Over the years God has shown me that this is a necessity if we are to
mature as Christians and I long to see that within our churches. Let
the Living Water Flow
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A meditation and reflection
Ever since I chose the waterfalls, Sgwd
y Pannwr and Sgwd yr Eira, for this cover I have felt that they
point to the flow of Living Water.
Over the years God has shown me that this is a necessity if we are to
mature as Christians and I long to see that within our churches.
Back in 1996 when praying for A.R.M.(Wales)
and our role within the Church, I had a vision of a narrow deep valley.
The sides were steep and I wondered where this place was. Inevitably
it was dark but I felt that it was water that was missing.
There should have been a waterfall, but at the head was a shallow rocky
basin. I would
have expected a pool, instead there was a small amount of mist or steam coming up
from the rocks below.
At the time I couldn’t make out whether the empty pool would fill from
above or below but this valley was going to come back to life.
We have always liked waterfalls but this vision causes me to pray
whenever we visit one.
After the 1996 conference at Builth Wells,
then called Fanning the Flames, I asked the Lord when the Living
Water would flow.
I had an immediate answer, “It will my daughter, it will.” I have shared that before and I repeat it now because I believe that it
is up to us.
In John 7.37-8 Jesus says:
“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said,
streams of living water will
flow from within him.”
Verse 39 continues:
By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in
him were later to receive.
Up
to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been
glorified. (NIV)
Do you believe enough for the water to flow from within you?
But
I noted too that God called me his daughter, He was also telling me that we must
become his children.
In
Jeremiah 2:13 and
17:13 God
tells us that He is that Living Water
and in Zechariah 14:8 He
speaks of
Living Water flowing out from Jerusalem.
But
in the story of the woman at the well (John 4) we hear Jesus offering Living
Water as a drink, “but whoever drinks the water I give him will never
thirst.”
There
is one more mention of Living Water in the Bible in Revelation 7, where the Lamb
will lead us beside Streams of Living
Water.
If you use these texts for meditation and reflection you will hear the Lord speak.
