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Thanks everybody for Your Easter replies! ETC...& How great/cool to have Mr. Robinson/Jim reply back, too? Very!:)

A bonus Easter Surprise & A 1st,Thanks...I was getting used to being one of the All’s in Your pings,LOL!

I will be back to reply at Amy’s re: some specific Easter pings & Other stuff I’m behind on, as usual these days,LOL!

But busy is good...Just wish I still had more computer time to spend...

I need a typing break now though but will bbl to answer some individual pings...

Can’t keep catching up though,like before...too much, in too little time...It’s overwhelming to try & catch up once even a few weeks behind the pings...

So I officially will stop trying to:)...Finally!

& just a reminder until A I (Silent Jonny’s Thread,) is over,what little online time I do have right now will mostly be on that Thread.

I’ll frequent this Thread again,once A I show wraps up another season,m’kay...

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April 13, 2009

It’s Bubbling In My Soul

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READ: John 7:33-39

If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. . . . Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. —John 7:37-38

Decades ago, I visited a ministry center in West Africa and saw a little girl climb onto a truck that had a public address system. Smiling, she began to sing over the microphone:

It’s bubbling, it’s bubbling,
it’s bubbling in my soul;
I’m singing and laughing
since Jesus made me whole.
Since Jesus came within,
and cleansed my heart from sin,
It’s bubbling, bubbling, bubbling,
bubbling, bubbling in my soul!

I heard her sing that song only once. But the joy in her voice was so evident and powerful that I remember the lyrics and tune to this day. The parallel in the song between water and spiritual refreshment is a biblical one. During the Feast of Tabernacles, a Levite priest would pour out water as a symbol of God providing water for Israel in the wilderness. During that feast, “Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ‘If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water’?” (John 7:37-38). Jesus was talking about the Holy Spirit promised to those who would believe in Him (v.39). This thirst-quenching water is a picture of the spiritual satisfaction that only He can provide.

Perhaps you’ve lost that joy you first experienced at salvation. Confess all known sin right now (1 John 1:9). Be filled with God’s Holy Spirit (Eph. 5:18), and let Him provide you with a “bubbling in your soul.”

Christ departed so that the Holy Spirit could be imparted.

Bible in One Year: 1 Samuel 22-24; Luke 12:1-31