Water and Lightening

One night, I had a visions as I was praying.  I saw a rushing flow of water coming from God’s hands like a waterfall.  His hands were pouring the water out on the earth as they moved to and fro. I realized his hands were coming towards me.  I knew I was about to be overwhelmed by this waterfall when he told me to hold my arms away from my body pointing downwards.  The water rushed over me and flowed out in the direction of my arms.  My arms directed the water as if they were the mouth to a pitcher.  I could turn to the right or to the left and move my arms to control where the water flowed.

God’s hands remained over me pouring this rushing rapid of a waterfall.  As I walked and moved, I could control where the water went around me.  It seemed like I was walking the path of my life.  The water nourished everything it touched.  Because it was pouring over and around me, lush green grass and flowers grew everywhere I walked.  It reminded me of the leaky, bucket story.

I was told to bend my arms inward.  This stopped the water from flowing freely through me.  It backed up and went back into the river coming from God.  When the water stopped flowing through me, he moved away from me and poured his water somewhere else.  There was a little water pooling over me because I was still in a shallow part of the river, but it almost became still.  I was told to open my arms back up.  The water began to slowly flow over me again, then gradually began to rush causing a wide and mighty rapid.

Then I looked back to where I first saw the water coming.  There God was coming again, but this time with lightening.  I was firmly directed to make sure I kept my hands out and to the sides like I did with the water.  The lightening came and flowed through me like the water had before.  It was like I was a lightening rod.  I could see the streaks of light flowing out from me and streaking everywhere.

This is what I understood from the vision.  The Word of God is like a flowing river.  The word that flows into us is meant to flow freely through us and onto everyone around us.  Our conversations must be wet with the words of our Father.  Share everything.  Water flows freely in the path of least resistance.  If we don’t share what we’ve been given, it’s like when I closed my arms in the vision.  We cannot be used to spread the kingdom, so the word moves to someone else who will.  If we share a little, we get a little more.  The more we give, the more we get.  It’s the law of sowing and reaping.  The harvest doesn’t come from what we sowed; it comes from the one who gave the seed in the first place.

People in the vision would have looked at me and thought, “Wow, she is so blessed.  Look at all the beauty around her.  Every where she goes things just work out for her.”  It wasn’t that I was blessed, but because I shared what I was given by God.  I spread around me what nourished.  My walk through life was beautiful not because of me, but because I spilled out what God gave me.

Lightening only exists where there is water.  After we show we can be trusted to be a conduit for the word and things he has given us, he can trust us with his power.  If we are struck by lightning and it does not pass through us, but stops in us, it is fatal.  God’s power is stronger than lightening.  Our bodies cannot contain the power of lightening no more than we can contain the power of God.  When God’s power flows, it must not stop in us, but flow through us onto our friends, family, neighbors, everyone.  Trying to contain or control the power of God is fatal.  If he gives his power to us, and we are not a free-flowing conduit, we bring judgment on ourselves.  He cannot give what we will not allow to flow.  He loves us too much to give us what will be detrimental.

Whatever Jehovah gives must be shared.  We are not to be wells of stagnate water nor containers for His power.  His word is useless left sitting in us.  We must share everything.  Do not let a drop remain in you, and his word will begin to flow like a river through you.  Everything flows in the path of least resistance.  God’s power cannot be contained.  He will only direct it toward someone who will allow it to flow.  If we will not allow it to flow freely through us, we will die.  The one who does not use what he has to produce more, what he has is taken away. (Matthew 25:14-30; Luke 19:11-27)

Once he can trust you to share the smaller things he has given, he can trust you with more.  He does not want us to be judged adversely, so he withholds his power when he knows we will not use it for the glory of h is kingdom.  He will not answer prayers that will cause us harm.  Choose to be a free-flowing conduit of whatever Jehovah gives you.  The little trickle of water will become a mighty, raging river nourishing and providing for all your needs.  Then his power will flow into your life producing life-changing miracles to the glory of God.