Is your tap closed?

By Sidharth Mohandas

Imagine a great big tank full of water…the tank is full to the brim and there is a small tap at the bottom to let the water out. If you were to open the tap, the water would be released to its surrounding and at the same time, if the tap remained closed, the water would be of no use to you or others. Like wise, when you accepted the Lord Jesus Christ, He poured into your spirit His rich and dynamite life that snuffed out death from your spirit. But in spite of this supernatural event that took place- most of us have faced dead, dry and empty periods in our life, where we had very less or no reality of the God of eternal life. May I suggest that your problem is that a tap is closed? 

In this article, I will show you the tap, but it’s up to you to open it or to close it.

Pay close attention to this Scripture:

“So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord that you must no longer lives as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts” [Ephesians 4: 17-18]

Let me ask you a question: Is it possible to be a Christian and be alienated from the life of God? Absolutely yes! For this Scripture was written to believers in Christ. So then, what could cut off the life of God in our daily life? Notice the wordings Paul uses: futility of their thinking, darkened in their understanding, ignorance that is in them…What is the tap that the Holy Spirit is showing us? It’s the realm of the mind. Beloved, wrong thinking can cut off the life of God from being practical in your life.

In modern churches today we hear an “only believe” message being preached with no call to repentance. Evangelists who preach such a message is robbing people of God’s life. When Jesus came to earth, He didn’t preach an “only believe” message, instead He came saying, “Repent and believe!” [Mark 1:15]. This is the Gospel message. Even when Paul speaks of the foundational doctrines in Hebrews 6:1, 2, the first doctrine he mentions is “repentance from dead works” and then “faith towards God”. Now you may wonder why I brought repentance here. Well, repentance has to do with the realm of the mind. In fact, the Greek word for “repent” is “metanos” which means “to change your mind”. The Church of Jesus Christ needs to repent and believe today!

I exhort you today with the same exhortation that Paul gave the believers at Ephesus: “Be renewed in the attitude of your minds” [Ephesians 4:23]. The Holy Spirit again tells us in Romans 12:2 that we can be transformed by the renewal of our minds. But how do we do this? It’s very simple: replace negative thoughts with thoughts from the Word of God- not just “positive thoughts” but with His thoughts. I had lived nine years under the dominion of darkness before I came to know the Lord, in those nine years my mind had accumulated a lot of information and thoughts from this world and the devil- a lot of unfruitful and wrong thoughts. After I met with Jesus my spirit was made alive, however, all those accumulated thoughts were not taken away- I was to train my mind and feed it with the right thoughts- God’s thoughts. This is why God tells us to repent first when we approach Him, because in repentance we say our way of thinking is wrong, and bow down to God’s way of thinking.

Remember, friends, Thoughts beget actions, and so if you want God in action in your personal life, think His thoughts and you will see transformations in your life, because there is life in the Word.

Will you open your tap today and allow God’s life to be released into your circumstances?

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