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6:30 Wednesday
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Revelation 22:1, “And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.”
In spending time with the Lord, in order to merge with the prayer of God, we need to learn to allow God Himself to pass through us.
This is fundamental in our fellowship with the Lord.
It implies an opening of our entire being to God for Him to flow and pass through us.
In the Bible, God is described as a flow.
So the nature of our fellowship with Him must be like a flow of “living water” (John 4:10).
The Triune God is a flow.
Jesus declared in John 7:38-39, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)”
These verses make it clear that to know God is to know Him as a flow.
When we spend time with the Lord, our one need is simply to allow ourselves to be a channel for the Triune God to pass through us.
What a vision of prayer!
Spending time with the Lord is a release of our spirit whereby we consciously merge with God and allow Him to pass through us.
God is a flow.
He wants to flow Himself out into our hearts.
It is this flow that the apostle Paul describes in Galatians 4:6, “And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.”
Experiencing the reality of this flow is directly related to our merging with it by the active exercise of our spirit.
The sister verse to Galatians 4:6 is Romans 8:15, “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”
It is in this cry that God bears witness by flowing in us.
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our crying spirit (Rom. 8:16).
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Joe Johnson’s Dad – Visitation – Haisten F.H. – McDonough – Monday 4-7
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Brandon’s Dad
Dan Haines
Dr. Don Davis – Home
Freddie May’s Mom
George Alexander
Jane Hicks
Joan Cronan’s Sister – Surgery Thursday
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
John McClain
Linda Lanier
Melisa Smith’s G’Father
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Tom Witcher
Ann Sullivan – Paula’s Friend
Bentley Smith
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Bill Moody
Charlie Sessom – Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace
Kenny & Nora Allison
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Rod Gustafson – Cancer
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad