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 that was given to Adam and Eve to tend and cultivate and expand from was on the earth. 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 onetime experience called salvation; it is a way of life.
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.
We are to engage the Holy Spirit as a person. We can know her, feel her, sense her character, the essence of who she is.
The God head is Father, mother, son all in one. When God made Adam he was male and female, until he took the female part out of him and Adam called her eve.
I choose to not refer to Holy Spirit as male or female, but in writing sometimes that is hard, so I call the Holy Spirit her instead of him, that is my personal preference, you can lovingly disagree, I have called Holy Spirit him for over 30 years.
We must experience Holy Spirit and get out of our head into the spirit and there are many symbols that represent the Holy Spirit’s presence.
Water , River, living water ,Dove , Peace ,comforter ,Wind, Breath of life ,Wine, Joy ,Oil , Anointing, Fire, righteousness, Light, Revelation, teacher .
Holy Spirit is our supply, source of life, our vitality, our supply of grace, divine ability to enable us to fulfill God’s will and purpose.
When you encounter Holy Spirit you encounter divine energy, passion, zeal and enthusiasm. With Holy Spirit all things are possible, nothing is too hard.
When we are filled with Holy Spirit, we are inspired and motivated; we have a pioneering spirit of adventure and discovery.
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. We can engage oil, fire, light, energy and breath.
When we engage the Holy Spirit as righteousness- we can feel and experience, cleansing, washing, purification being clothed in white robes, where all the stain of our sin, guilt, shame and condemnation is removed and washed away.
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 and imparted into us. We are seen as righteous in the eyes of God.
We are washed, cleansed inside and out as we drink and are immersed in living water.
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?
Our relationship with God is one of harmony and wholeness because we have been made righteous .It is a flow of life that is not touched by what happens on the outside. Peace is not the absence of trouble 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. This joy is an overwhelming sense of wellbeing and happiness.
Joy is the deepest total contentment based on relationship where we experience our identity and purpose. It is not based upon circumstances and situations. Joy is a state of spirit flowing into the 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 our life .The quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be alright, and the determined choice to praise God in every situation.
We were born into the darkness, to see the light, to reflect the light, to walk in the light, to become light, to become the sons of God radiating the glory of that light.
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, so that people are attracted to the God who lives inside of 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 upon us.
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 our eyes to reality. By drinking living water we receive a well or a fountain. Our spirit becomes a house for God’s presence.
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, the breath .We can breathe in 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 we drink the greater the flow, until it gets deeper and deeper. We draw from the well and release it to flow from our innermost being.
This living water engages us with the eternal dimension of reality, the kingdom of heaven and reveals us as a new creation living and connected to that new reality .We are connected to the spiritual and heavenly realms through this river.
We need to 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. As we drink it flows deeper and deeper. The River is swirling with grace and faith and all the attributes of God within it. It is 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.
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.
As we learn how to open ourselves to the river of life it will flow stronger and stronger and begin to transform our lives.