Dec 14 2025 … Needing HIs Living Water …

Dec 14 2025 …  Needing HIs Living Water … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...      and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics, from Anne Wilson singing Living Water … declaring God’s restoring mercy and grace through His refreshing Spirit, … i.e., His living waters.

Depleted and Needing God's Living Waters ... 

  

Highlight Passage: … John 7:38 … [NLT] …  

38 … Anyone who believes in Me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’” 

Highlight Passage in Context:  John 7: 37-39,  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Jesus, teaching during the Festival of Shelters, shows that God’s word promises that His Spirit will pour out living water on those who need eternal refreshment. 

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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 58:11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… One of the Scriptures likely referred to by Jesus in John 7:38, where God will one day pour out His Spirit on those who need to be refreshed by God’s “living water.” 

Reference Passage: …  Jeremiah 2:13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Prophet Jeremiah shows that some of God’s people have abandoned God’s fountains of living water and have built polluted cisterns of sin for themselves.  

Reference Passage: … Ezekiel 36:25-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Ezekiel, promises that He will plant a new Spirit in those who believe in the coming Messiah - likely one of the Scriptures referred to by Jesus in <b><u>John 7:38</b></u>.

Reference Passage: … John 4:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Jesus, to the Samaritan woman at the well, promising her (and us) living water to refresh her (our) Spirit forever.

Reference Passage: … Romans 1:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… All people, since creation can see all God is and what He provides.  So, … we have no excuse for not knowing God.  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread from Elisa Morgan …  USE THS LINK  -      …  told of when she led a ministry to help and uplift mothers of pre-schoolers; and to illustrate the condition of these depleted moms, the ministry chose the image of an empty juice box (see photo) … to illustrate those who needed refreshment and help.  Certainly, those mothers were in need of being “refilled”  by what Jesus spoke of in the Highlight passage.  … And so are we, … right?!  

And if any of my readers here today are feeling depleted and maybe “burned out,” like the moms in the above illustration, you (we - me too!) need to realize the truth of what Jesus - and God’s word, shared above, teach.   God desires to pour out His living waters (i.e., HIs Spirit) on any/all who love Jesus and need His refreshing and restoring grace.  Personally, I’m in need of some of His living water; … TODAY! …  How about you?  

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You …Lord, … for pouring out Your waters to restore me from Your Spirit and Your word.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … THANKS, Lord, for continually pouring out Your living waters. … Amen

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