This is what God desires – this is His good pleasure, the desire of His heart – to be the fountain of living waters that man may drink Him, enjoy Him, be filled with Him, and become His enlargement, His increase, His expression. In His economy, God intends to be the fountain, the source, of […]
God’s pleasure is to be the fountain of living waters to dispense Himself into us and make us His increase
Filed Under: Christ became the Spirit, Enjoying Christ, experiencing Christ, expounding the truth, feeding on the Lord, His heart's desire, longings, O Lord Jesus!, our birthright, the Christian Life, the Lord's recovery Tagged With: absorb Christ, assimilate Christ, baptized in the Spirit, Christ wants to increase, crystallization study of Isaiah, drink Christ, drinking Jesus, eat Christ, enjoy Christ more, for God's good pleasure, fountain of living waters, God is faithful, God wants to be the fountain, God's heart's desire, life-study of Jeremiah, nothing apart from God satisfies, produce the church, quench our thirst, two evils
take the rod (apply the death of Christ to your situation) and speak to the rock(speak to Christ in faith)!
This week we’re getting into the message entitled, Drawing Water with Rejoicing from the Springs of Salvation – in the Crystallization-study of Isaiah(1). Today I was reminded of the fact that most of the problems and murmurings in the church life are due to the shortage of the Spirit of life. The people of Israel […]
Filed Under: Christ became the Spirit, Christ lives in me, contacting God, Enjoying Christ, feeding on the Lord, God's economy, His heart's desire, longings, O Lord Jesus!, the Christian Life, the church life, the Lord's recovery, the Word of God Tagged With: apply the death of Christ, Christ satisfies our thirst, come and drink Christ, Crystallization study, crystallization study of Isaiah, draw water with rejoicing, drinking Jesus, God fully quenches our thirst, quench our thirst, speak to Christ, speak to the rock, take a drink, take the rod, the Spirit is flowing, the springs of salvation, the water of life, we are thirsty
Only Christ can Really Quench Our Thirst and Satisfy Us Fully
The Gospel of John shows us many instances of how Jesus, as the Incarnated God-man, came to meet man’s many and varied needs. In reading through this Gospel, we see that, in the parables and events shown, Jesus met fallen man’s need. In chapter four, man “being thirsty” displays that he is seeking for something […]
Filed Under: contacting God, Enjoying Christ, His heart's desire, O Lord Jesus!, the gospel Tagged With: give me to drink, God meets our need, God seeks us, Jesus meets our need, quench our thirst, still empty and thirsty, the living water, thirst for God, thirsty mankind, we seek Him, we seek satisfaction
