1/7 Friday faith

Isaiah 44:3: "I will pour water upon him that is thirsty. . . . I will pour my spirit upon thy seed."

What does it mean to be thirsty? When one is thirsty there is but one cry: "Water! Water! Water!" Every pore in the body seems to have a voice and cries out, "Water!" So when our hearts have one cry, "The Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit," then it is that God pours floods upon the dry ground, pours His Spirit upon us. This then is the fifth step -- intense desire for the baptism with the Holy Spirit. To what a pitch of longing the early disciples had been brought by the tenth day of their eager waiting, and their thirsty souls were filled that day when "Pentecost was fully come"! As long as one thinks he can get along somehow without the baptism with the Holy Spirit, as long as he casts about for something in the way of education or cunningly concocted methods of work, he is not going to receive it.

-- R.A. Torrey, The Baptism with the Holy Spirit