The Time of My Life Is To Enjoy Jesus and His Inner Rivers

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The fear of losing respectability keeps Christians focused on burying and embalming the dead Jesus (John 19:38-41) instead of on surrendering to and radically obeying the inner rivers of the Jesus who lives within them. (Colossians 1:27) Let me tell you about my Jesus and His glorious inner rivers of living water! Hallelujah!

Supernatural fruit and gifts are released in human beings when the inner rivers of Jesus’ Spirit are allowed to freely flow from deep inside of a person’s innermost being. Christ’s spiritual rivers can be cultivated or quenched. They can be surrendered to or suppressed. They can be relied on or denied. They can be released or rejected.

A lifestyle of humility, tenderness, sensitivity, purity, brokenness, surrender, and obedience open up a human heart to Christ’s inner flowing. Developing those characteristics prepares the way for the Lord’s spiritual rivers to freely and powerfully flow from deep within a person.

Society and even religion too often train us humans to rely only on the workings of our intellect, our undisciplined desires, and our own efforts and abilities. They teach us that Jesus’ inner flowings are merely unreliable intuition and irrational imaginings. They tell us that the inner release of God’s supernatural fruit and gifts needs to be feared and avoided.

Society and even religion have brainwashed us humans to be respectable, proud, hardhearted, insensitive, impure, faking mental health, rebellious, and disobedient. No wonder we’re mostly unaware of and missing out on God’s inner rivers of wholesomely beautiful spiritual fruit and supernatural gifts.

Christians desperately need to wake up to the glorious reality of God’s spiritual rivers. (John 7:38-39) We need to wholeheartedly embrace them. (Colossians 1:27) We urgently need to set aside our own feelings and desires and instead to be supernaturally swept along and led by God the Holy Spirit’s inner rivers both day and night. (Romans 8:14)

If going to church was all there was to Christianity, I wouldn’t want to be a Christian. Google: Beyond Church Ekklesia. Too many pastors spoon feed people every week with a sermon. They give people just enough Bible to make them think they don’t need to open it for themselves. I don’t think God likes it that so many Christians depend on a weekly sermon for their spirituality. If a pastor won’t trust the people in the congregation to speak out in church, he’s not making disciples. He’s making an audience.

To seek and receive the gift of speaking in tongues is a powerful way to humble yourself and open up to the life-changing inner rivers of God’s Spirit. Set aside your respectability and go for it!

There’s a special way
That people can pray
Where the words they say
Flow out as they may
In an unlearned language.
That’s the way I pray
Many times each day.