Life-Giving Water

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 | Psalm 46 | John 5:1-3, 5-16

ARE YOU TRICKLISH?

“I saw water trickling.” - Ezekiel 37:2

Through a variety of renewal programs, the water of the Holy Spirit has trickled into many local churches. Some, however, are so spiritually dry that they mistake the trickle for a river. A trickle is not a river, but it could become one. Trickles that go nowhere dry up. Trickles that flow into ponds become stagnant, for a pond has no outlet. Occasionally, the pond water becomes agitated. We may even see a miracle or a healing (see John 5:7, 9), and call this renewal. But the pond soon becomes stagnant again. We should not be content with a trickle of renewal; we should seek the overwhelming power of the Holy Spirit in Revival.

Our earnest desire should be to see the trickle of renewal swell into the flood of revival. We pray that these, small, movements of the Spirit may become rivers whose banks are filled with life and fruit (see Ezekiel 47:7).

Easter, when it is celebrated with a full heart, flows into the river of Pentecost. That is what we need: a New Pentecost! So, don’t be dry or stagnant. “Let him who is thirsty come forward; let all who desire it accept the gift of life-giving water” (Revelation 22:17).

Prayer: Come, Holy Spirit, Come!