Living Water – Water of Life – Life Giving Water

I am still building my picture in my head about the Holy Spirit. 

I've said this before that if I can not picture something in my mind, I can not understand it. I have various study methods to help me and here is one that works well for me. I will go onto "Bible Gateway" and search all the scriptures that have the words I am looking for. What I have found is that the particular version of the Bible I use to search in may not contain those words I search for so I try searching in another version.

So, looking for anything with "living water", "water of life", or "life giving water".

Living Water – Water of Life – Life Giving Water

Jeremiah 2:13 Common English Bible (CEB)

13 My people have committed two crimes:
They have forsaken me, the spring of living water.
And they have dug wells, broken wells that can’t hold water.

Jeremiah 17:13 Common English Bible (CEB)

13 Lord, the hope of Israel,
all who forsake you will suffer disgrace;
those who turn away from you[a] in the land
will be written off,[b]
for they have abandoned the Lord,
the fountain of living water.

John 4:7-26 Common English Bible (CEB)

7 A Samaritan woman came to the well to draw water. Jesus said to her,“Give me some water to drink.” 8 His disciples had gone into the city to buy him some food.

9 The Samaritan woman asked, “Why do you, a Jewish man, ask for something to drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (Jews and Samaritans didn’t associate with each other.)

10 Jesus responded, “If you recognized God’s gift and who is saying to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would be asking him and he would give you living water.”

11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you don’t have a bucket and the well is deep. Where would you get this living water? 12 You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave this well to us, and he drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,14 but whoever drinks from the water that I will give will never be thirsty again. The water that I give will become in those who drink it a spring of water that bubbles up into eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will never be thirsty and will never need to come here to draw water!”

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, get your husband, and come back here.”

17 The woman replied, “I don’t have a husband.”

“You are right to say, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus answered.18 “You’ve had five husbands, and the man you are with now isn’t your husband. You’ve spoken the truth.”

19 The woman said, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you and your people say that it is necessary to worship in Jerusalem.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you and your people will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You and your people worship what you don’t know; we worship what we know because salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the time is coming—and is here!—when true worshipers will worship in spirit and truth. The Father looks for those who worship him this way.24 God is spirit, and it is necessary to worship God in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said, “I know that the Messiah is coming, the one who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will teach everything to us.”

26 Jesus said to her, “I Am—the one who speaks with you.”[a]

John 7:31-39 Common English Bible (CEB)

31 Many from that crowd believed in Jesus. They said, “When the Christ comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this man does?” 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about Jesus, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent guards to arrest him.

33 Therefore, Jesus said, “I’m still with you for a little while before I go to the one who sent me. 34 You will look for me, but you won’t find me, and where I am you can’t come.”

35 The Jewish opposition asked each other, “Where does he intend to go that we can’t find him? Surely he doesn’t intend to go where our people have been scattered and are living among the Greeks! He isn’t going to teach the Greeks, is he? 36 What does he mean when he says, ‘You will look for me, but you won’t find me, and where I am you can’t come’?”

37 On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted,

“All who are thirsty should come to me!38 All who believe in me should drink!
As the scriptures said concerning me,[a]
Rivers of living water will flow out from within him.”

39 Jesus said this concerning the Spirit. Those who believed in him would soon receive the Spirit, but they hadn’t experienced the Spirit yet since Jesus hadn’t yet been glorified.

Water of Life

Revelation 7:17 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

17 for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the [a]water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”

Revelation 21:6 Common English Bible (CEB)

6 Then he said to me, “All is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will freely give water from the life-giving spring.

Revelation 22:1 Common English Bible (CEB)

22 Then the angel showed me the river of life-giving water,[a] shining like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and the Lamb

Revelation 22:17 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost.

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What did I glean from this study?

• This water comes from the Lord, Father God and the Lamb (Yeshua Jesus).
• This water is the Holy Spirit.
• Belief in the Lord Jesus is paramount.
• You have to know that you are in need of this water (you are thirsty).
• It is given to the chosen but for others, they ask for it.
• It is freely given at no cost, no one will be denied it.

The Hidden Truth - Our Real Battle

I recently did a post based on Ephesians 6:10-20 how our fight should be against Satan and the demons and not against each other. Since then I've had a lot of questions and have begun studying about this.

We don't hear many sermons on this subject and yet it is possibly the most important thing to understand. Just from what the Lord has given me so far is enough to see why we don't hear more about it. It is because Satan does not want us to know this. He will be defeated if we humans all knew this and got the help God is willing to freely give to us.

There is a difference between the way Satan (who wants to be like God Most High) does things and the way Father God does it. Satan wants to take control of us humans whether we want him to or not. Father God (The All Powerful, The All Knowing, The Everywhere Present, The Creator of all things visible and invisible, God) on the other hand, lets us decide. He lets us decide if we want His help or not; we can invite Yeshua Jesus in and then ask Jesus for The Living Water (The Holy Spirit). The thing about all this that we humans don't comprehend is that the spirit realm, that which we don't see, is so so very important to us. If we don't have Jesus and the Holy Spirit in us, we have no way to fight against Satan and the demons; no way to keep them from entering into us.

Some other posts to read are "Satan and his work", "Demons", and "I want to ask you some questions"

Ephesians 6:10-20Common English Bible (CEB)

Put on the armor of God

10 Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and his powerful strength. 11 Put on God’s armor so that you can make a stand against the tricks of the devil. 12 We aren’t fighting against human enemies but against rulers, authorities, forces of cosmic darkness, and spiritual powers of evil in the heavens. 13 Therefore, pick up the full armor of God so that you can stand your ground on the evil day and after you have done everything possible to still stand. 14 So stand with the belt of truth around your waist, justice as your breastplate, 15 and put shoes on your feet so that you are ready to spread the good news of peace. 16 Above all, carry the shield of faith so that you can extinguish the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is God’s word.

18 Offer prayers and petitions in the Spirit all the time. Stay alert by hanging in there and praying for all believers. 19 As for me, pray that when I open my mouth, I’ll get a message that confidently makes this secret plan[a] of the gospel known. 20 I’m an ambassador in chains for the sake of the gospel. Pray so that the Lord will give me the confidence to say what I have to say.

Demons

Demons, also called evil or unclean spirits do exist. They can occupy and take control of us humans if we don't have Jesus and the Living Water (Holy Spirit) in us. When Jesus was here on earth, He cast out evil spirits many times.

There is a test to see if someone has an evil spirit within them. They can not say out loud these three words, "Jesus is Lord".

I want to pray right now. If anyone who is reading this right now tries to say these words and can not, I pray in the name of Jesus that the evil spirit or spirits will be cast out and that it will be made very clear that the only way to keep these spirits from returning is by letting Jesus come in and to ask for the Living Water (the Holy Spirit, our Helper).

To the bond-servants of the Lord, this is our battle. The more humans who receive Christ and the Holy Spirit, the less places these evil spirits have a home to occupy. I don't know what happens to these spirits if there is no longer any of us humans left to take up residence in but there is something in the Bible that may shed a little light on this.

Mark 5:1-15Common English Bible (CEB)

Jesus frees a demon-possessed man

5 Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the lake, to the region of the Gerasenes. 2 As soon as Jesus got out of the boat, a man possessed by an evil spirit came out of the tombs. 3 This man lived among the tombs, and no one was ever strong enough to restrain him, even with a chain. 4 He had been secured many times with leg irons and chains, but he broke the chains and smashed the leg irons. No one was tough enough to control him. 5 Night and day in the tombs and the hills, he would howl and cut himself with stones. 6 When he saw Jesus from far away, he ran and knelt before him, 7 shouting, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Swear to God that you won’t torture me!”

8 He said this because Jesus had already commanded him, “Unclean spirit, come out of the man!”

9 Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

He responded, “Legion is my name, because we are many.”

10 They pleaded with Jesus not to send them out of that region.

11 A large herd of pigs was feeding on the hillside. 12 “Send us into the pigs!” they begged. “Let us go into the pigs!” 13 Jesus gave them permission, so the unclean spirits left the man and went into the pigs. Then the herd of about two thousand pigs rushed down the cliff into the lake and drowned.

14 Those who tended the pigs ran away and told the story in the city and in the countryside. People came to see what had happened. 15 They came to Jesus and saw the man who used to be demon-possessed. They saw the very man who had been filled with many demons sitting there fully dressed and completely sane, and they were filled with awe.