Daily Affirmations - Day 4 - Secret Source - Healing Stream
- Alisa B.
- Jul 29
- 2 min read
Day 4: Healing stream
On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations (Revelation 22:2).
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.
So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?” Then Moses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink (Exodus 15:22-25).
They left Marah and went to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there (Numbers 33:9).
Open now the crystal fountain,
Whence the healing stream doth flow...
~ William Williams, pub.1745
Oh, the woes, the woes of mankind! … A very deluge is the sorrow as well as the sin of man. And, [many] know nothing of the healing tree, the tree cut down of old, which still hath power to sweeten mortal misery…
Lord, Lord, if there be a heart that is saying, “Now, behold I yield. Lo! at Thy feet rebellion’s weapons I lay down and cease to be Thy foe, Thou King of kings”—if there be one who is saying, “I am willing to be [drawn] unto Christ, to be washed in His blood, to be called in His righteousness”—bring that willing sinner in now! May there be no longer delay, but may this be the time when, once for all, the great transaction shall be done and they shall be their Lord’s and He shall be theirs.
Oh! that we could pour out our soul in prayer for [those who do not know the grace of Jesus]!... By everything that is dreadful in the wrath to come, we do [plead] with Thee to have mercy... Father, hast Thou not promised Thy Son to see of His soul’s travail?
We point Thee to the ransom paid. We point Thee once again to the groans of Thy Son, to His agony, and bloody sweat! Turn, turn Thy glorious eyes... and then look on sinners and speak the word and bid them live.
Righteous Father, refresh every corner of the vineyard and on every branch of the vine let the dew of heaven rest. Oh! that Thou wouldest bless Thy Church throughout the world!
Let visible union be established... Wilt Thou repair our schisms? Wilt Thou repair the breaches which have been made in the walls...? Oh! that Thou wouldest purge us of everything unscriptural, till all Christians shall come to the law and to the testimony, and still keep the ordinances and the doctrines as they were committed to the apostles by Christ!
~ C. H. Spurgeon
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