 God creates the water and we dig wells. The enemy seeks to stop the wells by covering it with dirt. The wells become dry and the dry wells become prisons. From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. The world you live in is dying out of thirst. The church is the well where rivers of living water flow to bring life to people. Breakthrough to finances. Peace to families. Healing to physical bodies and freedom to souls. Join us as we go digging. In Genesis chapter 26 verse 15 it says the following. Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father. And they had filled them with... What did they fill them with? What does your translation say? Earth dirt? Some of you are saying dirt. Your neighbor is saying earth. What is my translation? So earth or dirt? So the background of the story is that Isaac goes into the promised land and the Bible says there were wells there that used to be operational. They used to have the water in them. But the Philistines, they went in and they covered these wells with earth or with soil or with dirt. And the Isaac later on goes in and starts redigging old wells. I believe one of the things that God is doing with our church is he's redigging old wells. The wells of revival that were happening even in the United States. God is bringing those back. But not only he's redigging old wells, we're going to be also digging some new wells. Because we're not just about to relive the past. We're about to create new future with the Holy Ghost because somebody say amen. Even in the facility that we are in right now, the church that was here before, there was a great move of God that was happening. There are people in the church now who were a part of the church that was here before. There was mighty miracles and deliverances and healings that were taking place. And I believe that God is using the hungry generation to redig the wells that were dug before. Come on somebody. The wells of healing, the wells of revival, the wells of breakthrough, the wells of deliverance, the wells of the gifts of the Holy Ghost, the wells of the mighty move of God, the wells of worship, the wells of evangelism, the wells of prayer, the wells of fasting. God is redigging all the wells. Somebody say yes. Somebody touch your neighbor and say it's time. Touch your other neighbor and say it's to dig the well. To dig the well. But I want to point out the first thing that we read today is the Philistines stopped the wells by filling them with dirt. Philistines stopped the wells by filling them not with junk, not with garbage, not with broken up things, but we filled them with dirt. Before I touch on that, I want to make a mention that a well, what I mean by a well is your spirit. What I mean by a well, I'm talking about your soul. A well is my spirit, it's my soul. In the Bible, any time there was a well that had no water, those wells became prisons. If you remember where they threw Joseph in, it was the well that had no water. If you remember they threw Jeremiah into the well that had no water. I genuinely believe that when a person becomes a believer in Jesus Christ and they no longer host the presence of God, their well that's supposed to be a place of the passion of God becomes a prison of the enemy. Their heart, instead of carrying the glory of Jesus, it becomes a carrier of change, troubles and the problems of life and sometimes even demonic influences. See, God intended your well to be a carrier of water. But if you don't carry water, the enemy has a plan for it to turn it into a prison where he imprisons different things. Even Jesus says in Matthew, he says that my house will be a house of, my well will be a place of water. And then he says, but you have turned it into a den of thieves, meaning it became a prison. It became a hiding place. It became a den for the demons, for the things that steal our passions, steal our desires. God created your heart to be a fireplace. Don't turn it into a trash can. God created your heart to be a place, not only where you live by the memories of yesterday, but by the dreams of tomorrow. If your memories are bigger than your dreams, you have backslidden. You're no longer living by faith. You're no longer walking in the Holy Spirit. You are living by your history, not by your destiny. God wants your heart to be a well where there is a living water flowing. And if you stop that, the enemy has a plan to turn your well into a prison, to turn your life into a spiritual, emotional, mental, financial, and relational prison. But there are people in this room today who are going to tell the devil, no, not today Satan, not with me. You might do it with that person and that person and that person. I ain't becoming a prison to nobody. I already experienced my prison break by the cross of Jesus and I'm not going back to that. I only have one life on this earth and I will live it for Jesus. I will live burning for Jesus. My heart will beat for evangelism. My feet will walk after God. My mouth will declare his praise. My ears will hear his word. My eyes will gaze upon the glory of the Lord. I ain't becoming a prison. I'm a place of passion. Can somebody say amen? Can somebody say I'm a place of passion? I'm a place of fire. I'm a place of living water. That's why I will fast. That's why I will pray. That's why I will give life. I'm not going to become someone's prison. I'm a place of passion. A well without water is a prison. But another thing that I want to point out to you about wells is that in the Bible, wells were places of connection. Most of the men in the Bible found their wives at the wells. If you remember Isaac's wife was found at the well. Isaac didn't do that but his oldest servant of the father went and found the wife by the well. If you remember Moses found his wife at the well. Jacob found his wife at the well. Even Jesus found a woman at the well. Oh somebody. I felt like the Lord has spoken to somebody in this room. So what if we stop being gold diggers and become well diggers? What if man you stop building an empire and start digging a well? I know the Instagram says build an empire, find a queen and live a happy life. That's what Instagram says. What the Word of God says is dig a well and you'll find somebody by that well. See if many of us will chase women less and chase the Lord more, some of you men you will have women chase you. Some of you will find that woman because if you have a well, you will have a woman. My God. I have a feeling that is a single man right there giving a drum. But there are people in this room today that you don't need a woman. Maybe you need a contract. Maybe you're looking for a connection. Maybe you are looking for somebody to open a door for you. I want to encourage you in Matthew chapter 6 verse 33. It says seek first the well of God and everything else you will find right at that well. See and Jesus says before that verse he said that he then seek after these things. But you do it differently. He says I create connections at the well. I create business connections at the well. I create contracts at the well. I open doors at the well. So if you find yourself a right well that has a living water, God says don't be surprised. Not only you'll find water there, you will find some people there that will forever alter your destiny. Don't be chasing promotion. Chase his presence. Promotion will chase you. You are a sheep that follows the shepherd. And the Bible says goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life. That means there's some good things, some things you don't deserve will follow you. See the world follows those things. We as believers we find a well and things follow us. And these signs will follow those who believe. And the signs are not accidents and breakdowns and the back gives out. Those are not the signs. If you find a well, you have signs. Goodness and mercy will follow you. So if you are here today and you are desperate for a relationship. If you are here today and you are an impatient for a spouse. If you are here today and you are desperate for somebody to give you the job that you went to university for. I want to ask you what if you switch the desperation for God's presence like that. And you open your life. You will be surprised how many connections you will find at the right well. Can somebody say amen. What the enemy does is that he knows that we can find connections. He knows we can find a real genuine relationship by cultivating a life full of the Holy Spirit. So what he does, I want you to watch this. And Philistines fill the well with dirt. Now dirt in the farm is soil. Dirt in the well is dirt. If you take soil in the backyard for the flowers, it has nutrients. It's beautiful. It's not dirty. It belongs there. It fuels the plants, the flowers. Take the same soil out of the farm and put it on your dresser. Put it on your coffee table and that soil is no longer soil. It's dirt. The same thing applies to sex. Put it into marriage, it's soil. Take it outside of marriage, it's dirty. That's why we feel guilty. The same thing applies to cares of life and business of life. It has its place, but the moment the enemy takes the life and fills your well with life, it's no longer soil. It's a burden. It becomes a stress trigger. It becomes something that gives you sleepless nights. It becomes something that then you need to go and find a numbing mechanism or a medicating mechanism to deal with. And that's why Jesus says that what the enemy will do is he will take the deceitfulness of riches that cares of this life and he will try to plug the well, not with drugs and alcohol and pornography and gambling, not with that, but with soil of life. The enemy plugs the wells of water. Some of you here today, the reason why you are not burning for the Lord is you're burned out by life. You just, you're just tired. You're just exhausted. Life was so simple when you had nothing going. You hated it. You were envious of everybody who had something going until your life started going. And the mortgage came in. And the phone payment came in. And the internet payment came in. And Netflix raised their price. And then the tires need to be changed. And then the college tuition is due. And then the drama at work. And then the drama with your growth. And now you're not sure if you want one. And now all of this stuff begins to pile up. And the enemy has a trick behind his sleeve, is he will put the soil that's supposed to be in our backyard and he will plug the well. And of course we excuse it and say, you don't understand, Vlad. I have to think about these things. I have to live anxious. I have to live worried. I have to be busy. I can't afford to pray. I can't afford to fast. I can't afford to read the Word. I can't afford to be focused on God. I got to focus on my life. Just remember, the soil that's plugging the well is quenching the water. If you would let your well be unplugged, it will water the soil. The very thing the enemy uses as a distraction from our passion for God is for one reason. So he can keep the soil from being watered. So that our soil doesn't produce fruit. It only produces business. Why? Because we've let that, the earth, the job, the responsibilities for some of us, we're not plugged with soil. We're plugged with junk. We're plugged with liquor. We're plugged with smoking. We're plugged with extramarital affair. We're plugged with pornography. We're plugged with things that we delete the browser history. We're plugged with things we do after 11 o'clock, sneak out of the house. We're plugged with shady stuff. We're plugged with sending news on Snapchat. We're plugged with that kind of stuff because the enemy side, you ain't got life, so he plugs you with sin. But today, you are not here so we can condemn you. You are here so we can unplug you. The Holy Spirit wants to unplug your well. If it's dirt, he wants to unplug that and put the dirt back into the farm so that your water waters your dirt. The Holy Ghost can water your business. The Holy Ghost can water your family. The Holy Spirit can water your career. The Holy Spirit can water your ministry. He can water your children. He can water your health. He can water the very thing you are worried about. He has the capacity to water. And that is why you have to live an unplugged life so that you can live a watered life. So you can live with the favor of God, with the grace of God, and with the anointing of God. Somebody needs to unplug themselves today. Somebody needs to disconnect themselves today. Somebody needs to shake things up today. Somebody needs to tell the devil that time has expired. Smoking has expired. Alcoholism has expired. Adultery has expired. Pornography has expired. Why? Because I gotta be unplugged. I gotta be with flow. Somebody give God some praise right now. If you feel like this is for you, raise your hands right now. Begin to unplug yourself. Come on, raise your hands right now. Just for next 30 seconds. Begin to unplug yourself right now. If there is something else that preoccupies your mind. If there is something else that occupies your spirit. If there is something else that could not let your mind be turned off. Right now is the moment to release the prayer, to release the war cry. Philistines used dirt to plug the wells. The enemy will use life to plug your soul. Some of us, he will use sin to plug our soul. But I wanna encourage you today with point number two. The scripture says in Genesis 26 and verse 18 the following. So when the enemy plugged the well with earth, Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. Isaac dug up the wells again. I believe if you have backslidden, if you remember days that you loved God more than you love him today. If you remember days where you pursued Jesus more than you have pursued him today. If you remember time where you were committed to giving more than you are committed today. If you remember time that the sensitivity to the presence of God was so real and it's more than today and you have backslidden. My friend, you backslider. I don't care if you're not smoking, drinking or getting laid. You are backslidden. But the good news is you have a shovel and we can go digging today. God's gonna dig the dirt out. God's gonna restore you today. God's gonna release his word right now and he's gonna start bringing conviction back and restore you. And tomorrow morning I'm gonna see you at prayer. And then Tuesday night we're gonna see you back at life group. And it's not because you're worse than even these wells needed to be redugged again. It's completely fine if you find yourself right now in the place where you lost it. But don't stay like there. Don't stay like there. The Bible says they dug the wells again. How do you dig a well? I'm so glad you asked. In Revelation chapter 2 verse 5 it says this, For I have this one thing against you, says the Lord. Is that you have lost your water. You lost your water, God says. You still have a form of a well. It's just, it's no longer watering your land. In fact, your land has filled up, plugged your well. And God says, I have a problem. I didn't design you, put my spirit inside of you for you to be a prison. I designed you not just so you can be busy running on the treadmill, sweating like crazy and getting nowhere. I didn't design you. I have no room to move in your life because you plugged my spirit up. And God says, you still have the water underneath and you rejoicing. Well, I have salvation. I have the Holy Spirit. But God says, see, I didn't give you the spirit. So you will just hide him. I gave him so you can release him. And he's not being released into your business. He's not being released into your relationship because he's so plugged over there with the soil, with the compromise and with the sin. You are limiting my spirit by only keeping him to yourself. And he's not being released into your life. And God says, today I want to unplug you. And how do you unplug yourself? Four R's. R number one, remember the good old days. That's what God says. Remember from where you've fallen. Meaning remember how things used to be. Remember when God was your everything. Remember when you had nothing. Remember the day when you were young. Maybe you were a teenager and you grew up in a broken family. And you just encountered God. And nothing else mattered except Jesus. God says, remember that day. You thought your life was horrible because you had nothing for me. But you had me and I rejoiced in the fact that I was all you had. Remember that day. Number two, God says, not only I want you to remember, God says, I want you to go start digging. Repent. Meaning how do you get back to those days? It's very simple. In the day that you met Jesus, you turned your face toward God. And automatically your back was turned toward everything else. You didn't ignore your family? You didn't ignore your business? You didn't ignore your finances, your friends? You didn't ignore them? They just went behind you, not in front of you no more. They had your back. And the weird part about it is that God seemed to bless what was behind you more than when you turned your face toward it. And God says, repent means this. Turn your face back to my face and your back toward everything else. You mean turn my back on school? Turn your back on your family? You already did that a long time ago. No, no, no, Jesus says not to turn your back and that you're ignoring them, you're forsaking your responsibilities. It's that your face is toward the face of Jesus. Your back is toward the ministry. Your face is toward the glory of Jesus. Your back is toward your financial goals. And God says, whatever you turn your back to, I will water. I will water that that you turn your back to. But if you turn your face toward your business, you turn your face toward relationship, if you don't realize it, my friend, you actually turn your back toward my face. Moses has asked, Lord, I want to see your face. I felt this week the Lord say to me, Vlad, I want to see your face. Because it's buried in everything else except my face. It's buried in good things called ministry. It's buried in good things like writing a book, the next travel gig, the next thing, the healing testimonies, all of this stuff. He said, your face is glued to everything. But he said, remember the day where you had nothing to look at except my face. Your back was toward everything else and it seems like blessings started to find you when you were not looking for them. And now your face turned toward those blessings and you might not have realized, but you actually turned your back toward my face. The Lord says to some of you here today, I want to see your face. I see your body here, but I want to see your face. You gave your face to everything else. And my friend, remember, whatever you give your face to, you don't have the power to water it. God can water what you turn your back to in your attempt to give your face to the Lord. Repentance means I turn my face back to the Lord, which means my back will go to everything else. And again, I don't mean that you come to your parents and say, Mom, I'm giving you my back. I'm done with you guys. I'm not saying you come to your spouse and say, hey, just want to let you know you're no longer important to me. I hate you. Because Jesus says, if I love him, I have to hate you. So I hate you. Oh, he's been hating you, by the way. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That is not what the Lord says. The Lord says that we turn our face toward him and we put everything else a second. And most of those things in our life, I find it, will do much better being second than being first. You know what the Lord says after that? He says, remember, repent. And then he says, repeat. Do the same works you did before. Some of you say, man, I lost my passion. But if you remember, you used to fast. Do the first things you did before. But if you remember, you didn't come to church 10 minutes late. You used to come 10 minutes early. Do the first things you did before. If you remember the first time when you got paid, you right away took 10% and you treated it as sacred before God. It was your trust in God. It didn't do it because you had to. You felt the sacred thing of honoring God. Today you tip, not tithe. Do the first works. If you remember, you looked at something and you felt guilty. And now you don't. God says, do the first things you did before. Repeat. It's a very simple formula. If you repeat what you did before, the Lord says the fire will come back. The flame will come back. The water will flow again. My favor will flow again. Can somebody say amen? I remember. I repent. I repeat. And then there's going to be a reward. What is going to be the reward? Jesus says whoever he who overcomes, he said these things will happen. I genuinely believe the favor begins to follow when his face is sought. I am not saying you're going to get rich, but you will be blessed. And it will add no sorrow with it. The favor will follow. Favor is this. It's when you get things you don't work for, you don't deserve, and your education don't qualify you for. Favor, it's when you get things that seems to be a little bit unfair. Favor is when God begins to get involved and God begins to water the world. Other people are trying to cultivate. With you, you have a partner on your side. You gave him your face. He actually makes you a better husband when you focus on being a better follower. He makes you a better father when you focus on being a better disciple of Jesus. He actually makes you a better preacher when you don't focus on preaching but you focus on praying. When you give him your face, he waters what you turned your back on. His favor begins to follow. Somebody say favor. That's your neighbor, and it's ain't fair. Favor. The scripture says that's exactly what started to happen. The water came out, the wells were watered and I'm going to bring this message to an end. And if we can read one more verse and this verse will be verse 22. And he moved from there and dug another well and they did not quarrel over it. And he called his name by the good name that I will not pronounce. Because he said, For now the Lord has made room for us and we shall be fruitful in the land. I want you to see this. Is that Isaac goes in and he digs a well that his father used to have. He redigs that well. And then, you know, God begins to water. They begin to drink. The livestock begins to drink. The farmland is... The father and the mother who are always getting on your case to get your grades up. The moment you start going to church and now they're against you. Why do you betray your religion and you went to that church? You turn your back on Catholicism. You're like, Mom, we were never Catholics. We only professed Catholicism. We never possessed that faith. We all live like heathens. And now that I'm actually possessing my faith everybody is against me. Your friends who liked you when you were like them will hate you the moment you will not be like them. Because some people's security is based on you not getting ahead. Some people's confidence is based on you failing. And the moment you start succeeding their insecurity surfaces and they will reject you. Therese is hated Jesus. Not because he did miracles but because he made them insecure. Even Pilate saw that betraying Jesus was because of envy. Jesus stood up. Jesus had crowds. Jesus's words were obeyed by the wind and the demons. And people followed that. And Pharisees were jealous of that. And they were fighting him. And the only way to stop people fighting you is to stop growing. Which is a high price to pay to satisfy unsatisfiable critics. What do you do when in your pursuit of the well you create a controversy? What do you do if Philistines stop filling your well? But now they filled your life with drama. Now the house that everybody likes you because you were drinking and you were doing all of this stuff and now they oppose you and they call you better than others. You think you're better than us. You're like mom and dad I'm not trying to be better than you. I'm just trying to be better than me. Is that a crime? They will think it is. It's like a football game. Nobody's tackling you until you get the ball. And the only way they'll stop tackling is if you lose the ball. I'll rather have the ball and have the world attack and have the other team on my side the team Jesus the team the angels of God the team of the spirit of God and score a touchdown with my life that tried to reduce my life to prove my ex wrong prove my parents wrong prove the people who hate me wrong prove my abusers wrong I'm not living to prove anything to no one I'm living to please only one person whose name is Jesus Christ I'm living my life to finish the race score a touchdown and make sure he is pleased can somebody say amen. In the conclusion I want you to be standing for a second I want you to feel taking notes take this down when you are rejected by those close to you when you are rejected by unreasonable people don't build walls of offense build wells of water you're not Trump leave the walls alone I want you to see that Isaac did not build a wall between him and Abimelech when he got rejected he realized I'm gonna go dig me a well never build a wall between people who rejected you why? because if you dig a well they'll get thirsty and they'll need your water to drink one day the Bible says Abimelech came back and apologized some people that have rejected you don't burn the bridge because they'll need a way to come back the Bible says they will weep looking at him whom they wounded speaks of Jesus that's why when Jesus was being rejected and across he didn't build a wall he says forgive them father for they not know what they do he was building a well of salvation that even the Pharisees even the Sadducees even the haters will be able to come back and weep looking at him whom they wounded some of your people who rejected you will come back 10, 15, 20 years down the road and they will say please forgive me for what I did I did it because I was insecure I did it because my whole life was falling apart I did it because I was demonized I did it please forgive me can I drink from your well I am running thirsty Isaac dug a well he didn't build a wall but number two I want you to see is when herdsmen picked up a fight not Abimelech and they contended for this well and they said this is our well we build it Isaac says no you didn't I build this watch this Isaac doesn't take them to court he gives them the well and goes and digs another one and these people go to the next time and says no that's our well too and Isaac doesn't hire a hitman Isaac gives them their well too most of the family arguments could be settled if we do three things lay down our rights pick up our responsibilities and safeguard the interests of someone else the covenants says this I lay down my right I protect your safe your interests and I pick up my responsibility but a world of contract if you have a contract with AT&T Verizon if you have a contract with your mortgage company this is what three things that every contract does it protects your rights it safeguards your interests and it limits your responsibilities and Isaac said this I'm not coming into this well thing with the contract mentality I'm a covenant man I'm a man of a covenant that means that I will protect not my rights I will lay my rights down you want to have that well I know it's mine you can have it but that's not fair people of fair favor don't fight for fairness if you're walking in favor fighting for fairness is below you the only people who fight for fairness who've never tasted God's favor the only guy who will choke somebody who holds him a thousand is somebody who had an amnesia and for God you've been forgiven of trillions that's why Jesus looked at people who were stoning the woman and he says you have an amnesia did you forget how much I forgave you pick up a mirror and drop a stone it's okay that you've been treated unfairly you've also been treated with favor by Almighty God my friend lay down your rights if your wife says she is right it's because she is if your husband says he is right did you forget who you married his first name is right his last name is always that means you lay down your rights you pick up your responsibility meaning you're dirty clothes from the floor you pick up that vacuumer you pick up those dirty dishes and you safeguard the person's interest and guess what you do you build another well drop this you build another well and you become a peacemaker you become a covenant person and something happens I want to read a word to every person who will live like a covenant this is what God says and from now the Lord has made room for us and we shall be fruitful in the land all the quarreling that you do in the house you do in your company all the drama that follows you you're just a little person who has an amnesia of how much good God has been to you don't fight with the herdsmen of your land let it go move on but they did this they owe me excuse me you owe to burning hell if everybody's gonna owe each other we're all gonna be buried six feet under nobody owes you anything the Bible says the only thing you and I owe is to love people we owe to love people I know I'm speaking to people who've been wounded I'm speaking to people who've been hurt I'm speaking to people who've been rejected I'm speaking to people in this room you've been taken advantage of and somewhere you look at your life and you say I'm gonna prove them right they don't even see you they don't even care holding on and building on forgiveness is setting yourself on fire hoping they will burn from it drinking rat poison hoping a rat will die from it it's only destroying you be like Isaac he build a well they fought over it he says you know what it's my well but you can have it I'm a covenant man I lay down my rights I pick up my responsibilities and I will safeguard your interest I know you don't like me I know you got issues I know you need inner healing and deliverance and you need a therapy but you know what that is your problem I will not let your problem make me my problem builds another well and they come and they fight him over it and instead of fighting them and winning them he could have won but see you have to understand you can always win a fight with the skunk you just have to ask yourself a question is the smell worth the fight don't look at your spouse right now this is not a good moment to squeeze their hands guys you're gonna be sleeping on the couch you can always win the fight with the skunk you just have to ask yourself a question is it worth the smell and that's why Isaac said I'm not gonna fight you why I'm digging wells not proving a point I don't have I only have one life and I'm not gonna waste it proving something wrong I'm gonna live my life fulfilling God's call pleasing him and digging wells I'm gonna burn for Jesus you hate me you can do one of the reasons why people will hate you is because their own well is dry as well burn for the Lord build a well let him consume you let his presence be your passion precious Holy Spirit I thank you for your presence in this room precious Jesus I thank you that nothing is impossible to you I ask you right now for every single person who's well been plugged cares of life deceitfulness of riches chasing the next big thing who have abandoned their devotions who have abandoned their discipleship who have abandoned their Christian disciplines who have abandoned prayer abandoned fasting abandoned giving who have abandoned even getting together in church going to a life group who have abandoned loving their family who have abandoned being there for their children who have abandoned the moral the morality even of at their work and they became shady, cunning and cutting corners and they don't even feel numb about it no more they just they just desensitize God I just ask you for that person today that you will unplug them right now through repentance I ask you for those who are burning but they are so tired of the drama in their life and they are just busy right now trying to prove everybody wrong they are busy trying to prove their ex wrong they are busy trying to prove a teacher and a coach a parent or a pastor or somebody wrong that they could make it because of somebody who didn't believe in them I ask you dear Holy Spirit right now that you will quicken and baptize them in a covenant and deliver them from a contract mentality and Jesus Thank you for watching this content I hope this was a blessing to you if you are like me and you like to click on things click on this subscribe to our channel and the content will come to you every time we post it and remember the best is 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