Is Your Water Fresh Or Salty?

“...He is like a tree planted by streams of water...”



We’ve been looking at characteristics of prosperous people as defined by Psalm 1:2-3

But His delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

So far we’ve identified two characteristics for prosperity:

1. Guard your thinking; “whose leaf does not wither”
2. Focus on bearing fruit; “which yields its fruit in season”

Now let’s consider the type of water by which we are planted. Is is fresh or salty?

Our companion scripture from Jeremiah 17 gives some insight as to the danger of being planted by salt water or in a salty land for prosperous living.

“He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will live in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. v 6

Fresh water is what we must be planted by. What is the source of fresh water?

One clue comes from another companion scripture to Psalm 1:2-3 which is found in Ezekiel 47:11-12 

But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt. Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will server from food and their leaves for healing.



What is the source of this living water? None other than Jesus, and through our belief in Him the gift of the Holy Spirit. 

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.



The book of James gives us insight into how streams of water affect prosperity. Are we planted by fresh water or salty water. What are the characteristics of being planted by either fresh water or salty water?

With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made on God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water. ch3:9-12



A swamp is unfit for cultivation and a marsh is most often treeless. It is flowing water, fresh water, living water by which we must be planted. This water must come from the sanctuary or the Holy place. This fresh water will affect our words, that they will be blessings. It will also assure that our fruit will not fail, our actions will be proper; and it will cause our leaves not to wither, our thinking will be right. Whatever we do will prosper!!

Words are a determining characteristic of those that prosper. To experience prosperity we must control what comes out of our mouths, the words we speak. We must speak blessings, not curses.

It is not enough just to know where the source of this water is, we have certain responsibilities with it and over it that will affect our prosperity. Join me in discusiing this in future episodes. Click the follow button to stay tuned in.


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