This scripture brings back to me a very special experience of the Lord's guidance some years ago. I was ill in bed, had been for a while. I've often found the Lord speaking to me in special ways when I've been ill and on my own. I've had a burden to pray for Germany for a very long time, and that's what I was doing when the Lord gave me a picture. It was a park like landscape and there was a castle which I recognized form pictures from Bavaria in Germany. Then I saw a thirsty hart coming to drink from a brook, and I got this scripture. I knew that God was speaking of someone in Germany who was hungry and thirsty for God, and who would be  visiting us. I told a leader who I knew was involved with people and churches in Germany.
A month or so later I got a letter from Germany via this leader. A German pastor had had a dream that he was in England, speaking to a Christian leader who was fluent in German and who encouraged him and strengthened his faith. The  dream even gave him the name of this leader. He told a young woman in his church who had spent a year with my church in England. She knew this leader and gave her pastor the address, and he wrote to him about the dream. He was from Bavaria, and he was hungry and thirsty for the Lord.
I wrote to him and told him of my picture, and he shared it all with his church. They decided that God was telling him to go to England, so they paid for him to stay wirth us for a week. And so we met, led together by God. This experience still brings tears to my eyes when I think about it, and I know it made a deep impression on the two leaders as well. We have since had many visitors from that German church. I believe God has got a lot more to do, that the dream and the picture were just the beginning of a very special connection between our two churches and our countries.I know that God has  very special plans for Germany.