Water of Life – The Presidential Prayer Team

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. – Revelation 21:6

God is the absolute Alpha, before Him was nothing. He did not emerge and has not been brought forth in discovery. Infinite, eternal, unchanging in power, goodness, and truth, He does not create those characteristics, He IS those aspects of wonder, existing resplendent outside of time. Everything you see is His idea. YOU are His idea. He is YOUR beginning, and He is Omega, your end.

At the end of life, people find themselves before God at a hard stop. Face to face with their Creator, people diverge onto one of two paths. Revelation, the last book of the Bible, offers a future view of those two destinations.

Those who thirst for God in their earthly life may still be thirsty at the end of their journey. But upon entering eternity they see their oasis and hear, “Come, let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price” (Revelation 22:17). Those who have a taste for the world’s polluted water will not find the same gratifications in eternity they found in a godless earthly life. Their pet sins do not exist in God’s beautiful kingdom and those appetites lead to destruction and separation from Him.

There is a final day in history when the story of all people and nations will be complete. Take a moment and refocus your thirst for God today. Pray for those leading the nation to discover the water of life, finding salvation in the name of Jesus Christ.

Today’s Verse: Revelation 21:6

And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.

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Recommended for further reading: John 4:10-14

¹⁰Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” ¹¹The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? ¹²Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” ¹³Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”