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Revived Reinvigorated Replenished
What one element would you associate with being refreshed... WATER!
We take showers in the morning to get going and wake us to the world,
we drink water when weary, we jump in a pool when overheated. Water
s a source for Life.
As a kid and especially after the movie JAWS I feared water. Various
amping trips gave opportunities for a variety of strange water
xperiences. I have been tossed and pummeled by waves, pinched by
rabs, wrapped with seaweed, pulled off leaches, swam seeing sharks, in
pools and ponds with alligators, water moccasins, eels, lampreysttacking canoes...muck between toes, all so refreshing right?
Personally, my favorite type of swimming is with a vinyl or cement
loor! In fact, before my husband and I started camping again, I hadnt
been to a beach in 20 years. Fortunately I can now say, Ive gotten past
ll that trauma from my youth and cant stand a summer when we dont
pend two weeks camping on the beach. Water really does Refresh us!
The Bible talks a lot about water, and more specifically LIVING water.
Living Water is interesting terminolog
within the scriptures. Essentially it is
water that is not stagnant, which tend
breed bacteria, germs and disease. Li
water is usually from a spring, fresh r
water, river, ocean or lake that has a fl
in and out. It is where the ancient Jew
practice of MIKVAH comes from or aChristians know it, BAPTISM. It is d
when anyone wanted to commit or
recommit their ways to the LORD; w
women were purified after cycles and
childbirth. Anyone could enter the wa
of a Mikvah and be Immersed showin
fidelity to God and purification before
or that fidelity and purity to a spouse.
It was in the waters (mikvah) that the
was cleansed by God during the floodNoahs day. It was the waters of the
mikvah that David saw Bathsheeba
purifying herself for her husband. It w
the waters of mikvah that John was ca
people to be recommitted to the Lord
the Jordan River. The Jordan River h
iconic association with purity and bap
The Waters of Genesis 1:9 were gathe
into one place, the term in Hebrew is
Mikvah. Living Water was prominenthe Garden of Eden where it came up
the ground like a fountain or spring in
center and broke off into 4 rivers
meandering through the garden water
all of it as it exited. It brought life to
every area of the garden.
In similar fashion the River of Life in
Revelation will be bringing life to eve
area it flows with in. Trees will line i
banks bearing a several different fruit
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In Genesis 6:7-14 Hagar thepregnant mistress/concubine of
Abraham flees and finds herself refreshed by a miraculous spring
supplied by an angel of the Lord and encouraged to return and submit
to her master. Then again in Genesis 21:9 She is sent away by
Abraham and again is refreshed by a miraculous well, her and her son
survive.
In Genesis 32:22-30 Jacob wrestles The Angel of the LORDby
brook of Jabbok, his name is then changed and an eternal blessing is
given to Him.
Moses finds himself with nearly 2 million people in Exodus 15:12-27
at the Waters ofMarah which mean waters of bitterness. a Tree
was commanded to be put in the waters and changed the waters
miraculously from bitter to sweet. Living waters are what became of
the Bitter waters at Marah where the children of Israel complained to
God just three short days after their miraculous crossing of the Red
Sea where their enemies were crushed and swept away by the Sea
tself.
Once again while the people are complaining in Exodus 17:6 In the
middle of a harsh and brutal desert, Gods wonder and mercy explodeon the scene as Moses Strikes a giant rock, The Rock ofHoreb and
massive amounts ofwater flow, enough to sustain 2 million people
and their livestock.
Elijah is provided for miraculously by God in 1 Kings 17: 2-6 as he
proclaims a drought but is himself able to drink and be sustained at the
Brook Cherith.
Naaman in 2 King 5:1-19 is a Leper miraculously cleansed and
healed in the Jordan River.
In the Gospels we hear John the Baptists cry to Repentance beside the
banks of the Jordan River where people were compelled to change
their lives, and return to God being made spiritually new.
Act 3:19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be
blotted out, so that times ofrefreshing may come from the presence
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John 4:10 - A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her,
"Give Me a drink." 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to bu
food.
9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, "How is it that You, being a
ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings w
Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and wh
is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and H
would have given you living water."
11 The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and th
well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
12 "Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and dr
from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?"
13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will th
again,
14 "but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirs
But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of wat
springing up into everlasting life."
15 The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirs
nor come here to draw."
That Renewal was offered to so many, This woman recognized that JES
was the source of True LIVING WATER.
While standing in the Temple courts in John 7:38 On the last day, the
great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone
thirsts, let him come to Me and drink."He who believes in Me, as the
Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." Eac
year on this day the PRIESTS took water from Pool Siloam on last day
the FEAST of Tabernacles & poured it out on the Altar to Commemora
the ROCK of Horebs Water!- Jesus was saying in essence - I AM the
LIVING water. Water that is greater than the water of Horeb which
sustained 2 million people for 40 years in a desert - I AM Spirit. I AM L
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TheRiverof LIFE
Deathswallowedup by LIFE
Ezekiel 47 The Prophet is shown a vision of a Majestic River that is too deep for Him to swim in and cro
n His own, and it flows from the Throne of God, "the water of life as proceeding out of the throne of God
f the Lamb." His throne was set up in the temple at Jerusalem (Ezekiel 43:7). The waters flow eastward,
owards the Jordan, and so along the Gihor into the Dead Sea.
A main point in the picture is the rapid change from a petty stream into a mighty river, not by the influx of s
treams, but by its own self-supply from the sacred miraculous source in the temple. (Compare Psalms 36:8
6:4, Isaiah 11:9, Habakkuk 2:14). Searching into the things of God, we find some easy to understand, as th
water up to the ankles; others more difficult, which require a deeper search, as the waters up to the knees or
oins; others beyond our reach, of which we can only adore the depth (Romans 11:33). What is amazing is t
he healing of the waters of the Dead Sea here answers to "there shall be no more curse" (Revelation 22:3;ompare Zechariah 14:11).
We have got to seek out the water of the word which cleanses us, making us holy and acceptable in His sigh
hat sustains us during droughts and desperate times... It is Jesus who can turn bitter waters, salt seas to livi
nd flourishing with all kinds of food and healing and life...It is when HE Shakes up our world, and Radical
lters the Landscape of Death that it is swallowed up by HIS LIFE, HIS LIVING WATERS and Healing and
Refreshing Come!
eremiah 2:13
For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain ofliving waters, And hewn
hemselves cisternsbroken cisterns that can hold no water.
eremiah 17:13
O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You shall be ashamed. Those who depart from Me Shall be written in
he earth, Because they have forsaken the LORD, The fountain ofliving waters.
Revelation 7:17
or the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains ofwaters. AndGod will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
nterestingly there are two major rivers in the Bible that flow into the Dead Sea. One is Physical and
One is Spiritual.
The Jordan River and River ofLife!!! Both descend to the DEAD Sea!
The Jordan River flows from the Prominence of the high lands and the Sea of Galilee to Dead Sea - and oth
s the River that flows from the Throne of God into the Dead Sea when He returns.
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whose waters started in the High Plains of Israels Upper boundaries, Mt
Hermons precious springs and melting snow eventually find their way to
the Sea of Galilee and then down the Jordan River, winding and descendin
becoming muddy and eventually end in the Salt Sea/ Dead Sea without an
escape. That which flows out of Mankind, out of ADAM winds up
leading to death. Only Gods Intervention can change the course of that
truth. Nothing lives in the Dead Sea. Nothing Survives.
In Joshua 3:14-17 there is an interesting and significantly spiritual
scenario that unfolds. Joshua is leading the people over the Jordan
River to step into the promised land. The Ark of the Covenant is bein
brought forth first by the Priests of God and as they step into the
furious waters of the River Jordan, they are stopped, as far back as th
city ADAM.
GOD intervenes! By HIS PRESENCE the River Flowing from ADAM
is STOPPED and the PEOPLE are able to be set FREE and walk
without being swept away by the torrents of a River that leads to theDEAD SEA. DO YOU HEAR what the SPIRIT is saying there?
WE NEED the Living Water,
ecause we are DEAD without it.
We have descended with no way of
cape. There is no way for mankind
reassert himself and gain life on His
wn. Regardless that He was made in
e image of God, His sin has broughtm to a place of inescapable death
ort of Gods intervention and
iracle. Much like the Dead Sea
Jerusalem *
Jericho *
* ADAM
* Crossing of
Priests w/ ARK
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