He Has You

Without water, there can be no life. This is as true in the natural with natural water as it is in the spiritual with spiritual water. There is a measure of the spiritual water in your life, and the extremes are that you’re spiritually dry or spiritually drenched.

Sometimes God puts you in a dry place where you would thirst more. “O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water” (Psalm 63:1 NKJV).

Most of us have believed that spiritual growth requires the natural methods and materials of man. We get that book or that program that we think will teach us how we can become drenched in the Spirit, but we are drinking from the wrong well.

You need to stop drinking from the wrong well. “Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Whoever drinks of this water [from the well in the ground] will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life’” (John 4:13-14 NKJV).

Spiritual water flows from spiritual reservoirs, and it must be there that you drink from it. You have to stop trying to understand with the natural mind the things of the spiritual, for the spiritual can only be understood with a spiritual mind.

You can’t understand spiritual truth without spiritual understanding. We “do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding” (Colossians 1:9 NKJV).

You can be dry spiritually and enter into heaven at the end of your life. But to the degree you lack a spiritual life here on earth, you will produce little to no spiritual fruit while you are here. You may be helpful in the natural but fruitless in the spiritual.

Goodness is a natural outcome of a Spirit-filled life. “The Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control…” (Galatians 5:22-23 NLT).

The spiritual stands upside down to the natural and is not bound by the natural laws of this universe. The more you fit into the natural world, the less spiritual you will be. The more spiritually dry you are, the more that the natural wet things on earth will satisfy you.

Our spiritual potential remains buried beneath any of our natural selves that we refuse to die to. “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit” (Romans 8:5 NKJV).

If you want to be spiritually wet, swimming in the life-giving spiritual water from heaven, then all you must do is fall into it. Just as you must fall into a natural pool of water to be immersed in it, so it must be with the spiritual waters from heaven.

If the Lord Jesus is the spring within you, then His life will simply flow out from you. The higher life of a saint is not in trying harder, but in simply doing more, unaware. The Lord Jesus taught, “The Lord will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring” (Isaiah 58:11 NLT).

When you are filled with the spiritual water from heaven, it will become a fountain and a river that flows from you. The more you pour out, the more that God will pour in. Spiritual water never runs dry because the reservoirs of heaven have no end.

The proof of the Holy Spirit in you is the Holy Spirit through you. The waters are not still but flowing. The Lord Jesus said, “‘He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive…” (John 7:38-39).

The more spiritually wet you are, the more you will splash onto those around you. Give all glory to God in this, for not one drop of that water came from you. The only thing you did was to be a willing vessel that God could use you to pour out onto others.

What happens to a cup if you pour more water into it than it can hold? Simple, it overflows. Your witness is not in your abilities, but in the overflowing of the Holy Spirit that splashes everyone around you. To witness more just be filled more. Jesus said, “…whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14 NKJV). Be the fountain, and let the Holy Spirit spraying from you do its work in others.

When the reservoir is full, the rivers will flow. Those who pour out more will be poured into more. But those who only take but never give will be left dry of their own choosing. Spiritual water is a selfless element whose sole purpose is to bring life to others.

You wouldn’t be at a loss for words if you stopped relying upon your own natural reservoirs. If God can speak through a donkey, He can surely speak through you. The Lord Jesus said, “…do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you” (Matthew 10:19-20 NKJV).

If you want to learn more about spiritual things, then you must have a spiritual teacher. The Holy Spirit can teach you all that you need to know. There are some things you are not ready for, but there is much that He wants to teach you right now.

It is by the commentary of the Holy Spirit that we can understand the Word of God. “These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:13-14 NKJV).

The deeper the water, the more rivers it can produce. Do you want to be spiritually drenched? Do you want to be so spiritually wet that your spiritual life will touch the lives of those around you? Let the Holy Spirit teach you today.

God is Spirit, His law is Spirit, so we must learn to listen in the Spirit. “For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal…” (Romans 7:14 NKJV). If all your studies are in the natural, you can only gain natural knowledge, and you merely become a smarter Pharisee. In our natural state, we need the Holy Spirit as our interpreter to the spiritual. Pray that the Holy Spirit would teach you spiritual truth.

Blessings to you always!

Paul Balius