Thirsty Souls

9NINE

August 23, 2015
Amazing Life Church
“Thirsty Souls”
Greet People
I have really enjoyed the series the last few weeks as I
have focused on dominion and vision. I pray that
something said has stuck in your heart and mind like a
seed and will grow into a powerful walk with Christ. I
pray that you will be stirred in your heart and soul to see
the supernatural take place. I will never leave the theme
for I believe it is the destiny of the body of Christ and
the hope for a dying world. The church must return to
the Gospel of Christ and proving it with signs and
wonders. It is who we are.
With that said there must occur what I call an attitude
adjustment. To move forward in the supernatural you
have to become willing to take risks. Risking your pride
so that God can do great things in you and through you.
Remember that repentance not only means turning away
from your sins and your past. It means changing the
way you think.Page 2
As I get into todays message titled, “Thirsty Souls” it
will not be the path everyone will take. Be clear if you
are one who becomes willing to risk all to see the
supernatural happen. We can not do it without others in
the church holding us up in prayer and support. It takes
every single person in the Body of Christ to be what the
church should be.
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The first thing that will materialize in people who are
willing to risk everything is thirst. Not a thirst like the
one you had before you met Christ. This is a thirst for
more of Him. More revelation, more power to confirm
Him in our world. Let me state emphatically that He
will satisfy that thirst, but it often comes with a cost.
The sons of Korah wrote a very significant Psalm to this
message.
Psalms 42:1-3 NASB
1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul
pants for You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When
shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night, While
they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”Page 3
Psalms 42:1-3 Message
1-3 A white-tailed deer drinks from the creek; I want to
drink God, deep draughts of God. I’m thirsty for God-
alive. I wonder, “Will I ever make it— arrive and drink
in God’s presence?” I’m on a diet of tears— tears for
breakfast, tears for supper. All day long people knock at
my door, Pestering, “Where is this God of yours?”
The Psalms goes on sharing failure, loneliness,
rejection. It seems they shook themselves in verse 5 by
saying, “Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why
have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God,
for I shall again praise Him For the help of His
presence.”
They went on to talk about being in despair and rolled
over by life. They finished this way.
Psalms 42:11 Message
Why are you down in the dumps, dear soul? Why are
you crying the blues? Fix my eyes on God—soon I’ll be
praising again. He puts a smile on my face. He’s my
God.
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Access to the supernatural can begin with a lonely path.
There is a lot of praying, crying, believing, and
wondering why. It is as it always has been. People
wonder why you are so serious. Why you pray or read
so much. In your life moments they will wonder where
this God is you talk so much about.
Your victories and your dreams will be difficult to
explain and even more difficult for others to understand.
For all of us there is a constant call to make God 1 st in
our lives. I want to take you to Matthew the 6 th chapter.
Please read the whole chapter when you can. Jesus is
doing some amazing teaching. Explaining how to be
real with your faith and your prayers. Revealing the
traps of life and how to avoid them. Within chapter 6 is
the Lord’s prayer that I hope you have been praying
every day. He explains the eye being the light of the
body and how we should be careful what we cast our
eyes upon. He talks about food, drink, and shelter and
shares how the Father takes care of all of His creation.
We should not worry for ourselves because the Father
will provide. Then He makes this remarkable statement
in light of our natural desire to provide for ourselves as
best as we can.Page 5
A passage you are probably very familiar with.
Matthew 6:33 NASB
But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and
all these things will be added to you.
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But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His
kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and
being right), and then all these things taken together will
be given you besides.
I have shared this passage many times so I will not
spend a lot of time with it as there are 2 very important
points I have to make. Just to say this.
“To seek Him first is to pursue God’s dominion in
every aspect of life. The supernatural is all about the
dominion of God and the character of Christ.”
In Mark the 9 th chapter verses 14-29 we find the story of
the young boy who was tormented by demons. His
father had petitioned the disciples to cast them out and
they could not. He came to Jesus and our Lord did some
teaching and reinforcing the power of believing.
Jesus then commanded the spirits to leave and the boy
was made whole again.Page 6
Mark 9:28-29 NASB
28 When He came into the house, His disciples began
questioning Him privately, “Why could we not drive it
out?”
29 And He said to them, “This kind cannot come out by
anything but prayer.”
Now many of us have prayed prayers that have not been
answered but I want you to consider this from these two
passages.
When you pray a prayer that is founded in Biblical faith,
supported with Biblical promises and is relevant to the
Kingdom authority that Christ has transferred to His
church. If your prayer goes unanswered; “It is ok to ask
why.”
Christ will use your desire to grow to teach you how to
be successful in prayer the next time.
Hebrews 4:16 NASB
Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne
of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to
help in time of need.
One more thing.
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Matthew 11 verses 7-15 record the tribute to John the
Baptist by Jesus. It is verse 12 that interests me today.
Matthew 11:12 NASB
From the days of John the Baptist until now the
kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men
take it by force.
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And from the days of John the Baptist until the present
time, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent
assault, and violent men seize it by force [as a precious
prize—a share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with
most ardent zeal and intense exertion].
In Matthew 21 Jesus is sharing the story of the Father
who sent his 2 sons to the vineyard to work. One said I
won’t go but later went. One said I will go but didn’t.
Matthew 21:31-32 NASB
31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They
said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you
that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the
kingdom of God before you.
32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness
and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and
prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not
even feel remorse afterward so as to believe him.Page 8
Luke 16:16 NASB
“The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John;
since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has
been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
These scriptures are the revelation of Matthew 11:12.
They are showing how the message of Christ was first
to the Jews. It was for the 12 tribes that John came to
awaken and Jesus came to save. They had very little
response to the Kingdom message unlike the worst of
the worst who forced their way past the entitled and and
entered into the kingdom by faith in the message they
heard.
Something about the message that will change lives
and give hope to the hopeless.
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