The Life Giving Stream

John 7:38

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, “Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

By faith, we receive Jesus into our lives.  When we receive Our Savior, we receive His living water.  This life giving stream has flowed from Our Redeemer throughout all time to every place and person.  The same life giving stream can flow continuously from our hearts if we are in submission to the Cross and not to ourselves.  

Through the fount that is Jesus Christ, we also receive the sanctifying and comforting presence of the Holy Spirit flowing into and through our lives.  Through the work of the Holy Spirit, the flow can manifest itself in many ways.  It can range from the smallest, unseen kindness to a magnificent production on the grandest of stages.  The flow is as a fountain of living, running water that is providing continuous streams that are all at once cooling, calming, refreshing and cleansing.  The flow is plentiful, constant as a river. It is a continuous stream of the fullness of Jesus Christ and His grace.  

Let us prepare ourselves to be willing vessels.  Let us submit fully to the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives so that God's goodness may be poured out through us to the world around us.  

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for using us as founts of Your living water.  We praise You for the refreshing and cleansing that it brings into our own lives as we allow the waters to pass through us.  We humbly and anxiously submit to the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives.  We pray that we come into the fullness of the flow so that the thirst of those around us may be quenched as we are quenched.  We ask all these things in the name of the Life Giving Spirit, Jesus Christ.