Freshenening Up Part 1

August 14, 2016

August 14, 2016
Amazing Life Church
“Freshening Up-Part 1”
Greet People
I am continually amazed at the awesome presence and
plan of God. As I look around life and see His face in
people and His grace on their lives I rejoice. It is
amazing what you will see when you walk through life.
Particularly when you see with His eyes of love and
grace.
As a Christian I believe in the blessed hope. The
encouragement that Paul wrote to Titus in Titus 2:13.
“looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the
glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus.”
Jesus described this eternal life with Him to the woman
at the well. He used water symbolically to explain.
John 4:14 NASB “but whoever drinks of the water that
I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I
will give him will become in him a well of water
springing up to eternal life.”Page 2
I want to share some thoughts today titled, “Freshening
Up Part 1”
Psalms 92 is an awesome Psalm with an unknown
author. It is titled, “A song for the Sabbath Day” and it
is the only Psalm in the Hebrew text that is designated a
Sabbath Psalm. The Psalm has a focus on worship.
There is a word that came to me as I was asking what to
share this week. The word is , “fresh.” Read the entire
Psalm when you can but there is one verse I want to
begin with today.
Psalms 92:10 NASB
But You have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;
I have been anointed with fresh oil.
The word fresh from the Hebrew word means, to be or
grow luxuriant. Luxuriant means, rich or profuse in
growth.
The phrase fresh oil Biblically means, fresh
confirmation of abundance of plenty. “Could involve
different things.” EXA.Page 3
Fresh oil was most likely referred to as green oil. Fresh
or green oil direct from the source would have the most
efficient effect. The Bible most often refers to the olive
for the making of oil. Important
Fresh oil was not boiled from the source, it was
squeezed.
Preach Preach-There is no shortcut to the good stuff.
It is accepted by most, myself included, that Song of
Solomon chapter 4, Titled Solomon’s Love Expressed, is
a prophetic account of Jesus and His love for the
church.
Song of Solomon 4:15 NASB
“You are a garden spring, A well of fresh water, And
streams flowing from Lebanon.”
Amplified
“You are a fountain in a garden, A well of fresh and
living water, And streams flowing from Lebanon.”
The word fresh in this passage means, “living, alive.”
PreachPage 4
There have been two basic characteristics that have
dominated the church for generations. Both were told
prophetically in the OT.
Psalms 87:7 NASB
Then those who sing as well as those who play the
flutes shall say, “All my springs of joy are in you.”
“The church has maintained it’s presence in the world
by trusting in the Living Water of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ.” Preach
Secondly
Jeremiah 2:13 NASB
“For My people have committed two evils: They have
forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for
themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no
water.
David wrote;
Psalms 36:9 NASB
For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see
light.
The people of God tend to forsake His principles for
their own.Page 5
Jeremiah 17:13 NASB
O L ORD , the hope of Israel, All who forsake You will be
put to shame. Those who turn away on earth will be
written down, Because they have forsaken the fountain
of living water, even the L ORD .
Fountains are considered to be an inexhaustible supply.
The church has been endowed with a never ending
supply of the freedom and anointing of God.
Yet we build cisterns. Boxes, By its very nature a
cistern, or box, will only hold a limited amount. They
were used to collect water from clay roofs or a clay and
shell soil mixture.
Who would want to drink this tainted water when they
can drink from a flowing fountain.
But wait; even these cisterns will break. They won’t
even contain the tainted water.
Preach-Explanation
This is the very nature of religion.Page 6
I want to close part 1 with an awesome testimony from
the Apostle Paul to the Philippians.
Philippians 4:12-13 Amplified
12 I know how to get along and live humbly [in difficult
times], and I also know how to enjoy abundance and
live in prosperity. In any and every circumstance I have
learned the secret of facing life, whether well-fed or
going hungry, whether having an abundance or being in
need.
13 I can do all things which He has called me to do
through Him who strengthens and empowers me to
fulfill His purpose—I am self-sufficient in Christ’s
sufficiency; I am ready for anything and equal to
anything through Him who infuses me with inner
strength and confident peace.
Verse 13 Message
Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through
anything in the One who makes me who I am.
How could Paul say this with such confidence.
“He was drinking Living Water”