Water From The Sanctuary
Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of
the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their
fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because
the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their
fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing
(Ezekiel 47:12 NIV).
Did you notice something amazing in our
opening verse? It talks about the water
coming from the sanctuary, and it says because the
water flowing to the trees is coming from the sanctuary,
their leaves won’t wither and their fruit won’t fail. The
trees would bear fruit every month, and their fruit
would serve for food, and their leaves for healing.
This is extraordinary, because it’s about us: we’re
the temple of the Holy Ghost; we’re God’s sanctuary:
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that
the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (1 Corinthians
3:16). With the Holy Ghost in you, you’re a living
sanctuary unto God. In John 7:37-38, the Lord Jesus
said, “…If any man thirst, let him come unto me,
and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture
hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water.”
He said out of your belly shall flow rivers of living
water How can these rivers flow out of your belly? It’s
because you have drunk of the Holy Ghost! The day
you received the Holy Spirit, you drank of Him; you
drank of the Spirit of life. Remember, He’s the life-giver;
so, today, when you speak, life comes out of you. The
rivers of living water come out of you in words—words
of life. Jesus said, “…the words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63).
The words that we speak, having drunk of the
Holy Ghost, are spirit and life. They issue from the
sanctuary—our recreated human spirit—where God
dwells, and everything the waters touch, comes to life!
Any dead thing in its path receives life. No wonder
we’re called life-givers, for we’re born of the life-giving
Spirit.
Prayer
Dear Father, you’ve made me a living sanctuary, with your
Word in my heart and in my mouth. With the Word of faith,
which I’ve received, I give life to everything around me. Thank
you for the transcendent life of glory I have in Christ Jesus.Amen.
Further study:
John 7:37-39; 2 Corinthians 6:16
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Luke 1:1-25
Deuteronomy 3-4
2-YEAR BIBLEREADING PLAN
Acts 27:32-44
Psalm 78