Redig The Wells | Bro. Alex Mason

Hallelujah, someone say Hallelujah.

Praise the Lord all my life. Praise Hallelujah.

Amen. Whether Alex is going to be

ministering here for us tonight. The only additional thing I want

to make mention to you, we got hands that were up for fasting

this week leading up to prison. Also on the guest table there is

a sign up sheet for praying while people from the church are

in prison. So we basically have three

sessions, one on Friday, 2:00 on Saturday.

There'll be two preachers each session.

So we're going to have six services basically.

And so there is the hours that will actually be in service and

doing these things. They're back there on the list.

I got it broken up in 30 minute increments of prayer.

If you're like, well, I'd like to take an hour wherever you

sign your name. All right, well, you can take as

much as you want, but we'd love to have that time that we're

actually engaged in service to be covered in prayer.

A man in a by faith, we'll come back to be able to report what

the Lord has done, Amen, With those services, Amen.

So just be mindful of that this evening, Amen.

Brother Alex is here, Amen. I'm sorry that he just, he just,

he had to go get the shovel. You know, I don't know when I'm

not going to ask if there's tarps and cylinder blocks

involved, but then maybe there's hopefully there's not a crime

scene on the ground by now, Amen.

But we're thankful to have him. We we had a good representation

this weekend that went up to be a part of sister Michelle

Thornburg's funeral and brother Alex and Sister Grace with some

of them. And I know something like that

can just make a weekend that much tighter.

I mean, a 3 1/2 hour drive round tip.

I mean, we were gone for 11 hours on Saturday and so but

then to come here and minister and then with your regular life

and all your obligations and music and singing, the better

the the list can just get very long, Amen.

So let's, let's lend the ear and lend hearts tonight to what the

Spirit would say to us this evening, shall we?

Amen. Can we magnify God one more

time? Amen.

His brother Alex will come here this evening.

Father, we adore you, God, we acknowledge you, Lord Jesus, in

this place and we're thankful, Lord, for your mercy and your

goodnesses. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Oh, Lord, you're good.

Oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Hallelujah. Oh, he's good.

Oh, Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Jesus.

Amen. Amen.

Thank you Jesus. Thankful to be in the House of

the Lord tonight. Amen.

It is good. It is good.

I am. I'm grateful for, for all of you

church family love and appreciate you love and

appreciate my pastor and pastor's wife and their impact

and love and support on my wife and I, as well as our Bishop and

his wife, my grandparents. They are, they are pillars.

They are pillars of this church and I am so grateful, so

grateful to have them in my life and so grateful that they are

here. And my, my parents, they have

have been so supportive and loving and, and beneficial and

helpful and, and training and all these different things

throughout the years. I'm so grateful and I'm, I'm,

I'm so grateful for my wife, so grateful for my wife.

This pastor says when you go, when you go to these places, it

was spoken this morning. You, you go, you, you sit and

you ponder on a life, and a life that, as flesh would seem, would

take in too soon. A wife, a mother, a daughter.

And I sit there in entering into a new season of life, perplexed

even more so than I would have been imagining.

The emotions, turmoil, the trials that await.

And I think to myself during that time, and I I cry and you,

as if you know me. It's not because I don't care,

but I don't cry often. I don't know why I've tried, but

I sit there and I cry because I don't know what I'd do without

her. We need to take every precious

moment that we have with those that we love because we don't

know what tomorrow holds. We don't know what tomorrow

holds. So I'm thankful for her and I'm

very, very, very excited. This week.

We should find out the gender of the baby.

And so we're ecstatic about that.

Yes. Say man, very excited about

that. So very grateful.

Thank you for your love and support.

If you could stand and turn to Genesis 26 and 18.

Genesis. Yeah, I got a little bit ahead

of of Pastor, but we're in. He'll, he'll catch up.

He'll catch up. I'm just kind of skipping around

here. Very simple verse here.

Genesis 26 and 18, it says. And Isaac digged again the wells

of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham, his

father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of

Abraham. And he called their names after

the names by which his father had called them for a little

while. Tonight it, it may be overly

simple, I'm not sure. And brother Reese, just so you

know, I'm not getting it dirty. I, I, I rinsed it in the back,

made sure that the edge is clean.

But tonight I want to speak on re dig the wells.

Re dig the wells. If you set your Bibles down,

raise your hands. Help me pray.

Father, I ask you just to move in this place.

Lord, let your will be done. Lord, have your way.

God. Lord, touch your servant.

Lord, speak what needs to be spoken tonight.

Your will. Lord, all the vines as a

planting ground for your word. Lord, we will return.

Lord praise and glory unto you in Jesus mighty name that we

pray Hallelujah and everyone said in Jesus name, Jesus name

you may be seated tonight re dig the wells.

Good job, Trevor, see it was fine re dig the wells.

We come upon this passage of Scripture, this one verse here

and we have Isaac, Abraham's son.

This is after his father had passed the the Philistines and

stopped up these wells over over the course of Abraham's life

that he had dug. And he called their names after

the names by which his father had called them before.

Before we get to celebrate these re diggings, if you will, of

those wells, we we have to understand what those wells

really were. They were physical sources of

water and I'm sure in the desert they said Amen.

But they were also spiritual markers of promise to Abraham.

These wells were monuments of faith.

They were. They were dug during moments of

obedience, trust, and covenant with God.

Every. Well Abraham Doug wasn't just

about hydration. It was about inheritance of the

Kingdom of God. It was a declaration that here

in this dry land God will provide.

These wells were life lines in a wilderness.

They were, they sustained families and herds and and the

promise itself of the promised people.

But something tragic happened after Abraham had passed away

and the Philistines came and they stopped the wells.

They covered them with dirt. They buried, they buried the

blessing, if you will. Why on earth would you cover up

a perfectly good well, you're in the desert.

Why on earth would you cover up a perfectly good source of

water? But it was an attack.

It wasn't an attack on infrastructure.

It wasn't an attack on on the water.

It was an attack on legacy, on memory, identity.

The very sign, one of the very physical signs that Abraham had

walked with God that people could point to and say this,

this well was dug by Abraham in this moment in time when he was

do having covenant with God. And he prayed and he's, he's

dwelling, dwelling in the place of promise.

And he digs a well for covenant. And Isaac is walking through

this same land that it was promised to him and promised to

his father. And he's dwelling in the place

of promise. And he looks around and

something is missing. The wells have been buried.

There's land aplenty. There's there is promise

aplenty, but there is no water, there is no flow.

There is no evidence of his father's faith physically to the

eye. And so Isaac is faced with this

choice. Does he settle for land that

looks like promise but lacks power?

Or does he do the hard work of going back and recovering and

restoring and reconnecting what was lost?

We we are not so different today.

Our generation today walks on in the shadows if you will, and on

the shoulders of giants. We benefit from battles that we

did not have to fight. We enjoy truths that we did not

have to uncover. The question remains is that

what have we done with the wells?

Have we guarded them? Have we maintained them, or have

we let them be covered by the debris, by the dirt of life?

This isn't just about Isaac's story.

It's about our story and reflection.

And before we go any further, we have to think, are there things?

Are there habits? Are there disciplines and

convictions and and commitments that worked once we're alive but

have been buried? Before Isaac ever picked up a

shovel before, Before Abraham, he had already dug the wells.

Abraham had already dug the wells.

Isaac didn't even pick up a shovel yet, and he knew the

wells had been dug at some point.

These weren't just practical water sources.

They were covenant. And in Genesis 2125, it says,

and Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water,

which Abimelech servants had violently taken away.

And Abimelech said, I would not who have done this thing.

Neither didst thou tell me neither yet I heard of it.

But today we read about Abraham confronting Abimelech over a

well. We're confronting over water.

No, we're not confronting truly over water.

Abraham was was staking claim of territory by putting a well

here. He wasn't taking claim of

territory by swords. He was taking claim territory by

Wells. It continues on in chapter 21,

verse 30. And it says, And he said, for

the seven all lambs shalt thou make of my hand, that they may

be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

Wherefore he called that place Beersheba, because they're

there. They swear, both of them.

Abraham seals this covenant with Abimelech over a well that he

had dug. He he named it Beersheba, which

means well of the oath. This was more than just a water

dispute, it was a spiritual moment.

Abraham dug, he defended and he named the well to establish

peace and testimony of God. And immediately after that it

goes on and Abraham plants a Grove in Beersheba and he calls

upon the name of the Lord, and he worships at the place of the

well. See this, this was not just a

place where they went to just go drink of water.

This was a place where he got to partake of the living water.

He got to partake of relationship with God at the

well. He he worshipped at the place of

the well and for all the wells, it says in Genesis 2615.

It says for all the wells which his father's servants had digged

in the days of Abraham, his father, the Philistines had

stopped them and filled them with the earth.

He they filled them. They were afraid.

Not afraid of water. They were afraid of the meaning

behind those wells. They felt threatened.

They felt threatened enough that that Isaac didn't have to dig,

dig new ones. It was just the fact that they

were trying to cover it up because they were afraid of what

these wells meant. Isaac wasn't starting from

scratch. He had a legacy to go and re re

bring to the surface if you will.

He was standing on a legacy. He just had to find the wells.

The first thing recognizing is just because the well has been

stopped up doesn't mean the water dried up.

The Philistines didn't destroy the underground source, they

were just trying to cover up and make it look like it hadn't been

there to begin with. The flow beneath the surface was

still active. It was still present, but it was

waiting to be accessed. It was waiting and, and you may

feel spiritually dry, you may feel at once the flow was in

your life. But I'm here to remind you, the

water is still there. The question is, are we going to

draw from it? It's waiting to be drawn, but

are we going to draw from it? God has not stopped moving.

His spirit has not stopped flowing.

His presence has not been gone. It may just be buried.

It's been covered up by life, by distraction, by pain, by

disappointment. And we, we try to say that God

isn't moving, but maybe we just aren't drawing from the well.

Sometimes it's not even sin that buries our wells.

Sometimes it's just a, a slow accumulation of neglect.

That would, if, if Abraham just stopped going to those wells,

then over time, there would be dust, there would be rain, there

would be things that would ruin the well probably.

But he went back to those wells, I guarantee you.

And he, he maintained them and he prayed at them again and he

drove drew from them. It was he was not lazy in his

action of the wells. He was, he did not compromise in

his action of digging the wells and having the wells.

He did not lack in prayer or worship at the wells.

He he was focusing on the flow and maintaining it.

The good news we have is we can dig again.

We don't need a new source. You don't need a new source.

You need to clear debris, get the dirt out of the way.

The flow will return if you can get the dirt out of the way.

Isaac didn't go out. He didn't go out looking for new

water source. He knew where he needed to dig.

See, that's the thing. Sometimes we know where we need

to dig, but we don't want to. Oh, that Cree, I don't have time

for that. I got all this.

I do all these extracurriculars and all these extra things and I

don't know if I can make room for such an I don't know if I

can make room for prayer in my life.

Pastor, you don't know how busy I am.

I love it when people people tell me you don't know how busy

I am. I'm like, would you like me to

give you a list of what I have in my head and wrote down and

all the different calendars and all the different announcements

and all of the 25,000 reminder alarms that my wife goes off and

I have to go over and snooze? I'm like, OK, it says this.

And she's like, oh, just snooze and I'll get to it.

I'm like, all right, OK. It kind of defeats the purpose

of a reminder, but OK, I could say that because I have the mic,

I'll get, I'll get hit later, but that's fine.

In a world that is constantly chasing the next new thing, the

new methods, the new ideas, the new revelations, Isaac is

teaching us here in this verse, the power of going back to what

works. The wells of our fathers still

hold water. The wells of the apostles still

hold water. The old paths are still a good

way are still the good way. The principles and truths that

brought revival in the past and generations, they can bring

revival today. We don't need to reinvent the

wheel and find another water source.

We need to go back and re dig where our forefathers were once

before. Some of us have been tempted to

walk away from that foundation. Replace deep truths with some

shallow inspiration, if you will.

The answer is not is not to move on.

The answer is to return. Returning to the place where God

had met you before. Returning to the place where

you've heard that others had met God before.

You don't need an Apostolic pedigree in order to re dig a

well. In this instant it just so

happens that Isaac was Abraham's, Abraham's son.

But it didn't have to be that way.

It could have been someone down the line that hadn't been hadn't

known Abraham and was so far removed from Abraham.

And if if Isaac hadn't re dug the wells, they could have re

dug those wells. It wasn't about pedigree.

It was about returning to what? Where it was, returning to the

well, returning to the altar, returning to the word.

And then another interesting thing is, is that Isaac didn't

rename the wells. He called them by the names his

father had given them. Jude 1/3 in that segment of

Scripture says earnestly contend for the faith which was once

delivered into the Saints. Why does that matter?

Because names carry weight. We saw it already in our

reading. Beersheba had a meaning well of

the oath and and for for there to be meaning.

It represents identity, it represents purpose, it

represents legacy. When Isaac called those wells by

the same name, he's saying, I still believe what my father

stood for. I still believe what God did

back then and I believe that it will still happen now.

We live in a time where where people are trying to rename

everything. Holiness is now called what

legalism. Conviction is now called

judgment. Truth is now an opinion.

That that's that's I'm going to quote Pastor Nate Whitley for a

second. That's not my truth, OK?

That's not my truth. All right?

You have your truth and that's my truth.

It is an opinion. But if it was holy back then,

it's holy today. If it was truth back then, it is

truth now. We don't need to rename things

around here. We need to stand upon the Word

of God and say this is the truth.

This is holiness, this is conviction.

Do not let the world compromise. Compromise and convince you to

rename what God has already established.

Call it what it is and let the flow return.

So when, when Isaac re digged those wells, see he took, he

took his shovel and and he took probably some people and he's

going out. And I have to believe for many

of them, Isaac was present when Abraham was digging some wells.

So he probably already knew. And that's, that's another thing

we we need, we need a generation of people.

We need a generation that the older generation to show the

next generation where the wells are at.

We need a mentorship generation between.

There needs to be a link between, between Kingdom

generations that says this is where this well is at.

Don't ever lose sight of this well when I'm gone.

You need to maintain this well. Maintain it now with me, but you

need to maintain this well. I'm going to show you how to

pray. I'm going to show you how to

fast. I'm going to show you how to

read your Bible. We're going to dig and maintain

this well together and we are going to walk side by side.

So when I'm gone, guess what? You can grab the next generation

and you can show them where the wells are at.

So Isaac already knew. He already knew where to go.

He knew where the wells were at. So he's just going back and he

said, come on boys, we're going to go find my father's wells.

We're going to go find them. These are places of consecration

that yes, there's water and we'll drink from that, but these

are places of consecration. We're going to take this and we

are going to re dig and reclaim, reclaim what has been taken from

us, retake the wells, re dig the wells.

And so he goes, not only did the water return, the water was

still there, it was still flowing, but the dry ground

became fruitful. The land came back to life.

Because when the well flows, everything around it changes.

When you start to have some flow going on, you start to have some

water going, you start to realize there's there's stuff

going on. It doesn't just impact you, you

digging, you re digging some wells and getting back to some

consecration in your life doesn't just affect you.

The herdsmen of Guerra began to argue.

During this time, after the water returned, there was

resistance. Of course, of course there was

resistance. Anytime you start digging, enemy

will push back. Anytime you begin to pursue God

again, there will be a fight. But Isaac did not stop.

He did not stop. He just kept digging.

They're the naysayers are over there and they are arguing and

he's just, he may have just sit there and said, boys, you know

what, just don't even look up. Don't even look up.

Just keep digging. Don't let it bother you.

Just keep digging. We need to have a mentality like

that nowadays because there's so many naysayers.

There's so many things that come to try to distract us and get in

our minds and our heads. And what if this and what if

that. We just need to keep our head

down and focus on the well, We need to keep our head down and

focus on the word, focus on prayer.

We need need to focus on him instead of trying to let the

outward, the external try to try to tell us something different.

They don't know anything about this.

Well, you do. And eventually he reached the

place called Riboth, which means room.

Even said in Genesis 2622, it says now the Lord has made room

for us and we will be fruitful in the land.

What does that mean? Well, that means when you dig by

faith, God will make room. He fights our battles.

When you, when you start to dig and you do it by faith and you

just, you just keep on keeping on, He will make room.

I don't know what that looks like for you, but I can, I can

think he'll make room in your schedule.

We always complain, oh, I'm so busy, I can't do the blah, blah.

He'll make room for your schedule.

He'll make room. He'll make room and things that

you think are insignificant to him.

He will make room for you to have opportunities to witness

the people and bring people alongside the well and say this

is this is what I draw from. It's not me.

This is what I draw from. That's what happens when you

keep digging you, you pat you. When you press past opposition

and you push through the conflict and the things that go

on around. God brings you to a place of

fruitfulness, a place of overflow and of peace.

Others will drink from what you dig.

Your obedience does not just bless you, It blesses your

family. It blesses your church.

It blesses your community. Your breakthrough could become

someone else's lifeline that they can hold on to.

So keep digging. When we get started, don't stop,

so many people don't I, I always think of those that, that you,

you, you see like the, the cliparts or anything like that

is someone talking about how, how don't stop until you reach,

reach gold or reach diamond or whatever it is.

And, and, and they keep digging, digging, digging, digging.

And then you see the the artist shows that it was just probably

a couple more hits, couple more feet and they would have been

there. I think of that and I think

people get so close, so close to the truth or so close to, to a

walk with God that is going to be memorable for them and is

going to get them to God and he's going to sustain them.

And then something happens and they miss the mark and they they

lose it. And then there's just those that

forsake it. Jeremiah 213 says they have

forsaken me in the fountain of living waters.

Sadly not, not everyone chooses to dig again.

Scripture gives us examples of who's those who who let their

wells, so to speak, be buried. They they may have buried them

themselves, never recovered them.

Maybe they were embarrassed by it and they decided to walk away

recover it up. I I don't know that church or we

may be like Peter deny. I don't know, Jesus, Samson was

called, he was anointed, he was powerful, but he allowed

compromise to clog his his calling.

And one day he woke up and he didn't even realize that the

Spirit had departed from him. And he had to beg God one more

time. Just one more time, Spirit come

upon me. And he had to be led to pillars

because he could not see when we go through times in our lives

and we we miss the mark and and even to the same sense of

compromise, we have been blinded.

Do not allow yourself to be blinded and not realize that

that the spirit in this in this sense that that that you have

been departed from because you have not been a welcome place to

Jesus. The Israelites in the

wilderness, they saw they saw miracles as we know, but but

they allowed they allowed constant murmuring and rebellion

to stop up there's flow. They they limited God and they

died in a dry place. Saul.

Saul was anointed king, but his pride and his partial obedience

caused the Spirit of the Lord to depart from him.

And he kept the title, but he lost the presence.

And the Church of Lady of Seus said, we are rich and we have

need of nothing. But Jesus was on the outside

knocking. They were dry and they didn't

even know it. They had need of nothing.

These are warnings to us that it's possible to look like

you're in the land of promise and still have no water.

Do not let your well stay buried.

I thank God for those who have dug again when we go back and we

look at that in that context, Moses, he stood on the mountain

and he said show me your glory. He wasn't even satisfied with

the the days before encounter. He wanted another encounter,

another memorable encounter. David, he brought back the ark.

He restored worship to the land of God.

He made room for God's presence to dwell once again in Israel.

Hezekiah opened the temple doors and cleanse the sanctuary.

He restored what had been lost, the early church.

They waited in the upper room, hungry for the promise and the

Day of Pentecost game in the well burst open.

Those are the ones that said I will not settle for dry places.

I will not settle. We will dig until the water

flows. Doesn't matter how long it is.

We will dig until the water flows.

And I have to think again, Isaac knew where the wells were.

It wasn't a he was in well. Maybe it's there or maybe it

maybe it's right. Man, that place looks familiar.

No, I believe Isaac knew exactly the spot of where to go.

And that is the thing. If we have confusion, we have

question of where to dig in our lives, where to consecrate in

our lives. If you need to ask some

questions, ask some questions, but we'll show you where to dig,

we'll show you where to consecrate, we'll show you the

direction. This is where you go, this is

what you do. We've seen what can happen when

wells are stopped and what's possible when they are re

digged. But but not even enough to be

inspired by Isaac, Moses or David.

What about us? What wells have gone dry today

in your life, in your home, in the church as a whole, in this

generation? There's a specific wells that

God is calling us to dig again and, and some of them used to

flow freely in your life. Some of them used to throw

freely in the church and we have seen a lacking of it.

They have gone quiet. They haven't stopped up, but

people may not be digging from it as much as it used to.

If you can indulge me for a moment.

I I since these wells that Abraham dug were a part of

covenant with God and and they were more than just a water

source. I have some thoughts in in in

Hebrew terms of what what he could have named them because

names have meaning. It's possible that Isaac went to

the well of tefillah, which means prayer, intercession,

petition, implying engagement and relationship with God.

Re digging the well of prayer is not about just the routine or

bedtime prayers and it's talking about meaningful spirit LED

passionate prayer. The kind that presses into God

until something breaks in the spirit.

Something that says I will not leave me like Jacob said, until

you bless me. Not letting that happen until

something breaks. The kind that shifts

atmospheres, remembering what it's like to pray until the room

change. But has prayer become dry?

I imagine maybe, maybe Isaac went to a well of Kodesh, or

holiness, sacredness, purity, set apart for God's use, often

used to describe things, people, places consecrated unto the

Lord. I'm not talking just about

outward appearance, I mean a heart.

A heart that is full of surrender.

A life that says Lord, I want to be clean.

I want to be set apart for you, set apart and covenant for you.

Holiness isn't about checking boxes, it's about carrying His

presence. If we let that well get buried

under compromise or culture, it's time to dig it back up.

I imagine Maybe maybe Isaac and he went and dug a well of lacaya

or or doctrine, meaning instruction, teaching, not just

education but divine guidance with moral authority.

The Acts 238 plan of salvation is not just tradition.

The Word of God is not just tradition.

When someone asks me what what we believe, I I always say I

believe this through and through.

I'm not picking apart anything. We are taking it at its word.

We let, like Pastor says Scripture, interpret Scripture.

It is not just the heritage, it's not just oh, that's a nice

religion for you. It is truth, it is gospel, it is

19 it one God. It is one name, Jesus name

baptism and filling of the Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking

in other tongues. Those are not optional beliefs.

They are the bedrock of belief. They if that has gone quiet in

our teaching, our preaching, our daily lives, then we need to re

dig the well. I think maybe Isaac went and he

he re dug Shaka or or worship. Bow down, submit and reverence

physical posture of surrender. Some people don't like worship.

They don't like the idea of, of, of bowing down or putting going

on their knees or raising their hand because it's uncomfortable.

The reasons it's uncomfortable is because it is surrender.

It is, it is physical surrender who, unless you're at a ball

game and everyone's doing it, who just goes out and about and

just whoo, you'd probably look at them be like, what are they

doing? It is about it is about

surrender. We don't like that because it

takes getting over self, it takes getting over our pride for

full worship to take place. Some of us used to worship till

the tears flow, until chains broke, until the atmosphere

shifted. But maybe it's lacking again.

Is it time to re dig the well? Maybe he went to the the well of

of of tism or fasting, abstaining, abstaining from food

or abstaining from things that are a sacrifice to use spiritual

act of consecration. Maybe maybe he went to that well

that that that we don't hear about that well much anymore

because people don't like the idea of of sacrifice.

You, you talk about fasting, you talk about tithing, people

getting it is sacrifice. Anything that includes us not

getting what we want because we are flesh.

We don't like that, but the whole purpose of it is to kill

the flesh and it invites the spirit to move.

If we neglect that, well then we avoid, we avoid it because

again, it's uncomfortable. If you start seeing there's a

pattern here with some of these wells, maybe maybe he came

across a well of Shin. I feel like there is a big, big

push against this in the spirit world, spirit of the day.

And that is identity lacking identity lacking that that we

have, we have we or we're so confused and we, we don't know

who we are or who you are and we don't know what is true and what

is not true. And the culture is loud and, and

what, what but we have we're confused about.

No, I'm not confused. I am Apostolic, I am not

confused. I am called I.

I am trying to be holy. I'm trying to be consecrated.

I'm trying to live as a chosen church, ready, ready for him to

come as a bride, being filled with the Spirit and walking in

power. Do not let the enemy cover up

your identity. These wells were never meant to

run dry, ladies and gentlemen. They were never meant to be

stopped up and forgotten or ignored.

I believe now is the time to dig.

I promise you, the water's still there, the flow's still moving,

but someone has to breakthrough the surface.

The question is, is will you re dig the wells?

Will you re dig the wells? And I think about it, we've,

we've heard stories, right? We, we go back to the Azusa St.

revival and, and, and we even go back and just look at the upper

room and just all the great things in that, that happened

with the apostles and, and during the book of Acts church.

And Oh my goodness, that is fantastic.

But those are stories and those are, those are reminiscent of

things that have happened. But what is happening today?

What is what is our story? We've seen stories, we've seen

examples. We felt the conviction.

But the question is, is what are we going to do about it?

Hosea 10/12 says break up your fallow ground for it is time to

seek the Lord. Isaiah 44 three says I will pour

out water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry

ground. You see see here with with the

church we have been having in this past month.

I believe that there, Bishop, I believe there's been some people

that have been re digging some wells.

This hasn't happened on accident.

God just didn't didn't oopsie and be like, oh, I guess they're

going to have some better church now.

Oops, I spilled something. No, this was not an accident.

I believe there's been some people that have gone back to

heard about some wells from some people around here, heard about

some revival that has happened around here.

And they're like, I want that. I want some of that.

How do I get that? And they go back to some wells

maybe that have been neglected or maybe just maybe there's been

some people around them that have been showing them, this is

the well that I draw from. This is the well.

This is what we, we, the prayer room back here.

Oh my goodness, the prayer room. Come on, keep it up.

Keep it up. Whether you realize it or not,

that starts service. That starts service.

People have been re digging some wells.

I've been seeing people standing out and and getting out of their

comfort zone again, comfort standing, getting out of their

comfort zone. And and what they're doing

really is they're taking their shovel and they're stepping out

and they're saying, I've been told that this is one of the

wells. And so I'm going to I'm going to

put my shovel here. I'm going to draw from the the

well or maybe there's been something that's been been

lacking and they decide, you know what, I've heard about it.

It's been preached, Bishop. Maybe it's talked about it.

Pastors maybe talked about it to me.

You know what? I'm going to find that well.

I'm going to find that well. They told me where it's at.

I'm going to re dig it and we're going to start seeing something

around here. We're going to start seeing

something around here. We're going to re dig some

wells. And when that happens, God is

going to be welcomed. He's going to say there's

something going on and I want to be a part of it.

I'm going to be I'm going to be I'm going to be in this presence

right here. I'm going to be alone.

I'm going to be with these people redigging those wells.

Something starts starts to change again.

I don't know who's been redigging the wells, but guess

what? It's impacted all of us.

Hey, when people are drawing from the wells, we are all

partaking and you know what that means?

I think that means that if you're, if you haven't been re

digging some wells, then I think if you've been able to partake

of what's been going on, you should start digging yourself.

You should start drawing yourself.

Say that's that tastes good. Well, imagine what it tastes

like every day. Imagine what it's like for

consecration and to God. You can't re dig a well in

theory. You can't uncover the water,

uncover the water by talking about it.

At some point you have to pick up the shovel and you decide,

Lord I want more than what I've been living with.

I've I refuse to stay dry when I know, I know.

I've been told there is a well and there is a river that I can

draw from. All the music can come.

Don't live another day. I don't want to live another day

in a place where there is no water when I know where to dig.

Do not live in a dry place when you know where to dig.

Could you stand with me tonight? I don't know what your

circumstance is. I don't know what you need to to

re dig in your life for consecration to God.

But what I do know is if your player life has been dried up,

re dig, re dig, couple up with someone that you know draws from

the well and maybe get a little bit of some of that and get a

little bit of some of that. If your worship has lost its

weight and lost its meaning, you need to re dig.

Maybe maybe it's because you got uncomfortable at some point.

And, and I feel like and with the worship that we've been

having in the services we've been having, you shouldn't have

to feel uncomfortable by this point.

There have been things that have been happening that that have

been different and uncomfortable, But guess what?

They've been great, and you shouldn't have to feel

uncomfortable about that. Maybe your passion has been

buried under disappointment and distraction.

Well, maybe you need to undistract yourself, dig

yourself from the surface of of the dirt.

Maybe there's something that is there that does not need to be

there. But today you can dig again.

You do not need a new well. You just need to remove the

dirt. You just need to clear out the

compromise, clear out the laziness, clear out the fear and

the pain, you might say, and you might feel, I don't feel

anything any more than you need to dig.

You need to find that well and find find that water again.

You might say it's been too long.

Well, I tell I'm here to tell you, it doesn't matter how long

you can come back and you can re dig that well.

You can draw from that well once again and you might say I don't

know how well. Then you need to find somebody,

find someone to help you mentor you to, to dig those wells for

yourself. I wonder if we could come to

these altars are open the night when when you do, when you dig,

the water will rise, the spirit will flow, the dry places will

become rivers again. There will be fruitful ground.

But coming to alter and saying I want the well back, God break up

this dry ground. Help me, Help me, God to restore

the flow that once was. Let your presence run through my

life again. Oh God, this is your will.

I'm going to draw from it. I'm going to I'm going to give

myself to you. I'm going to consecrate myself

once again to you. Oh, this is your God.

This is your moment. This is this is your altar.

This is this is your, well, God. I'm just picking up a shovel and

I'm, I'm redigging something that that I haven't been, I

haven't been to in a while. I've been away for some time

and, and I, I, I've, I've maybe sat on the Pew many years and

and not necessarily been consecrated with the wells, but

God, I, I've returned here today.

I've returned here to, to come back to covenant consecration.

Lord that I would re dig and this in my life but I would find

this in my life and and it would be good and you would see it as

good.