1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,960 Hallelujah, someone say Hallelujah. 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:10,760 Praise the Lord all my life. Praise Hallelujah. 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:12,760 Amen. Whether Alex is going to be 4 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,040 ministering here for us tonight. The only additional thing I want 5 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,880 to make mention to you, we got hands that were up for fasting 6 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,000 this week leading up to prison. Also on the guest table there is 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,200 a sign up sheet for praying while people from the church are 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,200 in prison. So we basically have three 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,360 sessions, one on Friday, 2:00 on Saturday. 10 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:37,480 There'll be two preachers each session. 11 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:40,000 So we're going to have six services basically. 12 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:44,680 And so there is the hours that will actually be in service and 13 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:47,120 doing these things. They're back there on the list. 14 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,640 I got it broken up in 30 minute increments of prayer. 15 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,760 If you're like, well, I'd like to take an hour wherever you 16 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:55,880 sign your name. All right, well, you can take as 17 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,880 much as you want, but we'd love to have that time that we're 18 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,800 actually engaged in service to be covered in prayer. 19 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,200 A man in a by faith, we'll come back to be able to report what 20 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,280 the Lord has done, Amen, With those services, Amen. 21 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,560 So just be mindful of that this evening, Amen. 22 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,680 Brother Alex is here, Amen. I'm sorry that he just, he just, 23 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,520 he had to go get the shovel. You know, I don't know when I'm 24 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:23,600 not going to ask if there's tarps and cylinder blocks 25 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,840 involved, but then maybe there's hopefully there's not a crime 26 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,760 scene on the ground by now, Amen. 27 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,400 But we're thankful to have him. We we had a good representation 28 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,800 this weekend that went up to be a part of sister Michelle 29 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:39,000 Thornburg's funeral and brother Alex and Sister Grace with some 30 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,040 of them. And I know something like that 31 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,080 can just make a weekend that much tighter. 32 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,280 I mean, a 3 1/2 hour drive round tip. 33 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,880 I mean, we were gone for 11 hours on Saturday and so but 34 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,520 then to come here and minister and then with your regular life 35 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,200 and all your obligations and music and singing, the better 36 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,200 the the list can just get very long, Amen. 37 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,600 So let's, let's lend the ear and lend hearts tonight to what the 38 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,880 Spirit would say to us this evening, shall we? 39 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:05,960 Amen. Can we magnify God one more 40 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:07,040 time? Amen. 41 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,039 His brother Alex will come here this evening. 42 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:12,880 Father, we adore you, God, we acknowledge you, Lord Jesus, in 43 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,520 this place and we're thankful, Lord, for your mercy and your 44 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,040 goodnesses. Hallelujah. 45 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,600 Hallelujah. Oh, Lord, you're good. 46 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,920 Oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. 47 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:32,880 Hallelujah. Oh, he's good. 48 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,960 Oh, Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Jesus. 49 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:39,000 Amen. Amen. 50 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:49,920 Thank you Jesus. Thankful to be in the House of 51 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:53,920 the Lord tonight. Amen. 52 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:56,360 It is good. It is good. 53 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,800 I am. I'm grateful for, for all of you 54 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:09,040 church family love and appreciate you love and 55 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:14,440 appreciate my pastor and pastor's wife and their impact 56 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:21,880 and love and support on my wife and I, as well as our Bishop and 57 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,680 his wife, my grandparents. They are, they are pillars. 58 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:30,680 They are pillars of this church and I am so grateful, so 59 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,560 grateful to have them in my life and so grateful that they are 60 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:38,240 here. And my, my parents, they have 61 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:43,040 have been so supportive and loving and, and beneficial and 62 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,560 helpful and, and training and all these different things 63 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:50,800 throughout the years. I'm so grateful and I'm, I'm, 64 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:57,720 I'm so grateful for my wife, so grateful for my wife. 65 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:05,960 This pastor says when you go, when you go to these places, it 66 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:12,440 was spoken this morning. You, you go, you, you sit and 67 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:21,360 you ponder on a life, and a life that, as flesh would seem, would 68 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:29,400 take in too soon. A wife, a mother, a daughter. 69 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:40,520 And I sit there in entering into a new season of life, perplexed 70 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:47,040 even more so than I would have been imagining. 71 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:54,440 The emotions, turmoil, the trials that await. 72 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:03,360 And I think to myself during that time, and I I cry and you, 73 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,040 as if you know me. It's not because I don't care, 74 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:13,920 but I don't cry often. I don't know why I've tried, but 75 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:20,040 I sit there and I cry because I don't know what I'd do without 76 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:27,640 her. We need to take every precious 77 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:36,240 moment that we have with those that we love because we don't 78 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,080 know what tomorrow holds. We don't know what tomorrow 79 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,280 holds. So I'm thankful for her and I'm 80 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:45,480 very, very, very excited. This week. 81 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,320 We should find out the gender of the baby. 82 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,440 And so we're ecstatic about that. 83 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,640 Yes. Say man, very excited about 84 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,400 that. So very grateful. 85 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,160 Thank you for your love and support. 86 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,680 If you could stand and turn to Genesis 26 and 18. 87 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,720 Genesis. Yeah, I got a little bit ahead 88 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,880 of of Pastor, but we're in. He'll, he'll catch up. 89 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,520 He'll catch up. I'm just kind of skipping around 90 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:18,600 here. Very simple verse here. 91 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:25,640 Genesis 26 and 18, it says. And Isaac digged again the wells 92 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:30,440 of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham, his 93 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:34,800 father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of 94 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,400 Abraham. And he called their names after 95 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:44,160 the names by which his father had called them for a little 96 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,640 while. Tonight it, it may be overly 97 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:50,920 simple, I'm not sure. And brother Reese, just so you 98 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,480 know, I'm not getting it dirty. I, I, I rinsed it in the back, 99 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,800 made sure that the edge is clean. 100 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,880 But tonight I want to speak on re dig the wells. 101 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,800 Re dig the wells. If you set your Bibles down, 102 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,120 raise your hands. Help me pray. 103 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,520 Father, I ask you just to move in this place. 104 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,680 Lord, let your will be done. Lord, have your way. 105 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,640 God. Lord, touch your servant. 106 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,280 Lord, speak what needs to be spoken tonight. 107 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:27,470 Your will. Lord, all the vines as a 108 00:07:27,550 --> 00:07:29,910 planting ground for your word. Lord, we will return. 109 00:07:29,910 --> 00:07:34,200 Lord praise and glory unto you in Jesus mighty name that we 110 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:39,840 pray Hallelujah and everyone said in Jesus name, Jesus name 111 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:47,000 you may be seated tonight re dig the wells. 112 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:52,840 Good job, Trevor, see it was fine re dig the wells. 113 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:59,280 We come upon this passage of Scripture, this one verse here 114 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,800 and we have Isaac, Abraham's son. 115 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,240 This is after his father had passed the the Philistines and 116 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:12,320 stopped up these wells over over the course of Abraham's life 117 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:16,240 that he had dug. And he called their names after 118 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,000 the names by which his father had called them before. 119 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,640 Before we get to celebrate these re diggings, if you will, of 120 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,840 those wells, we we have to understand what those wells 121 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,320 really were. They were physical sources of 122 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,080 water and I'm sure in the desert they said Amen. 123 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:38,919 But they were also spiritual markers of promise to Abraham. 124 00:08:38,919 --> 00:08:42,320 These wells were monuments of faith. 125 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,480 They were. They were dug during moments of 126 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,920 obedience, trust, and covenant with God. 127 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,160 Every. Well Abraham Doug wasn't just 128 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:57,360 about hydration. It was about inheritance of the 129 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:01,920 Kingdom of God. It was a declaration that here 130 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:06,120 in this dry land God will provide. 131 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,280 These wells were life lines in a wilderness. 132 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,200 They were, they sustained families and herds and and the 133 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,240 promise itself of the promised people. 134 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:21,880 But something tragic happened after Abraham had passed away 135 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,280 and the Philistines came and they stopped the wells. 136 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,840 They covered them with dirt. They buried, they buried the 137 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:34,240 blessing, if you will. Why on earth would you cover up 138 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,760 a perfectly good well, you're in the desert. 139 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,400 Why on earth would you cover up a perfectly good source of 140 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,480 water? But it was an attack. 141 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:46,760 It wasn't an attack on infrastructure. 142 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,040 It wasn't an attack on on the water. 143 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:55,640 It was an attack on legacy, on memory, identity. 144 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:00,360 The very sign, one of the very physical signs that Abraham had 145 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,280 walked with God that people could point to and say this, 146 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,560 this well was dug by Abraham in this moment in time when he was 147 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:11,440 do having covenant with God. And he prayed and he's, he's 148 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,440 dwelling, dwelling in the place of promise. 149 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:20,040 And he digs a well for covenant. And Isaac is walking through 150 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:24,040 this same land that it was promised to him and promised to 151 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,080 his father. And he's dwelling in the place 152 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,760 of promise. And he looks around and 153 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:34,080 something is missing. The wells have been buried. 154 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:38,280 There's land aplenty. There's there is promise 155 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:42,480 aplenty, but there is no water, there is no flow. 156 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:47,000 There is no evidence of his father's faith physically to the 157 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,080 eye. And so Isaac is faced with this 158 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,640 choice. Does he settle for land that 159 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,480 looks like promise but lacks power? 160 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,240 Or does he do the hard work of going back and recovering and 161 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:07,120 restoring and reconnecting what was lost? 162 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,360 We we are not so different today. 163 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:15,080 Our generation today walks on in the shadows if you will, and on 164 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:19,400 the shoulders of giants. We benefit from battles that we 165 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,960 did not have to fight. We enjoy truths that we did not 166 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,760 have to uncover. The question remains is that 167 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,400 what have we done with the wells? 168 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:37,720 Have we guarded them? Have we maintained them, or have 169 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:43,440 we let them be covered by the debris, by the dirt of life? 170 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,280 This isn't just about Isaac's story. 171 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:49,160 It's about our story and reflection. 172 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:53,560 And before we go any further, we have to think, are there things? 173 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:55,920 Are there habits? Are there disciplines and 174 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:01,840 convictions and and commitments that worked once we're alive but 175 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:06,160 have been buried? Before Isaac ever picked up a 176 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:11,160 shovel before, Before Abraham, he had already dug the wells. 177 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:12,520 Abraham had already dug the wells. 178 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,320 Isaac didn't even pick up a shovel yet, and he knew the 179 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,560 wells had been dug at some point. 180 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,000 These weren't just practical water sources. 181 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,160 They were covenant. And in Genesis 2125, it says, 182 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,440 and Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, 183 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:32,240 which Abimelech servants had violently taken away. 184 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:36,240 And Abimelech said, I would not who have done this thing. 185 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,240 Neither didst thou tell me neither yet I heard of it. 186 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:45,520 But today we read about Abraham confronting Abimelech over a 187 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:49,120 well. We're confronting over water. 188 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,840 No, we're not confronting truly over water. 189 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:58,440 Abraham was was staking claim of territory by putting a well 190 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:00,320 here. He wasn't taking claim of 191 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,480 territory by swords. He was taking claim territory by 192 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:08,600 Wells. It continues on in chapter 21, 193 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,400 verse 30. And it says, And he said, for 194 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:15,600 the seven all lambs shalt thou make of my hand, that they may 195 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:19,200 be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. 196 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,360 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba, because they're 197 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:26,600 there. They swear, both of them. 198 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:31,400 Abraham seals this covenant with Abimelech over a well that he 199 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,280 had dug. He he named it Beersheba, which 200 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:39,680 means well of the oath. This was more than just a water 201 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:42,760 dispute, it was a spiritual moment. 202 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:47,520 Abraham dug, he defended and he named the well to establish 203 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:54,280 peace and testimony of God. And immediately after that it 204 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:57,960 goes on and Abraham plants a Grove in Beersheba and he calls 205 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:03,560 upon the name of the Lord, and he worships at the place of the 206 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:06,120 well. See this, this was not just a 207 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,560 place where they went to just go drink of water. 208 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:13,720 This was a place where he got to partake of the living water. 209 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:18,280 He got to partake of relationship with God at the 210 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,360 well. He he worshipped at the place of 211 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:26,800 the well and for all the wells, it says in Genesis 2615. 212 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,280 It says for all the wells which his father's servants had digged 213 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,160 in the days of Abraham, his father, the Philistines had 214 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:35,600 stopped them and filled them with the earth. 215 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,160 He they filled them. They were afraid. 216 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,320 Not afraid of water. They were afraid of the meaning 217 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,440 behind those wells. They felt threatened. 218 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,160 They felt threatened enough that that Isaac didn't have to dig, 219 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,080 dig new ones. It was just the fact that they 220 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,840 were trying to cover it up because they were afraid of what 221 00:14:54,840 --> 00:15:00,280 these wells meant. Isaac wasn't starting from 222 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,560 scratch. He had a legacy to go and re re 223 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:05,720 bring to the surface if you will. 224 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:10,600 He was standing on a legacy. He just had to find the wells. 225 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,600 The first thing recognizing is just because the well has been 226 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,640 stopped up doesn't mean the water dried up. 227 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,840 The Philistines didn't destroy the underground source, they 228 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,640 were just trying to cover up and make it look like it hadn't been 229 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:29,120 there to begin with. The flow beneath the surface was 230 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,240 still active. It was still present, but it was 231 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:37,840 waiting to be accessed. It was waiting and, and you may 232 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,040 feel spiritually dry, you may feel at once the flow was in 233 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:43,960 your life. But I'm here to remind you, the 234 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,800 water is still there. The question is, are we going to 235 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,520 draw from it? It's waiting to be drawn, but 236 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:57,920 are we going to draw from it? God has not stopped moving. 237 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,040 His spirit has not stopped flowing. 238 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,400 His presence has not been gone. It may just be buried. 239 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:09,080 It's been covered up by life, by distraction, by pain, by 240 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,960 disappointment. And we, we try to say that God 241 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,960 isn't moving, but maybe we just aren't drawing from the well. 242 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,720 Sometimes it's not even sin that buries our wells. 243 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,280 Sometimes it's just a, a slow accumulation of neglect. 244 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,800 That would, if, if Abraham just stopped going to those wells, 245 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,760 then over time, there would be dust, there would be rain, there 246 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:35,080 would be things that would ruin the well probably. 247 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,720 But he went back to those wells, I guarantee you. 248 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,760 And he, he maintained them and he prayed at them again and he 249 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:45,080 drove drew from them. It was he was not lazy in his 250 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,560 action of the wells. He was, he did not compromise in 251 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,920 his action of digging the wells and having the wells. 252 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:56,120 He did not lack in prayer or worship at the wells. 253 00:16:56,280 --> 00:17:02,080 He he was focusing on the flow and maintaining it. 254 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:06,680 The good news we have is we can dig again. 255 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:13,040 We don't need a new source. You don't need a new source. 256 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,800 You need to clear debris, get the dirt out of the way. 257 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,079 The flow will return if you can get the dirt out of the way. 258 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:28,000 Isaac didn't go out. He didn't go out looking for new 259 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,040 water source. He knew where he needed to dig. 260 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,480 See, that's the thing. Sometimes we know where we need 261 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:41,680 to dig, but we don't want to. Oh, that Cree, I don't have time 262 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,560 for that. I got all this. 263 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:48,840 I do all these extracurriculars and all these extra things and I 264 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,120 don't know if I can make room for such an I don't know if I 265 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:55,200 can make room for prayer in my life. 266 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:58,840 Pastor, you don't know how busy I am. 267 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,400 I love it when people people tell me you don't know how busy 268 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:05,800 I am. I'm like, would you like me to 269 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:11,720 give you a list of what I have in my head and wrote down and 270 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,040 all the different calendars and all the different announcements 271 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:20,040 and all of the 25,000 reminder alarms that my wife goes off and 272 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:24,280 I have to go over and snooze? I'm like, OK, it says this. 273 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,440 And she's like, oh, just snooze and I'll get to it. 274 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:32,560 I'm like, all right, OK. It kind of defeats the purpose 275 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:37,800 of a reminder, but OK, I could say that because I have the mic, 276 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,760 I'll get, I'll get hit later, but that's fine. 277 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:47,240 In a world that is constantly chasing the next new thing, the 278 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:51,120 new methods, the new ideas, the new revelations, Isaac is 279 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:55,600 teaching us here in this verse, the power of going back to what 280 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,520 works. The wells of our fathers still 281 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:04,040 hold water. The wells of the apostles still 282 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:08,400 hold water. The old paths are still a good 283 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,400 way are still the good way. The principles and truths that 284 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:16,360 brought revival in the past and generations, they can bring 285 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:20,040 revival today. We don't need to reinvent the 286 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,440 wheel and find another water source. 287 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:28,240 We need to go back and re dig where our forefathers were once 288 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:32,600 before. Some of us have been tempted to 289 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,800 walk away from that foundation. Replace deep truths with some 290 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,520 shallow inspiration, if you will. 291 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:43,520 The answer is not is not to move on. 292 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:49,480 The answer is to return. Returning to the place where God 293 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,640 had met you before. Returning to the place where 294 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,720 you've heard that others had met God before. 295 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:59,120 You don't need an Apostolic pedigree in order to re dig a 296 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:02,280 well. In this instant it just so 297 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:06,360 happens that Isaac was Abraham's, Abraham's son. 298 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:07,960 But it didn't have to be that way. 299 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,200 It could have been someone down the line that hadn't been hadn't 300 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,720 known Abraham and was so far removed from Abraham. 301 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,960 And if if Isaac hadn't re dug the wells, they could have re 302 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,720 dug those wells. It wasn't about pedigree. 303 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:26,320 It was about returning to what? Where it was, returning to the 304 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,440 well, returning to the altar, returning to the word. 305 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,200 And then another interesting thing is, is that Isaac didn't 306 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:39,760 rename the wells. He called them by the names his 307 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:45,160 father had given them. Jude 1/3 in that segment of 308 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,880 Scripture says earnestly contend for the faith which was once 309 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,840 delivered into the Saints. Why does that matter? 310 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,960 Because names carry weight. We saw it already in our 311 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:01,040 reading. Beersheba had a meaning well of 312 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:06,000 the oath and and for for there to be meaning. 313 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,040 It represents identity, it represents purpose, it 314 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:13,040 represents legacy. When Isaac called those wells by 315 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:17,040 the same name, he's saying, I still believe what my father 316 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,640 stood for. I still believe what God did 317 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:25,760 back then and I believe that it will still happen now. 318 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,480 We live in a time where where people are trying to rename 319 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,960 everything. Holiness is now called what 320 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:40,120 legalism. Conviction is now called 321 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:45,360 judgment. Truth is now an opinion. 322 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:50,520 That that's that's I'm going to quote Pastor Nate Whitley for a 323 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,200 second. That's not my truth, OK? 324 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:55,400 That's not my truth. All right? 325 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,040 You have your truth and that's my truth. 326 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,960 It is an opinion. But if it was holy back then, 327 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:09,560 it's holy today. If it was truth back then, it is 328 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,800 truth now. We don't need to rename things 329 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,680 around here. We need to stand upon the Word 330 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:20,240 of God and say this is the truth. 331 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:25,560 This is holiness, this is conviction. 332 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,840 Do not let the world compromise. Compromise and convince you to 333 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,480 rename what God has already established. 334 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,640 Call it what it is and let the flow return. 335 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,560 So when, when Isaac re digged those wells, see he took, he 336 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,760 took his shovel and and he took probably some people and he's 337 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:52,040 going out. And I have to believe for many 338 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,320 of them, Isaac was present when Abraham was digging some wells. 339 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:59,280 So he probably already knew. And that's, that's another thing 340 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:03,640 we we need, we need a generation of people. 341 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,360 We need a generation that the older generation to show the 342 00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:09,360 next generation where the wells are at. 343 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,600 We need a mentorship generation between. 344 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,240 There needs to be a link between, between Kingdom 345 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,480 generations that says this is where this well is at. 346 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,720 Don't ever lose sight of this well when I'm gone. 347 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:28,680 You need to maintain this well. Maintain it now with me, but you 348 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,360 need to maintain this well. I'm going to show you how to 349 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:33,040 pray. I'm going to show you how to 350 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,760 fast. I'm going to show you how to 351 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,240 read your Bible. We're going to dig and maintain 352 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,560 this well together and we are going to walk side by side. 353 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,440 So when I'm gone, guess what? You can grab the next generation 354 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,640 and you can show them where the wells are at. 355 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,920 So Isaac already knew. He already knew where to go. 356 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,000 He knew where the wells were at. So he's just going back and he 357 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,400 said, come on boys, we're going to go find my father's wells. 358 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,680 We're going to go find them. These are places of consecration 359 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,440 that yes, there's water and we'll drink from that, but these 360 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,280 are places of consecration. We're going to take this and we 361 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:13,120 are going to re dig and reclaim, reclaim what has been taken from 362 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:17,440 us, retake the wells, re dig the wells. 363 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,440 And so he goes, not only did the water return, the water was 364 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,640 still there, it was still flowing, but the dry ground 365 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:29,600 became fruitful. The land came back to life. 366 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:34,280 Because when the well flows, everything around it changes. 367 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:39,160 When you start to have some flow going on, you start to have some 368 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:43,960 water going, you start to realize there's there's stuff 369 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,760 going on. It doesn't just impact you, you 370 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,480 digging, you re digging some wells and getting back to some 371 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,040 consecration in your life doesn't just affect you. 372 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,240 The herdsmen of Guerra began to argue. 373 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,960 During this time, after the water returned, there was 374 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,000 resistance. Of course, of course there was 375 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,480 resistance. Anytime you start digging, enemy 376 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,920 will push back. Anytime you begin to pursue God 377 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:19,240 again, there will be a fight. But Isaac did not stop. 378 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,720 He did not stop. He just kept digging. 379 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,600 They're the naysayers are over there and they are arguing and 380 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,440 he's just, he may have just sit there and said, boys, you know 381 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,200 what, just don't even look up. Don't even look up. 382 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,160 Just keep digging. Don't let it bother you. 383 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,680 Just keep digging. We need to have a mentality like 384 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,360 that nowadays because there's so many naysayers. 385 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:41,640 There's so many things that come to try to distract us and get in 386 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,760 our minds and our heads. And what if this and what if 387 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:46,760 that. We just need to keep our head 388 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,560 down and focus on the well, We need to keep our head down and 389 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,840 focus on the word, focus on prayer. 390 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,640 We need need to focus on him instead of trying to let the 391 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,520 outward, the external try to try to tell us something different. 392 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,160 They don't know anything about this. 393 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:05,760 Well, you do. And eventually he reached the 394 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,720 place called Riboth, which means room. 395 00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:15,200 Even said in Genesis 2622, it says now the Lord has made room 396 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,800 for us and we will be fruitful in the land. 397 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:24,120 What does that mean? Well, that means when you dig by 398 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:30,560 faith, God will make room. He fights our battles. 399 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:35,000 When you, when you start to dig and you do it by faith and you 400 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,360 just, you just keep on keeping on, He will make room. 401 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,360 I don't know what that looks like for you, but I can, I can 402 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:44,400 think he'll make room in your schedule. 403 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,680 We always complain, oh, I'm so busy, I can't do the blah, blah. 404 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,040 He'll make room for your schedule. 405 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,360 He'll make room. He'll make room and things that 406 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:54,520 you think are insignificant to him. 407 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,760 He will make room for you to have opportunities to witness 408 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,440 the people and bring people alongside the well and say this 409 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,600 is this is what I draw from. It's not me. 410 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:10,840 This is what I draw from. That's what happens when you 411 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:15,400 keep digging you, you pat you. When you press past opposition 412 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,360 and you push through the conflict and the things that go 413 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:20,720 on around. God brings you to a place of 414 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,520 fruitfulness, a place of overflow and of peace. 415 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,120 Others will drink from what you dig. 416 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,160 Your obedience does not just bless you, It blesses your 417 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,640 family. It blesses your church. 418 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,440 It blesses your community. Your breakthrough could become 419 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:43,880 someone else's lifeline that they can hold on to. 420 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:51,440 So keep digging. When we get started, don't stop, 421 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:56,320 so many people don't I, I always think of those that, that you, 422 00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:00,080 you, you see like the, the cliparts or anything like that 423 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,400 is someone talking about how, how don't stop until you reach, 424 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,920 reach gold or reach diamond or whatever it is. 425 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,920 And, and, and they keep digging, digging, digging, digging. 426 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:12,040 And then you see the the artist shows that it was just probably 427 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,080 a couple more hits, couple more feet and they would have been 428 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,440 there. I think of that and I think 429 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:23,880 people get so close, so close to the truth or so close to, to a 430 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,080 walk with God that is going to be memorable for them and is 431 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,960 going to get them to God and he's going to sustain them. 432 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:37,200 And then something happens and they miss the mark and they they 433 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,280 lose it. And then there's just those that 434 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:45,080 forsake it. Jeremiah 213 says they have 435 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,840 forsaken me in the fountain of living waters. 436 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,440 Sadly not, not everyone chooses to dig again. 437 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,760 Scripture gives us examples of who's those who who let their 438 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,520 wells, so to speak, be buried. They they may have buried them 439 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,160 themselves, never recovered them. 440 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,000 Maybe they were embarrassed by it and they decided to walk away 441 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,320 recover it up. I I don't know that church or we 442 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:17,600 may be like Peter deny. I don't know, Jesus, Samson was 443 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:22,760 called, he was anointed, he was powerful, but he allowed 444 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,160 compromise to clog his his calling. 445 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,920 And one day he woke up and he didn't even realize that the 446 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:34,360 Spirit had departed from him. And he had to beg God one more 447 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:38,320 time. Just one more time, Spirit come 448 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:43,400 upon me. And he had to be led to pillars 449 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:51,320 because he could not see when we go through times in our lives 450 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,000 and we we miss the mark and and even to the same sense of 451 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,480 compromise, we have been blinded. 452 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,360 Do not allow yourself to be blinded and not realize that 453 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,560 that the spirit in this in this sense that that that you have 454 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,400 been departed from because you have not been a welcome place to 455 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,520 Jesus. The Israelites in the 456 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:19,200 wilderness, they saw they saw miracles as we know, but but 457 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,840 they allowed they allowed constant murmuring and rebellion 458 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:30,120 to stop up there's flow. They they limited God and they 459 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,040 died in a dry place. Saul. 460 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:38,880 Saul was anointed king, but his pride and his partial obedience 461 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,360 caused the Spirit of the Lord to depart from him. 462 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,320 And he kept the title, but he lost the presence. 463 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,760 And the Church of Lady of Seus said, we are rich and we have 464 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:54,040 need of nothing. But Jesus was on the outside 465 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:55,960 knocking. They were dry and they didn't 466 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,440 even know it. They had need of nothing. 467 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:05,400 These are warnings to us that it's possible to look like 468 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,040 you're in the land of promise and still have no water. 469 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,240 Do not let your well stay buried. 470 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:20,440 I thank God for those who have dug again when we go back and we 471 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,520 look at that in that context, Moses, he stood on the mountain 472 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,880 and he said show me your glory. He wasn't even satisfied with 473 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:31,320 the the days before encounter. He wanted another encounter, 474 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:36,040 another memorable encounter. David, he brought back the ark. 475 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,400 He restored worship to the land of God. 476 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:44,120 He made room for God's presence to dwell once again in Israel. 477 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:49,400 Hezekiah opened the temple doors and cleanse the sanctuary. 478 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,760 He restored what had been lost, the early church. 479 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:58,080 They waited in the upper room, hungry for the promise and the 480 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,880 Day of Pentecost game in the well burst open. 481 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,960 Those are the ones that said I will not settle for dry places. 482 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,360 I will not settle. We will dig until the water 483 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,520 flows. Doesn't matter how long it is. 484 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,360 We will dig until the water flows. 485 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:22,560 And I have to think again, Isaac knew where the wells were. 486 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,840 It wasn't a he was in well. Maybe it's there or maybe it 487 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,120 maybe it's right. Man, that place looks familiar. 488 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:34,960 No, I believe Isaac knew exactly the spot of where to go. 489 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,760 And that is the thing. If we have confusion, we have 490 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,880 question of where to dig in our lives, where to consecrate in 491 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,520 our lives. If you need to ask some 492 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,880 questions, ask some questions, but we'll show you where to dig, 493 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,520 we'll show you where to consecrate, we'll show you the 494 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,840 direction. This is where you go, this is 495 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:58,880 what you do. We've seen what can happen when 496 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,040 wells are stopped and what's possible when they are re 497 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,640 digged. But but not even enough to be 498 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,000 inspired by Isaac, Moses or David. 499 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:14,520 What about us? What wells have gone dry today 500 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:18,840 in your life, in your home, in the church as a whole, in this 501 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,320 generation? There's a specific wells that 502 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:26,440 God is calling us to dig again and, and some of them used to 503 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,800 flow freely in your life. Some of them used to throw 504 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:33,080 freely in the church and we have seen a lacking of it. 505 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:38,160 They have gone quiet. They haven't stopped up, but 506 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,200 people may not be digging from it as much as it used to. 507 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,560 If you can indulge me for a moment. 508 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,360 I I since these wells that Abraham dug were a part of 509 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,240 covenant with God and and they were more than just a water 510 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,720 source. I have some thoughts in in in 511 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,960 Hebrew terms of what what he could have named them because 512 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:02,880 names have meaning. It's possible that Isaac went to 513 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:10,320 the well of tefillah, which means prayer, intercession, 514 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:15,040 petition, implying engagement and relationship with God. 515 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:20,000 Re digging the well of prayer is not about just the routine or 516 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:25,440 bedtime prayers and it's talking about meaningful spirit LED 517 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:30,159 passionate prayer. The kind that presses into God 518 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,880 until something breaks in the spirit. 519 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:37,080 Something that says I will not leave me like Jacob said, until 520 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:41,159 you bless me. Not letting that happen until 521 00:34:41,159 --> 00:34:43,800 something breaks. The kind that shifts 522 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,880 atmospheres, remembering what it's like to pray until the room 523 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,840 change. But has prayer become dry? 524 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:58,800 I imagine maybe, maybe Isaac went to a well of Kodesh, or 525 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:05,520 holiness, sacredness, purity, set apart for God's use, often 526 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,560 used to describe things, people, places consecrated unto the 527 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,960 Lord. I'm not talking just about 528 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,440 outward appearance, I mean a heart. 529 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:19,440 A heart that is full of surrender. 530 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,280 A life that says Lord, I want to be clean. 531 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:28,000 I want to be set apart for you, set apart and covenant for you. 532 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,360 Holiness isn't about checking boxes, it's about carrying His 533 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,760 presence. If we let that well get buried 534 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,960 under compromise or culture, it's time to dig it back up. 535 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:49,000 I imagine Maybe maybe Isaac and he went and dug a well of lacaya 536 00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:54,800 or or doctrine, meaning instruction, teaching, not just 537 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:59,400 education but divine guidance with moral authority. 538 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,720 The Acts 238 plan of salvation is not just tradition. 539 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,480 The Word of God is not just tradition. 540 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,400 When someone asks me what what we believe, I I always say I 541 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,360 believe this through and through. 542 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,400 I'm not picking apart anything. We are taking it at its word. 543 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:24,080 We let, like Pastor says Scripture, interpret Scripture. 544 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,400 It is not just the heritage, it's not just oh, that's a nice 545 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,320 religion for you. It is truth, it is gospel, it is 546 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:36,320 19 it one God. It is one name, Jesus name 547 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,720 baptism and filling of the Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking 548 00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:43,600 in other tongues. Those are not optional beliefs. 549 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:48,600 They are the bedrock of belief. They if that has gone quiet in 550 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,120 our teaching, our preaching, our daily lives, then we need to re 551 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:59,240 dig the well. I think maybe Isaac went and he 552 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:08,280 he re dug Shaka or or worship. Bow down, submit and reverence 553 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:14,200 physical posture of surrender. Some people don't like worship. 554 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:20,200 They don't like the idea of, of, of bowing down or putting going 555 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,320 on their knees or raising their hand because it's uncomfortable. 556 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,440 The reasons it's uncomfortable is because it is surrender. 557 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,760 It is, it is physical surrender who, unless you're at a ball 558 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,520 game and everyone's doing it, who just goes out and about and 559 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,640 just whoo, you'd probably look at them be like, what are they 560 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:43,280 doing? It is about it is about 561 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,480 surrender. We don't like that because it 562 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:51,400 takes getting over self, it takes getting over our pride for 563 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:56,280 full worship to take place. Some of us used to worship till 564 00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,560 the tears flow, until chains broke, until the atmosphere 565 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:05,760 shifted. But maybe it's lacking again. 566 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:13,480 Is it time to re dig the well? Maybe he went to the the well of 567 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:20,320 of of tism or fasting, abstaining, abstaining from food 568 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,160 or abstaining from things that are a sacrifice to use spiritual 569 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,560 act of consecration. Maybe maybe he went to that well 570 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,840 that that that we don't hear about that well much anymore 571 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,000 because people don't like the idea of of sacrifice. 572 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,840 You, you talk about fasting, you talk about tithing, people 573 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:45,960 getting it is sacrifice. Anything that includes us not 574 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,120 getting what we want because we are flesh. 575 00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:53,280 We don't like that, but the whole purpose of it is to kill 576 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:57,040 the flesh and it invites the spirit to move. 577 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:01,120 If we neglect that, well then we avoid, we avoid it because 578 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,960 again, it's uncomfortable. If you start seeing there's a 579 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:09,920 pattern here with some of these wells, maybe maybe he came 580 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:14,320 across a well of Shin. I feel like there is a big, big 581 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,120 push against this in the spirit world, spirit of the day. 582 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:27,840 And that is identity lacking identity lacking that that we 583 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,920 have, we have we or we're so confused and we, we don't know 584 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:36,280 who we are or who you are and we don't know what is true and what 585 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,640 is not true. And the culture is loud and, and 586 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,360 what, what but we have we're confused about. 587 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,920 No, I'm not confused. I am Apostolic, I am not 588 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,120 confused. I am called I. 589 00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:52,840 I am trying to be holy. I'm trying to be consecrated. 590 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:58,760 I'm trying to live as a chosen church, ready, ready for him to 591 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:03,960 come as a bride, being filled with the Spirit and walking in 592 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:08,040 power. Do not let the enemy cover up 593 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,760 your identity. These wells were never meant to 594 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:15,880 run dry, ladies and gentlemen. They were never meant to be 595 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,240 stopped up and forgotten or ignored. 596 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,920 I believe now is the time to dig. 597 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:30,120 I promise you, the water's still there, the flow's still moving, 598 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,520 but someone has to breakthrough the surface. 599 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:37,640 The question is, is will you re dig the wells? 600 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,880 Will you re dig the wells? And I think about it, we've, 601 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:45,840 we've heard stories, right? We, we go back to the Azusa St. 602 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,280 revival and, and, and we even go back and just look at the upper 603 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,560 room and just all the great things in that, that happened 604 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,000 with the apostles and, and during the book of Acts church. 605 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,400 And Oh my goodness, that is fantastic. 606 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:01,080 But those are stories and those are, those are reminiscent of 607 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,520 things that have happened. But what is happening today? 608 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:10,960 What is what is our story? We've seen stories, we've seen 609 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,280 examples. We felt the conviction. 610 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,280 But the question is, is what are we going to do about it? 611 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:23,720 Hosea 10/12 says break up your fallow ground for it is time to 612 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:26,880 seek the Lord. Isaiah 44 three says I will pour 613 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:32,000 out water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry 614 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,360 ground. You see see here with with the 615 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,200 church we have been having in this past month. 616 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,800 I believe that there, Bishop, I believe there's been some people 617 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,480 that have been re digging some wells. 618 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:47,400 This hasn't happened on accident. 619 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,520 God just didn't didn't oopsie and be like, oh, I guess they're 620 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:51,720 going to have some better church now. 621 00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:55,440 Oops, I spilled something. No, this was not an accident. 622 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,680 I believe there's been some people that have gone back to 623 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,840 heard about some wells from some people around here, heard about 624 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,120 some revival that has happened around here. 625 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,600 And they're like, I want that. I want some of that. 626 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,040 How do I get that? And they go back to some wells 627 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,320 maybe that have been neglected or maybe just maybe there's been 628 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,960 some people around them that have been showing them, this is 629 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,840 the well that I draw from. This is the well. 630 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,760 This is what we, we, the prayer room back here. 631 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,920 Oh my goodness, the prayer room. Come on, keep it up. 632 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:33,280 Keep it up. Whether you realize it or not, 633 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,880 that starts service. That starts service. 634 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:41,920 People have been re digging some wells. 635 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:45,600 I've been seeing people standing out and and getting out of their 636 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,720 comfort zone again, comfort standing, getting out of their 637 00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:51,400 comfort zone. And and what they're doing 638 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,320 really is they're taking their shovel and they're stepping out 639 00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,920 and they're saying, I've been told that this is one of the 640 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,840 wells. And so I'm going to I'm going to 641 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,000 put my shovel here. I'm going to draw from the the 642 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,520 well or maybe there's been something that's been been 643 00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,840 lacking and they decide, you know what, I've heard about it. 644 00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,840 It's been preached, Bishop. Maybe it's talked about it. 645 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:15,640 Pastors maybe talked about it to me. 646 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,760 You know what? I'm going to find that well. 647 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,360 I'm going to find that well. They told me where it's at. 648 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,240 I'm going to re dig it and we're going to start seeing something 649 00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:26,000 around here. We're going to start seeing 650 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,600 something around here. We're going to re dig some 651 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,680 wells. And when that happens, God is 652 00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,360 going to be welcomed. He's going to say there's 653 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,360 something going on and I want to be a part of it. 654 00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,960 I'm going to be I'm going to be I'm going to be in this presence 655 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:37,960 right here. I'm going to be alone. 656 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:43,000 I'm going to be with these people redigging those wells. 657 00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:46,040 Something starts starts to change again. 658 00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,560 I don't know who's been redigging the wells, but guess 659 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,240 what? It's impacted all of us. 660 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,320 Hey, when people are drawing from the wells, we are all 661 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,360 partaking and you know what that means? 662 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,280 I think that means that if you're, if you haven't been re 663 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,640 digging some wells, then I think if you've been able to partake 664 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,640 of what's been going on, you should start digging yourself. 665 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:07,840 You should start drawing yourself. 666 00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,680 Say that's that tastes good. Well, imagine what it tastes 667 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:12,840 like every day. Imagine what it's like for 668 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:19,960 consecration and to God. You can't re dig a well in 669 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,640 theory. You can't uncover the water, 670 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:24,840 uncover the water by talking about it. 671 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,520 At some point you have to pick up the shovel and you decide, 672 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,840 Lord I want more than what I've been living with. 673 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:37,200 I've I refuse to stay dry when I know, I know. 674 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:42,720 I've been told there is a well and there is a river that I can 675 00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:45,880 draw from. All the music can come. 676 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,240 Don't live another day. I don't want to live another day 677 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:54,000 in a place where there is no water when I know where to dig. 678 00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:58,720 Do not live in a dry place when you know where to dig. 679 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:04,520 Could you stand with me tonight? I don't know what your 680 00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,080 circumstance is. I don't know what you need to to 681 00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,400 re dig in your life for consecration to God. 682 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,560 But what I do know is if your player life has been dried up, 683 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:17,720 re dig, re dig, couple up with someone that you know draws from 684 00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:20,680 the well and maybe get a little bit of some of that and get a 685 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:24,520 little bit of some of that. If your worship has lost its 686 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,960 weight and lost its meaning, you need to re dig. 687 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,640 Maybe maybe it's because you got uncomfortable at some point. 688 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,800 And, and I feel like and with the worship that we've been 689 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,280 having in the services we've been having, you shouldn't have 690 00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:36,880 to feel uncomfortable by this point. 691 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,600 There have been things that have been happening that that have 692 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,040 been different and uncomfortable, But guess what? 693 00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:43,880 They've been great, and you shouldn't have to feel 694 00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:47,960 uncomfortable about that. Maybe your passion has been 695 00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,240 buried under disappointment and distraction. 696 00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:54,040 Well, maybe you need to undistract yourself, dig 697 00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,640 yourself from the surface of of the dirt. 698 00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,400 Maybe there's something that is there that does not need to be 699 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:04,400 there. But today you can dig again. 700 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,760 You do not need a new well. You just need to remove the 701 00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,160 dirt. You just need to clear out the 702 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,320 compromise, clear out the laziness, clear out the fear and 703 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:17,960 the pain, you might say, and you might feel, I don't feel 704 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,120 anything any more than you need to dig. 705 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:27,040 You need to find that well and find find that water again. 706 00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:29,920 You might say it's been too long. 707 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,560 Well, I tell I'm here to tell you, it doesn't matter how long 708 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,680 you can come back and you can re dig that well. 709 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:40,720 You can draw from that well once again and you might say I don't 710 00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:42,880 know how well. Then you need to find somebody, 711 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:49,000 find someone to help you mentor you to, to dig those wells for 712 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,080 yourself. I wonder if we could come to 713 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,680 these altars are open the night when when you do, when you dig, 714 00:46:55,880 --> 00:47:00,840 the water will rise, the spirit will flow, the dry places will 715 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,040 become rivers again. There will be fruitful ground. 716 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:11,320 But coming to alter and saying I want the well back, God break up 717 00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,600 this dry ground. Help me, Help me, God to restore 718 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:19,040 the flow that once was. Let your presence run through my 719 00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:25,960 life again. Oh God, this is your will. 720 00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,000 I'm going to draw from it. I'm going to I'm going to give 721 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:33,040 myself to you. I'm going to consecrate myself 722 00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:37,440 once again to you. Oh, this is your God. 723 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,360 This is your moment. This is this is your altar. 724 00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:45,040 This is this is your, well, God. I'm just picking up a shovel and 725 00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,760 I'm, I'm redigging something that that I haven't been, I 726 00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:52,640 haven't been to in a while. I've been away for some time 727 00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:57,000 and, and I, I, I've, I've maybe sat on the Pew many years and 728 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,160 and not necessarily been consecrated with the wells, but 729 00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,840 God, I, I've returned here today. 730 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:07,920 I've returned here to, to come back to covenant consecration. 731 00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:12,440 Lord that I would re dig and this in my life but I would find 732 00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:16,840 this in my life and and it would be good and you would see it as 733 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:17,440 good.