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If you've ever felt like your spiritual well has run dry or that you're exausted by the same old conflicts and disappointments, this message is for you. You'll see how past hurts and offenses can clog up your relationship with God and with others... and how that can keep everyone around you thirsty for something better, too.
The good news is that you don't have to stay stuck. God invites you to move forward, not by fixing things yourself, but by choosing to dig again. To move forward by faith when where you are is comfortable as much as when it feels like everythign is an attack.
It's in the place of God's presence that you find peace. It's in that place of worship that God heals the wounds, cleans the muddy places, and gives you peace beyond anything you could ask.
Scriptures Referenced
Genesis 26:17–32; Ezekiel 47
Key Insights
- The enemy’s strategy isn’t always confrontation. Sometimes it’s suffocation.
- The battle is often waged at the wells.
- You will never reach the next well if you are still fighting over the last one.
- When your plans come to an end, God’s purposes keep you moving forward.
- Worship first. Then work.
Key Sections
00:00:00 - Honoring Faithful Service
We honor over two decades of faithful service by Angie Beshearse.
00:05:00 - Protecting the Well
Without protection, wells can become contaminated or closed up so that they are useless and unhealthy for us and our neighbors. This is as much true of our spiritual wells as for a water well.
00:10:11 - The Enemy's Strategy to Clog Wells
Life’s constant challenges—hurt, being busy, and distractions—can block our access to God’s life-giving water. The fight isn’t always clear, but it can quietly drain our spiritual strength bit by bit until families, communities, and hearts are empty.
00:14:40 - Moving Beyond Old Wells
Like Isaac, we have a choice: will we stay trapped in wells of conflict, hurt, or blame, or will we put in the effort to move on and find the peace and open space that God offers?
00:20:23 - Worship First and Move Forward
Isaac's journey shows that true safety and growth don’t come from staying in comfort. Instead, they come from making worship important, building an altar, and listening to God’s voice that guides us to new promises, even if it means letting go of past pains and facing the unknown.
00:22:58 - Release Conflict
The key moment happens when Isaac puts aside his anger, forgives his enemies, and God quickly responds with new water and a promise. This shows that God provides for us and brings new life when we stop fighting and choose to make peace.
00:26:06 - Calling the Church to Dig Again
Pastor Barbie asks the community to look at where they have stayed too long. She encourages them to forgive, let God heal them, and return to worship. This is the path to the growth, healing, and success that God wants for them.
https://springhouse.captivate.fm/episode/dig-another-well
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Transcripts
Those who labor among us in the Lord are worthy of double honor.
Speaker:In some of those translations, it goes on to just talk about those who sow
Speaker:into the kingdom, those who pour. And we have
Speaker:someone this morning that I would love for us to take
Speaker:just a moment and extend that
Speaker:Angie Beshearse, would you come up, please?
Speaker:Come on up.
Speaker:And we have a few more people who want
Speaker:to— July 19th marked 24 years
Speaker:for this woman of God to pour into
Speaker:this house. Come
Speaker:on, guys.
Speaker:And she has touched Every single one of these lives.
Speaker:I'm gonna get out of the camera shot. You guys, come on over here and
Speaker:love on Miss Angie.
Speaker:Her fingerprints are all over this house. Her
Speaker:fingerprints are all over my life
Speaker:as a mother and grandmother. And
Speaker:her fingerprints are all over your lives. If you
Speaker:have been touched and ministered to
Speaker:by her ministry, would you stand and just let us know that for a
Speaker:minute?
Speaker:You guys, you
Speaker:wanna take that over to Miss Angie?
Speaker:If you brought something for Miss Angie, would you take it over to her? You,
Speaker:you just go right ahead and you go hug her.
Speaker:Michaela, I want to do something.
Speaker:You do?
Speaker:Angie, we are so grateful. We should have done this a week ago.
Speaker:We've been a little bit preoccupied, but we missed something extremely
Speaker:important, and we wanted it to be on a day where it was just about
Speaker:you and what you have poured. And we are so extremely
Speaker:grateful. If you decide to come back for 24 more, we will receive
Speaker:you with joy. But thank you so much. Can you all say
Speaker:thank you, Miss Angie? Yeah.
Speaker:Will you come and escort your mom? We're grateful.
Speaker:Thank you. Thank you, guys. No,
Speaker:actually, did you wanna say anything, Angie? I'll stand close and you can use my
Speaker:mic. Oh my gosh. I mean, this is my heart, my
Speaker:children. It's not been an easy decision to
Speaker:step away, but I just felt like that it was time.
Speaker:It's time for somebody else to step up and start getting their blessings.
Speaker:You know, yeah, our house is full,
Speaker:so it's— It's time for someone else to move on in.
Speaker:Amen. I'm thinking Liam. Hasn't he been like really close to you for
Speaker:a while? Yes, yes. I've had Liam serve here with me for 5 years and
Speaker:he still faithfully serves. Go Liam, woo-hoo! He's back
Speaker:there today. Thank you so much. Love you, honey. Love you.
Speaker:All right, guys, go to class.
Speaker:Wow! It's Move Up Sunday. You moved
Speaker:up. Go and enjoy your classes. Speaking
Speaker:of enjoying classes—
Speaker:Y'all are the best.
Speaker:Speaking of classes, this Wednesday—
Speaker:hi, honey. I love you.
Speaker:Bye, ladies. Hi, how are you? Talk amongst yourselves.
Speaker:Hi, Levi. Hi, guys! Thank you,
Speaker:Sandra.
Speaker:Whoo! How amazing to sow
Speaker:for 24 years in one house, and now she has
Speaker:like about that many grandchildren.
Speaker:You're welcome.
Speaker:You're welcome. Oh,
Speaker:God is faithful, amen? I am so
Speaker:excited about the Word that the Lord has today. I'm also excited about the Word
Speaker:that the Lord has Yes. This coming Wednesday night when
Speaker:we begin our midweek gatherings again. Pastor Jonathan has
Speaker:taken point on Wednesday nights. We will be meeting over in the
Speaker:fellowship hall at 6 o'clock. Kate and the cafe team
Speaker:will still be providing dinner, uh, come starting at
Speaker:5. So come and have dinner with us, then come in and, uh, get into
Speaker:the word with us. We'll be doing a series called Foundations, and, uh,
Speaker:it's Pastor Jonathan some of our other pastors and
Speaker:leaders in the house. It's gonna be a strong word.
Speaker:But then again, isn't God's Word always strong? So
Speaker:we are gonna jump into this. We had a
Speaker:couple of— well, actually, we had 6 weeks of worship
Speaker:anyway. Just because we're moving forward a little
Speaker:bit in this progression, that's still gonna be where we stand.
Speaker:That's still gonna be where we're living for a while, that we are
Speaker:going to worship him. Why?
Speaker:Amen. And he is good and he is faithful. And I
Speaker:intend— what I wanna do with you today is exactly what I did the first
Speaker:week I came down here and talked to you about worship anyway.
Speaker:The other thing that the Lord has shared with me in this season is
Speaker:something actually that my
Speaker:grandmother and grandfather and all of them poured into my life, and we're gonna
Speaker:get into that in a minute. But first, we'll just read a couple of scriptures.
Speaker:We're gonna be in Genesis 26. And today, we're gonna talk
Speaker:about digging another well. And for the sake of today,
Speaker:and for the sake of today's teaching, I want you to know that
Speaker:you are Isaac. Can you
Speaker:repeat that to me? I am— well, you're gonna say, you are
Speaker:Isaac, aren't you? We are
Speaker:Isaac today. We are Isaac. So when we
Speaker:get into the Word today in Genesis 26, When we're talking about
Speaker:Isaac, I'm talking about you. I'm talking about this house
Speaker:because why? Because Isaac was a child of promise.
Speaker:We are children of promise. We are children of his promise.
Speaker:And so as we get into the scriptures, and I'll tell you that because sometimes
Speaker:you can detach yourself from the Word and you're like, oh, that's this and this,
Speaker:this is— but let's bring it home today, okay? And
Speaker:when— so when I'm talking about Isaac and the stuff that Isaac's getting into, you,
Speaker:I want you to know that I'm talking to us because I believe this is
Speaker:where the Lord has taken us. And we're gonna start in Genesis
Speaker:26, and we're gonna skip— I'm just gonna read you a couple of verses and
Speaker:then we'll get in more. Isaac reopened the wells
Speaker:that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the
Speaker:Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died.
Speaker:Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh
Speaker:water there, but the herdsmen quarreled and said, The
Speaker:water is ours. Then they
Speaker:dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also.
Speaker:He moved on from there and dug another well,
Speaker:and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth,
Speaker:saying, now the Lord has given us room, and we
Speaker:will flourish in the land. Father God, I
Speaker:thank you so much for your Word, and I thank you, Lord, how relevant your
Speaker:Word is, Father. It is so alive, and it really
Speaker:It reaches across thousands of years and speaks to
Speaker:us like a living thing. And so,
Speaker:Father, I pray that we hear you today, Father. I pray for a
Speaker:prophetic spirit in this house today, one that discerns,
Speaker:one that understands, one that grabs hold and
Speaker:listens to what the Holy Spirit has to say. Father, I
Speaker:pray that my stuff fall and yours stand. Teach us today,
Speaker:Lord. Amen. We want to learn from you. In Jesus' name,
Speaker:amen. Amen.
Speaker:In the same season that the Lord began to share with me to worship
Speaker:anyway, there was another word that he spoke to me, and I figured that he
Speaker:would release that in his timing. And that word was this:
Speaker:tend the wells. Tend the
Speaker:wells. Now, I'm a country girl. I grew up on a
Speaker:farm that had a well house, and we lived on well
Speaker:water, and it supplied us. And so I
Speaker:understand, I have a little bit of an understanding about a well 'cause we had
Speaker:one. And it didn't just take care of us, it took care of a lot
Speaker:of families around us as well. It did mean that when you
Speaker:got water in your drinking glass, sometimes it looked a little funny, I will say,
Speaker:but we knew how to tend the wells. And when my granny would send me
Speaker:out to the well house to get something, she would tell me 2 things. The
Speaker:first thing that would always come out And if you've ever had a well, you
Speaker:might know this one, watch for snakes.
Speaker:And I'm like, if there are snakes out there, I think you should be the
Speaker:one going. I've got my whole
Speaker:life in front of me.
Speaker:Watch for snakes. Guys, wherever your water supply is, you
Speaker:gotta watch for snakes because it's an
Speaker:environment that the enemy loves. He
Speaker:loves to come for your water supply. And so you've
Speaker:gotta be very mindful when the enemy is trying to
Speaker:attack your water source. The other thing that she would say, she'd say, now
Speaker:watch for snakes. And you're like, all right, fine, give me the
Speaker:gun. Anyway, and then she would say, protect
Speaker:the water. Remember, your dirt becomes our dirt. Yeah.
Speaker:Remember, your dirt becomes our dirt. Now, let me tell you what
Speaker:she meant by that. If I was careless and I just
Speaker:decided to fling that bucket out there however I wanted to,
Speaker:and it hit the dirt walls of that well house, every bit of
Speaker:that rock and dirt and mess and whatever might be crawling on the
Speaker:side of that, let's just put that out there, fell into the water.
Speaker:And it didn't just affect me. It affected everybody
Speaker:who drew from that well. And so we
Speaker:have to protect the water and remember
Speaker:that our dirt, my dirt, becomes your dirt
Speaker:because the well that we draw from is a consistent well.
Speaker:So watch for snakes and protect the well. Because here's—
Speaker:let's see, the enemy's strategy isn't always confrontation, sometimes it's
Speaker:suffocation. Yes.
Speaker:And we begin to see that in the life of Isaac.
Speaker:Sometimes his goal is not— see, you
Speaker:can't stop the water in a well, but you
Speaker:can sure cover it up. That's right. You can sure contaminate the water
Speaker:until it's not usable. You can be careless
Speaker:in your life around the well to the point that My dirt
Speaker:becomes your dirt. We have to be careful
Speaker:with the water. The enemy's strategy— it says that they—
Speaker:that the Philistines did not want to go and fight,
Speaker:so what they did is they went and filled in the wells
Speaker:because they knew what the result of filling in the well would be. Now, what
Speaker:do I mean by filling in the well? I don't know. It might be offense.
Speaker:It might be anger. It might be a lot of
Speaker:distraction, busyness, a lot of things that cause
Speaker:us— Yeah. To stop accessing the supply.
Speaker:The supply doesn't change. The living water does
Speaker:not change. What we can change about it is the
Speaker:atmosphere that we create around that water. The enemy knew
Speaker:if he could keep them from accessing the wells, he could stop the
Speaker:life. He could stop the life, and that's why the battle is
Speaker:often waged at the wells. Yes.
Speaker:supply. Your supply. Are you drawing?
Speaker:Are you drinking deeply from that
Speaker:living water? The washing of the water of the
Speaker:Word of God. That is where our life is. That is what
Speaker:sustains us. That is what keeps us going. And if we get
Speaker:so distracted with the walls, and the wells, and the—
Speaker:and allow the water to become polluted, we stop drawing from it.
Speaker:Genesis asks the sobering question, so what happens when the wells get buried?
Speaker:And I put this out there because it becomes a checkpoint in our life, in
Speaker:my life, in the lives of this body, this church, these
Speaker:people. When the wells start— and you can look at it and go,
Speaker:okay, then maybe the well
Speaker:has been a little bit— I've not been accessing the
Speaker:water of the Word like I should. I haven't been accessing the living water. I've
Speaker:been a little bit careless with the well. And I think that's what Well, here's
Speaker:what happens. Families are left to wander in
Speaker:Genesis. Flocks begin to weaken.
Speaker:Fruitfulness, fields begin to wither, and communities
Speaker:fade. And that is the goal, and was
Speaker:the goal, of the Philistines when they went and they began to fill in
Speaker:the wells of Abraham because they did not want that family
Speaker:to prosper. They did not want them to have the supply
Speaker:that they needed. And so the enemy began to
Speaker:cover up the wells and remove that supply.
Speaker:I love Isaac. You are Isaac. We
Speaker:are Isaac. I love what he does. It says that he was determined to
Speaker:go and reopen the wells of his father, right? And so the very
Speaker:first one he comes to is Essek. And Essek is
Speaker:a well, it says, that we read about. It says oppressive strife, injury,
Speaker:distress, or contention. The first well he comes to
Speaker:is a well of strife. Contention,
Speaker:somebody having a differing opinion, and there's Esau. And
Speaker:so he has this opportunity right there. He's looking at this and he's going,
Speaker:there's oppression, there's strife, there's injury. Because see,
Speaker:Isaac was hurt. Isaac.
Speaker:Isaac was hurt. Isaac had been wounded.
Speaker:And he could have easily
Speaker:Just stopped there and camped by that well. He could have
Speaker:decided, I— this was my father's well. I
Speaker:am going to camp right here. And he could have dug in
Speaker:his heels, and he could have gotten his people into a fight, and
Speaker:they could have fought the Philistines. And this
Speaker:oppression, strife, injury,
Speaker:distress, and contention, they could have camped right there. But
Speaker:Isaac didn't want that for his family. Isaac did not want
Speaker:that for his family. So Isaac makes the decision. He's like, we're not
Speaker:gonna camp here. We're not gonna live in this. And he moves
Speaker:forward. He makes a decision. And don't you know that your
Speaker:decision will cost you an action? He
Speaker:moves on and he goes to Sitnah. The next well that he goes to dig
Speaker:that was his father's is Sitnah, and it means hostility, enmity, and
Speaker:accusation. It has a
Speaker:root with the name Satan. Notice that,
Speaker:because it's filled with accusation. And accusation—
Speaker:who's the accuser of the brethren? That is
Speaker:literally what Satan means, the accuser of the brethren.
Speaker:So we see hostility, enmity, strife,
Speaker:and accusation. This well, another well.
Speaker:That he could have stayed right there if he had chosen
Speaker:to. But Isaac refused to stay trapped in perpetual conflict,
Speaker:bitterness, or accusation. He moved forward and
Speaker:simply dug another well.
Speaker:Simply dug another well. I love that he has
Speaker:the heart and the fortitude to just go dig another
Speaker:well, because you will never reach the end— the next well if you are
Speaker:still fighting over the last one. That's right. You'll never reach the
Speaker:next if you stay camped somewhere that does not
Speaker:feed that water in you, that doesn't bring water to you.
Speaker:And so if Isaac had stayed there, he could have been stuck in
Speaker:that forever. He could have been stuck in that forever. Oh,
Speaker:but God. Oh,
Speaker:but God. In his faithfulness,
Speaker:Isaac chose not to stay there. He didn't want his family in
Speaker:that mess. He did not want the anger, and the frustration, and the
Speaker:accusation, and the strife. He did not want to send his
Speaker:family into battle. What he wanted was to
Speaker:find them a place of rest and peace.
Speaker:So he got up, he did the work, he gathered his family, and the next
Speaker:well that he went to was Rehoboth.
Speaker:A well of wide water. Wide open spaces
Speaker:and room to run. Room to run.
Speaker:Katie, you wanna sing Dixie Chicks right now, don't you? No,
Speaker:no. I know you. Wide open
Speaker:spaces, Rehoboth. The Lord has given
Speaker:us room to run,
Speaker:room to spread out. But he could not have reached that
Speaker:place if he had not moved on from
Speaker:the first 2 wells. And it would have been easy. Sometimes it's
Speaker:easy to just camp somewhere. But what if God
Speaker:has other plans? What if God has— I want
Speaker:that! Wide open spaces. The Lord has given
Speaker:us room, and we will flourish in the
Speaker:land. Isaac could have camped by any of those wells.
Speaker:He could have. It says he pitched his tent. He could have pitched his
Speaker:tent. Especially having come out of strife,
Speaker:having come out of that place of wounding and hurt, and
Speaker:anger, and frustration, don't you know that
Speaker:Rehoboth would have been so peaceful?
Speaker:It says, Rehoboth became a place of relief.
Speaker:Sometimes you just need relief, right? You've walked in high
Speaker:heels all day. I hear that people do that.
Speaker:You get home from work, you take off your work clothes, you put on something
Speaker:comfortable, you grab your sweatpants, you pile up on the
Speaker:sofa, or for me, go sit on the porch swing, and there's just like this—
Speaker:Ah!
Speaker:Yeah. And I believe that Isaac probably felt that because when he
Speaker:was living in the land of the Philistines, he had been very successful. He had
Speaker:been very full. He had been very blessed. And— but then
Speaker:he set on this journey that he did not anticipate, did not
Speaker:know that he was going to go on, and things just went from
Speaker:difficult to difficult-er, and—
Speaker:or more difficult. Difficult. And he could have stopped, but he didn't
Speaker:because God had a plan, and it became a place of relief for him. But
Speaker:here, guys, when your plans come to an end, God's purposes keep
Speaker:you moving forward. When your
Speaker:plan, what you thought was gonna happen,
Speaker:ends, it is God and his
Speaker:will and his purposes that keep us
Speaker:moving forward when we wanna camp by an old well. Amen? Amen.
Speaker:Amen. When we want to just stop, it is his purposes. And it was
Speaker:Isaac's heart to follow the leading of the Lord
Speaker:and keep going. And if he hadn't done that, guys, if he
Speaker:had not done that, if he had just stopped in
Speaker:the wide open spaces, it would have been a completely different
Speaker:ballgame. But Isaac knew the Lord, and he
Speaker:knew the Lord's voice. And so he goes from
Speaker:Esau, To Sitnah, to Rehoboth,
Speaker:and then it says, from there he went up to Beersheba. From
Speaker:there he went up to Beersheba. He moved beyond what was comfortable.
Speaker:He moved beyond what he thought, well, this is it. He moved
Speaker:forward because that was what God told him to do.
Speaker:So he built an altar there, and he called on the name of the
Speaker:Lord. Isaac's first move in
Speaker:Beersheba was not to build a house or reinforce his fences,
Speaker:but to build an altar. And see,
Speaker:when God is moving us forward, when God is calling us forward— and guys,
Speaker:this is so perfect in where the Lord has us in this
Speaker:season, because the very first thing that we have done is we
Speaker:have built an altar of worship. We have built a
Speaker:place to call on the name of the Lord. And that is
Speaker:priority one. It's so important for us to call on the name of the
Speaker:Lord, to know his blessing in the house, to know that
Speaker:it is him that calls us forward because
Speaker:he is, and he does, and he will continue.
Speaker:Our call should always be to worship first and then work.
Speaker:And then work. Let
Speaker:me read you something.
Speaker:Here's why Isaac needed to move out of his wide open
Speaker:spaces and follow the Lord. Chapter 26 of Genesis, verse
Speaker:26. Now, Abimelech was the king of the Philistines.
Speaker:He was one of the ones that were instrumental in making
Speaker:Isaac's life rough. And so Isaac
Speaker:had been hurt by their encounter and everything else that had
Speaker:happened. And it says, Isaac built an
Speaker:altar. There he called on the name of the Lord. I find this progression so
Speaker:important. He built an altar, he
Speaker:called on the name of the Lord, he blessed the Lord. And it says, meanwhile,
Speaker:Abimelech had come to him from Gerar. And it says—
Speaker:and Isaac says, why have you come to me since you were hostile
Speaker:toward me? And he says, down here
Speaker:on verse 28, 29, it says,
Speaker:Abimelech said, let us make a treaty with you that you will do us
Speaker:no harm, just as we did not you, but always treated
Speaker:you well. And now you are blessed by
Speaker:the Lord. Isaac then made a feast for them.
Speaker:For who? For his enemies. Isaac then made a
Speaker:feast for them, and they ate and drank.
Speaker:Early the next morning, the men swore an oath to
Speaker:each other. Then Isaac— then
Speaker:Isaac sent them on their way, and they
Speaker:left in peace. Why does that matter?
Speaker:Because verse 32 says, that
Speaker:day Isaac's servants came and
Speaker:told him, we've found water.
Speaker:The moment Isaac released the conflict, God released the provision.
Speaker:The moment Isaac released the conflict, God
Speaker:released the provision. The provision.
Speaker:That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had
Speaker:dug. They said, we've found water! And he called it
Speaker:Sheba. See, he moved out of the wide open
Speaker:spaces. He moved out of the comfortable place. He even moved out of his place
Speaker:of relief because God had more for him.
Speaker:And the more that he had for him was this: Sheba
Speaker:is the well of the oath. It's the place where God
Speaker:reminded him of all of the promises that had been spoken. It's the
Speaker:place where his father had brought 7 lambs that brought peace.
Speaker:It's the place where he was reminded that the wells that he was
Speaker:attempting to re-dig were not the wells that the Lord wanted
Speaker:him to stay at. He wanted to take Isaac to the place of the promise.
Speaker:And see, you are children of promise. We are children of
Speaker:promise, and God is calling us into
Speaker:a different place. The progression of the wells is this, and you can check
Speaker:your heart. I've had to check my heart over and over.
Speaker:Distress and opposition, hostility
Speaker:and accusation, or forgiveness and
Speaker:relief. We can stop at any of
Speaker:them, or we can move toward the promise. Amen.
Speaker:that God has. Move toward the promise that God
Speaker:has. You know, in the beginning I shared with you the
Speaker:things that, that happen when the wells get stopped up, when the
Speaker:wells get covered up, and, and, and we are not careful
Speaker:to tend the water. Things die and family
Speaker:scatters and there's not provision, all of those things.
Speaker:But Ezekiel 47, Ask the opposite and greater
Speaker:question. What happens when you open the wells?
Speaker:Worship team? What happens when
Speaker:you open the wells? It says that the land
Speaker:begins to flourish. Provision
Speaker:multiplies. Fruit begins to
Speaker:grow. Healing arises.
Speaker:And dead things come alive. That's what I want.
Speaker:That's what I want, and that's what I
Speaker:believe that God has for us, Isaac.
Speaker:That's what I believe the Lord has for us, that there is
Speaker:a land that flourishes, provision that multiplies,
Speaker:fruit that grows, healing that arises, and
Speaker:dead things coming to life. Amen. That's what I
Speaker:believe. That's what I believe. See, sometimes
Speaker:faith wears work boots. It picks up a shovel and it keeps
Speaker:moving forward knowing that water
Speaker:awaits. Sometimes faith has to strap
Speaker:its boots on when it does not want to. It has to begin to
Speaker:grab a shovel and be willing to do the work that is
Speaker:necessary to move to the well of promise
Speaker:that God has. I don't want to camp by any of
Speaker:the other ones. I want his promises,
Speaker:and I want you to experience the promises
Speaker:that God has spoken over this house for as long as I
Speaker:have been here, since the 1900s.
Speaker:What do you want, Isaac? What do you want?
Speaker:Are you willing to put your boots on,
Speaker:tramp through some things that you might not have wanted to,
Speaker:forgive some people you might wanna be mad at,
Speaker:pick up the shovel, and begin to move
Speaker:forward to that place of
Speaker:promise? It is time
Speaker:to dig another well. It is
Speaker:time to dig another well. Now, that is
Speaker:not neglecting what he's told us before. I still
Speaker:believe part of this process is to worship
Speaker:anyway, to worship anyway. So here's what I believe we're going to do.
Speaker:Well, actually, here's what I know we're going to do. I'm going to
Speaker:join you again right here. And if
Speaker:you have camped by any other well,
Speaker:Except the one the Lord has called you to, we're going to come in and
Speaker:we're going to worship anyway. If you have been wounded, if you have
Speaker:been hurt, if you are carrying anger, if you are carrying frustration,
Speaker:understand that your dirt becomes our dirt.
Speaker:We want it gone for your sake. We want God
Speaker:to heal these places so that we can get
Speaker:to the wells That's what I believe.
Speaker:That's what I believe for all of us. So
Speaker:we removed 2 rows this morning for you.
Speaker:I'm gonna join you down here and we are gonna worship. And when
Speaker:we say dead things come alive, if this is your well,
Speaker:if this is your place, when we begin to get into these places—
Speaker:kids, young people— The young shall lead us. We need
Speaker:you to help us worship through this. Amen? Amen. So bring what you got,
Speaker:and we are going to worship anyway and watch God move us
Speaker:to the next well. Come on down, guys. Let's do this.
