Born of the Spirit
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’” — John 3:6-7
Under the New Covenant, every child of God has the Spirit of God. First, they are born of the Spirit. Then they can be filled with the Spirit. And they can expect to be led by the Spirit
Born of the Spirit: The spirit of man is the part of man which is born again. The Christian’s spirit has the life and nature of God in it. The inward man is born of God’s Spirit and has the Spirit of God in him.
Filled with the Spirit: The born again Christian can be filled with that same Spirit which he already has in him. And when he is filled with that Spirit, there will be an overflowing of that Spirit. He will speak with other tongues as the Holy Spirit gives him utterance (Acts 2:4).
Led by the Spirit: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” Even the born again one who has not been filled with the Spirit, has the Spirit of God abiding in him—and he can expect to be led and guided by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?”… Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain (KJV— “well”) of water springing up into everlasting life.” — John 4:10-11,13-14
Bible scholars know that water is a type of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus himself used water as a type of the Holy Spirit. When Jesus told the woman at the well of Samaria that He was the Giver of living water, she got it confused with the water in the well—natural water.
Then Jesus said, “...the water that I shall give… shall be… a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
He was talking about the New Birth, the well of living water within the believer. That well contains the very life of God. The living water is the life of God. When you drink from that life, you will never thirst again. Because in that life is found every thing pertaining to our lives.
Make the following confession:
I am a child of God. I am born of the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God leads me. He is leading me now. The Holy Spirit will rise big in me. He will give illumination to my mind. He will give direction to my spirit. I am being led by the Spirit of God. I have drunk the living water, and I thirst no more. I am born of the Spirit of God. God’s Spirit is in me. A well of water is in me, springing up into everlasting life.