“The poor and needy search for water,
    but there is none;
    their tongues are parched with thirst.
But I the Lord will answer them;
    I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 I will make rivers flow on barren heights,
    and springs within the valleys.
I will turn the desert into pools of water,
    and the parched ground into springs.

”I will make…I will turn…”

“When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.” A. C. Dixon.

How we need what God can do. Strictly speaking, our reliance should not even be on prayer, but on the Lord Himself. Nevertheless, we get the point Dixon is making in this wonderful quote.

The picture painted here is one of a desperate people, looking for water but not finding it. It just isn’t there.

But there is the inference that in their desperation they pray.

In response, God provides abundantly;

He also provides supernaturally.

In a situation where there just is no water, He makes it. Of course, in the memory of God’s people, there was the remarkable story of the water from the rock. The Lord was once again going to provide for these returning exiles, on this ‘second exodus’ through the wilderness

I often think of Hudson Taylor’s dictum that ‘God’s work, done in God’s way, will never lack God’s supply.’

So here…

…a desperate people,

…a thirsty people,

…a praying people,

are going to be a more than satisfied people.

How good is our God.

‘The borderline of human need is the borderline of divine miracle.’