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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE:  BROKEN CISTERNS

A cistern is a manmade reservoir that is used to catch and store rain. It is different from a spring, stream or well because it is a holding tank for something that is poured into it. A broken cistern is symbolic of human shortcomings.

Empty and broken cisterns were often used as places for punishment or as prison cells. Imagine being underground, the only light or air you have comes from a hole at the top. It is muddy, musty and damp.

Jer 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

God told the prophet Jeremiah that Israel has committed two evils, they had forsaken him. Then he referred to himself as the fountain of living waters. They dug out cisterns that were broken and could not hold water. In other words, they carved out their own way, while forsaking the one true God.

I feel like there are also a lot of churches today in which this verse can be applied. They have forsaken the real and true God. They say they are a Christian church, but have built idols of their watered-down version of the gospel.

In doing this they have compromised and become vessels that can no longer hold the living water of God, because the truth is broken. They have allowed the enemy to fill the reservoir with sin and lies. Making it good for one thing, a place of imprisonment.

In the case of these churches, nothing will change until they decide to cry out to God and ask him to repair the damage. They need sound doctrine and truth, not watered down entertainment.

On a personal level, when we allow the world to creep in, we will be spiritually broken and cannot hold God’s living water. It will take repairing the cistern of our lives to make us capable of holding God’s presence. But in order to make those repairs we must look to our God. He is the only one who can fix our brokenness and make us strong enough to hold his living water.

We need fresh water daily to live. Allowing the world to creep in, our spiritual water becomes stagnant or polluted with sin and the cares of life. We will not produce fruit when the water of life within us is polluted. In order for fruit to grow in our lives we need fresh water. The stagnate and polluted water needs to be purified. Just as our soul is purified by the blood of the lamb.

Before a harvest can take place, something has to be planted and watered. Many souls are in need of being harvested.  Its time the church repented, repaired the altars and cisterns, prayed for clean hands and clean hearts. Then we will be ready to go out and make disciples teaching them about our great God and his wedding plans for his bride.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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