Bread of Life and Living Water

Dear Readers, God’s Peace!

I am so thankful and happy to report that our church conventions went very well! This was a time of refreshing for us. The theme the host congregation had picked out for this convention was, Lord, bind us together in Love. I can truly say, that there was a spirit of Love and unity that was working throughout these services. All Thanks, Honor, and Glory for this go to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!

We were blessed to have many more people than expected. Our economy is poor and many people do not have much work. Still, the Word of God drew them with the power of God’s might, and people came to the services! We thank God for this as well!

As always in times of many sermons, we hear from many parts of God’s Holy Word. Is it not amazing that no matter how many sermons we hear, or no matter how many times we read the Bible, it never gets old? When it comes to other books, I have almost never in my whole life read the same book twice. The Bible however is not a regular book. This is the Word of God. The Word of the One that created the entire universe and all that is in it! This is the Word of Life!

The Holy Word is the Bread of Life! Matthew 4:4
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
The Word of God is our strength.

Also many times in the Bible, the Word and Salvation through Christ are depicted as water, or the water of life.

. John 4:10-11
Jesus answered and said unto her, 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. 11The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

John 4:13-15
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14But 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. 15The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

I pray that each one reading this article has been made partakers of this Living Water. I pray each one know both the Maker of the water, and the one that has made the water Live!

When Jesus died on the cross, we remember that He shed His blood to the last drop. Then water flowed out from His side. Remember, Jesus shed all His Blood for you! All men must repent and believe His Gospel! Believe truly for yourself that when Jesus cried out from the cross, IT IS FINISHED, that truly the whole price had been paid for you. You can rest from your own labor, from your own works. You can leave those sinful habits, those addictions, and all those things you need or desire from your flesh. IT IS FINISHED Jesus said! There is nothing that we must do, or that we can do. Jesus has done it all for us!

What a joy and what a relief to believe this by faith! Oh that many more in this world could come to this knowledge of the Living Saviour. The Saviour that said it is finished. The One whom the grave could not contain! The One who rose again on that first Easter Morn. The One the Lives forever! It is Him that we must come to.

Come and Dine! Come to partake of the Living Water. If you do, you will never thirst again! These are the Words of Jesus! Take them to heart by faith!

Rev. 22:17
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

One day, all believers will hear that beautiful word, Come, one last time! That is when our Lord invites us to Come to be with him in Heaven eternally! What a Day that will be, when our Saviour we see in that Beautiful City of Gold!

May God Bless your week! John