Let Him flow

He that believeth on Me as the scriptures hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters.

John 7:38

The height and depth of walking with Christ and living as a believer is when God’s Holy Spirit

flows through you. The greatest challenge we face in ministry and in life is to get the flesh out of the

way of God’s movement. Our meditation for today points to how it can be done on a continual basis.

Jesus very clearly states on the last day of the feast that his invitation involves believing on Him as the

scriptures hath said. Let us keep in mind that those he said it to did not believe on him as the scriptures

had said; they had their own interpretation. 

I have a simple equation to offer to you today. It is: False

Doctrine= False God. Even today, there are so many churches and denominations that believe what

they want to believe about Jesus and have formed doctrines that have absolutely nothing to do with

him. When Jesus said, “He that believeth on Me as the scriptures has said,” there was no New

Testament written. The scriptures Jesus was referring to were what we now know as the Old

Testament. This tells us right away that anyone who forms a doctrine that eradicates the Old Testament

has already formed a false doctrine and created a false god. The challenge for us now is to go back to

the Old Testament and see how it points to Christ. Out of that belief and structure will unlock the door

to the invitation Jesus gave here in John 7:38.

I don’t know about you, but I want and desperately need God’s power to flow through me.

Notice here the way of God. He wants to pour Himself out through us. God’s power is never meant to

be contained. In other words, I can’t keep it to myself. This is the way Oswald Chambers puts it:

“If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain, but what He pours through us that counts.

It is not that God makes us beautifully rounded grapes, but that He squeezes the

sweetness out of us. Spiritually, we cannot measure our life by success, but only by

what God pours through us, and we cannot measure that at all.”

Beloved, we must examine the scriptures afresh today. We must believe on Jesus as the Old Testament

has said. The promise of Christ Jesus is that out of our belly shall flow rivers of living water. The Holy

Spirit will perpetually flow through us to accomplish His work. This is the height and depth of walking

with Christ. Our challenge is to simply Let Him Flow.