Word of the Day
Beloved, I am the ultimate thirst quencher. I am your thirst quencher. Do you remember how good it felt when you drank a cool refreshing drink after sitting in the heat of the day…how if felt going down at just the right moment when the oppressiveness of the heat threatened to close you in and even in some cases had the tendency to make you feel faint. Your body was crying out for what it needed to have its thirst quenched…what it needed to survive…to live. It is no different in the spiritual realm.
Your physical body, which is more than 60 percent water, needs physical water to live and your spirit man needs living water to live. Though water is the best fluid for your physical body on the natural plane there are many varieties of ways to receive liquid in order not to dehydrate. On a spiritual plane there are many ways to receive nourishment as well by listening to others teach, reading books and so on. However, nothing is better than just being with Me in My Word or in My Presence letting Me breathe new life into the soil of your heart and thoughts. Time with Me is like water to the physical body on a hot, dry and oppressive day. Nothing can truly quench your physical thirst like water and nothing can quench your spiritual thirst like time in My Presence as I breathe My very essence into you in order to transform and invigorate.
Beloved, even water, on the physical plane is a temporary fix and must be continued to make the body work and ward off dehydration. If this is so, then why would one think spiritual drinking or breathing would only have to be done occasionally? Yes, the effects of natural water only last a few moments or hours before a new infilling is needed while the effects of drinking and breathing Me are of an eternal nature….they last forever and ever without end. When you pass from this earth, all you have done and experience in Me will continue. This should be incentive to continue.
Therefore, do not drink of the things of the world or self-medicate with anything like drugs, overeating, shopping. The list goes on. Unlike drugs or self-medicating habits, I am never ending and always sweet. I have no bitter taste always left behind by the things of the world. I have the “oh so” refreshing and sweet thirst quenching factor.
Let My cool refreshing spirit flow over you with each breath I release. I am your shelter and nothing will hurt you when you partake of Me. When you experience Me on a personal level you become stronger and wiser in the things of My Word and heart. I am like a cold glass of water on a hot day or the freshness of the rain when it comes to nourish the earth and all things on it! My blessings…all of them have already been given to you and are waiting for you to acknowledge that fact and receive them. They are waiting in Heaven as a gift already given (Ephesians 1:3). They are ready to be poured out upon you…ready to flow up out of the springs of living waters inside of you (John 7:38). Can you smell them? Can you taste them?
Jesus answered her, If you had only known and had recognized God’s gift and Who this is that is saying to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him [instead] and He would have given you living water. (John 4:10 Amplified) He who believes in Me [who cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me] as the Scripture has said, From his innermost being shall flow [continuously] springs and rivers of living water. (John 7:38 Amplified)
May blessing (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual (given by the Holy Spirit) blessing in the heavenly realm! (Ephesians 1:3 Amplified)
Prayer
Lord, I thank You so much for the times You give me peace and refresh my mind and body. Sometimes I’m in such need for Your refreshing spirit when the world around me seems to spin ever faster. I need to be revived in You. The things of this world get so heavy and tiring at times; but, You are the burden bearer. I lay all my cares on you and let Your relief come to the heavy places of my heart and soul.
I know Your Word is the only thing capable of truly renewing my mind and reviving my spirit. No one and nothing in this world can give me the peace You give. Nothing fills me like You.
Lord, teach me to learn from the natural things of life, like feeding and exercising my body, and how it relates to the spiritual. Garbage in and garbage out as the old saying goes. Proper diet and exercise makes the body healthy. A proper diet of Your Word and the exercising of my faith creates a healthy life which fulfills its intended purpose.
Just as my body needs natural sustenance, My spirit also needs to feed itself on the Word and time spent with You in order to grow and have strength. I can’t ever get too much of You. The things of the world can make me physically and spiritually sick; but, You give me life and life abundantly…pressed down, shaken together, and running over.
Therefore, I partake of you with great vigor until the expression of my life is indistinguishable from Your character and nature. In You, I only become stronger and wiser…I move continually upward not down! I am moving upward. Amen
Reflect and Journal
- Do you get tired and weary? God says to come to Him and He will give you rest. Where do you need rest from the weariness or challenges of life? Name them and you will be better able to plan out according to the Word what you need to do.
- Have you spent some precious time with God today and become refreshed with His presence? Now is the time. What is He saying…impressing on you?
- Do you spiritually feed yourself daily? How do you do this? How can you best grow in this area in a practical and easy to accomplish way?
- Do you think that being spiritually fed one to two days a week is enough to keep up your strength spiritually? Per say…on Sunday or Wednesday. Where is God the rest of the week in your life?
- How much of the world do you take in compared to the things of the Lord…i.e.…TV…books…etc.
- When you take in too much of the world, do you begin to feel heaviness or weariness and possibly even fear especially in this day and time? Listen to the news enough and what happens to faith?