Max Lucado - Come Thirsty: No Heart Too Dry for His Touch

Praise for Come Thirsty

Max strikes again! This time his message bathes the soul like a long awaited summer rain. Ahh

Bill Hybels
Senior Pastor,
Willow Creek Community Church

One things for sure, people are thirsty for more than this world is ladling out. God bless my friend, Max, for leading a parched people to the well of Living Water. He shows us Jesus is the only one who can refresh us!

Joni Eareckson Tada
Founder and CEO, Joni and Friends

In inimitable fashion, my friend Max demonstrates that as physical life is impossible apart from the unique composition of water, so spiritual life is inconceivable apart from the empowerment of living water. He echoes the words of the Spirit and the bride, Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes let him take the free gift of the water of life.

Hank Hanegraaff
Host of the Bible Answer Man
Broadcast

In Come Thirsty Max again does what he does besthe encourages us to dig deep into Gods W-E-L-L, enabling and empowering us to experience the abundant life God desires for us.

John C. Maxwell
Founder, The INJOY Group

Max Lucados insight and spiritual guidance have long been a source of strength, peace, and wisdom in my life. Come Thirsty is another light post along the road of my daily walk in the glory of Christ and a comforting reminder of how blessed we are to serve a Lord with an unlimited and refreshing reservoir of love, mercy, and grace.

Don Evans
Secretary of Commerce

Max Lucado has a way of touching a readers heart through communicating the elements of the Gospel in a simple yet profound way. My prayer is that as you dip into the fountain of Gods Holy Word, you will experience the satisfaction Max describes in the pages of Come Thirsty, and that your thirst will be quenched by the very Giver of the Water of Life.

Franklin Graham
President & CEO, Samaritan's Purse
and Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association

Come Thirsty is one of these books that will make the parched souls of its readers engulf each word with a refreshing enthusiasm. You may come thirsty, but you will not leave disappointed. Drink deep my friends, this book is a gusher!

Bishop T.D. Jakes
Senior Pastor, The Potters House

Max Lucados remarkable way with words makes us long to drink deeply from his well of knowledge and understanding. Amazingly, Come Thirsty both quenched my thirst and made me thirsty. Max helps us know we can never get enough of Him but what He gives is always enough.

Mary Graham
President, Women of Faith

Max Lucado weaves wonderful words that not only show you how to soothe your dehydrated heart, but how to do it daily and often. Come Thirsty is an ice-cold pick-me-up for a scorched spirita pitcher of pure grace for a dried-out soul.

Dr. Tim Kimmel
Author of Grace-Based Parenting

In Come Thirsty, Max reminds us that to live is more than to just survive; to seek what is eternal, not just temporary; and that Gods love will satisfy our deepest needs, if we will simply receive it and drink it up.

Senator John Cornyn

Reading this book is like being on a long hard run, discovering a waterfall, and standing in it head tilted back, mouth open, arms open wide, receiving all its glorious refreshment. Those who come thirsty are going to find themselves winsomely drawn to biblical truths as only Max can express them.

Kay Arthur
Author and Co-CEO,
Precept Ministries International

Who but Max Lucado could so beautifully walk us through the attributes of a thirst-quenching God? His stories at the start of each chapter are among his best ever and his ability to enrich our spiritual walk is unmatched. Those who come thirsty to this book, will joyfully drink their fill.

Kathy Troccoli
Singer and Author

Like an oasis in the desert, Come Thirsty revitalizes even the weariest of spiritual travelers. Max Lucado has provided our parched generation with the roadmap to the everlasting well.

Bob Russell, Senior Minister,
Southeast Christian Church,
Louisville, Kentucky

2004 Max Lucado. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any otherexcept for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

Published by W Publishing Group, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., P.O. Box 141000, Nashville, Tennessee 37214.

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. Other Scripture references are from the following sources: The Amplified Bible (AMP). Old Testament, copyright 1965, 1987 by the Zondervan Corporation. The Amplified New Testament, copyright 1954, 1958, 1987 by the Lockman Foundation. The Contemporary English Version (CEV) 1991 by the American Bible Society. Used by permission. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV), copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The Good News Bible: The Bible in Todays English Version (TEV) 1976, 1992 by the American Bible Society. The King James Version of the Bible (KJV). The Living Bible (TLB), copyright 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Ill. Used by permission. The Message (MSG), copyright 1993. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. New American Standard Bible (NASB), 1960, 1977, 1995 by the Lockman Foundation. The New Century Version (NCV). Copyright 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. The New English Bible (NEB) Copyright 1961, 1970 by the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press. The Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV). Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. The New King James Version (NKJV), copyright 1979, 1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers. J. B. Phillips: The New Testament in Modern English, Revised Edition (PHILLIPS). Copyright J. B. Phillips 1958, 1960, 1972. Used by permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lucado, Max.
Come thirsty / by Max Lucado.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8499-1761-1
ISBN 0-8499-9130-7 (International Edition)
1. Christian life. I. Title.
BV4501.3.L812 2004
248.4dc22

2004007737

Printed in the United States of America
04 05 06 07 QW 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

ANDREA,

your mom and I proudly dedicate this book to you

on your eighteenth birthday.

Tell me, where have the years gone?

If I knew, Id gladly reclaim and relive each one of them.

We love you, dear daughter.

May your smile never fade and your faith ever deepen.

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A Gentle Thunder
A Love Worth Giving
And the Angels Were Silent
God Came Near
He Chose the Nails
He Still Moves Stones
In the Eye of the Storm
In the Grip of Grace
Its Not About Me
Just Like Jesus
Next Door Savior
No Wonder They Call Him the Savior
On the Anvil
Six Hours One Friday
The Great House of God
Traveling Light
The Applause of Heaven