Good Morning,
We are breaking barriers with the river from within! John 7:38 – "He that believeth on Me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters". Belly, here is the innermost being, the womb, the matrix, cavity, or heart, where life (the river) is formed and produced. To flow means to run consistently; constant changes and to move along. Rivers mean currents, streams, and floods; running verses being stagnant (still, motionless, not circulating or flowing). Rivers are abundant and plentiful waters. Living waters verses dead, represents water that is growing, thriving, and moving. Issuing continually, quickening, and producing. Water is one of the most abundant and most necessary for living beings with the exception of air. Water pushed beyond its confinements will change and alter the world around it for good or bad. We have a flowing, living current of great power within our heart, or as the scripture says, "out of his belly". This river can continue running and springing up to clean us with its powerful force to wash stains, dirty issues, and to purify from iniquities and sin, to work in us as well as those around us. Waters issue forth in inexhaustible quantities from springs which form rivers, streams, seas, and oceans. We have springs of waters springing up all the time.
We are God's temple and we carry the living waters, and they are building and rising up on the inside of us. As we continue to pursue holiness, the love of God, and His character being formed in our lives, this powerful anointed river will break forth from every orifice to change us, our families, neighborhoods, countries and our nations. Listen to these verse; "THEN HE [my guide] brought me again to the door of the house [of the Lord–the temple], and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple was toward the east; and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the temple, on the south side of the altar. Then he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around outside to the outer gate by the way that faces east, and behold, waters were running out on the right side. And when the man went on eastward with the measuring line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were ankle deep. Again he measured a thousand cubits and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that reached to the knees. Again he measured a thousand cubits and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that reached to the loins. Afterward he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over or through. And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he led me and caused me to return to the bank of the river. Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. Then he said to me, These waters pour out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah (the Jordan Valley) and on into the Dead Sea. And when they shall enter into the sea [the sea of putrid waters], the waters shall be healed and made fresh. And wherever the double river shall go, every living creature which swarms shall live. And there shall be a very great number of fish, because these waters go there that [the waters of the sea] may be healed and made fresh; and everything shall live wherever the river goes. The fishermen shall stand on [the banks of the Dead Sea]; from En-gedi even to En-eglaim shall be a place to spread nets; their fish shall be of very many kinds, as the fish of the Great or Mediterranean Sea. But its swamps and marshes will not become wholesome for animal life; they shall [as the river subsides] be left encrusted with salt and given over to it." (Ezekiel 47:1-11) This river is breaking forth from the temple or sanctuary, that's us (remember we are the temple of Holy Spirit). As the river leaves the boundaries it rises and changes the world. It affects everything that is motionless and not running and circulating. Everything that is, except swamps or marshes. This living flowing river flows with healing, delivering, restoring and redeeming power, to all, except the swamps and marshes. What are swamps and marshes? Tracts of low lying land that is wet, moist, and soft and spongy. Usually unfit for cultivation and poorly drained. They have a 'form of the river, but deny the power of it'. It also says that the swamps and marshes are left encrusted. Encrusted means a hard coating, synonyms are dirty, stained, spotted, defiled, contaminated, and corrupted, to name a few. The swamp and marsh area has become hard and resistant to the river, they have allowed themselves to become tainted and contaminated with the world,or because of trials or bitterness, etc. Let's make sure that we are the river and not the swamps or the marshes. Let's not be found only soaking up like spongy land, and having a poor drainage system, taking, but rarely giving. In other words, whatever we receive of the Lord we should, like a river, flow to others the God-likeness that we have and be changed and always affecting changes to our Judea, Jerusalem, and the uttermost parts of the world! We'll talk more about us being boundary breakers.
"Rivers of living waters"
Love,
Pastor D.
Daughters of Z 