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Let it flow

Let it flow
Have you been filled from the fountain of living water? Jesus promised to supply living water and, if we’ve asked Him, that life now flows in us. The Holy Spirit, living and active, now resides in us. If you’ve been to the fountain and are filled with the living water, you are able to live…
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Fountain of Life

Fountain of Life
Solomon led a beautiful prayer for rain, or “living water,” when he dedicated the temple. This happened during the season of Sukkot – or Feast of Tabernacles – so that in time it became a part of the festival liturgy. Centuries later, we find Jesus at the Temple during Sukkot. And as the High Priest…
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Broken Cisterns

Broken Cisterns
In the desert culture of Israel, living water is a source of, well, life. The alternative to living water is water that is collected – like rain run off that flows into a cistern. It would eventually become lukewarm and dirty. God not only provides living water, He refers to Himself as living water. “My…
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Pomegranates

Pomegranates
In Exodus 39 pomegranates show up as dangly decorations on the edge of the high priest's robe. God said to put bells between the pomegranates - so that it went bell, pomegranate, bell, pomegranate. In good rabbinic fashion the question arose – why did God say to put the bell between the pomegranates – and…
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