Sunday, 10 May 2009

All who are thirsty..

Luke 23:31
For if these things are done when the tree is 
green, what will happen when it is dry?[a]”
--Footnotes:
[a]Or If these things are done to Me, the 
living tree, what will happen to you, the drytree?

Ezekiel 37:4,5,9,11,14
4 Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to these bones and say, ‘
Dry bones, listen to the word of the Lord!
5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look! I am going to put 
breath into you and make you live again!
9 Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to the winds, son of man. Speak a prophetic message and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.’”
11 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones represent the people of Israel. They are saying, ‘We have become old, dry bones—all hope is gone. Our nation is finished.’
14 
I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live again and return home to your own land. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken, and I have done what I said. Yes, the Lord has spoken!’”

Psalm 63:1,5
1 O God, you are my God;I earnestly search for you.
My soul 
thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water.
5 You 
satisfy me more than the richest feast. I will praise you with songs of joy.

Psalm 68:9
You sent 
abundant rain, O God, to refresh the weary land.

Psalm 107:9,33-38
9 For he satisfies the 
thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
33 He changes rivers into deserts, and springs of water into dry, thirsty land.
34 He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.
35 
But he also turns deserts into pools of water, the dry land into springs of water.
36 He brings the hungry to settle there and to build their cities.
37 They sow their fields, plant their vineyards, and harvest their bumper crops.
38 How he 
blesses them! They raise large families there, and their herds of livestock increase.

Isaiah 32:15
until at last the 
Spirit is poured out on us from heaven.
Then the 
wilderness will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will yield bountiful crops.

Isaiah 41:17-20
“When the poor and needy search for 
water and there is none, and their tongues are parched from thirst,
then I, the Lord, will answer them.
I, the God of Israel, will never abandon them.
I will open up 
rivers for them on the high plateaus.
I will give them 
fountains of water in the valleys.
I will fill the desert with 
pools of water.
Rivers fed by springs will flow across the parched ground.
I will plant 
trees in the barren desert— cedar, acacia, myrtle, olive, cypress, fir, and pine.
I am doing this so all who see this miracle will understand what it means—
that it is the Lord who has done this, the Holy One of Israel who created it.

Isaiah 44:1-4
“But now, listen to me, Jacob my servant, Israel my chosen one.
The Lord who made you and helps you says:
Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, O dear Israel, my chosen one.
For I will pour out water to quench your thirst and to irrigate your parched fields.
And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children.
They will thrive like watered grass, like willows on a riverbank.

John 7:37-39
On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds,
“Anyone who is 
thirsty may come to me! Anyone who believes in me may come and drink!
For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”
(When he said “living water,” he was speaking of the 
Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him. But the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory.)

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