Chapter 24
The Holy Spirit is
Associated with Life
The Holy Spirit, in Scripture, is always
associated with giving life. In several Scriptures, He is likened to water,
rain, rivers, springs and pools. He brings refreshment and flourishing.
When one’s soul feels desolate, dry and parched
like the desert, He provides the water of His Presence and glory, and He brings
fruitfulness and healing. He resurrected Jesus from the dead, and He also
resurrects our souls when we feel weariness, hopelessness and have dead dreams.
When you are baptized in the Holy Spirit and
speak in tongues, it’s like rivers of living waters flow out of your belly
(your innermost being). Speaking in tongues brings life to the spirit, soul
(mind, will, emotions), body and finances.
John 7:37-39 On the last day, that great day of
the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come
to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his
heart (belly – KJV) will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke
concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy
Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. NKJV
John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and said to her,
“Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the
water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give
him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
NKJV
Isaiah 32:15 Until the Spirit is poured upon us
from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful
field is counted as a forest. NKJV The analogy is that the Holy Spirit touches
on areas of barrenness in our lives and makes it fruitful.
2 Corinthians 3:6b “For the letter kills, but
the Spirit gives life.” NKJV
Romans 8:10-11 “And if Christ is in you, the
body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who
raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through
His Spirit who dwells in you.” NKJV
Galatians 6:8 “For he who sows to his flesh
will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the
Spirit reap everlasting life.” NKJV
1 Peter 3:18 “For Christ also suffered once for
sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to
death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.” NKJV
Titus 3:5 “Not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of
regeneration and renewing (to make new) of the Holy Spirit.” NKJV
John 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the
flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are
life.” NKJV
Isaiah 35
1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall
be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even
with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the
excellency of our God.
3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the
feeble knees.
4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be
strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a
recompence; he will come and save you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and
the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and
streams in the desert.
7 And the parched ground shall become a pool,
and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each
lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and
it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but
it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous
beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall
walk there:
10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return,
and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall
obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. KJV
Isaiah 41:18 “I will open rivers in high
places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a
pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.” KJV
Ezekiel 34:26-27 “I will make them and the
places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in
their season; there shall be showers of blessing. Then the trees of the field
shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase. They shall be
safe in their land; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken
the bands of their yoke and delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved
them. NKJV
