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Subject: Water from the Rock


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Vicky
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Date Posted: 04:36:35 06/20/06 Tue

Good morning ladies! GOD is so faithful to speak to my heart from HIS precious WORD. I am so thankful today for the truth of that statement. I want to look at three places in the WORD this morning and then I will comment. Let's jump right into the WORD.
Exodus 17:6-7: Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. He named the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the LORD saying, "Is the LORD among us, or not?"
Psalm 81:7: You called in trouble and I rescued you; I answered you in the hiding place of thunder, I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
I Corinthians 10:1-4: For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was CHRIST.
I pray this morning that as you have read over the above passages that you saw a connection. When I turned to the WORD this morning I saw the heading above Exodus 17 in my Bible, it says this: Water from the Rock.
My mind immediately thought about living water from the Rock, JESUS CHRIST. I wonder this morning have you experienced this living water. Have you come to the place in your life where day after day you crave the water that comes only from having a relationship with JESUS CHRIST. Ladies, I am not talking about a mere acceptance of who HE is. I am asking you this morning do you come day after day and submerge your heart into the waters of HIS WORD? Have you asked HIM to saturate your heart and mind with the WATER of WHO HE IS? Have you asked HIM to take the WORD that IS HIM and saturate your life with it, and then squeeze that water out onto some dry thirsty people? I believe HE longs to do this in each of our lives. I believe that HE longs to use our lives to refresh those around us. The children of Israel were dry and they were thirsty, and they had Moses to lead them to the water. Is there anyone in your life that you are leading to the life giving water of the ROCK, CHRIST?
If you glance back a chapter or two you will find in chapter 15 of Exodus the children of Israel were complaining about not having water to drink, then in chapter 16 they were complaining about not having the food they wanted to eat. In both of those incidents GOD met them at their place of need...HE provided for them. Here we are again, the children of Israel are complaining about what they don't have. I wonder if we don't do the same thing. Over and over the FATHER meets us at our place of need and as soon as we perceive that something isn't being met we gripe and complain.
I wonder if maybe you wouldn't be willing to go this morning to the knees of your heart and ask the FATHER to make you like Moses...would you be willing to be the one who gets squeezed out so that others might be lead to the ROCK of CHRIST...the LIVING WATER.
You see, ladies, GOD has already provided the water that we are longing for. HE has already given us the drink, but we must stoop down, bend our knees, bow our hearts and ask HIM to quench our thirst. That nagging that you feel in your heart this morning that says you aren't quite satisfied....it is a thirst for the water that ONLY CHRIST provides. Would you take a few minutes this morning in the quietness of your heart and ask the LORD JESUS to refresh you so that you can point others to the WATER that is HIM. HE told the Samaritan woman at the well, "If you knew who it was who asked you for a drink you would ask HIM and HE would give you living water." Have you experienced the refreshing LIVING WATER of the LORD JESUS? If so, have you taken the opportunity to share it with another thirsty soul?

FATHER, may our hearts be refreshed at YOUR FEET, may we come and bow ourselves before YOU and ask YOU to fill us with YOURSELF so that we can be squeezed out for others. Use my life to bring glory to yourself. FATHER, may we be willing to be struck down, broken, and even crushed in order that others would see YOU and come to YOU for life giving water. Thank you for the privilege of sharing YOUR WORD with ladies hungry to hear YOUR HEART. Thank you for YOUR WORD. Thank you for changing my life. YOU are so incredibly amazing and I love you! FATHER, pour out YOUR HOLY SPIRIT on us today and make us different because we have been in YOUR PRESENCE this morning. I love you, and it is in the MATCHLESS NAME OF JESUS that I pray. AMEN!

Ladies, my prayer is that this has been an encouragement to each of you this morning. I am asking the FATHER to empty you of yourself today and to fill with more of who HE is.

Have a wonderful day with JESUS.

Because I have been to the ROCK-
Vicky
I Corinthians 10:4 ...and the ROCK was CHRIST!

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