The 7 Rivers Of Holy Spirit

7 RIVERS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Turn to the book of Rev. 4. We are going to look at the Holy Spirit as a river. The Holy Spirit is the only manifestation of God where the bible does not record His form like a man as it records of the Father and the Son sitting at His right hand.

All the seven rivers manifest the redemption and the fullness that Christ has redeemed for us. Just as the Holy Spirit as a dove reveals the Father, the Holy Spirit as a river reveals all the redemption of Jesus Christ.

All these seven fold spirits is found in the book of Isa. 1:1-2 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

First River : New Birth

The Spirit of the Lord speaks about the work of the Holy Spirit in giving new birth. That is the first river you and I get into. The Spirit of the Lord comes into our lives and the bible tells us no man can call Jesus Lord accept the Spirit of God is the one who does it through them. In I Cor. 12: 3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. That is the first river we experience that is the born again experience. That is the first river that flows from God on high.

Second and Third River : Wisdom and Understanding

Rev. 2:11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who conquers shall not be hurt by the second death. That is the river that I will call the spirit of wisdom. See wisdom and understanding flow together.

So here we see that Solomon received the spirit of wisdom and understanding.

The spirit of wisdom and the gift of supernatural revelation and understanding that he could into. And Isaiah says all these are rivers. When you move into a river you flow in it. But as you move into the river you slowly move into it. In the spirit realm you walk into the river and let the river submerge you and you flow into it. We have to be sensitive that when you minister for the Lord, you should know the various rivers of the Holy Spirit you are moving in. So ministering in the Spirit requires a lot of flowing with the Spirit of God and the rivers of God. And the rivers of God that flow is rivers of the Spirit of the Lord. Wisdom and revelations and wisdom and understanding flow together

Fourth and Fifth River : Counsel and Might

In the bible when it talks about the spirit of counsel, it especially talks about the Spirit of God manifesting the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why it's tied up to the rod. The rod represents authority and it flows together with might. Might talks about the healing virtue, the power to break bondage, the power to bring healing. If you read in Mk. 6 when the hometown folks of Jesus saw Him, they make this exclamation, "From whence comes this wisdom." So they saw the Spirit of wisdom on Him. See it is the Spirit of might that produces the work of Jesus Christ. It’s the Spirit of might that brings forth healing virtue. That is the river of healing that we talked about the Spirit of might. And it flows together with counsel.

. Rev. 2:26-28 He who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, I will give him power over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received power from my father; and I will give him the morning star. That is the spirit of counsel.

Then in chapter 3:5 He who conquers shall be clad thus in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life; I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. So there are two aspects of the spirit of counsel and might. The spirit of might is mentioned in chapter 3 clothed with the garment of righteousness. If you studied the word counsel and the word might, the word counsel always speaks about counsel in authority. It talks about the counsel of the Lord. Its only when some one has more skill in certain area or more knowledge in another area that you seek counsel from them.

The river of counsel speaks about authority. Healing takes place because of the authority of the Lord. That is why if you want to flow in that river you have to flow also in wisdom and revelation. If you began to have a few people healed in any meeting the river will increase and it becomes easier for another person to be healed. For one person's healing leads to another person's healing. And the healing just flows forth. You notice counsel and might work together. Counsel in authority. There has to be a realm of authority you move into. Notice when Jesus gives a command, He would command; He wouldn't say, "Please rise."

Sixth and Seventh River : Knowledge and the Fear of the Lord

Rev. 3:12 He who conquers I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God; the new Jerusalem which comes down from my God out of heaven and my own new name. That is the river of knowledge as found in Isa. 11:2. Finally in chapter 3:21 He who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Both these rivers are similar. They are like the blue and the purple colors. There is one that says you shall be a pillar in the temple of God. The other that says you will sit on the throne of God. Both convey a depth of fellowship of God's presence. One is the spirit of knowledge and the other is the spirit of the fear of the Lord. One of God's names is the Fear. In the book of Genesis 31 it talks about God as the Fear of Isaac. It is not a negative fear in a sense for I John says that perfect love cast out fear. So he is not talking about the natural fear. But he is talking about the awesomeness. The word fear in the Hebrew is not just the English word fear. It is what I call the awesomeness of God. The closest word you can find will be the Spirit of the awe of the Lord. Just to see the relationship between these two turn to the book of Proverbs. 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Can you see the relationship? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of "daath" knowledge, knowledge of the Lord, knowledge of His presence. Then we have in Prov. 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

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