Today's Reading: John 7: 31-39
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Please click this link to read John 7: 31-39
Bible Study
Yesterday we talked about "Kill Jesus" and today we talk about the coming of the Holy Spirit and the filling of the Holy Spirit gives you streams of living water flowing from within you!
Satan's job is to "kill Jesus" and to kill Jesus' servants so that you are disconnected with what need to happen when you have Jesus as your Lord. If you survive that "killing", then you would experience the filling of the Holy Spirit when you are closer and closer to Jesus. And that there will be streams of living water flowing from within you to the other.
N.T. Wright says:
Jesus was speaking, he says, about the spirit; anyone who believes in Jesus is promised that the spirit, God's refreshing personal presence, will come to live within them. But John knew, too, that this was a new experience that would come after Jesus had been 'glorified'.
So, Jesus had been glorified because he was crucified. "Crucified" means "glorified"! And if you are ready and willing to be crucified to take up your cross no matter what it means to you, then you will be filled with the Holy Spirit and that there will be streams of living water flowing from within you!
Do you have that streams of living water flowing from within you so that you can encourage and strengthen other people who desperately need your encouragement?
Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to God as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"
Spiritual Journal
What I heard from Jesus today is: Streams of Living Water Will Flow from within you!
When we are more and more closer to Jesus then just as Jesus promised we will be filled by the Holy Spirit. Not like in John's time when he wrote this passage that the Holy Spirit had not come yet. Now, the Holy Spirit came in the day of pentecost and He wants to fill us and pour down His fresh anointing to us.
Today during Eucharist I lay hand on a sister and I was moved to use my gift of knowledge to say something from Jesus to her and bless her. After the service something wonderful happened! She and her husband wanted me to pray for them and I asked what did she want me to pray for. Her husband said, "What you said when you prayed for her in the service is what she is experiencing now!" Wow! I was so encouraged by his confirmation of my exercising of my spiritual gift to have "streams of living water to flow within me" to give to her dry soul! This happened just 12 hours ago and this is exactly what Jesus wants to tell you today. If you are willing to be close to Him then you will be filled and anointed by the Holy Spirit that "streams of living water will flow from within you" to give encouragement, renewal and life to more and more people.
Dear Holy Spirit,
Fill us and anoint us so that we can have streams of living water flowing within us to encourage, renewal and revive more and more people. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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