"Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them." (Gen 26:18)
Isaac redug his father's old wells. He tapped into past provisions to meet current needs. His aim was to reclaim wells that once supplied water, and thus life that had since been clogged by the enemy. These were literal wells but there is a spiritual truth we can glean from this.
The move of God is progressive. With every generation God advances in His plans and does new things. But to walk in the fulness of the spiritual truths and refreshing from the wells of God, in addition to what we are learning now, we have to look into the past and dig out clogged wells of spiritual truths that the past generation walked in. We are not to let go of the spiritual truths revealed to past generations.
There is nothing God has done before in the dispensation of the church that He intends to stop doing. If they are not being done, it is because the wells have been clogged by the enemy. We read of great things in the Book of Acts about the works of God in the infancy of the church. We read of the Holy Spirit falling upon people in places after places beginning from the day of Pentecost. We read of great signs, wonders and healings being performed by the early Christians. We read of cities and nations been turned upside down by these fervent believers who are our predecessors in the faith. We read of their commitment to the cause of the kingdom even to the point of not loving their own lives to death. We read of massive conversions and vibrant church communities.We also hear and read of great revivals and awakening in times past. We read of great men of faith that God used to bring life into the church, multitude to the faith and establish great movements for God's glory.
But then we look around us now and we see relics of these past moves of God. We see once full churches now only empty cathedrals. We see many denominations explaining away the miraculous, that God has ceased moving in those way. Past truths and operations of God that were common place and that blessed past generations are now believed to be anomalies, works of God only for the past ages.
But this is untrue, God has never changed. He is still the same, yesterday, today and forever. Th dispensation of the church that began in the Book of Acts is still continuing. You will notice that of all the books of the Bible, Acts is the only one without a proper conclusion or benediction. This is because the Holy Spirit is still performing His acts. The problem is that the well has been clogged. It has been clogged with unbelief, tradition, religion, wrong beliefs and dogmatism. The water is still present underneath, but the sands of men's rationalization has clogged it.
It is time to do what Isaac did. It is time to dig the wells again. Time to revisit the old gospel of repentance, commitment, holiness, sanctification, consecration, power and supernatural interventions. It is time to continue the Acts of the Holy Spirit. Our time needs these truth more than it has ever been needed. The population of the world that need to hear the gospel is more than it has ever ben in history. The challenges to faith by popular culture is at historical highs. The people who are scattered, oppressed and under bondage to perversion, addictions, diseases and sin are in unprecedented multitude.
The waters from the old well is needed. The world is thirsty. The question is who will reopen the wells? Who will pay the price to dig again to unclog the wells? It will take passion, persistent prayer, fasting, faith and travailing with God. It will take boldly proclaiming lost truths uncompromisingly. It will take going against the tides and standing firm in the midst of religious people who have a form of godliness but deny the power. Can God count on you to dig?
Decision of the Day
I understand that there are certain things that God has done in the past, truths He revealed in the past, that the fathers of the faith walked in, but that are now lost in our days. Some truths have been clogged by tradition and unbelief. I will be a well digger. I will seek God for the restoration of these truths.
AMEN TO THAT!!!
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