In the days leading up to Easter this year I found myself restless and not able to sleep well so I knew the Lord was getting ready to reveal something . On the Wednesday before Easter I had been thinking about the tremendous price our Lord paid for our sin. That night I was restless after midnight (28th). I was thinking about an experience I had two years ago (2000). I got out my journal from that time and re-read what I had written. I have never written this out for anyone else to read and have only told one other person that I even had the experience. I will share it now and then share what the Lord said and showed me on the 28th of March this year.

June 28, 2000 I was driving to San Antonio. I was worshipping the Lord when suddenly I had an open vision. In the vision I saw the events surrounding the crucifixion. I saw in the distance, soldiers and people gathering, there was a lot of shouting and confusion in the crowd. The scene got closer and I heard jeering and the sound of whips and anguished cries. I could smell blood and see flesh and blood splattering with each strike of the whip. I could hear the creaking of wood being raised and set in place and the sound of a hammer pinging against steel. All of this was happening at what seemed the same time. It was as if I was seeing the events leading up to and the actual happening of the crucifixion all at the same time. My senses were so sensitive to everything. As suddenly as it started it stopped and for this I was grateful because I don’t think I could have taken anymore. I was so very aware of eternity and how it never stops. The crucifixion is just as real today as it was 2000 years ago, the blood still speaks forgiveness, healing and deliverance today just as loudly as it did then.

March 28, 2002, I was sitting at my desk at work around 1:25 p.m. and I heard the Lord say "I thirst, give me to drink". My immediate response was "overflow in me Lord and satisfy yourself". Then, for the remainder of the day, I felt as if I were at the tomb watching the events just before the resurrection.

I thought about the wedding at Cana so I re-read the account in John 2:1-11. On the 3rd day (resurrection) when they ran out of wine, Mary said to Jesus "they have no wine". His response to her in verse 4 is very profound "What does your concern have to do with me, My hour has not yet come". Most teachings I have heard on this passage teach that He was saying that it wasn’t yet time for Him to perform miracles. I believe it was more than that, I believe He was looking ahead to the cross, to John 19, His hour had not yet come to be made a drink offering and looking even further still than that to the wedding supper of the Lamb when the best wine will served, it is truly being saved for last. There is a strong parallel between John 2 and John 19.

Jesus took the water pots that were used for the ceremonial purification, the washing of the hands. Having them filled with water He turned it into sweet , quality, mature wine. Jesus was making a point of saying that you can have the water (word) but without the blood it profits you nothing. He was looking forward to the cross when His side would be pierced and the water and the blood would flow from a pure vessel.

Because He dwells in us and us in Him, we are one with Him. We must allow the Living Water and His Blood within us to become a sweet wine being poured out. Paul said that he had been like a drink offering poured out. If we don’t pour it out, give it away to a thirsting world, we will become self-absorbent and stagnant, sour not sweet. This is all the soldiers had to offer Jesus on the cross (John 19:29), immature, under developed, under pressed, inferior, sour wine from human soulish vessels who knew nothing of His true purpose. In much he same way, the guests at the wedding were used to getting the good stuff first and the inferior later. He fills us with the good stuff and if it isn’t served, poured out on others, it will be inferior later.

Standing there at the wedding, Jesus saw a long way off to the cross where He would be offered that inferior offering and saw the water and the blood flowing together from His side-A drink offering poured out. John 4:7 in the original text says it this way "Give me to drink", we have certainly lost something in the translation haven’t we? Most translations say "Give me a drink". Big difference.

Earlier I said that in the experience on March 28 I felt as if I were at the tomb watching the events just before the resurrection. I want you to look there too, prophetically for a moment with the eyes of your heart. If you will allow Him, He will show you that in allowing Him to overflow in us making that decision at the place of the tomb, just after death and just before resurrection, when we are like the vessels of water at the wedding at Cana, there we will hear Him say "I thirst, I’ve been in this place for a while and I desire to be poured out". There we will find as we are crying out to Him to satisfy Himself, that resurrection comes, union with His purpose takes place. Then when we are poured out it is the best wine made from the finest grapes, having gone through death to what they were, to become who they are, washed and mixed with the purest water to give Him that which will satisfy Him in the earth.

The third day is coming, yet it is here! Resurrection is on the way, yet it has happened! Eternity never stops. We are the vessels He is using to give of Himself to others! Get filled up, get to a place where you are crying out for the PURE water to reside in you, He’ll supply the grapes. There must be purity to create pure sweet wine. Then pour it out to others. If He is in you, He is in others, and desires to be in even more still. When you look at someone else do you hear Him saying "I thirst?"….. Give Him to drink…. to others.

In Him,