River of God

20 years for Abba Father's house that's amazing it's good

to see you all it's good to be with you

been in the UK almost almost three weeks go home

tomorrow I always save the best for last yeah right

right here partly because you're right next to Heathrow Airport

but I'd come anyway we love Dave and Julia give

it up for your pastor and his wife come on

yeah aren't you grateful because I get to do this

in churches you know pastors don't get up and say

let's hear a round of applause for me So I

like to do that on their behalf because everything rises

and falls on leadership and you have really good leadership here.

You have a great team, trustees. So thanks everybody for

what you do. And you're going to outgrow this room soon.

I'm just going to keep prophesying that. Just like we

prophesied you right out of Virginia Lodge, we're going to

prophesy you out of this room into something bigger. It's

time for harvest, right? Things are happening in the earth.

I'm seeing it everywhere and in other nations. And so

God's on the move and we're going to try to

catch him. I'm going to Chase God, right? Catch him.

This morning, and I thank you for that scripture. As

the deer pants for the water, the stream so my

soul longs after me. What does that mean? If a

deer's panting for water, what does that mean in the deer?

He's thirsty, right? Are you thirsty this morning? All right,

go with me to the Gospel of John, chapter 7. John,

John 7 · chapter mention John 7:37–39

chapter 7, verse 37 through 39. John. On the last

day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up

and he cried out, If anyone thirsts, let him come

to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the

scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers

of living water. Now this he said about the Spirit,

whom those who believed in him were to receive. For

as yet the Spirit had not been given because Jesus

was not yet glorified. That's John's commentary on what Jesus

said at that moment. I have good news this morning, church.

The Spirit has been given. This was a prophetic picture

of like, what's coming? This river's coming for all who

are thirsty. Now it was also Jesus bringing, as we said,

saying in that amazing song, He'll manifest Himself. What a

powerful hunger we should have and a thirst for God

to manifest Himself. And so, even this text was a

prophetic manifestation of what had been going on for years

in the people of Israel. The context, on the last

day of the feast, what feast? It was called the

Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Booths, where for

a whole week the people of Israel, well, in our vernacular,

they go camping. They would set up a little tent,

a little hut, a little booth, and they would stay

there for a whole week, reminding them of their journeys

in the wilderness and how God supplied for them and

all the symbolism, the things that God did. And so

on the last day of the feast, something significant happened

because prior to this, every other day for seven days,

the priest would go down to the Pool of Siloam

and take a bucket of water, bring it back up

to the temple and pour water out. And the water

would run down, symbolic. And so on the great day,

the last day, They quoted a different scripture. On that day,

they said, with joy you shall draw water out of

the wells of salvation. And they did that seven days

in a row. But on the last day, he also

quoted Isaiah 44, verse 3. I will pour water on

Isaiah 44:3

the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground. I

will pour my spirit. This is Isaiah seeing into the future.

This great demonstration of water being poured out. I will

pour my spirit upon your offspring and my blessings on

your descendants. We're all a descendant of somebody. We're all

offspring of somebody. What a beautiful picture. It's just like

when Acts 2, when he said the spirit is for

you and for all who shall come after you, right?

It's for you and your children and your children's children.

This pouring out of the Spirit didn't stop when the

bucket was empty. It continues on, and that was prophetic.

And now Jesus stands up and says, it's fulfilled. I'm

actually the water. And if you're thirsty, you don't have

to go to a well. Come to me. Whoever believes

in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his

heart will flow rivers of living water. How many know

God does not want you to live spiritually dry? Yep.

stagnant just getting by in life right why we get

we get thirsty natural life natural body life was designed

to be thirsty and so this invitation it starts with

an invitation verse 37 if anyone's thirsty gotta stop right

there are you yes we start you acknowledge thirst right

thirst is the starting point in your relationship with god

we're designed to be thirsty because you know why we

forget and we leak and life gets crazy and we

get busy And every now and then we have to

stop and go, I'm just really thirsty. You have to

acknowledge your thirst. That means what? I need something. I

have a need that needs to be met. Psalm 42,

my soul thirsts for God, not just for water, living water.

You know, in the Gospel of John, a few chapters before,

in chapter 4, we have this amazing story where Jesus

meets a woman at a well. Why did they go

to the well? To get water every day. The women

would go, but this woman shows up at high noon.

You know the story because of her her fractured life.

She came at noon so no one would see her.

Yet here's this Jewish man sitting on Jacob's well and

she's about to draw water and Jesus triggers her thirst.

He uses natural thirst to trigger her spiritual thirst. And

he said to her, can I have a drink? I'm thirsty.

You know, Jesus only asked for a drink twice in

all the gospels. Right here, the woman at the well

and on the cross. He said, I thirst. He was thirsty.

So this woman's like, why are you asking me, a

Samaritan woman, for a drink, and you're a Jewish man?

And they had this little conversation about water, natural water.

And then Jesus triggers her spiritual thirst. Because he said, oh,

you want the water? He goes, I have water. If

you drink my water, you'll never thirst again. She goes, good,

I won't have to come here every day. She didn't

quite get it. Until she said, okay, I want some

of this. And he said, good, go call your husband.

That triggers something in her spirit, because she's like, I

don't have a husband. I know you've had five husbands

and the one you're with is not your own. And

so she said, now I'm thirsty. I got a different

kind of thirst now. I want to know the type

of person that can sit here and tell me all

about my life. And then he told her what the

true source of water was. Those that worship God in

spirit and truth. See, worship is a way that we drink.

She was thirsty in the natural. Jesus triggered her spiritual

thirst and then he showed her what's the true source.

Those that worship. Do you know Just the last 30 minutes,

we've been drinking. We've been drinking. Why? We've been taking

in the presence of God. We've been taking in. But see,

it doesn't stop there. We're thirsty. You can't deny that,

you know, we have thirst. But, you know, it's not

just like, I need, fill me up. It's all about me.

Jesus said something else when that happens. When you come

and you drink, he said, oh, something's going to happen

inside of you. Something's going to come out of you,

not just into you. Out of your innermost being, out

of your heart. will flow rivers of living water. That's

what he offered the woman at the well. And so

the response, quite appropriately, is what? Come. Let him come. Why?

Coming is intentional. Sometimes as Christians we like to say, Jesus,

bring me another drink. I'm thirsty. He's not the big

butler in the sky, right? He's not our servant, although

he came as a servant. But we think, you know what,

I'm thirsty, just come. No, he says come to me. Why?

He wants a relationship with you. He didn't say go

to your app, go to your thirst app. I'm thirsty, click.

He goes come to me. He wants a relationship, not

a religion. Isaiah 55.1, come all who are thirsty. There's

a coming, there's an invitation, a beckoning, and we come.

How often do we come? Whenever you're thirsty. How many

are thirsty more than once a day? Come on. See,

we What a natural understanding of spiritual thirst is just

the way we're naturally thirsty. I call this generation the

hydration generation. I notice you have your water bottle. How

many of you brought a water bottle? It's okay. How many?

Don't raise your hand in church. We all have water bottles.

Water bottles everywhere, right? And when I was a kid,

we'd be out playing in the summer. It'd be hot.

We'd get thirsty. No water bottles everywhere. When we left

the house, my mother said, did you bring your water bottle?

We just like, go have fun. And then we went

to the nearest hose pipe, you know, somebody's house. Just, yeah,

just let it run for a minute and drink. But

you know what? We're designed to be thirsty. And so

now we're very aware of it. I mean, it's hydration, hydration, right?

And so, and my wife was very healthy. She not

only says drink water, she gets these little hydration packets

to put into your water to make your hydration more hydrated. Right?

I guess it works. I've tried it. It works. But,

you know, we're just very aware of hydration. So here

we are, drinking. Drinking is active. It's not passive. You

don't just sip. Jesus didn't say, come get a sip

and stay hydrated forever. It's an ongoing relationship that Jesus wants, trusting, receiving.

That's your life of devotion and worship and all that.

That's what he's offering. Come. So actually, when we say

come to church, we love to invite people. Jesus is

inviting us to come and drink. We need to invite people.

There's thirsty people all over Agam this morning. They don't

even know it. They're having coffee. But you know what? Inside,

they're like the woman at the well. I have a

thirst that can't be... quenched. Whoever believes in me. Ah,

there's a little bit of a caveat here. There's a

little condition that Jesus put in there. Why? You see,

it's faith that receives the water. Faith is your internal cup.

When you say, I'm thirsty, come, and I want a drink,

where does it go? It feeds your faith. Out of

your innermost being, that's your chamber of faith. And that's not, Jesus,

it's the word heart translated in some translations, but it's

two different Greek words for heart. One is kardia. That's

where we get the word cardiac. That's your blood pumper,

the heart. But there's also another Greek word, kolia. Kolia

means your innermost being, your belly, okay, your abdomen. It's

that deep place down inside where we feel, where we

have a witness. We say things like, well, you know,

in my gut, this is what I feel. This is

what I feel down here, not up here. I mean,

it's better to feel down here than up here, right?

We have a saying, you know, don't listen to the

fanatic in the attic. Listen to the feller in the cellar, right?

You've got two voices going on. You've got this guy

talking up here, but you've got to listen down here.

Because that's where your chamber of faith is. We need

to fill that up regularly. Whoever believes in me. So

your heart is the chamber of faith, but see, your

mouth is the organ of your faith. How do you

know if someone has faith? Just listen to them talk.

How do they talk? Are they negative? Or do you

hear faith when they speak? You fill up with faith,

faith comes out. Out of your innermost being, Jesus said,

will flow something. Rivers, not trickles. It's not a pond.

It's not a well. It's a river. Rivers have life

in them. In the book of Ezekiel, I just want

to reference it. In the book of Ezekiel, God gives

the prophet an amazing vision of a river. And so

he takes the prophet to the river. And I'm just

speeding up through the basics of it. But he takes

him to the river. And he shows him the river.

And he steps in the river and the water comes

up to his ankles. That's a great analogy of our

walk with God. And you can take it on a

macro scale or just like every day. But the water

comes in and it comes up to the ankles. And

then it comes up to the knees and then up

to the loins. But then there's this moment where it

sweeps the prophet away. He just starts swimming. God doesn't

want you just playing around in the shallow end. That's good.

Everybody has to start somewhere. We start by getting in.

That's even your Christian walk. You get your feet wet, right?

You find stability, and you're like, man, I feel stable

for the first time, right? And then the water rises.

When the river gets flowing, it'll come up to your knees.

That'll change your prayer life. How many of you know

the Holy Spirit will change your prayer life? Because he's

the master prayer. He is your intercessor. He's making intercession

for you right now. Romans 8, 26. He's making intercession

before the Father, and Jesus is joining him. Romans 8, 31.

They're both praying for you right now. That's the river.

The river is flowing. The river has life in it.

And that river gets up to your knees, it'll change

your prayer life, and then it rises even more, and

you begin to feel strength in your loins. There's all

kinds of analogies, but the loins carry the weapons. It's

a weapon belt. The loins are strength. If you're standing

in a river, and the water's rising, and it's up

to your waist, you still feel pretty good. But then

there's that moment where the water rises more, and it's

kind of like, I can't stand anymore, and that's where

the river wants to take you somewhere. That's what the

river wants to flow into you and through you to

carry you where he wants you to go. We're supposed

to be led by the Spirit, aren't we? Paul said,

this I say, walk in the Spirit, and you won't

fulfill the desires of the flesh. Those that are led

by the Spirit are the sons and daughters of God.

We're to be led by the Spirit, but you've got

to let go. Most of us sit there and go,

I'm not moving, and the current's pushing on you. I'm

not moving. The water's here, and all of a sudden,

it takes you away. Because Ezekiel said this, and the

Lord said to Ezekiel, wherever the river goes, it brings life. See,

the river of God in you is full of life.

That river that Ezekiel saw, it flowed from the temple,

and it always comes from the source. It's always God.

He is the temple. But see, now you're the temple

of the Holy Spirit. You're the source for the The

whole region. You're the source for people at work. You're

the source for those at school. You're the source, and

that's designed to flow out of you. And that river

that Ezekiel saw flowed down out of the temple and

went toward the Dead Sea. You see, the river in

you is full of life, and it's designed to go

to somebody that has death. You should be drawn to

people that are dying. I'm talking about spiritually dead people,

spiritually dead things, dead relationships. That water said, find me

something to give life to. Find me something to give

life to. That's what the Spirit in you, the river

in you is always drawn to people that need life,

that need living water. And so what happened when the

prophet's seeing all this, oh, then all of a sudden

the fish are coming. You know, when the river gets flowing,

the fish start coming. There's going to be more fish here.

I love this. You're like one of those big beautiful

tanks with all the multicolored fish. I look around and

see all the flags and the dress, and that's representative

of multicolored people, different kinds of fish. And then the

fishermen come. The evangelists start getting hungry. They're fishing. And

along that river was trees start rising up. And in

the leaves of the trees were the healing of the nations.

That's you, RCF. You're here because you have living water.

You flow with the Spirit. You love evangelism, right? And

you know what? There's going to be healing. Healing for

the nations here. So the Spirit was designed not just

to flow to us, but through us. And so John

gives this explanation. This he said about the Spirit, in

case you're confused. This he said about the Spirit, which

had not been given, but it's been given now. This

he said about a person. This is what he said

about the Spirit. Not an emotion. It's not hype. It's

not something you just have an emotional moment with. It's

recognizing the person and the work of the Holy Spirit

in you. And so this gift is for those who believe. Believers.

Not for everybody. This is the charge. See, the charge

today is for the believer, you. Whoever believes, condition. Out

of you will flow something. For all who believe in Christ.

It's not for spiritual elite people or the clergy or

anything else. It's for those who believe, let them come

and drink. Now, this is your prayer life. Let me

just touch your prayer life. This is where you do

most of your drinking in your prayer life. Because you

get in the Word, you're drinking the Word. Then you're asking,

your prayer life. And then you, in worship, all this flows.

Your time in the Word is drinking. Your time in

prayer is a massive amount of drinking. I would say

it's kind of like your prayer life represents your drinking life.

Because when we're going to the Lord, we're needy. Why

do you drink? I'm thirsty. I'm needy. I need something,

and I have to get it from somewhere. We drink,

then we flow. We reach other people. So the Spirit

of God is God's life in the believer. And Jesus said,

the words that I speak are spirit and life. So

when Jesus speaks through his word, prophetically, preaching, whenever the

word of the Lord comes, drink. We drink. Logos in,

rhema comes out. The living word comes out. The logos

written word comes in, that comes out. Asking. Asking is

muy importante. Right, Isabel? It's so important that we understand

that when we're asking, we're not being whiny and it's

kind of like, God goes, there's my son. He needs something.

There's my daughter. Come on. Come drink. Come drink. We say,

I have needs. You know the whole Lord's Prayer? We

call it the Lord's Prayer. Some call it the Disciple's Prayer.

Luke 11. I grew up in the Anglican Church in

America called the Episcopal Church. We read it every week.

That's one prayer I definitely knew. Did I understand it? No,

but I did it every week. But it was good

that I learned it then because now you understand. That's

just all asking. The whole prayer is asking. It's a

drinking prayer, by the way. It's one way you can

come to God and drink. Our Father who art in heaven,

first saying, oh, there's the source of water. I'm thirsty.

Our Father. You go right to the Father. Because the

disciples said, Lord, teach us to pray. We watch you

praying all the time. You get thirsty, you just go

off by yourself. We thought, what is he doing? No,

he said something about he's thirsty. Yeah, but he doesn't

have water. Yeah, but look at him now. It's like,

teach us that. Teach us how to pray. As John

taught his disciples, he says, okay, when you pray, we

forget this one little word. Say. The one thing I

appreciated about my Anglican tradition was we recited the Lord's

Prayer out loud, all together. Which our Father goes, there

they are, they're all thirsty. When you pray, say, which

means what? Break silence. I'm all for praying in your heart,

praying silent prayers and all that, but there's times you've

got to say something. When you're really thirsty, you're going

to say something. Say, our Father who art in heaven,

hallowed be your name. It's like, you're my source. Your

kingdom come, your will be done. You recognize this is

all about you. And then the asking begins. The rest

of the prayer is just asking. Give us this day

our daily bread. I might add something to drink too.

Not adding to scripture, but the Bible says, blessed are

those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. They shall be satisfied.

And so, Lord, give us this day our daily bread.

Then what? And forgive us. That's asking. Forgive us as

we forgive those. Lead us. See, we're not done asking yet.

We're still drinking. What? Lead us, not into temptation. Still

not done. Deliver us. Hear the asking? Deliver us from evil.

That's drinking. That's taking in. That's saying, I need, I need,

I need God. For yours is the kingdom and the

power of God. That simple prayer is all about asking.

So we go to the New Testament to finish and

we look at the ongoing command. This wasn't a one-off

thing that Jesus was declaring. If anyone's thirsty, let him

come to me and drink once and you're done. No,

it's like this is going to be an ongoing relationship.

And so Paul picks up on this in Ephesians chapter 5,

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this ongoing command to be filled with the Spirit, which

means what? Keep drinking. Go to your source. Let's look

at the text here, Ephesians 5, 18 to 21. Do

not get drunk with wine, that is debauchery, but be

filled with the Spirit. Do you know some people... are

looking how to meet their needs outside of God and

outside of the Holy Spirit? Why? Because the world offers

amazing substitutes. Why do people turn to drugs and alcohol

and other things? Sugar, whatever, whatever. Caffeine? Okay, I admit it.

I think I need caffeine. We have needs. We're needy. See,

when we're needy, we have to go to Him. And

if he says, okay, you can have one more cup

of coffee. Thank you, Lord. But in other words, don't

get intoxicated with other substitute substances. Be filled with the Spirit.

And the result is amazing. When he says, be filled

in the Greek, it's a continuous action. Be being filled.

Be continuously filled. It's not a one-time experience. Like I said,

we leak. Our natural bodies deplete. And so our spiritual

man depletes and we need to refill. And here's the thing.

You do get to choose the source. Paul was saying,

you have source choice here. You can choose a source here.

The world offers amazing substitutes. News feeds, right? Social media.

I call them reels and unreels. Most of my reels

are unreal. We get caught up in that because it

does something. There's a quick satisfaction. Like, I just have

this moment. I just need dopamine or whatever I need.

And then you get all done going, I don't feel

any better. I feel like I wasted some time. But

the Spirit fills you. The Spirit empowers you. And it

transformed you. And that comes through the word. It comes

through presence. It comes through asking. Your prayer life is

a transformational process with God. It's not just, Lord, here's

my list. I'll text you the list. God, door dash

it back to me, you know, later today. It's not

that transactional. It's relational. And so this filling then leads

to overflow. Look at the overflow here. Be filled with

the Spirit. Watch. Addressing... one another and yourselves in psalms

and hymns and spiritual songs. You see, when you're drinking

of psalms and hymns, reading your psalms, reading the Bible,

taking in, there's going to be an outflow. The Spirit

wants to flow out of you, and He really likes

psalms and hymns and spiritual songs because He wrote them all.

The Holy Spirit wrote all the psalms, by the way.

That's not what David did. Yeah, David by the Holy Spirit, right?

Even hymns. Hymns are of A song of human composition,

but it's the Holy Spirit that inspires hymnology. And spiritual

songs are spontaneous songs of the Spirit. I heard a

few this morning. Some of you were just singing out

by the Spirit. See, that's the Spirit coming out of you,

flowing out of you. Out of you will flow something

when you're drinking properly. Wow. Worship. Making melody to the

Lord with all your heart. And then watch this. Giving thanks. Thanks. Yeah,

I know I'm supposed to give thanks. Lord, we thank

you for our food. Lord, we just thank you for

my family. And he goes, giving thanks when? Always? You've

got to be kidding. There's a whole lot of things

I'm not very thankful for. It's like, no, giving thanks

always for everything to God, the Father, in the name

of the Lord Jesus. It's like, because in everything give thanks.

Not for everything. In everything give thanks. This is the

will of God in Christ. And then here's the big one.

Here's the big reward of all. If you're filled with

the Spirit, guess what? you're much more submissive. First of all,

to God. Then it says submitting to one another. That's

the hard part, everybody, isn't it? Come on, that's the

hard part. I submit to God. God, He's my Father.

He's Lord. He's perfect. What about people? They're very inconsistent.

But you see, if you're filled with the Spirit, you

can submit to one another out of reverence. That's love-filled living.

Do you know, To submit to somebody means you've got

to love them more than they even love themselves. Loving

one another. Even in a marriage, it's all about having

him to out-serve the other and submitting in love because

you're not born with the kind of love that makes

you do that. That's why you've got to be filled

with the Spirit. It's impossible to love other humans at

the level God requires. It's impossible. That's why he sent

the Holy Spirit. There's four different Greek words for love.

They all deal with different areas of our life. Fileto, storge, eros,

eros love, romantic love, fileto, family love, I love pizza.

There's all kinds of love, right? But there's this thing

about the love of God. That's not on planet Earth.

There's no website that can give you the love of God.

Romans 5.5 says, the love of God is shed abroad

in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. That's where it

comes from. So you can't submit to one another in

the natural world. You can't have the satisfaction. You can't

be loving. You can't have a love-filled life because the

love of God comes from another dimension. And you get

that when you drink. You get that when you drink.

God supplies the spirit. We have to drink. So how

do you live in the flow? We finish up with this.

First of all, we go back to the beginning. Just

start with acknowledging, I'm thirsty. I'm thirsty. We should all

just be a little more humble about that and You know,

I'm in church more than most people. I was in

55 churches last year. I'm in hundreds of services. My

chart is full. You know, I could probably go to

heaven tomorrow and still say, well, he's got more than,

he's got some, he could give to other people. I'm kidding.

I'm in a lot of churches, you know, Christians, we're really,

we're kind of good pretenders. We can pretend pretty good.

How you doing, brother? I'm fine. How are you? And inside,

I'm so thirsty. I have so many needs. Oh, I

could use some prayer and all this. When we first

come in, how are you doing? I'm fine. How are you?

I'm a mess. And so we just kind of say,

stop pretending when you're actually thirsty. I think it would

be really refreshing. I think it would stir things up

if people walked in and said, how are you doing?

He goes, man, I am so thirsty this morning. Are

you with me? I'm with you. Come on, let's go

get a drink. I mean, they do that in the

pubs and everything. It's like, let's go get a drink, right?

Come on in. We're drinking. You know, we always accuse

people that have a drinking problem. That sounds like such

a negative thing. I think the church should have a

drinking problem. See, you're all going, that doesn't, that doesn't. Okay,

we should have a massive ongoing appetite, okay, for thirst.

How you doing, brother? Not so good. Come on in.

We're going to drink this morning. Lord, I need you.

And where do you go? Jesus. You come to Jesus.

And we did that well this morning in your worship. See,

you can have personal devotions. That's good. I'm thirsty, Lord.

I read my devotions. Maybe put on a worship song

and all this. But you know what? When you come together,

When the church is gathered, that river gets some force

behind it. You get to actually drink out of the

river of your friend. There's a corporate river. The sound

of many waters Revelation talks about. I like that because, see,

relationship fuels the river in you. Relationship will always fuel

the river. Even one-on-one, you go and have coffee with

somebody and sit down, and the river in you and

the river in him and her, all of a sudden,

you know what? The river talks. The river is kind

of like Bluetooth, you know, that connects. The river, river

to river, right? The river's got a voice. Out of

you will flow. How does it flow? Remember I said

the organ of your faith is your mouth. So you

get connected to another river stream, and there's just a

little more. If two shall agree. Come on. This is

how this all works in the spirit. If two shall

agree is touching anything, it shall be done, right? One

can put 1,000 to flight. Two can put 10,000. All

this is what? That's river power. We need to tap

the river power that God said we would have. Jesus said,

I'll send my Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit comes,

you shall receive what? Power. Divine ability. That's manifestation. And

drink deeply. Just drink deeply. Say, Lord, I'm not going

to stop until I'm full. Here's the thing. I've always

said that you can't pollute the river of God. But

you can block it. The river of God is pure.

It's powerful. The Holy Spirit, he's invincible. But he's stuck

in our earthly temple, right? And we can block the flow.

We can block the flow. So obviously, sin and bitterness particularly,

things that we kind of slough off is like, well,

I'm justified in being upset with that person. Look what

they did to me. And we can carry bitterness and resentment.

And we can be anxious. And oh my goodness, distractions alone.

Just distractions we may not even be aware. Distractions will

block the river. And it's so easy and so quick.

Like I said, we all got this little distraction device.

Somebody have a distraction device? Some call it an iPhone.

I call it just a major source of distraction most

of the time. But, you know, we get in there.

And when you realize, why am I not flowing? I'm

still thirsty. And I just suddenly realize, oh, I realize

what happened. Here's the quick tip of the day. Confession

clears the channel. That's all. When you realize, what's blocking here?

Why don't I feel? Oh, the Holy Spirit will say,

may I speak? See, the river wants to talk to

you and tell you what's going on really inside of you.

So you've just been watching reels for 15 minutes and

wasted 15 minutes. Or you've just been on, you know,

I've been online. It's not like we can't have leisure

and things like that, but there's some things we allow

into our life that block the flow. You just confess it.

You just confess it out and live. RCF, live expecting overflow.

in your life. You expect the Holy Spirit to come

out of you, to come out of the organ of

your mouth, and sometimes it's even your hands. The organs

of faith that releases the river is your word, your mouth,

and sometimes just a touch, your hands. Laying hands on

the sick, the touch can release the river of God.

And it starts here. Lord, I travel a lot, I'm

in different nations and things, and get to minister to

a lot of people, but you know what? People are people,

and I don't have enough love. So my go-to prayer

is Romans 5.5. I pray over people and say, Lord,

love these people through me tonight. Love this person through me.

That works in a marriage. That works with your kids.

That works with anything where you've got to love somebody

when you don't have the love. So you just pray. Say,

that's drinking. I'm needy, Lord. Love them through me. And

you become the channel. You become the river. You ready

to step in the river? It's here. It's here. I

say it's. He's here. The river's the person of the

Holy Spirit. And sometimes we've got to stir the waters.

Sometimes we've just got to come and get stirred up.

And you need to leave with that expectancy, I've got

a river in me. There's an old song that says,

I've got a river of life flowing out of me.

Makes the lame to walk and the blind to see.

Opens prison doors, sets the captives free. Oh, I've got

a river of life flowing out of me. Would you stand?

I'm going to pray for you. I want to read

one more scripture just to cap this off. The end

of the Bible, the last chapter of the Bible, Revelation 22,

Revelation 22:17

verse 17. Jesus never stops throughout the whole Bible. There's

this constant, come, come to me. Revelation 22, 17, the

spirit and the bride say, come. Who's the bride? That's y'all,

as we say in North Carolina. That's all y'all. You're

the bride and the spirit and the bride say, come.

That should be something that is running in you all

the time. When you see people, why don't you come?

And it's not just come to church, but why don't

you come join our spiritual family? Why don't you come?

We're having a spiritual family gathering. We call it church,

but come meet my family. Come and be inviting. Come,

the spirit and the bride say. Let the one who

hears say, come. Let the one, watch, who is thirsty, come.

And let the one who desires come. Take of the

water of life without price. So Jesus is still standing.

Bow your heads for a minute. Let's just pray. Let's

come to him intentionally. You don't have to move your feet.

You want to move your heart. He's still standing. He's

still calling. If anyone's thirsty, not as anybody perfect. Does

anybody have it all together? No. Is anyone thirsty? Say, Lord,

I'm thirsty this morning. And God says, I'm not offering

you a drop, a sip. I'm offering you A river.

Be filled with the Spirit. And out of your innermost

being will flow this river of life that Egham needs,

this area needs, the nations need, Uganda needs, every nation

needs the river of life. And you might be the

water source for some other person who's thirsty and literally

dying of thirst. Lord, let the river flow out of RCF.

Let it flow out of each and every one of

us in a fresh new way. Stir us up, God.

You've filled us. I believe we've been filled with the

word of God, with the worship of God, even with

our prayers and asking. But God, let the flow come

through me today. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen, church. Amen.