Let The River Flow

Marching Into Your Divine Destiny

Journey Into The Promised Land

John 4:1–14 (CSB)

JESUS AND THE SAMARITAN WOMAN

4 When Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John ²(though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), ³he left Judea and went again to Galilee. ⁴He had to travel through Samaria; ⁵so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph. ⁶Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.

⁷A woman of Samaria came to draw water.

“Give me a drink,” Jesus said to her, ⁸because his disciples had gone into town to buy food.

⁹“How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

¹⁰Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”

¹¹“Sir,” said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this ‘living water’? ¹²You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

¹³Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. ¹⁴But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well^, of water springing up in him for eternal life.”

When this great River of God begins to flow over us, the focus will not be on the channel it flows through — the movement, denomination, or human vessel — but on the water itself! That is because the flow of this divine river will be so powerful, so unlimited, and so God-directed that no one will be able to take credit for it. It will not be a work of man, but a work of the Holy Spirit!

In Ezekiel’s vision, he saw five depths of water in the river (Ezekiel 47:2-5). There was a trickle, ankle-deep water, knee-deep water, loin-deep, then it became a river to swim in, so deep it could not be passed over. These various levels have been interpreted many ways by Bible scholars. Some believe it represents different stages of any one outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Others believe it to be stages of spiritual maturity.

One thing is for sure, if we follow the spiritual analogy of the natural parallel of a river, it takes the deeper water for a river to flow to the sea. In scriptures, the seas are symbolic of the nations — so this means that the river that flows from God is to flow through us — the temple — to the nations of the world.

The direction of the flow of this river is also significant:

…These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. (Ezekiel 47:8)

Isaiah 14:17 states that Satan caused the world to become a wilderness. Here we see the River of God flowing into the wilderness bringing life. The sea mentioned in this passage refers to the Dead Sea, which symbolizes the Dead Sea of fallen humanity.

The living water from God is being released into the temple of God — the Church, you and me — to flow into the Dead Sea of sinful humanity and into the wilderness of this world and bring life. And …

…whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. (Ezekiel 47:9)

Everywhere the river flows — everything and everyone it touches — will live! On the banks of the river are fishermen, who are pulling in tremendous catches of fish. These are the souls of men and women.

God wants you to claim your inheritance so you can be a blessing to the nations of the world. God wants the river of His manifested presence to flow through you into the wilderness of this world! Let the river flow!

Make this declaration:

The River of God is being released in me. I will be a blessing to the nations. God’s manifested presence will flow through me into the wilderness of this world.

*Adapted from MCWE email – Journey Into The Promised Land by Morris Cerullo

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