The River of God
**NOTE words in Orange are part of the message from 6/5/11
When we are “Born Again” we experience a period of time I refer to as “The Honeymoon Period”. Everything is wonderful, we are passionately perusing God in search of a lasting relationship.
When we accept Jesus into our life as our Savior we wind up with areas that once housed sin and need to be replaced with Holiness and Consecration. These area can become deserts, spiritual waste lands if we don’t allow the Spirit of God full access into our lives.
John 7:37 Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”[c] 39 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.
Revelations 22: 1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal Pure, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
A River brings life and sustenance, wherever it flows. Life is possible in the middle of a desert if there is a water source. A River is a FLOWING source of water & life.
The River of God is the flowing power of the Spirit of God. The River of life is located in the “middle of the great street of the city”.
The spirit of God must reside in the very center of our hearts. When that happens in our life we produce fruit all the time ( the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month).
And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
A desert is parched, scared earth, it is a dry hardened place (legalistic, critical) When the spirit of God flows through your life, you produce good fruit, your fruit is sweet and beautiful. People are attracted to the beauty in you that comes from your relationship with God. Hardened and Baren places are made soft & fruitful again when The spirit of God flows through your life. Healing comes, chains are broken, you are set free.
