God speaks today Friday | September 27, 2024
But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
(Isaiah 33:21)He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
(John 7:38) God's perfect blessings
The Lord's blessings are the highest good for us, without any of the disadvantages that come with earthly things. Even when using the metaphor of wide rivers to represent abundance, the Lord takes care to exclude any fear that may come with it. The author asks that if the Lord blesses them with riches, health, happiness, or success, they also ask for protection from pride, worldliness, arrogance, and self-confidence. They ask for blessings that enrich without adding sadness or favoring sin.
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And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
(Isaiah 58:11)But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
(John 4:14)For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
(Isaiah 44:3)Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
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