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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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