I know of few words that hold more power than
the words hunger, thirst, and desperation.
There is such a singleness of focus that accompanies the occurrence of these words in every day
life. It seems that there is some unseen force behind those in desperation, driving them to do things that
they would otherwise never have done.
Through the ages we have seen this played out time after time in the negative sense. But
what would happen if all that power were released in a positive direction? The results would be fathomless,
reaching far beyond anything humanly comprehensible. When one is desperate enough, they will not rest until
they obtain that which they so desperately seek.
That is exactly what David was crying out in the 63rd Psalm. Somewhere
in his countless encounters with Almighty God, he got a glimpse into another realm – the realm of Life as God knows
it – and he was never again satisfied with living just a mere existence. He had tasted and seen
that the Lord is absolute unfiltered goodness – and he just couldn’t live without it.
He penned this Psalm while
he was in the wilderness of Judah, running for his life from one of his greatest enemies, Saul, who was also his king.
David’s opening words,
“O God, You are my God; early will I seek Thee; my soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth
for Thee in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water….” – show that in the
midst of a land that was dry and thirsty, it wasn’t natural water David was desperate for.
This man of God was thirsty for one thing
alone – God Himself!
“I want to drink God, deep draughts of God. I am thirsty
for God alive!” –
Psalm 42.2 (Message)
Yet, his thirst was reaching out for even more than that. Throughout his whole life,
he had worshipped and talked to God, spent countless hours beholding the manifestation of God’s power and glory in the
midst of the congregation as they all with one voice praised Him in the sanctuary. But it wasn’t
enough!
David was desperate for
demonstration, beyond the walls of the sanctuary. “My soul
thirsts….my flesh longs….to see Thy power and Thy glory so as I have seen Thee in the sanctuary.”
His cry was to experience
the same power and the same glory in every area of his life just like he had seen and experienced it in the inner sanctuary.
Unlike us as New Testament
believers, David didn’t have the privilege of the Spirit of God living inside him – although,
he did still have a very close friendship with God. For us today, the inner sanctuary is our heart.
Like David we have seen and experienced God’s power and glory in our own sanctuary.
Now the question is, are we satisfied to
just know that power and glory on the inside – or do we long for that same power and glory to be unleashed
on our ordinary everyday world – and if so, how desperate are we for it?
You won’t see or experience His power in
your circumstances unless you are desperate for God to demonstrate Himself beyond the walls of your inner sanctuary –
so desperate that it is the number one cry of your heart.
The word desperate in the negative sense means: “driven to violence
due to despair; extremely dangerous or serious; reckless from loss of hope.” Ephesians 2.12
says that we are not “without hope and without God in the world.” So because of
Jesus, we no longer have to live in despair. He is our joy and our Redeemer from the law of sin and death.
He has come that we may have and enjoy real life in abundance.
How are we to be desperate? We are to be desperate in faith!
The definition of the word desperate extends to mean anything for which you have “a very great
need or desire; needing or desiring very much; drastic; extreme; having an intense passion for”.
In its positive sense, desperate
closely parallels with the Biblical meaning of the word hope – “intense, earnest expectation,
strained expectancy, an abstraction from anything else that might engage the attention.”
This further enforces the
fact that a strong singleness of focus accompanies hunger, thirst, and desperation.
When you are really desperate for something,
you will have an automatic abstraction from anything that might engage or divert your attention away from what you are desperate
for.
In order to experience the
fullness of God’s power and glory beyond your inner sanctuary, you have to possess that kind of desperation.
If you are thinking that you don’t have the intense desperation that it takes – stop! God
will never leave anyone without the elements they need to succeed.
Romans 8.32 declares “He Who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him
up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” If He did not
even withhold His Own Son, Jesus, but freely gave Him up for our redemption, He surely will not deny you
every other good and beneficial thing.
So when it comes to being desperate enough, start by taking some time out to evaluate your own heart
and passions.
Are you completely satisfied with where you are in life right now, or do you hunger for more beyond that?
Do you just want to settle
for trying to obtain the greater things you desire by your own efforts, or is there some where deep inside a longing for the
power and glory of God to manifest in your midst – supernaturally transforming your circumstances
and transporting you into a life beyond anything you could dream?
I know of no one who hasn’t at some time hungered for that which is supernaturally beyond
themselves. But to really ever see those things become a reality, we have to refuse that which tries to
hold us to complacency and stir up the gift that is in us – desperation for His power and glory.
It is not just about our
own individual lives, (although God is even more concerned about the minutest details of our lives than we are)
– but it is because our greatest fulfillment is not in having all our personal needs and desires
met.
Being created in the very
image and likeness of God Himself – our greatest passion deep inside is to release His power and glory within our spirit
to explode into manifestation upon this entire universe – bringing life and wholeness to every creature
in existence. When God spoke “Light Be!” the power He released through those
words was so explosive that it is still expanding this universe at the speed of light! That very power
and glory is inhabiting the inner sanctuary of our heart!
God alone knows the enormity of impact that will take place when we will but begin to let Him release
that power and glory through us. All that we’ve ever longed for and more is just right there inside
us.
All we have to do is begin
crying out – “God, I am desperate for Your demonstration . . . through
me!!”
Copyright © October 2005
Sharah LaGail
Wyatt / First Love Ministries International
P O Box 163974
Ft Worth, TX 76161 / www.ps27fr.org
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