Continually Pour Out

I am teaching today on developing the mindset and lifestyle, as Christians, to overflow into the lives of others what God has freely and abundantly given and blessed you with. Many believers have no issue with receiving and unfortunately that's where the blessing stops, they have no outlet for pouring into the lives of others. Being a citizen of The Kingdom of God, being a Disciple of Christ and Child of the Living God is spelled out several times in Scripture in this regard - "freely you have received, now freely give." (Matt. 10:5-8)

Matthew 13:31-32 cites Jesus telling about the smallest of its kind of seed, the mustard seed. When this seed is planted and is nurtured to full health - the smallest seed becomes one of the greatest trees in the area, providing shade, shelter and security for birds and other wildlife. If a seed, not being human, can be given or planted, then give back through what it becomes - how much more can God bless His own and His own should reflect The Blesser and aide others.

Documented in Luke 6:38, Jesus says, "Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap." The law of sowing and reaping is taught here. The very next words of Jesus are - "For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." 

Notice, it is up to us to decide what to give and if we give but whatever we choose to give be it good or bad, not only will the same gift be given back to you with additional abundance, but the measure you use will be measured to you also. So, whatever you need in life, not just money, but joy, peace, laughter and so forth - consider giving it first if you desire to receive it like Jesus describes.

The last description of receiving from God and immediately becoming an avenue for His blessings to flow due to His abundance on your life is the picture of the Holy Spirit as "living water" and Him welling-up within us.

"The other passage of Scripture where Jesus speaks of “living water” is in John 7. In that context, Jesus is in the temple for the Feast of Booths (or Feast of Tabernacles). One feature of that feast was the pouring out of water at the base of the altar for seven days. On the eighth day, the ritual was suspended—no water was poured. It was then that Jesus made a very public, very dramatic offer:

On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me! Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’” (When he said “living water,” he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him. But the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory.) (John 7:37–39, NLT).

John’s note that Jesus “was speaking of the Spirit” (John 7:39) is key to understanding the meaning of the “living water.”

The living water is the Holy Spirit. Jesus extended the offer to everyone (“anyone” in John 7:37 and “whoever” in verse 38). The requirement for salvation was faith in Christ (verses 38 and 39). The result of salvation would be the gift of the Holy Spirit (verse 39), likened unto “rivers of living water” (verse 38). Jesus repeats the promise of the Spirit to His disciples in John 16:7–15. The Spirit is always involved in salvation (John 3:5–8), but the time of the permanent indwelling of the Spirit would have to wait until “later,” when Jesus had ascended back to glory (John 7:39).

The picture of the Spirit as “living water” leads us to the following conclusions:

• The Spirit gives life. Just as water refreshes and revitalizes a thirsty person, so the Spirit gives life to the believer, enabling God to produce fruit in his or her life. Just as, in Moses’ time, the water in the desert kept the Israelites alive, so the Spirit enlivens the followers of Christ (and, according to 1 Corinthians 10:4, the rock providing the water was a picture of Christ).

• The Spirit is active. He is living water, as opposed to still, standing, or stagnant water. He is an artesian well, “a spring of water welling up to eternal life,” in John 4:14. He is a flowing river of water in John 7:38.

• Believers are channels for the Spirit’s work. At the well in Samaria, Jesus said the water would be “in them” to well up and overflow (John 4:14). During the Feast of Booths, Jesus said the water would “flow from within them” (John 7:38). The Spirit gives gifts, and the believer “shall receive spiritual blessings, or communications of divine grace, in so great an abundance, that he shall not only be refreshed and comforted himself, but shall be instrumental in refreshing and comforting others” (Benson, J., Benson Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, 1857). This is exactly what we see in John 4, as the Samaritan woman, “leaving her water jar, . . . went back to the town” and told everyone about Jesus the Messiah (verse 28)."

https://www.gotquestions.org/living-water.html

Picture, if you would, Christ as the life-giving water in the water-table that runs horizontally under our feet in between the layers of dirt and rock. All the instances that Christ's, life-giving water rises up is a well called a Christian. Amazingly, this spiritual well is portable and can tap into that river of physical, mental and spiritual life at any time. Jesus continues to freely give to His own and Christians must Continually Pour Out.