For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
—Isaiah 44:3 (NIV)
Life may appear without hope to some, Lord, but to someone who knows they are filled with You—who believes Your truth in their heart—it is a life bursting with abundant promise. My heart hungers to know this new person You have made me completely. My thirsty soul consumes Your Word to understand who I am.
“I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland,” You promise me, “to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise” (Isaiah 43:20b-21, NIV).
You made me to know You in my innermost being, Lord—not just to know about You but to know who You are in me. You have chosen me to be Yours. You have called me. You have justified me. You have glorified me. If You are for me, who can ever be against me? What can I say about these things? (Romans 8:30-31). I can say I believe them. I can say that these things are who I am as a new creation in You.
You have blessed me with every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3-4). When I hunger and thirst to know the righteousness You have given me, You fill me with understanding. When I ask, You generously give me with Your wisdom. (Matthew 5:6, James 1:5). I see Your spiritual blessings instead of my natural limitations. I see Your strength where I am humanly weak. When I hear Your Word, I am renewed by it (Romans 12:2). I guard Your Word in my heart. I guard the treasure of Your life within me. You yield Your truth in me. You produce Your life in me. I see with Your eyes instead of my own. I see Your promises instead of a life without hope.
You satisfy me with good things, Lord. My soul is continually renewed to soar like an eagle (Psalm 103:5). Nothing that comes against me has any power against who You have created me to be. I stand in Your victory over anything that comes (Isaiah 54:17). I condemn the devourer who comes to steal the Word from my heart. I submit to the authority of Your truth, and the enemy flees (James 4:7). He will keep trying, but he has nothing to refute Your Word with, Lord.
My life reaches beyond myself, Lord Jesus. It impacts others. My life either speaks life or death. It offers either despair or hope. It imparts failure or success. It kills a heart or encourages someone to reach beyond their natural limitations—beyond what they sense—to receive the spiritual understanding of what You have given them. I can’t encourage others to accept what I don’t spiritually understand is true. Continually teach me, Holy Spirit. Teach me the spiritual truths of who You are in me.
I was created to praise You, Lord. I was created to know You—to have a relationship with You—to be filled with Your spirit of wisdom and revelation in my knowledge of You—to be enlightened to know the hope of Your calling—to know Your power toward us who believe (Ephesians 1:17-19).
“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38, NKJV).
I believe I’m joined with You—one spirit with you, Lord (1 Corinthians 6:17). You pour Your life into me. You continually fill me again and again. My mind always hungers to know You. My heart always thirsts to believe. I draw from Your ever-streaming, never-ending abundance to never thirst again (John 4:14). I am loved. I am cherished. I am accepted. You have made everything right. I walk by faith and not by what I see or feel. What is not of faith is sin for me, Lord (Romans 14:23). I won’t give in to the temptations of despair and discouragement when nothing appears to change. I repent for the times that I have. Jesus, I have Your faith. I have Your hope and promise. Your promise is my promise. Upon those I love—upon my children and theirs—upon those I care for—upon those I pray for—upon those You bring into my life—You pour Your life and Your blessing.
In You, Jesus, mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed (Psalms 85:10). Grace gives more grace (James 4:6). Love breeds love through generations. It is Your promise that I am Yours and that You never forget those You love. Praise you for never forsaking me.
“I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,” You promise me. “Your children shall know me, And great shall be their peace” (Joel 2:25, Isaiah 54:13).
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