The Healing Waters

Waves and Ripples and Rivers

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WATER is powerful and prevalent throughout Scripture, yet here’s a curious thing about it: In the creation account, after Light was created, water was already there; it merely had to be separated – the heavenly waters divided from the earthly waters – a precursor to when God would divide the waters of the Red Sea. God worked again with water on Day three of creation, this time gathering the waters into seas (and by implication rivers as well, as four rivers are mentioned in Genesis One).

And progressing through the book of Genesis we find wells being dug, then Abraham’s servant finding a wife for Isaac at one of these wells. Even in the book of Isaiah we’re told how we will draw water from the wells of salvation. We also see water flowing from a rock to quench the thirst of a great multitude of people, not once but twice. Additionally, God Himself is referred to as a Fountain of Life in Psalm 36:9 and He is the One who orchestrated that water is the building block for life. Therefore it cannot be surprising that the composition of water in our physical bodies matches the composition of the earth’s waters.

Still yet in the Old Testament, Naaman is told to dip in the Jordan River seven times for the healing of his leprosy, and that same river parts for Elisha as he strikes the water with Elijah’s mantle, as it also did for the children of Israel when it was time for them to enter the promised land. It was also the Jordan River that supernaturally brought forth the prophet’s borrowed ax head after Elisha threw a stick into its waters to cause the ax head to float to the surface.

And Elisha’s precursor Elijah was supernaturally provided for at a brook named Cherith. Elijah also, after first hearing the sound of an abundance of rain, prayed for the rain that came and broke the drought that had been over the land. And Progressing to the New Testament, Jesus performs his first miracle of turning gallons of water into wine. His water miracles progress however. Not only does Jesus walk on water, He also calms the sea causing his disciples to declare, “even the wind and the waves obey him.”

Additionally, Jesus meets a woman at the well (historical records indicate her name was Photini) and causes her to become whole which results in her becoming an evangelist throughout Samaria. And through his conversation with her Jesus reveals, “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.” And then there’s the pool of Bethesda, the place where Jesus heals a man who had been paralyzed for 38 years. There’s also the pool of Siloam, the place where the blind man’s eyes were opened after Jesus told him to go wash in those waters.

Ezekiel also was brought to and shown waters, waters that flowed progressively deeper from the temple, so deep that the waters became a river. The Lord then brought Ezekiel to the bank of the river and told him, “and it shall be that that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes” (Ezekiel 47:9). And finally we find a River of Life, where the Tree of Life is found, and “the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations” (Revelation 22:2).

So we see waters prevalent throughout Scripture, as a life-giving element and an element connected to healing. Oh the power of the waters! This is why we are admonished to “come to the waters and drink” and this is why we are told “with joy you will draw water from the wells of Salvation.” Jesus himself said, “If anyone thirsts, let Him come to me and drink” because Jesus was God personified on the earth, and God revealed Himself to the children of Israel as our Healer, and then spoke through Moses when He said, “So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your WATER. AND I WILL TAKE SICKNESS AWAY FROM YOU (emphasis added).

The Living waters have always been available to us, as well as “the washing by the water of the word.” But something greater is coming . Far greater. (And is here). Jesus spoke of it when he said, “he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.” Yes, something far greater is coming. A tsunami wave of healing is coming. Encompassed in a tsunami wave of God’s glory. I have seen this vision and so have others. And when it comes, the knowledge of the glory of the LORD will be made known.

“For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA. Habakkuk 2:14 NKJ emphasis added

Genesis 1:6-10, 2:10-14, Exodus 14:26, Isaiah 12:3, Exodus 17:6 & Numbers 20:11, Genesis 24:13-20, 2 Kings 5:14, 1 Kings 17:4, 2 Kings 2:13-14, Joshua 3:13-17, 1 Kings 18:41-45, John 6:19, Luke 8:24-25, John 4:14, John 5:8-9, 9:7. Ezekiel 47, Isaiah 55:1, John 7:37. Exodus 15:26, 23:25, Ephesians 5:26, Hebrews 11:25, John 14:12