Dehydrated Spirits

“Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ‘If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, “From his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.”’” John 7:37-38

In a message on Ananias and Sapphira, Jim Henry, Pastor of First Baptist Church in Orlando, Florida, tells how natives in Africa locate water during their all-too-frequent droughts.

The natives capture a baboon and feed it salt for a few days...When released, it races to the nearest water hole in the forest. By following the baboon they are often led to a source of water they didn’t know existed.

Satan has been feeding man lies (salt) instead of God’s word (bread) for centuries; because of this condition man has become desert-parched.

The non-believer, once free of Satan’s grip, immediately races to whatever the world calls moisture (self-help, gurus, meditation, occultism, mysticism, false religions, whatever). In short order, the lost soul finds his thirst unsatisfied and so races on to the next stop on the devil’s treadmill...discovering again his parched throat unappeased.

But the true believer (if ever trapped by a snare of the evil one), when freed from his bonds, races to the Source of living water John 7:38, for he is like a tree firmly planted by streams of water Psalm 1:3. The parched condition of his experience is never far from Satisfaction.