Back Side of the Desert

When we find ourselves on the back side of the desert--in a spiritually dry and thirsty land--there is only one solution: to humbly cry out for His refreshing. And to persistently cry out for His fire from heaven or His still small voice--either one or both. You can never escape the desert in your own power. You cannot spiritualize the natural man. But He can and will respond as we search for Him with all our heart. He alone is the water of life, and He sends us to the desert until we realize that only a deep thirst for His presence can satisify. As the deer pants for the water, so my soul must pant for His presence. He will lead me out of the desert and to the place of rest by the still waters.