke 1:53). If you want to grow in grace and in the knowledge ledge of the grace of God, get hungry enough to be fed; get thirsty enough to cry out; be broken enough that you do not want anything thing in the world unless He comes Himself.
Do we hear the Master call to us to ‘Come!” For when we hear His voice it stirs a thirst within us. Oh, that we would be thirsty! Have we come to an end?
I desire that all of you be so filled with the Spirit, so hungry, so thirsty, that nothing will satisfy you but seeing Jesus. We are to get more thirsty every day, more dry every day, until the floods come and the Master passes by, ministering to us and through us the same life, the same inspiration, so that “as He is, so are we in this world” (1 John 4:17).
