We are on a journey or an adventure together discovering how to engage the spiritual realms .Discovering those realms within us around us & the heavenly realms .On this journey we are going to follow the pathway of relationship and responsibility.
Repentance is a sustained change of perspective about the nature of reality – Bill Johnson .1 Cor 2:16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. Our minds renewed from the old to have the mind of Christ the new.
Living water – river of life .Jer 2:13 “For My people have committed two evils, They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water. What is the source of our life?
Isa 12:2 “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the Lord God is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.” 3 Therefore you will joyously draw water from the springs of salvation.
Amos 5:24 But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream .Foundation of the kingdom of God is the life of God Himself .Both relationship and responsibility flow from this living water
First Love is about an up close and personal relational encounter with God .With the Holy Spirit, Jesus and the Father to get to know them intimately and personally .Know their frequencies, fragrances, personalities.
Prov 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower; The righteous runs into it and is safe. Psa 124:8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.
Matt 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Baptism in the name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit .The Name carries the true record of who God is .God’s character, nature and personality that we can experience .YHVH baptised into that experience .YHSVH in Him in His name .
Baptisms – Into Holy Spirit, Jesus and the Father .Holy Spirit – Righteousness Peace Joy .Jesus – Way Truth Life .Father – Judgement Justice Holiness.
Baptised into we are in Him .Clothed or skinned with armour .Rom 13:12 put on the armour of light .2 Cor 6:7 amour of righteousness .Eph 6:11 Put on the full armour of God.
Revelation 22:1-2 Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Gen 2:10 Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers. Eden is God’s garden in the realm of heaven . The garden was given to Adam and Eve to tend and cultivate and expand from . Both gardens were connected to the spiritual realm by the river of life.
Now this river flows out of heaven through our first love gate into our spirits. This river becomes rivers or streams within us. This river can flow into the garden of our hearts. This river can become rivers of living water that flow through us to the world around us.
John 4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.“ Drinking living water is not a one off event called salvation.
John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
John 7:37.. Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” .'” But this He spoke of the Spirit,
This river of the Spirit is in us as a well, a fountain and spring of life .This River within us is a person .We can engage with the person of the Holy Spirit as we drink the living water and engage the river of life.
Engage the Holy Spirit as a person not a force or cosmic consciousness .Holy Spirit is not simply an “influence”, or “impersonal force“ that emanates from God? .We can know Him, feel Him, sense His character the essence of who He is.
We need to get to know Him .We need to ask Him to reveal Himself to us .I have not engaged Him as a physical body but that does not make Him any less personal or real .Many symbols that represent the Holy Spirit’s presence .
Water River living water .Dove Peace comforter .Wind Breath of life .Wine Joy .Oil Anointing healer .Fire Purifying righteousness .Light Revelation teacher .Cloud Guidance .
These are some of my experiences of personal intimate interaction .He is my supply, my source of life .My fresh mercy new every morning .My daily supply of grace God’s His divine ability, to enable me to fulfil His will and purpose and my destiny.
My living water, my source, my well, my fountain, my spring, my stream, my river .My insight, my revelation, my direction, my guidance .My abundant life, my heavenly flow, my heavenly connection .
My filling, my overflowing, my creativity .My zero point energy .My joy, my extravagance, my exuberance, my effulgence, my abundance, my vitality, my joie de vie .My eternal life source.
The excitement of creative possibilities and potentials .The energy of life, passion, zeal and enthusiasm .The fullest expression of hope. The creative image of God expressed as inspiration, motivation and the pioneering spirit of adventure and discovery.
Expression of supernatural abilities and character in the gifts and fruit. .Revealer of the true awe and wonder of life itself .Unveiler of the mysteries of God. Breath of life – Pneuma, Ruach the wind of heaven our spiritual oxygen.
Rom 14:7 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. We can drink and be immersed in living water as the river of life .Engage oil, fire, light, frequency and breath .What can we expect to experience?
When we engage the Holy Spirit as righteousness what can we feel and experience? Cleansed, washed, purified, clothed in white robes all the stain of our sin, guilt, shame and condemnation removed and washed away.
Righteousness – blamelessness innocence, guiltless and sinless .The quality of being morally right or justifiable .Impossible? No .Not when we live in the sphere of God’s gracious, covenantal relationship.
Rom 5:19 For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. 2 Cor 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Our righteousness is based on what Jesus did on the cross. The righteousness that was Christ’s is counted to us. We are seen as righteous in the eyes of God.
We are washed, cleansed, made new and restored .Cleansed inside and out as we drink and are immersed in living water .As we are baptised into Him .He dwells in us as and is the very source of eternal everlasting life.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. What is this peace that is to be found in a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit?
Wholeness of life or body i.e. health .Right relationship or harmony between two parties or people, often established by a covenant “new covenant of peace” .Prosperity, success, or fulfilment .Victory over one’s enemies or absence of war.
Our relationship with God is one of harmony and wholeness because we have been made righteous .It is a goodness of life that is not touched by what happens on the outside. Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of the Holy Spirit.
John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. What is this joy .Extreme and overwhelming sense of wellbeing and happiness.
Joy is the deepest total contentment based on relationship and true experience of identity and purpose not circumstances and situations. Joy is a state of mind and an orientation of the heart. It is a settled state of contentment, confidence and hope.
Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life .The quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be alright, and the determined choice to praise God in every situation.
Connection water, light and spirit .My spirit – Liquid light interspatial matrix interface .River of life is a crystal river (contains encoded revelation) of light and spirit .River of living water is a revelational manifestation of the Spirit.
Born into darkness . To see the light . To reflect the light . To walk in the light . To become light beings . To be Sons radiating glory.
Matt 5:16 Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. There is a really practical out working that must flow from us.
Col 3:3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. It is time for sons to be revealed the whole of the created order is waiting.
Our Spirit is given life by God’s spirit the very breath of life. Our spirit receives God’s light and becomes light. The light of truth opens my eyes to reality. By drinking living water I receive a well or a fountain. Our spirit becomes a house for God’s presence, a mountain and gateway.
Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. We breathe out that life into the world and then breathe back in from the source.
John 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. This is the rhythm of life Y H V H
River of life, the living water, the life of the Holy Spirit His breath .We can breathe this water and receive life giving spiritual oxygen .1 Cor 6:17 joined to Lord intimate yoked become one spirit. .This source of living water the very breath of life must flow out of us .
John 4:13-14 … whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.“ There is no flow without drinking we have to prime the pump.
The more you drink the greater the flow until it gets deeper and deeper. Draw from the well and release it to flow from our innermost being. The river is in you and you can be in the river.
My thirst for the things of this dimensional reality will cease when I taste and see that He is good .I can now access the well that becomes a fountain and rivers within my spirit.
This living water engages me with the eternal dimension of reality and reveals me as a new creation living and connected to that new reality .I am connected to the spiritual and heavenly realms through this river.
Do we know the gift of God? Are we connected to the flow of that living water? Do we drink from the internal well of water springing up to eternal life? Do we experience the constant flow of the source of life – the Holy Spirit?
Ezekiel 47:1 Then he brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, water was flowing from under the threshold .It trickles under that gateway from the kingdom within us until we open that door of First Love.
When we open the first love gate we can drink from that flow of life. Step into it, let it flow deeper ankle, knee, waste deep, out of our depth. It flows deeper and deeper to engage the garden of our hearts as quiet waters of Ps 23 . Resurrection life and power as we are baptised into the river.
River is swirling with grace and faith when it is mixed with the word of hope and expectation .It produces the charge of anointing and words that are vibrating with power, heat, vibration, electricity, light, oil and fragrance .Flowing from within to bring life and light to the world around us.
This river flows as the source of life from the very throne of God .This river releases the heavenly reality in us so that it can be around us .Peace, shalom, wholeness, rest baptised, immersed and filled to overflowing.
Psa 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers.
Psa 46:4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High.5 God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.
Open ourselves to God .Choose to embrace first love .Choose to give ourselves to Him to renew the nature of our reality .Choose to engage Him in intimacy and relationship .Choose to drink that living water flowing from Jesus now
Engage Jesus who is offering you living water to drink
Engaging God River of Life.
Jesus is kneeling before you with living water flowing from Him.
Drink that living water feel His life filling you .Keep drinking let it become a fountain within your spirit .Let it energise you. Let it cleanse you and wash you from the inside out.
Feel His forgiveness washing away all your sin, guilt, shame, condemnation .Feel new life filling you with joy, peace and love .You are a new creation the old is washed away and the new has come .That water is now within you as a fountain of life flowing from heaven.
Begin to picture that fountain of living water flow in your spirit .Engage the river ankle deep lie in it drink from it .Feel the light energy the vibrational frequency energising you. Feel your cells being restored, renewed repaired.
See the well and fountain of salvation .Drink in His presence .Feel the presence of peace let that peace rest on you and surround you .Feel His joy fill you let that joy bubble up in you like a fountain springing up to effervescent abundant overflowing wellbeing and joy.