DESPERATE FOR WATER
05th Feb 2025
It’s hard not to be overwhelmed when you hear of many sad situations. Maybe you said you would pray, but how? I was reading in the early chapters of Job and a verse leapt out at me. I had seen it before, but the Holy Spirit used it to show me how to pray for a particular situation.
Job 14:7 says, “At least there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, it will sprout again and its new shoots will not fail. Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.”
We have all seen neglected plants, water starved, but once awakened, in a short time they perk up and begin to look alive. We all need water, the living water of the Spirit of God. He refreshes, revives, and renews hope and vision.
Joel 2:28 says, “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth.”
In Acts 2, Peter quotes this scripture and explains the outpouring of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost as the fulfilment of what was prophesied in Joel.
I woke early last Sunday and found myself singing words from a popular worship song - “Consuming fire, fan into flame a passion for your Name, Spirit of God, would you fall in this place? Lord have your way, Lord have your way with us.”
We pray for the Holy Spirit to fan into flames a passion for more of Jesus, a re-awakening of Spiritual gifts active in our fellowships. The song continues, “Come like a rushing wind, cloth us with power from on high….”
I’m praying for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on me, asking the Spirit to stir up any passion I’ve let diminish; also to be poured out on our church gatherings, to activate prayer and expectancy.
We all need water, to see new growth, to refresh and to give hope.
by Joyce Sibthorpe
