I Choose to Live by a River

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White water rivers are inspiring. All that living water rushing mightily by stirs up my heart and makes me feel wonderfully invigorated. I love to raft with the strength and power of their flowing. I am talking about the inner rivers of God the Holy Spirit. (John 7:38)

Is anyone thirsty for more of Jesus? Is anyone hungry for spiritual awakening. Is God’s word burning in anyone’s heart? God the Holy Spirit says, “Come!” Anyone who is thirsty and wants God’s living water is invited to freely come and drink. (Revelation 22:17)

Go beyond mere religion. (2 Timothy 3:5) Lean not on your own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5) Instead, acknowledge God’s presence and reality in everything you think, say, and do. Train yourself to always hunger and thirst for righteousness (Matthew 5:6) and to unceasingly seek King Jesus to rule and govern your life as your overarching priority. (Matthew 6:33)

Constantly rely and depend on Christ’s rivers of living water to abundantly flow from within you as the astonishing and glorious presence of God the Holy Spirit. (John 7:37-39) Don’t neglect the Holy Spirit’s presence inside you. (1 Timothy 4:14) Instead keep His inner rivers stirred up (2 Timothy 1:6) and freely flowing from your innermost being, day and night! Let Christ’s living water be a never-ending fountain springing up from the depths of your soul. (John 4:13-14)

Hear, do, tell.
Break the spell
Of passive religion.
Learn to dwell
And live in
God’s presence.
Say farewell
To self-will.
Allow Christ
To indwell
Your heart with
His Spirit.
Show and tell
What God’s done.
Obey His
Living Word.

1) Hear what the Spirit is saying. (Revelation 2;29)
2) Be a doer of what the Spirit says. (James 1:22)
3) Tell what you hear far and wide. (Matthew 10:27)

The goal of Christianity isn’t to get people to attend religious services on Sunday. The goal is to train people to faithfully listen to, follow, and obey the risen Jesus throughout each day. Drink up!

Christians are being lecturized, sermonized, systematized, ritualized, and politicized. What we need is to be revitalized by the presence and power of Christ’s rivers of living water!

The song, “I Can Only Imagine” isn’t biblical. The Bible says that we can do so much more than imagine. “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 2:9-10) We don’t have to only imagine. We can know unseen things by direct revelation from God the Holy Spirit. (2 Corinthians 4:18)