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Tuesday 7 June 2016

The Well Spring

The wellspring promised by The Christ as recorded in the Gospel of John is very real and is fulfilled even today to those who believe God.

I felt the Holy Spirit for sure after pleading with God earnestly for days or weeks to know I had received Him. I was praying especially earnestly when a vision went on my mind like a TV program with a builder's bucket of sand tipped out in front of me and words like subtitles saying "Build the Temple". I knew building the temple was a way the apostles and Jesus described lovingly encouraging believers and prophesying to them to build them up and bring them together into the Temple which is the corporate grouping together of those who are untited with Christ in faith and baptism and the Holy Spirit. So I asked God to confirm this was truly His Spirit within me giving me this vision and the same day or next day, not sure I remember exactly, I went to visit a church where anyone is allowed to speak and first one then another in speaking then a group of Sunday School children in a song they had written each gave the same message "Build the Temple".

So to me it meant I must prophesy to build up believers. But it didn't work out too well. I was barred from the church where all were allowed to speak by what seemed to me a jealous leader zealous to guard against preachers on his turf. I found another church after years where they let people speak. As a newcomer there my girlfriend warned me not to speak until I had been attending a while. When there was something I just felt had to be said one day I asked God before the service to make others say it so I would not upset by being a newcomer telling what to do. Three prophesied just that very thing. Some time later after going elsewhere a bit but being made to leave yet after major experiences of God I went to this church again and this time was determined to speak. Yet as I meditated waiting for God to give me words it was like a spring of spirit welling up within me as words again came into my mind out of the blue "Israel has sinned!" Then a vision of a bird like an eagle black with a white large eye flying ovehead came with a welling up message to me that this would be the sign this was God speaking. It seems God was speaking like He did in 'Old Testament' scripture to show me He was The LORD who spoke to those prophets giving me these words. The TV news showed the sign that morning before church - first a black spy plane being sent on missions then the first of a new helicopter in police service with a white searchlight and camera at the front ( this was the mid nineties when this was very new). I told one person at church what happened and I heard him saying to others "... just like Old Testament prophecies ..." so the message was being heard.

In all this and other occassions it felt like words just were coming up within me from an inner spring of spirit. No wonder Jesus Christ described in words 'living water welling up to eternal life'.

On each occasion the words have been very succinct, often with a vision picture:

"Build the Temple"

"I am God. This will be put before you. Look at it."

"Put down your umbrella!"

"See the trees put out buds. They do this by the authority of the Lord Jesus"

"Israel has sinned"

"Daniel three"

Here with a little context for clarification:

After I had prayed to receive the Holy Spirit having believed Jesus is the Christ and to know I had received Him: "Build the Temple" - this was the Holy Spirit, with a waking vision of a building site bucket tipped out and the confirming sign was the repetition of it three times by three separate prophecies in church that weekend.
After I realised I had to preach but knew nothing with certainty to preach knowing what I was preaching about had so I prayed that God would be known to me - Father and Son of God and Holy Spirit: "I am God. This will be put before you. Look at it." - this was the Father, in a vivid dream I knew was real and the vision in the dream was of Him majestically standing before dressed in a robe to His feet and then I was shown that a sheet of names would be put before me at work and the sign was that it happened (very unusual in my work at that time).
A little later while I walked in a terrific downpour of rain during floods having been considering God presided over such floods: "Put down your umbrella!" and when I did not a drop fell on me because the rain stopped so quickly - I knew it must be Jesus but asked for confirmation in a sign I specified which happened by His power as Lord over me
I still wanted certainty of what it is to be in church and hear speaking in tongues by the Spirit manifested and someone took me to a church where they said I would get just that and there I heard tongues but English translated words came into my mind as I heard the angelic words spoken in tongues by a church leader - "See the trees put out buds. They do this by the authority of the Lord Jesus" - the sign was confirmed when the leader then said these same words in English after I heard them interpreted in my mind.
Years after all this happened I still yearned to hear the Holy Spirit actually speak to me and one day years later after many things had been making me think angels might be looking out for me by what had been happening if ever I was opposed or threatened and I thought of a verse in a Psalm about the angel of God encamping around those who feared Him to protect them but I had no idea which Psalm it was; suddenly a voice clear as a bell within my mind said: "Daniel three". Realising it must be a Bible reference I went to a Bible I had open and looked it up. There in the margin of that chapter was a cross reference to a verse in Psalms. I had a hunch what might happen and yes, when I looked it up it was that verse about the angel of God encamping around those that feared Him to protect them.