Love and longing


I love you, LORD (Psalm 18:1; NLT).

As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God (Psalm 42:1; NLT).

I love you, Lord,
And long for you;

Rejoice in you,
And pine for you.

I pray to you,
And ache for you;

I offer thanks,
And thirst for you.

I lift my hands to you in prayer. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for water (Psalm 143:6; NLT).

I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him? (Psalm 42:2; NLT).


References

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18; NIV).

I long for the Lord more than sentries long for the dawn (Psalm 130:6; NLT).

I will pour out water to quench your thirst and to irrigate your parched fields. And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children (Isaiah 44:3; NLT).

Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, “Rivers of living water will flow from his heart” (John 7:38; NLT).


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