Private quiz... Are you ready?
Is your prayer life dry and crumbly, yielding little spiritual vegetation... or does it feel abundant, healthy, and fruitful? How about your entire relationship with God?
Regardless of your answer to the above, the response is... the same!
In John 4, Jesus offers the woman at the well "living water". In verse 14b, Jesus states: "The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." In the Greek, the verb that is used is hallomai (to well up). This word is only used elsewhere in the New Testament, in Acts, where it describes a lame man leaping to his feet. Can you picture it... this life-giving, unrestrained, burbling, living water?!
There's a wonderful promise from God illustrated in Isaiah 44:3: "For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants."
Whether your prayer life and your relationship with God feel dried up or feel vibrant, the response is to spend time with God and ask for the Holy Spirit to fill you up and to keep filling you up. Keep pressing in. Don't give up. Don't let up.
Spend some time with God in prayer asking for his help. We don't fabricate this living water on our own. We cannot give this life-giving, living water to ourselves, or to anyone else. It is a fruitless endeavor.
Jeremiah 2:13 outlines the problem and the resulting fruitlesness pretty well: "for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water."
Don't settle for a second-rate version of your own creation that simply cannot get the job done. The Holy Spirit is our helper. Accept the help.
Pastor Celia
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