Where has all the water
gone?
Scripture: John 7:37-39
WATER IN SOUTHERN IDAHO
Number of boats in Idaho: 2007 - 91,612 2012 - 85,749
Can’t get in at Salmon Dam (chart)
Pulled out at American Falls
by Associated Press
August 8, 2013
Idaho Power officials say
they are getting ready to lower flows of the Snake River that feed the
spectacular Shoshone Falls. The utility
intends to lower volumes significantly on the river. In the last few weeks,
Idaho Power has been releasing water stored at the American Falls Reservoir to
generate electricity at dams downstream -- and thus boosting volume spilling
over Shoshone Falls. Flows on the Snake
River peaked at 2,500 cubic feet per second Thursday. Idaho Power will throttle
down flows to about 600 cubic feet per second by Friday night.
Water
serves a number of essential functions to keep us all going:
·
A vital nutrient to the life of every cell, acts first as a building
material.
·
It regulates our internal body temperature by sweating and respiration
·
The carbohydrates and proteins that our bodies use as food are metabolized
and transported by water in the bloodstream;
·
It assists in flushing waste mainly through urination
·
acts as a shock absorber for brain, spinal cord, and fetus
·
forms saliva
·
lubricates joints
Different people have
different percentages of their bodies made up of water. Babies have the most,
about 78%. Adult men, about 60% However, fat tissue does not have as much water
as lean tissue. In adult women, fat makes up more of the body than men, so women
have about 55% of their bodies made of water. Thus:
·
Babies and kids have more water (as a percentage) than adults.
·
Women have less water than men (as a percentage).
·
People with more fatty tissue have less water than people w/ less fatty
tissue as a %
Creation
The flood
Plague in the Nile
Water from the rock in the wilderness (Ex 17:5-6
The Lord answered Moses, "Walk on ahead of the people. Take with
you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you
struck the Nile, and go. 6 I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb.
Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.")
Water consumed by fire with Elijah
Fleece dry and wet Gideon
Crystal river in heaven (Rev 22:1-2
Then the angel showed me the
river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God
and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city.)
Changing water into wine
Jesus spat on the man’s tongue/eyes for healing (Mark 7:33-35 After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers
into the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh
said to him, "Ephphatha!" (which means, "Be opened!"). At this, the man's ears were opened, his
tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly. / Mark 8:23-25
He took the blind man by the hand
and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man's eyes and put his
hands on him, Jesus asked, "Do you see anything?" He looked up and
said, "I see people; they look like trees walking around." Once more Jesus put his hands on the man's
eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything
clearly.)
Calming the sea
Cast your net / Fishers of Men
Woman at the well – Living Water
OUR NEED FOR
GOD’S WATER
Ps 63:1
Oh God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my
body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Isa 44:3-4
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry
ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your
descendants. They will spring up like
grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.
Ezek 37:1-6
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit
of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I
saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very
dry. He asked me, "Son of man, can
these bones live?" I said, "O
Sovereign Lord, you alone know."
Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, 'Dry
bones, hear the word of the Lord! This
is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you,
and you will come to life. I will attach
tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put
breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the
Lord.'" John 19:28-30
Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture
would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am
thirsty." A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they
soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and
lifted it to Jesus' lips. When he had
received the drink, Jesus said, "It
is finished." With that, he bowed
his head and gave up his spirit.
Rev 21:6-7
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. 7 He who
overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.”
Rev 22:17-21
The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him
take the free gift of the water of life.
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If
anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this
book. And if anyone takes words away
from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree
of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen.
Come, Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord
Jesus be with God's people. Amen.
Where
has all the water gone?
John 4:4-42Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour (noon).
When a Samaritan woman came to draw
water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a
drink?"
(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask
me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate
with Samaritans.) 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." "Sir," the woman said, "you
have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living
water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank
from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?" Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will
never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water
welling up to eternal life."
The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and
have to keep coming here to draw water." He told her, "Go, call your husband and come
back."
"I have no
husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and
the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite
true."
"Sir," the woman said, "I
can see that you are a prophet. Our
fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we
must worship is in Jerusalem." Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the
Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what
you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father
seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called
Christ) "is coming.
When he comes, he will explain everything to us." Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking
with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are
you talking with her?" Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to
the town and said to the people, "Come,
see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
Meanwhile his disciples urged him,
"Rabbi, eat something." But he said to them,
"I have food to eat that you know
nothing about." Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?" "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his
work. Do you not say, 'Four months more
and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They
are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests
the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad
together. Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. I sent you to
reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have
reaped the benefits of their labor."
Many of the Samaritans from that town
believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I
ever did." So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with
them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became
believers. They said to the woman,
"We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard
for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."
Rev 7:13-17
Then one of the elders asked me, "These
in white robes — who are they, and where did they come from?" John answered, "Sir,
you know. These are they who have come
out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, "they are before the throne of God
and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will
spread his tent over them. Never again
will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will
not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will
lead them to springs of living water.
John 7:37-39
On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a
loud voice, "If anyone is
thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture
has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." By this he meant the
Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time
the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
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