Jesus gives us the Living Water of the Spirit to drink.  This Living Water becomes a spring of water that wells up within us to eternal life.  Jesus himself defined eternal life as knowing the Father and the Son; therefore, the Living Water is nothing less than a welling-up of divine communion within our hearts. Through this gift, we are drawn into the mutual love that flows eternally between the Father and the Son. Prayer, then, becomes the natural overflow of these living waters, a movement from the depths of our transformed hearts.

This Living Water is a pure gift freely given by Christ so that we may participate in his own loving relationship with the Father. Only within this communion of love can true prayer emerge, not as our effort alone, but as God’s own action alive within us. 

In prayer, we must bring our requests to God, but it’s far more than asking for things. Nor is prayer a mere religious duty or obligation. In its deepest essence, prayer is a personal meeting in love, a living communion with the God who is Love, who created us for love, and who desires to fill us with his own life. Through the Living Water of the Spirit, prayer becomes a participation in the divine communion which is life in fullness.  Paul prayed that we would grasp the breadth, length, height, and depth of God’s love so that we might be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:14-18). This is the reality toward which the Living Water of the Spirit draws us.