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Jesus said to His disciples, “Behold I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” Luke 10: 19. Who else but the very Divine Himself is able to impart such power? The Psalmist says “that power belongeth unto God,” 62: 11; that He is “a strong tower from the enemy,” 61: 3; "He delivereth me from mine enemies, &c." 18: 48: and the prophet. Isaiah saith, "He—the everlasting God, Jehovah—giveth power to the faint." 40: 29.; and Paul says "there is no power but of God." Rom. 13: 1.

Jesus saith, “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” John 4: 4. And again, “If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink.” 7: 37. These, certainly, are not the words of a man. Jehovah Himself saith by the mouth of His prophet, “For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground.” Is. 44: 3. “When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I Jehovah will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.” 41: 17. “Jehovah shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou