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We talk about "digging another well" to sustain our faith in the dry seasons. But what does that even look like?
Pastor Barbie gives a practical demonstration of what it looks like for her to "dig a well" from Scripture, some of the tools she uses, and some of the things God's highlighted to her as she prepared for this week's sermon.
You don't have to be a Bible scholar. She shows how honest questions, some tools, and the help of the Holy Spirit lead her on a journey to find out what God is saying.
Digging a spiritual well means creating room to accept, notice, and share God’s blessings.
Scriptures Referenced
Genesis 1:1, 27:26-29, 27:38-39, 49:25; Exodus 16:11-15; Numbers 6:24–26; Deuteronomy 28:6, 33:13-16; 1 Kings 19:11-15; Hosea 14:5; Psalm 30:5, 139:5
Key Insights
- You can start digging spiritual “wells” using practical study steps, no matter your experience
- God’s blessing often appears quietly and is always available, even if unrecognized at first
- Generational blessing means faith practices today will impact future family and community
- Spiritual resources are accessible—take time to seek, question, and write down what stands out
- Blessings spoken over your life are meant to be received, declared, and passed on
Resources:
Key Sections
00:00:00 - Getting Started
Pastor Barbie shares why she is approaching the sermon this way.
00:02:47 - Gathering Study Tools
To dig a well, you need some tools. Pastor Barbie shares her toolkit.
00:05:22 - Unpacking Heaven’s Dew
Heaven's dew shows how God’s provision is quiet yet always present, connected all the way back to creation. We can learn to listen for God’s voice in subtle ways.
00:10:46 - God’s Gentle Approach
The gentle, unexpected arrival of dew is like God’s voice to Elijah. It shows that God usually helps and leads us in calm, daily ways instead of in loud, dramatic times. It allows us to see His presence in our everyday lives.
00:16:37 - Recognizing God’s Provision
Like the manna in Exodus, God's help is often hidden and that we find what we need when we trust Him. She reminds us to write down times when God gives us what we need in surprising ways.
00:20:23 - Experiencing Earth’s Richness
Pastor Barbie talks about "earth’s richness" and explains that God’s abundance is available to everyone. She gives biblical examples where blessings were given or taken away. She encourages us to see that spiritual inheritance can be passed down to the next generation.
00:26:16 - Passing Down the Blessing
See how Moses wove his story into a blessing. Speaking blessings over others brings life and faith. This leads to a call to give, receive, and live blessings as a part of our lives now and for the future.
https://springhouse.captivate.fm/episode/the-wells-we-inherit
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Transcripts
Have you ever, like,
Speaker:been in a time of prayer or been in an intimate
Speaker:time with the Lord? Yeah. And when you're sitting
Speaker:in your office, I'm just asking for a friend, when you're sitting
Speaker:in your office and you're like, Yeah, Lord,
Speaker:I'll absolutely do that. Yes, I will.
Speaker:And then you walk out the doors and you're like, what was I thinking?
Speaker:Has that ever happened to anybody? Has that happened to you
Speaker:this week? 'Cause I really would like to not feel alone here. Anyway,
Speaker:so in prayer time this week, you know, last week we
Speaker:talked about wells and my encouragement was to dig
Speaker:another well, you know, as we continue forward. And I can't tell you how
Speaker:many people have gone, What does that mean? What does that
Speaker:mean? Tell me what it means to dig a well. And what I
Speaker:felt like the Holy Spirit said to me was,
Speaker:show 'em how you do it. Show 'em how you do it. And
Speaker:so we're all gonna go to my office. Now, since I
Speaker:can't do that, I'm gonna bring a couple of things out here, if
Speaker:you'll— this is what reluctant obedience
Speaker:looks like. Okay. All right, here we
Speaker:go. You know, there's an exit sign right
Speaker:over here. I wasn't considering it. Oh,
Speaker:yes, I was. Move that. Okay. The
Speaker:audiovisual team is like, somebody help her, get her off of there.
Speaker:Okay, so Courtney, if this rug looks familiar,
Speaker:it's because I stole it out of yours and Caitlin's office. But
Speaker:I admitted it, so. This is what I
Speaker:do. So I'm gonna take you into my office
Speaker:with me and hopefully show you how
Speaker:to dig a Word well. This is the way the Lord does it with
Speaker:me. And I just want to invite you because he's making me.
Speaker:Anyway, I just want you to go with me and allow the Holy
Speaker:Spirit to— I'm just gonna show you the process through which I
Speaker:dig a Word well. When I begin to— when there's something in the Word
Speaker:that just grabs my attention, and
Speaker:I want to go further in it. I want to know what this looks
Speaker:like. This is the, the way he does that with me.
Speaker:So anybody want a piece of carpet just right here? You're welcome to. Grab your
Speaker:Bible, it's going to be right there. Never study
Speaker:without tissue. Or coffee.
Speaker:Usually, there's music, so would y'all hum a little bit just for something?
Speaker:Not really. Okay, so, when the Lord begins to put something on my
Speaker:heart, I just— I grab my weapons.
Speaker:And I usually have a couple of Bibles, a couple of translations. I
Speaker:always like to have an Amplified, an NIV, and just to make
Speaker:Justin happy, you know, a KJV or something like that.
Speaker:I will grab my notes from the last time I taught
Speaker:because I feel like it's gonna be relevant to where we're going the next time.
Speaker:I will grab that, and I know that he was gonna give us something else,
Speaker:so I'll grab a fresh notebook. This one's not so fresh because I
Speaker:have been studying just a little bit, but I will grab those.
Speaker:Never underestimate the resource power
Speaker:of an Old Testament survey book or a New Testament
Speaker:survey book. There is richness in here. If you want to go a little bit
Speaker:deeper, get you a survey book. Yes. Get yourself a couple of
Speaker:these. Plus, they're really impressive when you're walking down the street, and you're like,
Speaker:that's a big book. Anyway, really
Speaker:good resources. Always
Speaker:have highlighters, 'cause that— you can't do
Speaker:anything without highlighters. And I have
Speaker:my glasses, which I didn't have in First Gathering.
Speaker:And I have online concordance. My Strong's Concordance
Speaker:is so huge. The Lord has graced me, allowed me to
Speaker:find one online, and I use that. It has the Greek and Hebrew lexicons
Speaker:in it. That sounds like leprechauns, doesn't it? So, I will
Speaker:gather my tools. I was gonna drag a shovel
Speaker:out here, but I figured Hal would go, what are you doing with my shovel
Speaker:anyway? And it just disappeared
Speaker:from the house. All right, so, here's what we're
Speaker:gonna do. Father God, I thank you for your Word. I thank you for
Speaker:your truth. I thank you, Lord, for the way that you reveal yourself to us.
Speaker:And so, Father, I'm asking today that you teach us to dig a well. Teach
Speaker:us, Father God, to just take your Word
Speaker:and go deeper with it, Father God. Teach us, Father, the way to just
Speaker:come after you. And so, Father, I thank you for this resource in my
Speaker:life. I thank you, Lord, that you are the master teacher. I thank you
Speaker:that you are the rabbi who teaches. And so, Father, I pray that that be
Speaker:the impartation in this room, Father, that— Amen. You teach us
Speaker:to seek you, to make the wells deeper
Speaker:in our life, Father, as you supply the resource. In Jesus' name,
Speaker:amen. Amen. So, this is always, almost always
Speaker:prompted by something when I'm reading the Word. And so, this time,
Speaker:as I was going through the scriptures and I was studying about wells, and I
Speaker:had just left— we had just left last week Genesis 26. And so, I
Speaker:was reading on over in Genesis 27, and I came across this phrase.
Speaker:The Dew of Heaven, the Richness of Earth.
Speaker:And it was the blessing, and it said this, ah, the
Speaker:smell of my son is like the smell of the
Speaker:field that the Lord has blessed. May God give you heaven's dew
Speaker:and earth's richness, an abundance of grain and new
Speaker:wine. And I'm like, Lord, you know, we can skip right over
Speaker:that. But the thing that stuck out to me were those 2
Speaker:things, the— The dew.
Speaker:Heaven's dew and earth's richness. Heaven's dew and
Speaker:earth's richness. Here's the thing, guys, God's Word is never just a
Speaker:word. It's never just one syllable. It's never
Speaker:just letters. It is life and breath, and there is a pulse
Speaker:in it, and there's a message in it that if our hearts and our
Speaker:spirits are open to receive, He will pour into that. And if we just
Speaker:dig, we will find it. That's right. a little deeper. And so let's dig a
Speaker:well. Let's dig a well.
Speaker:And I'm gonna take you to the— so the first thing I do is I
Speaker:ask the question, what is heaven's dew
Speaker:and what is earth's richness? And I begin to assemble all of
Speaker:my options. I begin, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna need to find out. I
Speaker:wanna know the origin of the word. There's something about that that always gets me.
Speaker:And there's also something about the Hebrew language that always draws me in. It's like,
Speaker:talking to someone in their native tongue, you know, whatever it might be. But the
Speaker:way that it was written in the very beginning, there's a richness to that.
Speaker:And so, I'm always— that's probably almost always the
Speaker:first place that I will go. And so, I'm going to need a few options
Speaker:for that. I'm gonna need my Strong's Concordance. It's got the
Speaker:Greek and Hebrew lexicons. Sometimes, I'll use
Speaker:biblegateway.com,
Speaker:elia.com. There you will find A really
Speaker:rich resource. It has the Strong's Concordance in
Speaker:it. It has the Greek. It has the Hebrew. And it will take you
Speaker:into study tools that I have been able to
Speaker:utilize this for years now. Blue Letter Bible,
Speaker:etc. You probably all have your own that you begin to study
Speaker:from. So, we're carrying that forward. And as I go
Speaker:to find out what this means, it literally means— What?
Speaker:Heavens do, in Hebrew, is tal samayim.
Speaker:Tal samayim. It's masculine. That means it almost comes
Speaker:from a male point of view. It's like, there's something about
Speaker:that that gets me. And it— yeah, I get excited because I think about anything
Speaker:that God's doing and his life force being a part of that.
Speaker:The do, tal, from heaven, samayim, that's
Speaker:created by God. And when you look at that right there where it says
Speaker:created by God, it prompts me always to go back to the Genesis of the
Speaker:Word. Yes. And what do I mean by that? I
Speaker:wanna know where it was first mentioned in scripture. I want to know the
Speaker:first place that it's going to be mentioned in scripture. And it
Speaker:tells us the first time we hear this word, taal,
Speaker:shamayim, the first time we hear shamayim is in Genesis 1:1,
Speaker:and it says, in the beginning, God created the
Speaker:heavens and the earth. In the beginning, God created the
Speaker:heavens and the earth. And then I'm like, okay, all
Speaker:right, we have the origin. That's the first time we said it, and it was,
Speaker:It is a place of creation. It is where God just
Speaker:spoke the blessing of,
Speaker:let there be heavens. Let this be, as all of these things
Speaker:became, as He breathed and everything came to be.
Speaker:And so now I wanna know what taal is. I wanna know what the dew
Speaker:of heaven is.
Speaker:But— and it is this. It begins to give us characteristics of
Speaker:this dew of heaven. Yes. And then it begins to tell
Speaker:us that it sustains life. Now, wrap this up
Speaker:in what He did in Genesis 1:1. What He did in
:1 is when He threw those heavens out there, when
:He created this canopy over the earth, He filled
:those heavens with resource. He filled those
:heavens with everything that was going to be
:needed for us in this time. The dews, the rains, the The idea is
:there's a hair. Anyway, all of these things, when he threw them out there,
:he threw them out full. And these are the characteristics, if you research
:this dew, it says it sustains life, it
:arrives quietly. Let me give you that. Gently,
:without thunder, without lightning, without
:announcement, the morning is touched by heaven.
:Think about that, guys. We wake up morning after morning
:and the dew has coated the ground. The dew has covered. It
:didn't announce itself when it happened. And it was a natural
:thing for us just to expect that when we wake up,
:the earth would be covered with dew, right? Didn't
:announce itself. See, that's the God that I know.
:Now, can he thunder? Absolutely he can
:thunder. Can he send the lightning? Oh yeah, and he does.
:But those moments where you expect him in the lightning, but you
:find him in the dew— That's right. In the morning.
:In the morning. See, when you're— when you are Him,
:you don't have to announce yourself. You don't have to have a
:trumpet. You don't have to have that.
:Then— oh, there we go. And then it says—
:I'm just taking you— everything you see written up here is off
:me sitting at the computer going, oh wait, I'm excited! Wait a minute!
:What was that passage? When I read this, it comes gently, it comes quietly, it's,
:you know, it wasn't lightning, it wasn't thunder. And it triggers
:something on the inside of me that goes, wait a minute, I've heard this before.
:Wait a minute, where have I heard this before? It wasn't lightning, it wasn't
:thunder, it wasn't in the wind, it wasn't in the earthquake. And I'm like, oh,
:that was Elijah! That was Elijah! And so, I
:wanna hear about that. And so, I will grab my Bible and I will go.
:I wanna see what it says. So if you have your Bible, Turn to 1
:Kings 19.
:You know, this is nothing like my office because I've been sitting here for a
:while and I haven't heard once,
:are you in there? And I'm like, yes, I am, but I'm
:pretending not to be. Okay, 1 Kings 19.
:Go down to verse 11. It says, the Lord said, go
:out and stand on the mountain. He's talking to Elijah,
:and Elijah's had a rough day. Elijah has retreated into the caves,
:and he says, the Lord said, go out and stand on the mountain in the
:presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by. Then a
:great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered
:the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind.
:After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in
:the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the
:Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle
:whisper. When Elijah heard it,
:he pulled his cloak over his face,
:and he went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a
:voice said to him, What are you doing here, Elijah?
:What are you doing here, Elijah?
:And he goes down to verse 15, and the Lord says to— Elijah tells him,
:you know, they're trying to kill me, Lord. And the Lord says,
:go back the way you came. Go back the way you came. And
:in the middle of this study, as I'm learning about dew, and I'm learning about
:the richness of earth, and I'm learning about all of this, I'm looking back and
:going, oh, wait. He wasn't in the lightning. He wasn't in the fire. He
:wasn't in the wind or the earthquake, but he was in that gentle voice.
:And I'm like, oh, that's— then that's the element of part of that, that
:dew that he brings into our life morning by
:morning, his voice. But you know
:what's even better?
:If you've got your Bible, go to Hosea. Yes.
:5. Hosea 14:5,
:and it says this, I
:will be like the dew, the tall, to
:Israel. I will be like the dew to
:Israel. I'm like, oh God, you are so faithful! All
:of those elements that we just read about, you are that which
:sustains life, you are that gentle voice, you are the truth,
:Without lightning, no need to announce yourself. You are
:dew that we wake up to every single
:morning. Every single morning.
:But you know what's cool too? I know, but
:wait, there's more! There's Ginsu knives!
:I will be the dew that falls to Israel.
:He is the Ta'alel. He is the
:Ta'alel, the dew of God. Or
:Ta'alei, the dew of the Lord. The
:refreshing of the Lord. This constant source that pours
:into our life, that gives and pours and is there
:for us. And see, now it just begins to
:take shape. When— now when you look at it and you
:go, The dew of heaven. The dew
:of heaven. The well's a little deeper. The well's a little deeper. It has a
:little bit more context. You're like, oh, wait a minute. When,
:when that is spoken, and you are the dew of heaven, Lord, I hear you
:saying you will sustain me. I hear you saying that you supply
:me, that you speak to me in gentle voices and lead me
:in places, that you beckon me to come out when I want to hide.
:all of these things that are wrapped up in that
:blessing of the Lord. And so now when we read it,
:when God created the heavens, He placed within them a
:life-sustaining provision. And, and the prayer is that
:may He release over you what He established from the beginning,
:coming gently, quietly, without
:thunder, like His whisper to Elijah.
:Horeb. May it fall upon your life morning after morning, quiet,
:constant, and never exhausted in supply.
:And you dig a little deeper because in Him there is
:always more. Always more.
:Okay, ready? Let's dig a little deeper. Let's go to Exodus.
:Let's go to Exodus chapter 16. Exodus chapter 16.
:Exodus chapter 16. Oh, I love His Word!
:It's just, oh, it is water to me!
:It is water to me! Okay, we are in Exodus. The children of
:Israel have been complaining, and grumbling, and they're upset. What they would
:really like are the leeks and the garlics that they had back in Egypt,
:and God is getting ready to supply something for them that they didn't even know
:that they needed. And in verse 11 it says, The Lord said to
:Moses, I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell
:them, at twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning
:you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord
:your God. Now, 13, the evening— that evening
:quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there
:was a layer of dew around the camp. When
:the dew was gone, Thin flakes like frost on the
:ground appeared on the desert floor. When the
:Israelites saw it, they said to each other, what is it? For they
:did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, it is the
:bread the Lord has given you to eat.
:When the dew lifted, the manna appeared.
:When the dew lifted, the manna appeared. So now that goes back to
:sustaining and resourcing. Here's the cool thing to me.
:Let me give you this. The provision of God was
:lying beneath the dew. And guys, it always has been.
:It always has been. The dew, the
:impartation that the Lord has made into our
:lives, that He's poured, that He's given, His provision is there.
:And what's really interesting to me, and And I have this
:tendency to, you know, I'll do this and then I'll have my takeaways
:over here, and I'll write those down so that I remember. And my takeaway
:from this one is sometimes
:God does not reveal what we need until we need it, and even when
:we may not recognize it.
:You ever come up against somebody that you know the Lord has called them
:to something, and they're like, oh, I can't do that. I cannot do that.
:Well, you've never needed to before. So you might not have
:what you needed in order to do what he's called you to do, but
:the moment you step in to do what he has called you to do, he
:resources you. He equips you. And
:I just find this interesting because they didn't even know
:what it was, and sometimes God resources us and we do not recognize
:it. We do not see that he has already provided what we
:need For this time. I love that. I love that they called it
:manna. What is it? Sometimes we live in those places
:of manna. As we add
:these layers, as we add these layers, these stones of truth,
:the well begins to take shape. It gains strength, structure, depth,
:and beauty. See what I'm saying? It's like when you're adding all of
:these elements to it, it begins to take on— oh, I
:didn't see that there. Oh, you were trying to tell me what? What? And
:his resources are right there. All right,
:but grab the shovel. We're
:gonna go a little bit further because see, the deeper you take the well,
:the colder the water. Grab the
:shovel, there's still work to do. Why is there still work to do? Because
:Isaac didn't stop with this. He didn't stop with, you will give you heaven's due.
:He went deeper and he said, there's also the richness of earth. Yes. So, we
:need to know what that means, too, because these are complementary
:issues, elements that he's bringing into
:our realm. And so, we— what do we do? We go back to the references
:that we did in the beginning. For me, I would go back to the lexicon.
:I would go back to the resource, and I would go, okay, show me what
:this means. Show me what this means. And back to the genesis of the word,
:earth's fill— earth's richness. Mashayim.
:Mashmane hayaretz. What does that even
:mean? Well, I'm going to tell you what it means because I looked it up,
:and it means this. It's a Hebrew expression, and it
:speaks of the fatness of the earth, extreme
:agricultural fertility, fruitfulness, and abundance of all He has
:created and supplied. And my favorite part in this,
:that He has supplied For our access.
:For our access. He put it there for you.
:And he put it there for you. And he gave this
:richness, this— the dew of heaven and the richness of earth
:for you. For you to access. Not just to walk by
:it and go, oh, that's cool. I'm so glad that that's there. But to access
:it. It is for your use. And this happens all the
:time. And so, don't be surprised if it happens to you.
:A squirrel came into my office. And I'm like, oh, wait a minute, wait a
:minute, squirrel! Sometimes a squirrel sounds like this, and
:sometimes it sounds like a phone ringing, and sometimes it sounds like
:this. Words that go neon and go,
:okay, make a note to yourself because you are gonna go back and
:you are going to look up how you access
:How do I access
:this richness? How do I look? And
:I will mark that as a side note so that I know I wanna
:go back and add to this well at some point because it's gonna be important
:and I don't wanna forget it. And I will forget it if I don't write
:it down, so I'll write it down. All right, so back to
:the concordance. I look at this earth's richness, and the next
:question I normally ask is, does this appear anywhere else in
:Scripture? And if it appears somewhere else in Scripture, what is its
:context? And is it consistent with what I'm seeing
:here in this context? Move the
:squirrel back to concordance. And yes, it
:does. It does appear in Scripture in Genesis 27. We've
:just been in Genesis 26. Yes. Go to Genesis 27,
:and if you go to verse 38 and 39, it says,
:Esau said to his father, do you have
:only one blessing, my father? Because see, Jacob just
:received his— the blessing that should have been his, and Esau
:realizes the blessing has been taken. And he goes, and he goes in
:tears to his father, and he says, do you not have another blessing for me?
:Yes, I do.
:Bless me too, my father!
:Then Esau wept aloud, and his father Isaac
:answered him, your dwelling will be away
:from the earth's richness, away
:from the dew of heaven above.
:That just broke my heart. It broke my
:heart to go away
:from all of those things we've just talked about. It will be away from those
:things. And the
:powerful contrast between the same 2 elements being
:present and being absent from someone's
:life, that tells you there's the possibility of that, right? Yes.
:If you look into it, if you begin to look at it.
:And then scripture takes us to Genesis. It takes us back to
:25, Jacob's blessing spoken
:over Joseph. Blessings of heaven above,
:blessings of the deep that lie below. So we know
:that it's there. And then again, in the blessing over
:Joseph in Deuteronomy, it says, may the Lord bless you—
:I'm sorry, may the Lord bless Yes. His land with the tal
:samayim, with the dew of heaven above.
:That's Deuteronomy 33:13-16.
:Here's the thing, guys, as I'm looking at this, and I'm looking at Isaac, and
:I'm looking at Jacob, and now I'm looking at Joseph, and all of a sudden
:it hits me. These are generational wells! These
:blessings are generational blessings that are being passed down on the
:breath of the fathers, and, and And so, there's another element
:to that, that blessing of above and beneath as he's
:pouring into Joseph. And now I get it. And guys, we need to
:understand that the wells that we dig can
:become generational wells. The blessings that
:we walk in, in our life, we need to be speaking over our
:children and over our grandchildren so that they
:understand that these are for their access as well.
:Dig the wells so that your children can rest by them
:until it's time for them to dig another well. Like
:Joseph, we are blessed with blessings of the deep
:waters that lie below. I so love his
:Word, his truth. But then there are these other things that
:if you dig just a little bit deeper, kind of
:like in Marvel, you pick up things if you stay for the credits
:and you're like, oh wait, that's part of the next. And There are
:Easter eggs that— they're hidden treasures that you only discover when you
:slow down, look closer, and dig a little bit deeper. And that is
:what the Lord took me to in this next passage. You think you've
:learned it, so we're gonna go back to Deuteronomy 33.
:And who wrote Deuteronomy? Moses.
:Moses. Absolutely. This makes me feel like,
:you know, who was it? Oh, I can't do it
:because I'll get busted because I don't know the name.
:Justin will know the name. What's the name of the dude that wrote all the
:Marvel stuff? Stan Lee. Stan Lee.
:You know how he always found a way, or Alfred Hitchcock, they found a way
:to be in their own movies? I see Moses do this.
:'Cause seriously, if you go to Deuteronomy 33,
:it says, he's telling Joseph, may the Lord bless his land
:with the precious dew from heaven above and with deep waters that lie below, with
:the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can
:yield, with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the
:fruitfulness of the everlasting hills, with the best gifts of the
:earth and its fullness. And the
:favor of Him who dwelt in the
:burning bush. And I'm like, oh, Moses, no
:you didn't! You just told him about one of your own experiences here! It's
:like, the favor of Him who
:dwelt in the burning bush. Let all these rest on
:the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince
:among his brothers. Yes. I love that
:Moses is telling the story of Isaac blessing Jacob, who would
:later bless Joseph, and woven into that blessing is something
:from Moses' own encounter. His own
:encounter. I love stuff like that. I love it, and I miss it
:if we don't just dig a little bit deeper and slow down and listen
:to what he's saying. The favor of Him who dwells
:in the burning bush. Guys, I pray that for you,
:that you would know the favor of Him who
:spoke from that burning bush, that you would know His
:favor! The breath blessing is so
:important, guys, because I can think all day.
:You all are so blessed, but you don't know it yet. Yeah. Because it
:hasn't passed on breath yet. And a breath blessing
:comes out, it releases something into the universe that is
:Bless me and I will be blessed. That's what the Word—
:Sidebar, the research that they are doing now about sound
:waves, and sound waves being trapped to the point that
:they will hit something, an inanimate object, and they will just begin to spin
:there. And they are looking now at technologies that can
:go and literally retrieve sound waves from
:forever ago. That are trapped to be
:translated. You know why that's true? Because he spoke and it
:came to be. There was life in his words, and
:life has never left his words. When he sends
:them, the scriptures say they will not return void unto
:him, but will accomplish everything that they are sent to do.
:So when a blessing is spoken over you,
:receive it. Yes. Receive it! Receive it! Allow it
:to begin to just spin in your heart, in your
:soul, in your spirit, and come to life! The favor
:of Him who dwelt in the burning bush!
:Here's the thing, the do—
:oh, did I go back?
:The dew is His blessing. The richness is His
:provision. But the water in the depths of the well,
:that's Him! That's Him!
:The water in the depths of the well, it's Him! And if we
:will go deeper, if we will dig into His truth,
:we're always going to find Him there! We're always going to find Him there!
:You're always going to find revelation in the depths of Yes. Of
:the well. And that's what— when I say dig
:a well, that's what I'm talking
:about. To allow things to come to
:light, and to come to life, and to dig a little deeper
:until you find the water that sustains you. And
:whatever it might be, whatever the word is, whatever goes
:neon to you in Scripture, to go, Lord, show me what this
:Show me what it looks like throughout the Word. And allow the Lord— it's
:like having a stick figure with no cover, no
:clothes, no hair, no nothing. And then the Lord starts putting
:layers on. Connie, you're an artist. You can start with nothing
:and create the most beautiful universe. That's what He does
:with His Word. We are the blank canvas.
:If we will just let Him paint, if we will just let Him do
:what He does. That's right. And teach us. He is the master
:rabbi. He is the one who has the answers. And
:so now, now when you take that from the very beginning
:and you go, may God give you heaven's
:dew and the earth's
:richness, the blessing of the tal
:samayim and the mishmani hayaretz. May
:God give you those. It's a whole
:different body of water. Yes. There's depth to it,
:that you have frame of reference, you have context, you
:have all of the beauty of the Word and the life
:in the middle of it. And that's the power of blessing
:as seen from the depths of wells that we purpose to dig.
:There is blessing in digging deeper
:into the Word. There is blessing and there is life. And as the
:Lord is calling us in this body into deeper places
:in the Word to become people who are
:grounded by the Word, not by circumstances, not
:moved, not changed, because the Word doesn't change. And the God
:behind the Word, the living Word, does not change. And so the
:Lord is inviting us, I believe, to dig deeper wells. Amen.
:So that when the waves come, or the wind comes, or the
:earthquake comes, or whatever comes, we hear Him in the
:stillness of His voice. We know the gentleness of His
:whisper, and we know who it is who's calling us to
:the edge of the cave. And so we're getting ready— hold
:on, I just shut that and I wanted to give you some— one
:more thing. We're getting ready. Worship team, if you'd come out, feel free to sit
:right here next to me. Because we're going to dig
:another well, but this time we're going to do it with worship
:in a different way, with the understanding— let me move that—
:with the understanding that the well
:can be deeper. We're getting ready to sing The Blessing,
:and I know the last few times that I have taught, we have
:just really praised as we went out. Yes. Today, because
:of the strength and the power of the blessing, I'm inviting you, and I'm
:gonna join you right here. They're getting ready to sing the blessing, and
:it is a breath blessing. And
:as you release it, recognize it as such that you
:are sending a living word into the
:room with the people that you love and that God has called you
:to minister to. So speak it with authority. Yes. Speak it
:with truth. Speak it with truth and sing it. And guys, we're going to gather
:right here and we are going to stand under this blessing
:because let me tell you, it starts, it says, the Lord bless
:you and keep you. That's Deuteronomy— I'm sorry,
:24-26.
:They're going to talk about a covenant to a thousand generations,
:9. He will never leave you.
:He'll go before you and behind you. Deuteronomy 31:8.
:5. Within you. Psalm
:5. Exodus 33:14. May his
:presence always go before you, behind us,
:around us. Be with us. Deuteronomy 28:6. In your
:coming and your going, he is with you.
:He is with you. This is the blessing.
:If you need a blessing of any of those Amen. I'm
:inviting you, we're going to stand right here, and when it goes,
:amen, amen, we're going to sing it.
:We are saying, so let it be. So
:let it be. May Your presence go before me. May it be
:behind me. Encircle this house, Father God. I'm
:praying the blessings of the Lord, the covering
:of God The dew of heaven
:in this house. So Father, we
:thank you for sending us the dew of heaven
:and the richness of earth. We thank you for the provision that you have made
:and your still small voice that draws us to the edge of the cave
:every single time. Jesus' name. You
:want to join me? Yes. Amen. Guys, let's pronounce that blessing.
