“ THIRSTING FOR THE WATER OF LIFE ”

PSALM 42:1-3

1. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.  

2. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

3. My tears have been my meat day and night, while they

continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

65-0919 THIRST_ TUCSON.AZ V-16 N-6 SUNDAY22 Many times, God gets us in tight corners where we have to look up. Sometimes we even have to get on our back in the hospital, or a bed somewhere, so we can look up to see where the great blessings of God comes from. Now the word I want to speak from tonight, one word out of the Bible, and that is found in the 2nd verse, the word: “Thirst”. I was looking in the dictionary when I was looking up this word.

DEFINITION OF THIRST:

Thirst is the craving for fluids, resulting in the basic instinct of animals to drink. It is an essential mechanism involved in fluid balance. It arises from a lack of fluids or an increase in the concentration of certain osmolites, such as salt. If the water volume of the body falls below a certain threshold or the osmolite concentration becomes too high, the brain signals thirst.

Continuous dehydration can cause many problems, but is most often associated with renal problems and neurological problems such as seizures. Excessive thirst, known as polydipsia, along with excessive urination, known as polyuria, may be an indication of diabetes mellitus or diabetes insipidus.

There are receptors and other systems in the body that detect a decreased volume or an increased osmolite concentration. They signal to the central nervous system, where central processing succeeds

Some sources, therefore, distinguish "extracellular thirst" from "intracellular thirst", where extracellular thirst is thirst generated by decreased volume and intracellular thirst is thirst generated by increased osmolite concentration. Nevertheless, the craving itself is something generated from central processing in the brain, no matter how it is detected.

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26 Now, it's not an unnatural thing, to thirst. Thirst is a natural thing. It's just simply something that God has given us, that we could, to give us a desire for something. Sometimes God has, also, has given you a control tower, something that sets inside of you, that controls these different desires. And this thirst, this control tower that sets in a man's heart, is something that God give him to warn him of the desires that's needful for him.

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27 Now there is two different kinds of thirst. There is a thirst, physically. And there is a thirst, also, spiritually. I would like to read this, what David said, again.My soul thirsts for God, for the living God:...28 Not some historical, or some something that happened some years ago, or some tale that someone told; but, "for the living God," a God that's ever present. And his soul thirsted for that God, not for some historical something.

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29 Now we find, God gives the control tower to you, to give to you the things that you need. Now, the control tower in you is what directs you. And this thirst runs in on this control tower, and tells you what you have need of, spiritually speaking. The control tower in the body, and in the soul, also. There is a control tower in the body, that tells you the need that's needed in your body, and it's brought to you by thirst.

Also, there is a control tower in your soul, that tells you the spiritual things that you have need of, something in your spirit, and you by this can tell what kind of a life is controlling you.

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30 When you can see what your desires are, then you can tell, by that, what kind of something that's in you, that's creating this desire that you have. See, there is a certain thing that you thirst for, and it can tell you in your soul what this desire is, by the nature of the thirst that you have. I hope that you can understand that.

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3 There is a control tower of the soul, and one for the body, and each tower is a warning caller for the needs of the other. Each one calls to the need for what the caller is calling for, it sends out a wave of warning.

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32 For instance, the flesh thirst to satisfy the desires that's in the body, and the spirit desires for the things that's in the soul, desire is, and many times these war one against the other. We find there, what's a great trouble today, that too many people try to live between those two desires. For, one of them desires the things of the earth, the other desires the things of Heaven.

ROMANS 7:19-22

19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

ROMANS 7:23-24

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.24 Oh wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

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E-25 Now, some people think that drinking, and smoking, and gambling, and, oh, trying to do the things that they do in revelry, they think that that's life, but it's death. And what makes them do that anyhow? Here's the reason they do it. Because God made a human being to thirst. You were made for that purpose. Every organ in your body was made for a purpose. Everything is for a purpose.

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And God made a man to thirst, because He wanted him to thirst after Him. But the devil has perverted it, and he's trying to make you think something different and trying quench that blessed holy thirst by filling it with sin. He's giving you death in the stead of life. It's a perverted life. It cannot be the right life. And the devil is doing that, because that God made you to thirst, but thirst after Him.

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That little flame in you that wants to rejoice, get on the dance floor, and carry on, that's perverted. That thing that makes you to want to drink, and act the way the people do, the devil is trying to take sin and quench that God-given thirst, when God made you to thirst for Him.

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And you can never be satisfied until God comes in and satisfies that thirst. Oh, how dare you to try to quench that blessed holy thirst with the things of the world, when God give it to you to thirst after Him.

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E-26 Now, I hope I don't hurt anyone's feeling, unless it's deserved, but I just want to call some things to remembrance to you. What's happened to the church lately? The church used to be a separated people. I didn't know what group I was speaking to until the man told me here, I was speaking to Pentecostal people.

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Now, let's go back just a little bit. You know, a few years ago, it was wrong for Pentecostal women to cut their hair. What happened? If it was wrong then, it's wrong now. Now, you say, "Well, my pastor..." Well, you need a new pastor.

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The Scripture says, "If a woman cuts her hair, she dishonors her husband. And if she's dishonorable, she should be divorced." You won't like me after this, but I'm going to be honest. But at the day of judgment, I don't want to stand with that wishy- washy bunch, who was ashamed to tell you. Preaching's not a meal-ticket, it's a responsibility to God to tell the truth.

JOHN 4:4-74 And he must needs go through Samaria. 5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar,

near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

JOHN 4:8-10 8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) 9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of

God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would havegiven thee living water.

JOHN 4:11-12

11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

JOHN 4:13-1513 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of

this water shall thirst again:

14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

JOHN 4:16-18

16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband.

Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

JOHN 4:19-2219 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in

Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh,

when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

JOHN 4:23-26 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers

shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh,

which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

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44 See, it's something natural. It's not an unnatural thing to thirst for God. It's a natural thing. It's just something that you should do. God has made you up like that. And it's no super human, it's just actually a common human being. It ain't just special for some people.

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45 They say, "Well, I've seen some people live such a victorious life, that they're constantly on the housetop, they're praising God. Wish I could feel that way." Well, the reason you are feeling that way, it's the thirst in you. And it's just a natural thing. It's for every person, to thirst for God.

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46 Now we'll take some of the natural. Thirst is first. Let's take, for instance, thirsting for water. As David said here, thirsting for, of "the water." Thirsting for water, the body is in need of water. And if you don't supply that thirst, you'll perish. You will dehydrate, and you won't live. If you can't get water to that thirst, to quench that thirst of the natural body you will soon perish. You won't live long. You can live longer without food than you can without water.

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Because, you can fast for forty days (Jesus did), I suppose, without food, but you couldn't do that long without water. You would just simply dry up and die. You must have water. And the thirst that comes on you, why, it's to show that the body is in need of something, to keep it alive. The body has got to have the water, in order to stay alive.

65-0919 THIRST_ TUCSON.AZ V-16 N-6 SUNDAY You are eighty-something percent of water and petroleum, anyhow, and you've got to take these sources in, to keep you alive. As I have said, if you neglect it you'll perish. 47 The thirst also is an alarm. It's an alarm clock, that thirsting. The soul sets off alarm clock, a little buzzer inside of you that tells you that death has lurking nigh. That, if you don't get water pretty soon, you've got to die. And it gets louder and louder, until finally you keep putting it off and you'll die, because it's an alarm clock.

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96 Now Satan takes these things, as I said, and perverts them. Then if you won't give that thirst the right place in your life, and won't thirst and take the things that God provided to stop that thirst with, to quench it, then Satan will lead you to some of his stagnant cesspools of this world. You must have it somewhere.

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If you can't find food, you'd eat from a garbage can. And if you couldn't find water, and you was dying, you'd drink out of a pool of any kind, because you are perishing.97 But there is no reason for that, when you're thirsting for God, because God is a living God, not some historical something. "My soul thirsts for Thee, the living God," Something that gives living waters, Something that satisfies.

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98 There is another nature, natural, just a natural thirst, in that thirst of the soul. You might say, "Brother Branham, is that soul thirst, is that natural?" Yes, that's natural for a soul to thirst. And it's, for God made you this way, that so that you would thirst for Him. He wants you to thirst after Him. Now, God made you like that. He didn't have to make you like that, but He did do it.

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And if He hadn't have made you like that, so that you would thirst, there would be an excuse at the Judgment Bar, say, "I never did thirst for God." But, there is no excuse, you do. You will make it something; you might make it your wife, you might make it your car, you might make it something else, you might go to church and try to satisfy it. And I have nothing against going to church, but that isn't the satisfaction.

It's to find God, the living God, the God of Heaven, into your soul, that satisfies that longing and thirsting that you long for.

WMB

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99 Now, for, He made you so you could thirst for Him, for His fellowship. Now, there is genuine thirst for fellowship. Now we like to meet with one another. We're doing that tonight. We meet here together tonight because we like to fellowship, one with the other. Why do we do that? Because there is something in us that we want to meet one another. That's just natural. And now we meet on a common ground here, that is, because we are all thirsting for God.

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101 And now how Satan tries to pervert this satisfying of the soul, that thirst for the soul! He tries to give you everything to satisfy it. And he is so deceitful in these days of perversion. This is a perverted world. It's a perverted race. It's a perverted people.

DO YOU STAND FOR ME OR AGAINST ME BY THESE TRUTHS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM

Oh They Are Just, So Nice, And Holy, And Pure As The Snow, They Are So Friendly And Their SAYINGS And Poems Are Just So Touching NO MATTER HOW SWEET AND RELIGIOUS THEY SOUND, "Gods" Speak The Godly Language Of The Third Coming, Son Of David Word For Our Day And Hour, Devils Speak A Perverted Language, They Speak Of Their Unparalled Walk With The Lord, And Do Not Identify Themselves With Their Sacrifice, After All They Are So holy, That, It Is Ok To Leave Out The Word For Their Day And hour And Not Even Mention It. There Is A Price To Pay, WE ARE NOT THE SAME

~ Reg Kegley ~

AS THE MUSCIANS COME

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Everything is perverted, and has perverted so gradual until it's become the most deceitful age that any human being ever lived in. It's more deceitful than it ever was.102 Now you just can't imagine of how deceitful the nation's got, even with our own brethren, like American people.

"Do not be ashamed to declared "I Am He", you are His Physical Image in this Third Coming. He said, "I "IN" you and you "IN" me, "I'll never leave you, where I AM there you may be also" If you catch in Full Light what He meant by Revelation, then Both of you is just One Person, then you are fully convinced that you're His Physical Presence today. That's the reason your Heart sets on Fire, for you are His Physical Appearance in the Midst of His General Assembly. Each one of us is His Physical Image, as a True Witness that “He” JESUS CHRIST is here." We are Not waiting, We are Him in earth on this Third Day.

~ Louie Villamor ~

“ THIRSTING FOR THE WATER OF LIFE ”