Because you’re a pray-er, I can guess what your answer will be. No matter how much of the Lord’s presence and power is already manifesting in your life, you want to experience more. You want more of His wisdom and more of His joy, more of His strength and the manifestations of His Spirit.
I understand, because I want more too. And the thrilling truth is this: every single day, you and I and every other believer can have what we want. We can have more...more...more of God!
Jesus assured us of it. In John 4:14, when He was ministering to the Samaritan woman at the well of Sychar, He said:
Whoever takes a drink of the water that I will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty any more. But the water that I will give him shall become a spring of water welling up (flowing, bubbling) [continually] within him unto (into, for) eternal life.Natural, earthly wells and springs of water might run dry. But the spiritual wells on the inside of us never do. They’re continually replenished by the river the book of Revelation talks about: “the river whose waters give life...flowing out from the throne of God and of the Lamb” (Rev. 22:1 Amp.). And since that river is “full of water” (Ps. 65:9), no matter how much we draw out, there is always more.
(John 4:14, AMP)
No wonder the Bible says, “With joy will you draw water from the wells of salvation” (Isaiah 12:3 Amp.). Through Jesus, God has given His Spirit and all His blessings to us in an abundant, never-ending supply!
“But Lynne, if that’s true,” you might say, “why do so many Christians seem so dry these days? Why aren’t we all overflowing in every way with supernatural life?”
Look again at the verse from Isaiah and you’ll see the answer. It says we “draw” water from the wells of salvation. It doesn’t say we just acknowledge that the well exists, or that we open the Bible and read about it now and then, or that we come to church and listen to the preacher talk about it.
No, the Bible says that if we want to keep drinking in more and more of God’s living water, we must do what it takes to draw it out!
Drawing Out Living Water
The principle of drawing is so important that God has woven illustrations of it into His natural creation. Take gravity, for instance. It draws our physical bodies toward the earth so we don’t all go floating off into space. In a similar way, the magnetic draw of the North Pole pulls on compass needles so people can navigate and find their way. Here in Minnesota, we sometimes see the drawing effect of the sun’s warmth as it pulls water up from the surface of a lake so that it rises as a vapor into the atmosphere.
Clearly, even in nature when one thing draws upon another, powerful and beautiful things can happen. But they don’t even compare to the marvels that can happen in the realm of the spirit.
When God moves on people’s hearts, for example, and draws them to Jesus, their lives can be changed forever. (See John 6:44.) My husband, Mac, experienced this in a profound and personal way when he was just 12 years old. He was attending a series of revival meetings at a Baptist church and after every service, when the preacher gave the altar call, he would go forward.
Night after night, he’d cry and give his heart to the Lord. He didn’t know you just have to do it once. So because he kept sensing the tug of the Spirit within him, he kept responding. Although it took years for him to realize it, God was pulling his heart not just toward salvation but toward ministry. Back then, being a pastor wasn’t anywhere in Mac’s future plans. But he eventually became a pastor anyway because God knows how to draw.
The question is, do we?
One woman in the Bible who could have answered “yes” to that question is the woman in Mark chapter 5. You probably remember her story. She’d suffered from a flow of blood for 12 years, and the doctors hadn’t been able to help. But when she heard the reports about Jesus:
...she came up behind Him in the throng and touched His garment. For she kept saying, If I only touch His garments, I shall be restored to health. And immediately her flow of blood was dried up at the source, and [suddenly] she felt in her body that she was healed of her [distressing] ailment. (Mark 5:27–29 AMP)Notice Jesus wasn’t laying hands on people and ministering healing when this lady latched onto His robe. He wasn’t even preaching. He was just walking through the crowd. People were physically pressing in on Him from every side, and He didn’t even know the woman with the flow of blood was among them.
Yet she got something from Him nobody else in the crowd was receiving. Without even asking His permission, she drew on the healing power of God that was on Him and got healed.
How did she do it? By faith!