Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say, and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it
Joshua 3:7
And Joshua said, “Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
Deuteronomy 5:25
For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived? Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say, and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it
Psalms 42:2
My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God
Psalms 63:1
O God, you are my God; earnesty I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
beholding your power and glory.
Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you
John 7:38
“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.
I want to tell you scripture that means something very deep to me. “heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire”. 8:00 a.m. Saturday, March 11, 1978 I was working as an apprentice plumber. Another man, Lee, and I were scheduled to work in a house under construction. We arrived at the house a little before 8:00 and got set for what should take us about 4 hours of overtime to complete. We were in the basement. When Lee went to light his torch the house exploded in a ball of flames. I remember getting up off the floor totally engulfed in flames. I was frantically trying to beat out these flames. I was wearing a polyester winter coat. The flames were melting this coat on to my skin when there was an audible voice that said “Daryl pull off your coat”. And though I was burned the voice of God saved be from much more serious burns. I must say at this time of my life I gave little or no thought of or about God. God used this to get my attention. He then placed people in my life who followed Him. For over a year these people built relationships with me and continued to explain the gospel over and over again. These people followed God’s calling in their life to make disciples. On March 22, 1979 I came to the knowledge of God’s plan of salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I knew without a doubt I was a sinner in need of forgiveness. You may ask “forgiveness of what” – living for God and for His purpose – to honor and glorify Him. It is impossible to do this on our own accord. There is nothing we can do to make ourselves right in His eyes but to believe in the saving grace through the work Jesus did on the cross. From this beginning our life will take a complete change. Our hunger to do everything for ourselves and our benefit changes to a hunger and thirst to know God more and to seek to bring Him honor and glory. Thirst for Him.
