You're a Spring

On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.

John 7:37-39

Think about the Holy Spirit running out of you like multiple streams of living water, Believer. Where do these streams go? Everywhere! The Holy Spirit isn’t a personal water fountain to quench your spiritual thirst. No! He is like multiple, constantly flowing streams that flow out of you to quench a thirsty world. You can’t contain Him. The Spirit of God ought to be spilling out of you everywhere you go. He ought to be spilling out on everyone you come into contact with. Think about it this way, whenever someone enters your presence, they ought to also be entering into the presence of God because the Spirit is there with you.

And as the Spirit of God flows out of you like water, I believe I know what direction He will pull you. Water flows downhill, to the lowest point. So too the Spirit will pour out of you and run toward the lowly. He will pull you toward the hurting, the broken, the hungry and the oppressed. God will lead you to these, so you can meet not only their physical needs but also their deepest soul need.

But some of you are quenching the Spirit. You are damming up your spring. You allow sin and disobedience to restrict the flow of the Spirit in your life and out of your life onto others. One way I see some church members do this is by giving God partial obedience. They’ll give to missions. They’ll pray for missions. But they won’t do missions! While their financial and prayer support is winning souls to Christ all over the world, their next-door neighbors, their family members and the people in their community are dying and going to Hell. But they are unwilling to do anything about it. They won’t be used by God. They won’t open their mouths and share their gospel. Please keep giving to missions! Please pray earnestly for missionaries. They need it! But you also have to go and be a witness! 

Let the Spirit flow out of you and use you to win lost souls for Christ. All around you people are thirsty; won’t you offer them a drink?! When the people of Israel wandered in the desert for forty years and had no water to drink, what did God do? He gave them water from a rock! If God can use a rock to quench the thirst of more than a million people, then He can certainly use you to bring souls to salvation. Let the Spirit flow out of you everywhere you go, and follow His lead. Make up your mind now to obey.