Then I was looking and thinking about that word "thirst," so I looked up in the dictionary, to see what it means. And here is what Webster says, "It's a painful desire," a painful, when you want something so bad until it becomes painful to you.

Now there is two different kinds of thirst. There is a thirst, physically. And there is a thirst, also, spiritually.

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.

Many times you find, when you're prayed for, in a meeting, for Divine healing, then the next day you find out, no doubt, that the devil will make that twice as bad as it was the day before. See? Remember, that's just Satan trying to get you away from the blessing that God has got for you. See? Don't you listen to that fellow. See? Always press right on.

As long as they are human, there is something in them, a natural thirst, calling out for God, somewhere.

Unless I can find You, Lord, I'll perish. I—I—I can't go unless I find You!" And when a man or woman, boy or girl, gets that kind of a thirst for God, he is going to find something. See?

Now it's a perverted age. And Satan is perverting these thirsts that God put in you, to thirst.

God wants you to thirst for Him! "As the hart panteth for the water brook, my soul thirsts after Thee, O God."

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.

Now, you cannot pull sin through the pages of this Bible. No, It stops it. It filters it out.

Then there can be no satisfaction until this Word, which is God, becomes alive in you, then you see God Himself fulfilling the promises that He made in the Bible.

And when God makes a promise, and then comes around and fulfills that promise, that's the interpretation of the promise.

You say, "If I would have lived in the days of Jesus, I would have done so-and-so."

Why, you are living in His days. What are we doing about it? What are we doing?

But when God, that holy thirst to be like Him, and then you see that His Word is in you, vindicating Itself, that you are God's servant. Whatever God says, you just toe right up to it, then you're coming through the right process then to satisfy that holy thirst that's in you.

Let me tell you something. When you're worshiping God, in the Spirit and in Truth, when it becomes a custom for you to do it, because you think you ought to do it; because you think, if you don't shout, or jump up-and-down, or dance with the music, your neighbor is going to think you're backslid; you are drinking from a stagnated stream.

Them disciples couldn't understand It, but they believed It. See? That's right. If you believe It! I can't understand many things. I believe It, anyhow, see, because God said It was so.

Now, you can’t do it, you can’t satisfy that holy thirst with nothing less than God Himself living in you, in the Person of the Holy Spirit.

You only know God by an experience. You cannot educate This into you. It’s borned into you! It’s something that God gives you.

And let me tell you, friend, I don’t care how many churches you join, how many names you put on, which a way you go, and whether you are sprinkled, baptized, or whatever you are; until you meet that Person, Jesus Christ! That, that’s the only thing that will really satisfy.

And why would we want to take a substitute, when there is a genuine baptism of the Holy Ghost that satisfies every fiber and longing in the human soul?

If you believe It! I can’t understand many things. I believe It, anyhow, see, because God said It was so.

By your desire, you can tell who is on the throne of your heart.

You call for revivals, you wait for your church to have a revival. Well, that ain’t_that ain’t the revival for you. The revival ought to begin right in you, when you begin to thirst for God. There might not be another member, of the church, wanting that revival. If it breaks out in you, it will break out other places.

So if you neglect to give the Holy Spirit the Word of God, you’ll die.

That’s the way with a real, genuine Christian. They don’t want the things of the world. They just eat the Word of God, and That alone; what’s clean, the thinking man’s Filter. See, they come through That, and That alone. The dead things of the world, it stinks to them.

Wait till you face the reality once. Don’t you try to stop that holy hush. Don’t you blast It away with some modern, educational, double-barreled shotgun. You listen to that warning of the Holy Ghost, tonight, that’s warning you, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” And He is the Word.