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LIVING WATER

 "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the source of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water." (Jeremiah 2:13)     When you are thirsty, you look for something to satisfy that thirst. The best thing is cool clear water, the most satisfying to our body. However Jeremiah is talking of the living water we need to revive our dry & weary soul! In John 4 we read of the Samaritan woman drawing water from the well. We also see Yeshua, the source of living water, standing beside the well. She can get the water to physically quench her thirst but she has a thirsty soul and a dry heart... that the water from that well cannot help. Yeshua's words touched the parched areas of her life and she opened up to receive His Living Water! Jesus has many names, but the one in Jeremiah is "the source of living water." We as believers who carry the Spirit of God in us must walk in the Kingdom reality that many we co

ASK, SEEK, KNOCK

 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For it is always he who asks that receives, he who seeks finds, and he who knocks that has the door opened to him."Matthew 7:7           In our daily time of prayer & worship, which flows from deep within us, it's not the QUANITY of time we spend but rather the QUALITY of this time that is important! Each of these main words in this verse; Ask, Seek, and Knock have a seperate and different result. Ask and IT will be given. This IT is that for which we are asking. IT will be given to the one who asks. We can trust the Lord to rightly respond to our asking. This asking must be according to the will of the Lord, which we will learn as we spend (trade) the QUALITY time in His presence. Faith comes the more we know Him. Then confidently we know we receive when we ask!  Seeking goes beyond our asking to receive...Seeking is discovering as we know Him better as a person. I