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Personal experience in relation to scripture |
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I have a fault, I don’t drink enough water. I can go day’s without drinking any. I tend to drink coffee, soda or milk. So I’m not truly without a resource of liquid, it’s just not what my body really need’s to remain healthy. My Mom is after me every day, asking if I drank water. And then proceeds to remind me that I need it. After hearing this daily, it does start to grate on my nerves. I know she means well and love’s me, and want’s what is best for me, to have a healthy life. Does this reminder work? Unfortunately not. I love her for it, but my stubbornness continues. I know I need to change, but year’s of not doing the right thing, get’s too easy, and doing what is right, is hard. The Lord has been relentlessly talking to me about water for month’s. I don’t get enough of his Living Water either. And without it I become dehydrated, spiritually dry and hardened like the desert. Leaving me with nothing to pour into other’s. He brought me to this scriptures: John 7:37-39 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. The great Feast, referred to here, was the Feast of Tabernacle’s. This season is to remind us when Moses, struck the rock, to bring forth water in the desert. Each day of the Feast the Priest’s, would carry water up from the pool of Siloam, and pour it out in front of the people, to remind them of God’s, provision. The picture Jesus wanted to create, was who the Rock was. And maybe, just maybe, this is why he chose a Rock as an example, of who issued forth living water. It was on the Eighth day of the feast, when Jesus called out to the people, that He who believes in Me, will have living Waters pouring out from their heart’s. He goes one step further and tells them he is referring to the Holy spirit, who will dwell in them and be poured out. It was to happen after his death and Resurrection. Do you want to be filled with this living Water? With the overflowing power, and gift’s of the Holy spirit? The question would then be, how do we get filled? Let’s start at the beginning. Genesis 1:1-3 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. Where water is, there the spirit is. Where the spirit is, there is light of Revelation. Where else did the spirit hover? He hovered over Mary to impregnate her. Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. He hovered over Jesus Luke 3:21-22 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. Jesus actually hovered on the water. John 14:25 Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. I want you to see the connection between Water, The Holy Spirit and the Word. Ephesians 5:25-26 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word See the connection? Water, Spirit, Word. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John1:14a The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. John 1:32 Then John gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. Here than is the connection, The Holy Spirit hovered over Mary , The Word Jesus, became flesh, baptized in Water, He was the tabernacle who dwelt among us. The Holy Spirit hovered above him during baptism. And he showed the World, he also was above the water. The feast that day, was to recognize him as the true tabernacle, the true living water, to be filled with the holy spirit and the Word who became flesh. His Word is the source of living water, when we drink of his living water, the holy spirit descends and hovers over us. To impregnate us with his Living Water’s, until we are ready to give birth, to the overflowing of his spirit. I want to change this up, to bring in the rock that Moses struck in the desert...The rock was a foreshadow of Jesus. And out of that rock flowed life giving water, the Israelite's so desperately needed. But maybe, just maybe, the rock shown then, is now a picture of the hardness of our heart’s, and the need of it being removed. It had been struck, just like Jesus was beaten before he was hung on the Cross. Numbers 20:11 Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. The feast of tabernacle’s is the reminder of that time. The people grumbled and complained, and were not permitted to enter into the promise land. But their children were allowed to cross over the Jordan, along with Joshua and Caleb, who had not followed in the way of Sin. But had encouraged Israel to take the land of Canaan. Once they had crossed over, they entered unto a place called Gilgal, the Hill of foreskins. Joshua 5:9 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day. The word rolled, in this scripture means Commit. And Commit in Hebrew is Galal meaning: to roll away. Gilgal was a place of cutting off the foreskin, This was a Covenant between God and the Israelites, to show they were set apart from other people. Creating a picture of dying to one’s flesh. They were rolling it off themselves, and unto God. So why do I bring it up? How does this relate to water? I will share several verses to give you the direction of where I am going. Hebrews 3:7-9 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. Also in John chapter 4, Jesus met the Women at the well, he discussed with her about him being the Living water, she spoke of this being Jacob’s well, and how that in verse 12.. 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?” She was referring to: Gen 29:7-8 Then he said, “Look, it is still high day; it is not time for the cattle to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”8 But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.” As Jesus was speaking to the Samaritan Women, they spoke of Jacob’s well, the large stone must be removed from the well in order for the sheep to be given water, and so Jesus sat at that very “Well” telling her, he is the living water. He was to remove it with his death, it was the stony heart in this women, and us, that still need’s removed to this day. He had asked her to call her husband, she admitted she was with a Man, who was not her husband. Jesus was looking for a Bride, just as Jacob was when he met Rebecca at the well. Rebecca watered the sheep after the stone was removed, just as The Holy Spirit did in Acts, 1-2 After Jesus death. It was in Jesus death, that the stone would be removed from the grave, it is also in the death to ourselves, that the reproach of Egypt, the foreskin of our heart’s, can be rolled away. Than we his sheep, who hear his voice, can be filled with his living water’s. Recently I had to have a test at the Hospital, because of the type I had, when I went in for the procedure, I was very dehydrated, and because I was, they could not get an IV started in me, it took six times until they could find a vein that didn’t collapse as soon as the water started to flow. It reminded me of this point of not getting enough Living Water, they were trying to put water in me, but because of the weakness of my veins, it could not enter. The Revelations the Holy Spirit want’s us to receive, cannot be complete, because of a lack of daily water in our heart. We don’t have enough of the overall picture of the Word, to complete the image he is trying to teach us. Until We have read the whole Word, how can we piece together the whole Revelation? As long as we continue to live in rebellion and hardness of heart, being stubborn, as they did in the desert, we cannot absorb his living water’s. As long as I am stubborn, by not listening to my Mother, to drink water every day, I will be dehydrated and unhealthy. The only way the stone can be rolled away from my heart, is to die to myself. Drinking his Word daily, instead of replacing it with, The world, Sin or entertainment, will soon soften my heart, and I will overflow with his living water’s, the Holy Spirit, will hover upon my streams of living waters , bringing light to the void and darkness of my Earthly Tabernacle, bringing Revelations, that I can then overflow as a river, into the deserts of other peoples lives. Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert. Ezekiel 47, Talks about water to the ankle, knees, waist, and so deep one that must swim, I have people tell me all the time that I am so deep. I came to the point that I thought that was a not a good thing. I started doubting myself. Am I too deep? Well, Yes I am! And that's Good! Because I need to take other's as deep as they want to go. I want to be so deep, that they cannot swim across. I want us to be the tree’s planted by the stream, that others come to find healing. And If I want that for you, than Jesus want’s that for you even more. Listen to your Mother, she knows what she’s talking about. Have you drank your Water today? |
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