{"id":6847,"date":"2019-04-18T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6847"},"modified":"2019-04-18T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T17:44:38","slug":"thirsty-for-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/thirsty-for-god-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THIRSTY FOR GOD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Psalm 42:1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On a blistering hot sunny day, a glass of cool clear water is a refreshing treat that often calls for more than one glass before our thirst is satisfied. I only wish we had that same thirst for God and His Word.<\/p>\n<p>The Psalmist David had this kind of thirst for his God. It is well to remember how David is described in I Samuel 13:14 as <strong><em><span style=\"color: #c40000;\">\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0has sought for Himself a man after His own heart.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>How would the Lord describe you? How would He describe me?<\/p>\n<p>If we hunger and thirst after the things of God we will find ourselves constantly wanting to spend time in His Word and speaking with Him in our private place of prayer.<\/p>\n<p>To measure our thirst for God let\u2019s evaluate the time we spend seeking to be alone with Him. Do we have a place and time set aside that we devote to seeking a closer walk with Him? Can we be found faithful in placing His will for our life ahead of our own self-centered will? (It\u2019s getting a little quiet in here, isn\u2019t it?)<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211;\u00a0Pastor Cecil\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 42:1 \u201cAs the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.\u201d On a blistering hot sunny day, a glass of cool clear water is a refreshing treat that often calls for more than one glass before our thirst is satisfied. I only wish we had that same thirst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}