Isaiah 35:6 Water will gush forth in the wilderness

• DAY11 BIBLE READING

John 1-6


• DAY11 PRAYER DEVOTIONAL

Isaiah 35:6

HOW MUCH MORE SHALL YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THEM THAT ASK

The Holy Spirit is compared in Scripture to living water. We need the empowering of the Holy Spirit to gush through us in our prayer lives. Without the streams of the Holy Spirit flowing through us, our prayer lives are like a desert. Do we desire.. do we long for the Holy Spirit to flood our lives?

The Bible tells us that Jesus came that we might have life and have it abundantly. Jesus was introduced as the one ‘who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ (John 1:33). ‘He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire” (Luke 3:16). Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit in the desert (Luke 4:1) and he came out of the desert in the power of the Spirit (Luke 4:14). He began his ministry with the Holy Spirit on him ’.. the Spirit of the Lord is on me ‘(Luke 4:17-19). After the resurrection Jesus promised ‘You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses..” (Acts 1:8) Then the Holy Spirit is poured out on Pentecost. (Acts 2:17)

If you are to have a more abundant prayer life, if you are to pray and do the works of the kingdom then you need the Holy Spirit. How do you receive the Holy Spirit?

YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS FOR YOU “The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off”

YOU NEED TO ASK When Jesus taught the disciples about prayer, he said “Ask and it will be given to you.... for everyone who asks receives....How much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit give to those who ask Him” Luke 11:9-13 Jesus is the baptizer in the Holy Spirit and he loves you and he wants to baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire, so why don’t you ask him to come and baptize you.

YOU NEED TO BE THIRSTY The kind of people who are so hungry and so want to be filled with the Holy Spirit, that they have put their reserves down - they receive easily. Others who have come with much fear, may find it more difficult. The Holy Spirit is gentle like a dove- he wants to come because he is invited. He will fill you to overflowing. If we are thirsty and believe, we can receive. Jesus said “If anyone is thirsty let Him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”


• In this season of prayer I cry out to you Father, that you would fill me with the Holy Spirit. Fill me, refresh me, revive me. May the waters of the Holy Spirit gush through my wilderness. Holy Spirit I thirst for you. Thank you, that you hear my prayer