{"id":284,"date":"2011-09-22T18:26:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T23:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/?p=284"},"modified":"2012-08-10T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:13:48","slug":"mtc-2011-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%9cthe-river-of-the-water-of-life%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"MTC 2011 \u2013 \u201cThe River of the Water of Life\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/villarkstrategygroup.com\/pub\/ttfh\/prayerconnect\/120204 Prayer Connect - Leading with Love Capacity.mp3\" href=\"http:\/\/villarkstrategygroup.com\/pub\/ttfh\/prayerconnect\/110922%20Prayer%20Connect%20-%20We%20are%20Part%20of%20the%20River%20of%20Water%20of%20Life.mp3\"><strong>This Week\u2019s Audio Message<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On a hot Samaria day by an ancient wellspring, Jesus made an extraordinary declaration.\u00a0 He declared to a woman with a very broken life that, \u201c\u201cEveryone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.\u00a0 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.\u00a0 Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life\u201d (John 4:13-14).<\/p>\n<p>We cease to have physical existence without earthly water.\u00a0 But we cease to have meaningful existence without living water.\u00a0 What made Jesus\u2019 declaration so extraordinary lies in the grace and hope He bestowed to someone mired in adultery and is only concerned with existence by earthly water.\u00a0 God\u2019s living water allows us to never thirst again.\u00a0 But that is just the beginning.\u00a0 Jesus declares that when we take in His living water, we also become His wellsprings to eternal life!\u00a0 God\u2019s amazing grace not only saves us.\u00a0 He also grafts us in, like the branches of a vine, as the extension of His \u201criver of water of life\u201d, flowing from His throne to bring healing, testimony, and transformation to the nations (Revelation 22:1-2).<\/p>\n<p>17 years ago, the Lord commissioned MTC as part of our 10,500 assignment.\u00a0 Since then, His Kingdom agenda for this gathering has only increased in measure and clarity.\u00a0 God has called MTC 2011 to bring His market place soldiers into a greater flow of the water of life and into a greater revelation of their roles as extensions of His \u201criver of water of life\u201d.\u00a0 Like the woman at the well, we can only expect the Lord to astound us beyond our greatest expectations \u2013 in revelation, in healing, in empowerment, in commission, and most of all in grace and hope.<\/p>\n<p>We sincerely invite you to this holy gathering to worship Christ.\u00a0 We will worship by striving to serve Christ\u2019s burning zeal for His Kingdom, to seek His heart and Kingdom agenda for this age as we prepare for His glorious return.\u00a0 May you drink deeply from His wellspring and become His wellspring.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to MTC 2011!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Week\u2019s Audio Message On a hot Samaria day by an ancient wellspring, Jesus made an extraordinary declaration.\u00a0 He declared to a woman with a very broken life that, \u201c\u201cEveryone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.\u00a0 But whoever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/?p=284\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}