Water is a precious resource that we all need to survive. World Water Day is a day we set aside to focus on the millions of people who don’t have access to safe, clean drinking water. Many rely on dirty wells or contaminated rivers and ponds that make them sick with various water-borne illnesses. And some have nowhere else to turn when their source of water runs dry.
God’s Word is just as necessary for our spiritual survival. Just like clean water, the Bible is our source for life. God uses water throughout Scriptures to give us a beautiful picture of salvation—from baptism into new life to His cleansing power that washes away sin. “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water” (Hebrews 10:22).
Without that relationship with God, we are constantly thirsty in a dry and barren land—what this world offers will never satisfy us. But Jesus can! “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (John 4:13-14).
God extended that invitation to everyone who is yearning for more to this life: “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters” (Isaiah 55:1). And He promises to give us more fulfillment that this world can ever offer. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied” (Matthew 5:6).
Jesus invites us to drink from the living water that He offers, but He also wants us to take that water to others who are in need—physically and spiritually. “And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward” (Matthew 10:42).
So, we invite you to join us in the fight for those who don’t have access to clean water on World Water Day. But let’s also not forget those who are suffering without the water of salvation. Take a moment to pray over these Scriptures and ask God who you can bless with a cup of cold water.
World Water Day Scriptures
Isaiah 12:3 – With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
John 4:9-10 – The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.” Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 4:13-14 – Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Isaiah 44:3-4 – For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. They shall spring up among the grass like willows by flowing streams.
Matthew 5:6 – Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Amos 5:24 – But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Isaiah 55:1 – Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Matthew 10:42 – And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.
Revelation 7:16-17 – They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, not any scorching heat. For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Isaiah 49:10 – They shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.
Psalm 23:2 – He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
Revelation 21:6 – And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.
Ezekiel 36:25-26 – I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Isaiah 58:11 – And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Psalm 42:1-2 – As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
John 7:37-38 – On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me as the Scripture as said, ‘Our of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
Psalm 63:1 – O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Revelation 22:17 – The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
Psalm 104:10-11 – You make springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills; they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Psalm 104:13-14 – From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work. You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth.
Genesis 26:18-22 – And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them, but when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. Then they dug another well, and the quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah. And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”
Hebrews 10:22 – Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Revelation 22:1-2 – Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Ephesians 5:25-26 – Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.
John 3:5 – Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
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Give a Gift
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched,
and one who waters will himself be watered.
Proverbs 11:25
