Cure For Dryness!

“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ”, Eph. 5:18-20. You can never boast or testify about being filled with the Spirit in the same way you might about being saved. You can look back and say “I was saved fifty years ago”, rightly testifying of your salvation experience. However, you can never do this with the Holy Spirit. You might have first been filled with the Holy Ghost years ago, but that is not what matters now. Are you filled now? That is the question! If not, you are dry. That is why the Spirit is not presented to us in human form, nor is our relationship with Him of a human kind. He is living water. One drink fifty years ago means you are more than bone dry today. That one drink is not going to sustain you anymore than that first sip of water you had as a baby. You need a drink! Lots of drinks. The Amplified Bible says we to be “ever filled and stimulated” with the Spirit. 

    When I was very young I was baptized in the Holy Spirit. It was a wonderful moment. However, my church did not tell me that one drink was not going to last, that I needed to be filled and filled and filled. I had long ago dried out, ceased to become truly Pentecostal, before I found out I needed to keep on drinking. Oh, I had the form down. I was good at acting Pentecostal, but I wasn’t Pentecostal. I belonged to the denomination, but I wasn’t Pentecostal. I was bone dry. A Pentecostal is not one who was filled, but one who is filled. Recently filled. Full! By God’s grace, I found the fountain and started drinking. Oh, it is so good. You see, we were all “made to drink” of the Spirit (1st Cor. 12:13). Anything less leaves us like a fish out of water. Dry. 

    You remember that story of Jesus turning water to wine? It is repeated over and over in the drinking believer. You drink for sustenance and the next thing you know, sometimes when it seems the party is over, the water turns to wine and hope springs up like a daffodil in March, joy erupts, the Son shines, and the party turns to celebration. Yeah!  Drinking is good when Jesus is brewer, distiller, distributor and dispenser.