We have been trying to grow the garden of the Lord with little cups of water to individuals.
Yet we have been supplied with wellsprings, rivers and streams for families, tribes & nations. Truly, just as in the natural, 2/3 of the earth could be and should be covered with Living Water.
We have been content with cups of luke warm, polluted water, when in truth, the purest, freshest waters fall like rain on the mountain tops and join in unison to form the rivers. The mountains represent governing powers.
Cascading Living Waters are renewed from recycling up from the groundswell..
Mists gathering as clouds, and completing & renewing their heavenly journey;
by falling down through the mountain streams, crashing with joy over the rocks.
The Lord clearly commissioned us to disciple nations as well as individuals. This can only be accomplished through a marriage of the upper & lower Living Waters.
Living Waters, which were introduced by Yeshua in John 4 & 7..
Living Waters which represent the pure flow of God's Holy Word and Holy Spirit, in unison. It is given freely to flow effortlessly and generously without constraint from above and from below.
Yet we muddy the waters with our prideful & religious interference.
Wellsprings and groundswells from individuals and congregations must marry the Living Waters which flow from the top of the 7 mountains of influence within our cultures & society's.
To complete its work of integrity and justice it must flow simultaneously from heaven to earth and back again in the cyclical pattern it was designed for.
Yeshua's red letter words initiated the marriage between mercy and justice...
and the release of the Governmental Waterworks.
Living Water was His way of showing us the unified streams of both His love & governance.
The teaching of the disciples in the epistles should never have been exalted above Christ's red letter Words of life. Yes, they are the inspired words of the Lord and a part of the priceless and immaculate document called the Word of God.
However, we are to know the Lord Himself, the Lord of the Word. He released the Living Water. And to quote Bill Johnson, " Jesus is the perfect theology".
The epistles were letters to assist the believers in daily living, to help them sort out, clean out of their mindsets, the pagan culture they were raised within. They (epistles) should be studied alongside, in tandem with, the red letter words- at all times.
Paul himself warned of exalting one teacher above another and this holds true today. Most importantly, never exalt the teaching of human teachers above The Master's teaching. He was called TEACHER and He signified Holy Spirit also as TEACHER.
"Then He said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me. And He opened their understanding that they might comprehend the Scriptures."
Luke 24:44, 45
They only had The Old Testament when He instructed them but soon The New Testament would be transcribed, and of course, He planned it so.
He had to explain the scripture to the Jewish disciples in person. He opens the scripture to each of us as we walk and talk with Him.
The Holy Spirit is the meeting place that joins our heart to His. He released Living Water to complete that work in the disciples and now, in each of us. He is the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow. His instruction remains.
Yeshua commanded the Living Waters to be released through the Holy Spirit. His command and His Words should be informing, not only, the Old Testament but also our understanding of The New Testament.
They are in truth- One Testament.
THE LIVING WATERS were designed to unify and connect. This is why our Creator was not pleased with His work on the 2nd day when He separated the upper Waters from the lowers Waters. (See Genesis. 1:6_8)
He clearly requires the Living Waters to flow freely as they were originally created and commissioned to do.
Remember in Genesis there was chaos over the waters and on the 2nd day, it is the one day He neglects to declare, "It is good.".
This union is fully demonstrated in Revelation 22 and Ezekiel 47. These references to The River of God show a flow from earth to heaven and back again; a freeflow which is a simultaneous union and a marriage of the Governmental Waterworks.
Are we releasing Living- refreshing- Waters of His Spirit into every level of our society and culture? That is a part of our commission.
From the deep reservoirs, to the wellsprings to the clouds and raining down again upon the hills and mountains. Flow river flow!
Rules, religion, philosophy and man made plans will never quench the human thirst for life; the very life of Christ. Drink deeply beloved!(Song of Solomon 5:1)
Beloved, to pour out Living Water we must also partake.
We thirst for His Living Waters. We thirst for Him; for His thoughts, His character, His intentions; they are all manifest within the flow of His great, crystal clear, healing RIVER OF LIFE.
The Lord is the King of the Universe, The Creator of the Cosmos. He will no longer tolerate the limiting and quenching of His Spirit. Yes, this is a sober warning to those who teach The Word without the power of Holy Spirit. (See 2 Tim 3: 5)
To say we don't need the Holy Spirit flowing freely & daily is like saying we will just drink water once a month or so. It's foolish.
To say we don't need Living Water to nurture the seeds of The Gospel- Word is ludicrous!!!
It's really not possible to know Jesus without the Living Water's flow.

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