January 30, 2024 … Jesus Brings Living Waters

January 30, 2024 … Jesus Brings Living Waters  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Kristyn Getty singing …  LIVING WATERS …  poignantly singing of how we Christians need to come a partake of God’s living waters.  

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Highlight Passage: … Isaiah 32:1-2 [NLT] … 

1 Look, a righteous King is coming! And honest princes will rule under Him.  2   Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a parched land.           

… Isaiah promises from God a King Who will bring living waters into the desert of this sinful world.  

Highlight Passage (in context)  … Isaiah 32:1-8 … USE THIS LINK … 

… Isaiah prophesies of a coming King Who will bring steams of living water into a world parched by sin.                                                                  

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 63:1  [NLT] … 

1 O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you.  My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water. 

… King David sings of thirsting for God in a dry and thirsty land.  

Reference Passage:… Isaiah 41:17-18  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … </b>

… Isaiah prophesies of God bringing fountains of living water to those parched by the thirst of sin.   

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 2:13 [NLT] …   

13 “For my people have done two evil things: They have abandoned me — the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!   

… Jeremiah shows God’s people that they have abandoned God as the source of living water for His chosen people.    

Reference Passage: … Zechariah 14:8 [NLT] …   

8 On that day life-giving waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half toward the Dead Sea and half toward the Mediterranean, flowing continuously in both summer and winter.   

… Zechariah shows God’s people that there will be a day when life-giving and saving waters will flow out from God’s people in Jerusalem.     

Reference Passage: … John 4:10  [NLT] …   

10 Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”   

… Jesus promises the Samaritan woman at the well (and to us) of giving her, and all of God’s faithful, eternal and living waters to quench her (our) thirsty souls.  

        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author , Karen Pimpo  -  AT THIS LINK -   tells of an oil drilling project in the parched deserts which mistakenly, but wonderfully found a river of subterranean water, which provided much needed LIVING waters for that parched region.       

And that is what God’s Old Testament prophets predicted would come when God’s people, who were parched by sin would believe on Messiah (i.e., King Jesus) would come and bring His living waters of eternal life to any/all who believe in Him as our Lord and Savior.  So, if any of my readers are thirsting for Jesus’ living waters, … come today and be satisfied.     

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for Your living waters, which I come thirsting for today and drinking from Your wells of truth.           

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to drink from Your wells of lining water again today, Lord.      Amen  

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