Are You Feeling Drought of the Heart?

Pour Your Heart Out to the Lord

by rebekahbeene

Traveling through parts of Texas we couldn’t help but notice that the drought is still a present menace to the country. Huge lakes are now small ponds and roaring rivers are at a standstill. The spring flowers haven’t been able to show their true colors for lack of water. It is time to pray for God to send rain.

Water conservation is very important, especially south and west of where we live. We’ve known what it means to pay for a shower and pay to use a bathroom. Precious is every drop and those who know the want of water understand the importance of saving every last handful.  Being frugal with water keeps them from having to worry so much about running out. But it could happen.

Often it feels like life itself is so precious that we don’t want to let go of one moment. We want God to know all our needs, but we don’t want to be honest with Him. Instead we choose frugality that turns into stinginess.  We’re unsure of sharing what we have for fear that we will run out. Or fear that the one we share with will take too much and we’ll be left without enough.

Can we trust God for the return of what we give out? Can we trust God to lay our needs before Him and pour out our hearts like water giving everything to Him? Are we thirsty and drought stricken enough to be desperate for Him?

God wants you and me, precious one to pour out our hearts to Him.  He wants us to give it all and spare nothing. Only in giving it all completely, without worry or holding back, do we find our answers. And He wants you and me to know that everything we share with Him is precious, for He even stores all our tears.  There is no cost for pouring our hearts out to Him because Jesus paid the cost at Calvary. We will never run out of prayers and God will never run out of answers.

Oh beloved, God sees that which you’ve been holding onto. He knows you want to ask Him but you are concerned that once it is poured out it can never be returned. But beloved, you are not saving for a drought of faith. That only comes when you withhold things from Him. In pouring it all out we receive more in return. Lavishly, luxuriously, deeply His answers flow to you as you trust Him more and more. And your faith grows like a watered country as your rivers and lakes of assurance fill up and overflow. Your faith in the Lord becomes lush and green and fruitful. You need God’s touch on your desperate places of dryness so that new life can revive the dead worries, fears and problems.

God loves you and He is for you. You can trust Him to quench your thirsty soul whenever you need with no thought of holding back from you. Do not hold back from Him. Pour it all out and see what He will do for you.

Psalm 56:8 You keep track of all my sorrows.  You have collected all my tears in Your bottle.  You have recorded each one in Your book.

Lamentations 2:19 …Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord.  Lift up your hands to Him in prayer…

Psalm 62:8 O my people, trust in Him at all times. Pour out your heart to Him, for God is our refuge.

Psalm 116:1-2 I love the Lord, because He hears my voice and my supplications.  Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.

Psalm 143:6 I lift my hands to You in prayer. I thirst for You as parched land thirsts for rain.

Isaiah 44:3 For I [the Lord] 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.

Is Your Heart Drought Stricken? There's Hope!

Drought is one of the most costly natural disasters affecting our country. Although it’s gotten pretty hot by now, it’s nothing compared to the disastrous weather we were having a year ago. In June much of our state was in severe to extreme drought with all of the state in some form of drought. Not only was it dry, but most weather stations in our state were reporting the highest number of 100°F days for the month of June ever recorded.

It was hot, it was dry and it was miserable. The gardens dried up, the row crops suffered and hay was being brought from across the country at incredible prices. I can remember driving on the interstate and noticing that the trucks were carrying blackened and old hay. Everyone was desperate. Ranchers who had been weathering extended droughts for the last couple of years were now selling their prime beef cattle for butcher beef.  It was sad times across the nation’s mid-section.

When I look outside my window and see rain these days I don’t dare complain. The grass is green and we’ve stayed under 100 degrees just about everywhere around here. The mornings are misty and damp and still there’s a cool in the air. For all this I am most thankful.

Sometimes we experience different types of drought. Droughts of the heart, the spirit, the mind. It could be a cut back at work, a setback in health, or a fall back of friendship or fellowship. At first, we adjust – we cut back on our wants and concentrate on our needs. We quit wishing for more and start praying for enough. But as the hard times of sorrow or worry or fear extend, we find ourselves desperate for any source of water and for any cool place to lie down and rest.  

For the Christian, God is so merciful! He will take our withered lives, our barren lands and our broken hearts and restore them! He gives water in a dry and arid place and He brings a cooling peace to those who seek Him with their whole hearts. He is a restoration loving God! He is a redemption bringing Savior! Regardless of how hard things may be at the moment, we can look forward to our hearts, minds and spirits being renewed.  We may not know when it will happen, but God’s promise is that if we seek Him we will find Him. And where we find Him, we find rivers of living water for everything we need.

Oh beloved, is your heart crying from a drought?  Your soul may seem fine to the outward glance, but inwardly you are dying for lack of refreshing. You’ve gone from well to cistern to pool and found nothing worth having, nothing to quench the thirsting of your soul. Run to the Lord this morning! For God has promised you refreshment and renewal and blessings. He understands your situation, He sees the extreme conditions you’ve been living in and He is able to cause you to flourish in the midst of it all. You don’t have to wait until things get better to thrive, for God is your reason for living! He says to you this morning come away to Me and receive all you need for your heart, your spirit and your mind. I AM your fountain of living water and I will never turn you away.

Circumstances may bring drought, but life in Christ will always cause you to flourish for God loves you and He’s for you and that’s your true source of refreshing always!

John 4:14 But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.

Psalm 63:1 …O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 143:11 For the glory of your name, O Lord, preserve my life. Because of Your faithfulness, bring me out of this distress.

Psalm 107:8-9 Let them praise the Lord for His great love and for the wonderful things He has done for them.   For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.