Numbers 20:8 – “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water.”

Genesis 7:7 – “And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.”

Psalm 22:14 – “I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me.”

Psalm 23:2 – “He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters”

Isaiah 55:1 – “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters;”

Jeremiah 2:13 – “You, my people, have sinned in two ways– you have rejected me, the source of life-giving water, and you’ve tried to collect water in cracked and leaking pits dug in the ground.”

Ezekiel 36:25 – “I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.”

Zechariah 14:8 – “What a Day that will be! Fresh flowing waters out of Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea, half to the western sea, flowing year-round, summer and winter!”

Matthew 3:11 – “I baptize you with water for repentance.”

Matthew 10:42 – “And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward.”

Matt 14:28 – “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”

John 4:10 – “Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.’”

John 7:38 – “Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”

Ephesians 5:26 – “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word”

Revelation 21:6 – “He said to me: ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life.’”

Water was in the beginning, a quenching drink, a life giving component, a tool of judgment, a cleansing agent that came out of a rock, was a place of quiet peace, a source of refreshing beauty, a baptismal water, a New Testament thirst quenching drink, joy flowing out of the heart, and a source of eternal life.  I love water.

Praying for You,

Tim Barker