The Water of Life

Dear Weekly Readers!

I pray that God has revealed through His Holy Spirit the true meaning of the Easter season to you and others in your area!

May He show us what Jesus has done for us, and may He show us the Risen Lord Jesus by whom we are justified!

Lent and Easter is not only a time of year for a Christian, it is who we are as Christians! We live and are kept by the Power of God, made possible by the Risen Lord Jesus making us new creatures in HIM!

We truly thank God for this!

In order to sustain us upon this walk of faith, He provides living water! Please enjoy the following article by Pastor James Johnson of Michigan, USA!

May God Bless your week! John R.

The Water of Life

Water is one of the most important elements
for giving and sustaining life. It is necessary
for all living things. Man cannot live without
water. It quenches our thirst and cleanses our bodies.
How appropriate that the Word of God describes
Jesus as the "Water of Life," for without Jesus, man
cannot live. Without Jesus abiding in our hearts, we are
dead in trespasses and sin. Jesus came to give life and
to give it more abundantly (John 10:10). And you hath
he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins…
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us
together with Christ. (Ephesians 2:1, 5)
The invitation is extended in God's Word to come
and drink the Water of Life freely:
…Jesus stood and cried, saying,
If any man thirst, let him come unto
me, and drink. (John 7:37)
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come.
And let him that heareth say, Come.
And let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will, let him take the
water of life freely. (Revelation 22:17)
When Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well,
He offered her living water. He said, If thou knewest
the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me
to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he
would have given thee living water… But whosoever
drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never
thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in
him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
(John 4:10-14) Jesus said, He that believeth on me, as
the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow
rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit,
which they that believe on him should receive: for the
Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was
not yet glorified.) (John 7:38-39)

Where and how is this water of life dispensed to
thirsting souls? In no other way than through the
preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the penitent.

The Word invites: Let us draw near with a true heart
in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with
pure water. (Hebrews 10:22) Jesus told His disciples,
Now ye are clean through the word which I have
spoken unto you. (John 15:3) Christ gave Himself for
the Church that he might sanctify and cleanse it with
the washing of water by the word. (Ephesians 5:26)
God has given a blessed Gospel to His kingdom; we can
assure one another that in Jesus' name and His atoning
blood all sins are forgiven and washed away.
How necessary it is that we are led by the Spirit of
God. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they
are the sons of God. (Romans 8:14) God be thanked for
the Comforter He has sent to us. Without Him we
surely would be lost on the journey, for without Him we
can do nothing. We are …kept by the power of God
through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in
the last time. (1 Peter 1:5) Jesus said unto His disciples:
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot
bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth,
is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall
not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to
come. (John 16:12-13)

God has bestowed a precious gift upon us: the
gift of the Holy Spirit. For as many as are led by
the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have
not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye
have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with
our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if
children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with
Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may
be also glorified together. (Romans 8:14-17)

Dear fellow traveler! All signs point to the return of
our Lord Jesus Christ soon to take us to our heavenly
home. Hold fast that no man take your crown. Be thou
faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
(Revelation 2:10)