The power of God manifests in various degrees in people’s lives. Some are just saved and enjoying the well level. Others are filled with the Holy Ghost and are at the river level. While yet others are pressing into the anointing of the Holy Ghost and are enjoying the rain of the Holy Ghost.
When you get born again, you operate from a spiritual dimension that could be likened to a well of water.
Read what Jesus told the Samaritan woman in John 4:14 from your Bible.
The water here represents the Holy Spirit. Read what Jesus spoke on the day of the feast in John 7:38-39 from your Bible.
Jesus was speaking here of the baptism in the Holy Ghost.
At salvation, the Holy Spirit is in you at a well of water level.
At baptism, it graduates to a river level. You cannot compare a river to a well. A river can generate hydroelectricity, provide you with an irrigation system, and you can also fish in it.
A well can’t produce all these for you. It is highly subject to climatic conditions. If the condition gets too harsh, the water dries up!
But whatever condition that will dry up all the water in a river, will make life almost impossible in such an environment.
When a man or woman is not filled with the Holy Ghost he or she lacks the resistance required to ward off all attacks of the enemy.
But the river level is not the end. God’s Word gives us an understanding of yet another dimension of power, likened to rain.
Read Zechariah 10:1 from your Bible.
In Acts 4, the apostles were praying, and the Bible records that where they were praying shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
This is not the river dimension of power, it is the rain! The only way to fill up a river is by a rainfall.
We can therefore see the Holy Ghost clearly in three dimensions:
- The well of water level (at salvation)
- The river level (at Holy Ghost baptism)
- The rain level (which is what we also refer to as the anointing).
shalom!
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