Conference yukon::christian_v7

688.0. "I THIRST FOR YOU" by VNABRW::WILLIAMS () Wed Mar 08 1995 06:01

    I would like to share with you the following words that I received in
    the post today. It is titled "I THIRST FOR YOU". Maybe one of you is
    meant to receive it.
    
    "BEHOLD I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK.... (REV.3:20)
    
    It is true. I stand at the door of your heart, day and night. Even when
    you are not listening, even when you doubt it could be Me, I am there.
    I await even the smallest sign of your response, even the least
    whispered invitation that will allow me to enter.
    
    And I want you to know that whenever you invite Me, I do come - always,
    without fail. Silent and unseen I come, but with infinate power and
    love, and bringing the many gifts of My Spirit. I come with mercy, with
    My desire to forgive and heal you, and with love for you beyond your
    comprehension - a love every bit as great as the love I have received
    from the Father. ("As much as the Father has loved me, I have loved
    you.. [Jn. 15:10]). I come - longing to console you and give you
    strength, to lift you up and bind all your wounds. I bring you My light,
    to dispel your darkness and all your doubts. I come with My power, that
    I might carry you and all your burdens; with My grace, to touch your
    heart and transform your life; and My peace I give to still your soul.
    
    I know you through and through - I know everything about you. The very
    hairs on your head I have numbered. Nothing in your life is unimportant
    to Me. I have followed you through the years, and I have always loved
    you - even in your wanderings. I know every one of your problems. I
    know your needs and your worries. And yes I know all your sins. But I
    tell you again that I love you - not for what you have or haven't done
    - I love you for you, for your beauty and dignity My Father gave you by
    creating you in His own image. It is dignity you have often forgotten,
    a beauty you have tarnished by sin. But I love you as you are, and I
    have shed My Blood to win you back. If you only ask me with faith, My
    grace will touch all that needs changing in your life; and will give
    you strength to free yourself from sin and all its destructive power.
    
    I know what is in you heart - I know your loneliness and all your hurts
    - the rejections. the judgments, the humiliations. I carried it all
    before you. And carried it all for you, so you might share My strength
    and victory. I know especially your need for love - know you are
    thirsting to be loved and cherished. But how often have you thirsted in
    vain, by seeking that love selfishly, striving to fill the emptiness
    inside you with passing pleasures - with the greater emptiness of sin.
    Do you thirst for love? "Come to Me all you who thirst..."(Jn. 7:37). I
    will satisfy you and fill you. Do you thirst to be cherished? I cherish
    you more than you can imagine - to the point of dying on the cross for
    you.
    
    I thirst for you. Yes, that is the only way to begin to describe My
    love for you: I THIRST FOR YOU. I thirst to love you and be loved by
    you - that is how precious you are to me. I THIRST FOR YOU. Come to Me,
    and I will fill your heart and heal your wounds. I will make you a new
    creation, and give you peace, even in all your trials. I THIRST FOR
    YOU. You must never doubt My mercy, My acceptance of you, My desire to
    forgive, My longingness to bless you and live My life in you. I THIRST
    FOR YOU. If you feel unimportant in the eyes of the world, that matters
    not at all. For Me, there is no one any more important in the entire
    world than you. I THIRST FOR YOU. Open to Me, come to Me, thirst for
    me, give me your life and I will prove to you how important you are to
    My Heart.
    
    Don't you realize that My Father already has a perfect plan to
    transform your life, beginning from this moment? Trust in Me. Ask Me
    every day to enter and take charge of your life - and I will. I promise
    you before My father in heaven that I will work miracles in your life.
    Why whould I do this? Because I THIRST FOR YOU. All I ask of you is
    that you entrust yourself to Me completely. I will do all the rest.
    
    Even now I hehold the place My Father has prepared for you in My
    Kingdom. Remember that you are a pilgrim in this life, on a journey
    home. Sin can never satisfy you, or bring the peace you seek. All that
    you have sought outside of Me has only left you more empty, so do not
    cling to the things of life. Above all, do not run from Me when you
    fall. Come to me without delay. When you give me your sins you give Me
    the joy of being your Savior. There is nothing I cannot forgive and
    heal; so come now, and unburden your soul.
    
    No matter how far you may wander, no matter how often you forget Me, no
    matter how many crosses you may bear in this life: there is one thing I
    want you to always to remember, one thing that will never change: I
    THIRST FOR YOU - just as you are. You don't need to change to believe
    in My love, For it will be your belief in My love that will change you.
    You forget Me, and yet I am seeking you every moment of the day -
    standing at the door of your heart, and knocking. Do you find this hard
    to believe? Then look at the cross, look at My Heart that was pierced
    for you. Have you not understood My cross? Then listen again to the
    words I spoke there - and they will tell you clearly why I endured all
    this for you: "I THIRST" Yes, I thirst for you. I looked for love, and
    found none. (Ps. 69:20). All your life I have been looking for your
    love - I have never stopped seeking to love you and be loved by you.
    You have tried many other things in your search for happiness; why not
    try opening your heart to Me, right now, more than you ever have
    before.
    
    Whenever you doO pen the door of your heart, whenever you come close
    enough, you will hear Me say again and again, not in mere human words
    but in spirit: "No matter what you have done, I love you for your own
    sake. Come to me with your misery and your sins, with your troubles and
    needs, and with all you longing to be loved. I stand at the door of
    your heart and knock...Open to Me, For I THIRST FOR YOU....   
                    
    

Thank you.  Much appreciated.

							Andrew

    Thanks, indeed. 
    
    
    
    -steve

    That's beautiful - thanks, and thank you Jesus
    
    Ben

    Thank you, and this makes me think of a praise titled
    
    	       		LORD, I thirst for YOU
    
    It goes like this :
    
    Lord, I thirst for You,
    I long to be in Your presence,
    My soul will wait on You,
    Father, draw me nearer, draw me nearer,
    To the beauty of Your holiness.
    
    I will wait for You, Oh Mighty God,
    In the beauty of Your holiness,
    I will worship You, oh Mighty God,
    In the beauty of Your holiness.	
    
    
    God bless,
    Mui Choo

    Thank you.  
    
    I *needed* to hear that today.
    
    

    Thank you for pesting that. That put Jesus in a real personal context
    for me, which I have desperately needed these last few days.
    
      I guess you reached the one you hoped really needed this.
    
    Thank you,
    
    Joe