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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP428 STANDING ON THE WORD

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: STAND ON THE WORD

How often does something come into our lives that shakes us? The enemy will often send adversities to trip us up. If he can’t stop us, he will do all he can to slow us down and get us to become self-centered. We will start to be concern about our situations or how we are feeling physically as he attacks us with sickness.

We can have hope in Jesus. Looking to him will give us the strength we need to stand on his promises. We have to use the word for our foundation. We have to stand on the promises in the Bible.

If our issues is financial, he is our provider.

Phil 4:19-20 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

If the enemy comes to tell you that you are depressed and that you are losing your mind. If we are not careful we will fall into this trap and start speaking that we are going crazy. This is a lie from the pit.

2 Tim 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

If we have accepted depression, suicidal thoughts will soon follow, because the enemy will drag you so far down that you feel there is no way out. But that too is a lie of the enemy. God has a plan for our lives and it is not to be stuck in depression.

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Jesus died so that we would not have to fight our battles alone. Everyone in life will have battles. If we are just or unjust, however, the enemy will try to magnify the issues of the just. We just have to be strong in the Lord and the power of his might and resist the enemy. Tell him we are not going to believe his lies.

We all have things come up when our bodies get out of alignment with the way they were designed to operate. When this happens, we must speak the word of God over our bodies, we must come into alignment with what the word says about our condition.

Is 53:3-5 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

He bore our sins, our sickness and our pain in his own body. His sacrifice was to give us an abundant life. Are we going to align our thinking with the word of God or the lies of the enemy?

Now is the time for us to come together and fight the lies of the enemy. The truth needs to be known. God is a God of love and truth. He never made a promise that he will not keep.

I want to leave you with one final scripture today to uplift and encourage you.

Isaiah 40:28-31 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

As children of the MOST HIGH GOD, we just have to keep trusting and waiting upon the Lord he will renew our strength. We may sometimes feel like we wait and wait and nothing happens. But actually, he is giving us strength minute by minute, just to keep holding on until whatever we are praying for comes to pass.

Be encouraged, God is on our side, He will never leave us to fight our battles alone.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP427 TODAY

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: TODAY

I want to talk to you about today. In front of us is a chance to change our lives. We can’t change yesterday, it is gone. We can’t do much about tomorrow until it gets here. Today is where we have the most influence. Choices we make today will have a great effect on our future. It is so important to make wise choices every day.

The wisest move we can make is follow Jesus as closely as we can. When trouble comes life can get complicated. There are times we feel we cannot go on, the enemy will try to make us feel like we will never endure this race. Satan is a liar. This is when we have to break things down in smaller periods of time. We can be bold, brave or have faith for an hour. Then adjust and say I can make it one more hour. As time goes, circumstances will change, God will see you through it.

Today is the day to start digging deeper roots to protect us in the storms of life. Trees with the deepest roots are the ones that withstand the storms. Fully committing to try to do more study of the word and praying more, will help us grow those deep roots. It is about

Prov 30:24-28 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; 27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; 28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.

We can learn a lot from these four creatures. The ants are planners and prepare ahead. Like children of God prepare ahead when we surrender our lives to Jesus. The lesson to take away from the conies is to make our home in the rock, who is Christ Jesus. Now more than ever the body of Christ needs unity. The locust could teach us how to band together and go forth in the unity of God’s power and love. The spider can teach us determination. If you have ever walked through a spider web as you leave your house each morning, you know what I mean. You can tear it down, and the next day it has been rebuilt. It doesn’t matter how many times the enemy tries to tear us down, we need to be determined to build our lives back better than before.

I said earlier that we cannot do much about tomorrow until it gets here, but still, we have to be planners for the future. We cannot put off until tomorrow what we need to do to walk closer to God. Today we lay the foundation that we build on tomorrow.

John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

There will not always be the opportunity to win the lost or do anything else for the cause of Christ. Take every opportunity to encourage others to draw closer to God.

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Today is not the day to be double minded. We need a singular focus, our God focus. Today is a day that God created for each of us to make wise choices. We never know what tomorrow will bring, but we can be sure God will see us through all of our tomorrows to come. If we surrender, He will change us from glory to glory, but He never changes.

Heb 13: 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP426 EXCUSES

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: EXCUSES

The past couple of days I have been covering a few excuses that we may encounter when telling others about Jesus. Some are afraid of things they don’t understand. Others don’t want to give up the illusion of control. It is an illusion; there is very little we have control over in this life. But still we fool ourselves into thinking we have more control than we do.

There are people who have been abused or have low self-esteem and can’t accept that God would love them. Even though he proved his love by dying on the cross. They are afraid to make that personal. They may accept that he died for others, just not them.

Then you may encounter those who have chosen to believe that there is not a God. Because they don’t want to measure up, if he exists, they would have to change. They are happy with their life of sin.

All we can do is ask God to empower us with his words, do the best we can to walk in love and help those who want to know more about God.

Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

I believe it is wrong to argue with people over the scriptures. Because it becomes about who is right and not what is right. I believe we can express difference without it turning ugly. Then we need to pray for understanding and wisdom. We both can’t be right, but when it turns to an argument, we are both wrong in our actions. We could understand every verse and still be wrong if we didn’t tell others with the right attitude. Just jumping up in someone’s face and telling them they are going to hell will not reach the lost. Most know they are lost.

Reason can be defined as an explanation, to think, understand and form judgments by process of logic. The word tells us to reason together, in other words think, understand and form judgments by process of logic.

It is possible to have a conversation if people are willing to listen to understand and not listen to counteract or have an opposing point. We all want the same end result for everyone that we come in contact with to give their lives to Jesus. We want what God wants and that is for everyone to come to know him on a deep level. Until, they are completely lead by His Spirit.

I want to encourage you that many Christians have used all the excuses, before they surrendered their hearts to Jesus. Do not be discouraged, when someone basically tells you they are not ready to surrender. That is what all the excuses boil down to, they are not ready. Don’t give up, keep praying and letting your light shine. Keep showing them God’s love. It all comes down to the right time and God drawing them with His Spirit.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP425 TOO MANY HYPOCRITES

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: TOO MANY HYPOCRITES

When you ask some people to attend church with you, they use the excuse there are too many hypocrites. They look at all the people that are not fully sold out to the cause of Christ. These people may be in the building, but are not necessarily in the body of Christ. But we cannot allow others to stand in the way of the lost. The enemy will send people to church to cause confusion and hurt feelings.

I Cor 14:3 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

If there is confusion it is because the enemy is trying to divide people. We need to point out to the lost that people are who they are and will do what they choose. Some are painfully in the way of the lost coming in, because they feel they need to judge. They have a Jezebel spirit. They want to control everything about the church. They are good at the lip service but are not in it with their heart. God doesn’t want these people as they are, because God doesn’t want fake worship. He wants true worship and not lip service. But God is patient and can sometimes turn the legalistic and religious into an actual believer.

Matt 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

That is what God says about those who only give him lip service and stand in the way of others. We need to try to get the lost past the fake people. Make them understand that even though they appear to be getting away with things, ultimately, they will meet their end. We will be rewarded for our choices good or bad.

Romans 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

This is a point we must get across to others. That just because Bertha better than you attends service every time the doors open, doesn’t mean she is on her way to heaven. She tries to make herself feel better by judging others. Instead of her working on her own self and figure out how to be sold out to Christ, she chooses to walk in judgment of others.

We have to love everyone, even the hypocrites. Who knows if we can share enough of God’s love with them, maybe they will find a way to be sold out to Christ. Then we will have won another to Christ.

These people will either wake up and change or they will go somewhere else. When they see they are not causing the division they want to cause, they will leave or let God change them.

When we attend worship, we need to forget anyone else is around us and just praise the Lord with our whole heart. Everything else will work itself out.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP424 I DO NOT NEED A SAVIOR

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: I DON’T NEED A SAVIOR

In our world there are people that are blinded by the enemy. They actually believe in their self-sufficiency and feel like they don’t need a savior. They will say, “I am a good person.” I have to ask, good by who’s standards. The word of God says that we all have sinned and fallen short.

How do we get through to those who are satisfied with their life of sin? Let us look at a few verses.

Many times, when we try to witness to this type of person, they will say that they are not condemned of their sin. As Christians we feel conviction by the Holy Ghost when we step out of line. Sinners do not have that tugging of the Spirit to make them want to step into line. But God’s Spirit will draw them to him. They must be willing to yield.

John 3:17-20 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

When they say they are not condemned, they mean that the enemy has them blinded to the fact that they are lost. They are blinded to the fact that they need God.

John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

We need to point out that God’s wrath will abide on the unbeliever. They will not see everlasting life. The gift of God is eternal life. We cannot receive his gift if we are not willing to give up the old ways of doing things.

Society has told people that God is Love and he will not let anyone perish because of that Love. They completely miss the fact that God gives us free will. He will not override that will, we have to choose him.

Matt 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

This verse explains what happens when someone resist God’s invitation. That doesn’t mean that God is not loving. It means he loves people enough to give them their choice. If they choose to not follow Christ, they automatically default to being a follower of satan.

2 Pet 2:4-6 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

We need to share our own experience. We need to tell them how God has changed our lives. Sometimes it takes someone hitting their rock bottom before they will listen. We just have to show them love and pray for them to hear the whisper of God. Hopefully, they will come to the realization that they do very much need a savior.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP423 GOD’S DESIRES

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: GOD’S DESIRES

Human beings have an overwhelming desire and thirst for knowledge. History has judged Eve too harshly. She made a bad choice and trusted the wrong voice. If we are honest, I don’t believe one of us could say that we haven’t been taken in by someone who was manipulative.

But I want to discuss with you today the garden itself. God gave them everything they needed. There was peace in the garden. It was a place that God came down and talked to Adam and Eve. He desired people to commune with and he wanted to be their God.

When given a chance to be thankful for what God had done for them, they were disobedient. It should not have mattered the amount of knowledge that the tree would give them if their friend asked them to not eat of that tree. Even the threat of death didn’t stop them from seeking knowlege.

Adam can blame Eve all he wants, but he knew they were being disobedient. That is why God kicked them both out of the garden. That didn’t stop God’s desire to communicate with mankind.

He made a better way. He sent Jesus to die for our sins, so that his spirit could dwell within us and commune with us. God is still wanting someone to talk with, just as he came down to the garden and talked with Adam and Eve, he wants to talk to us.

Prayer time should not just be a quick thank you for what you have done, here is my wish list, thank you, Amem. Prayer time should be us quietly worshipping until he speaks to us. Now more than ever before we need to know his voice. We need to not be deceived by the sneeky snake.

Just as Adam and Eve got kicked out of the place God created, many church leaders have listened to the enemy and have eaten the forbidden fruit. These evil pastors have large followings, because they give people a feel good fifteen minutes. He never tells them to choose life and not death. The best way to know if what is being preached at your church is God’s truth, is to know the word for yourself and ask God himself for direction.

John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

God gave the church his spirit, not just so that we could witness, as some say. But he gave us his Spirit so that we can be connected to God. He didn’t fill us with His Spirit just so we could speak in tongues and rejoice, but so that we could be empowered by God to do his will. So that we could be led by His Spirit. If we will listen to the leading of the Holy Ghost we will not be misled by the snakes of this world.

The Holy Ghost is not given to us so that we can become self-righteous and judgmental. He came so that we could have a connection to God. One that will lead us to fulfillment. God’s desire is to have a relationship with us. His Spirit will show us things to come. If we take the time to sit quietly and wait up on him to speak to us through that still small voice.

God desires for us to worship him in Spirit and Truth. He doesn’t want us going through the motions. He wants us to be led by His Spirit and not our will.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP422 CHECKPOINT

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: CHECKPOINT

I had a dream that prompted me to think about our subject for today. A checkpoint, is a place that your credentials are checked to see if you are allowed to proceed to the next area. You have to have the proper identification or you cannot enter a secured area.

I dreamed I was driving. It was night time and foggy. There was very little visibility. In front of me I could see brake lights. Then I was at a checkpoint. The ones that police put up to check license and registration. When I pulled up I gave the officer my paperwork. She looked them over, then said, as she was handing me back my papers. “You need to turn on your headlights.”

I said, “It is ok, my lights are automatic, see the switch is on A for automatic. She got a serious look and said, that is not good enough, they need to be on high beam. I woke up.

As I pondered this today, I feel like spiritually we are at a checkpoint. God, the one in authority is saying there is a lot of fog and darkness. We no longer have the luxury of letting our light shine on automatic. It is time we intensify the beam, because things are really dark. We have to be intentional with the amount of light that we shine. We must think about it and not just be on automatic. We are fighting intense darkness in all forms of evil.

The place we are going to is not a place everyone has the credentials to enter. You have to be a blood bought, spirit filled child of God. As the enemy intensifies his warfare, we too have to intensify our prayer and worship. Worship is our weapon. The enemy doesn’t win, God wins.

For now, witchcraft is on the rise. Baal worship and the worship of Satan is prevalent among the celebrities in Hollywood and our politicians. The same spirit that caused Elijah to call down fire from heaven to wake up the people of Israel to who God is, lives within us. But remember Elijah was opposed by Jezabel. That Jezabel spirit is in the world to this very day. Jezabel splits churches, divides families and wants to control all of society.

How do we combat the evil of Baal and Jezebel? It is time we call down fire from heaven. This time not in a literal way that Elijah did, but God is a consuming fire. If we are surrounded by his fire, the enemy will not be able to touch us.

Make no mistake things are getting real, there is no room in the middle. We need to be on fire for God or living like the world. There is no middle ground fence sitting, those days are gone.

We need to turn up our lights and penetrate the thick black darkness that is all around us. Today is the day to make a difference.

Let Proverbs 29:16 encourage you.

Prov 29:16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

It is encouraging to me that their fall is going to be mighty. All those evil people who have harmed countless numbers of children will fall. They are coming up to God’s checkpoint and he is going to tell them that they cannot go any further. He is saying, enough is enough and they will be destroyed.

Will you get past the checkpoint? Are you prepared to intensify your light? Are you ready to go to battle with our enemy? It is ok, we do not have to go alone. God has promised to never leave us or forsake us. We can be strong and let our light shine into the darkness, it just has to be intentional and not automatic any longer.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP421 PREVENTION

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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING, THE TITLE OF TODAY’S EPISODE: PREVENTION

There is an old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Which means we have to take action now and not put things off because they will always get bigger. Sometimes we have to press through a little bit of pain or being uncomfortable to prevent something worse.

Prov 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

For example, someone who has knee replacement surgery. There is a long process of recovery. Physical therapy is painful and it is hard to push through, I am told. But I know a woman that refused to do her therapy and she cannot bend her leg. That in it’s self-causes a lot of issues she would not have to deal with if she had simply pushed through the pain of therapy.

The enemy comes along and causes issues. He starts to build strongholds. We can either fight to break the stronghold or our future self will suffer the consequences. Future generations of our lineage will have to deal with the same issue. It is called a generational curse and many people have had to fight things that their parents and grandparents refused to conquer. For example, alcoholism.

The enemy will always try to get us bound up in things that keep us distracted from growing in Christ. We cannot run this race until we can walk. In order to walk we may have to do some spiritual therapy. We may have to do some stretching and strengthening of our spiritual muscles.

Do not allow the enemy to trip you up. Prevent the stumbling blocks of the enemy from becoming strongholds. He is determined to bind us up. We have to be just as diligent and determined to not let him get the upper hand. We have to fight that good fight of faith and stand strong. Allowing God to keep our feet on the right path.

Stumbling is all a part of the therapy; we may even fall down. There is no shame in stumbling, we are human. But we have to make a course correction and stay diligent about our course.

Being vigilant about our faith walk will prevent the enemy from getting a strong hold.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP420 CHOICES

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: CHOICES

Every day we have choices to make; do we have bacon and eggs for breakfast or grab a sweet roll and hit the road. Most of us live our lives at a fast pace. Every minute is accounted for and then some. With jammed packed schedules it is easy to allow the enemy to place small annoyances in our way.

As children of God, we cannot lose our focus on what really matters; our faith walks and spending time with God. It is easy to fall into frustration when everything we do or say gets turned into a mess. This is when we need to stop and find a quiet place to pray. Ask God for his strength and help. We cannot be a light to the world if we lose our God focus. He must be the center of our day.

Col 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Developing an attitude of gratitude will go a long way with keeping us on track. When we focus on things above, we keep our focus right. Negativity has no place in the life of a Christian. The very description of the word means that Satan is in charge of our words. He subtracts and divides, he creates negative things. He makes thing appear worse than what they really are.

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

One way we can have an abundant life is if we pray and speak life. Positive words will always keep our focus going the right direction. Speaking faith, speaking life is the very foundation of our relationship with God.

Eph 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

People need to be built up. They need encouraged in their faith. When we speak life and positive things it will encourage and edify others. It all comes down to the choices we make do we choose positive life affirming words or negative things that will draw the enemy.

It is best if we choose to speak life, speak words of grace and speak Jesus.

All through Bible history God’s people would do the right thing for a while and have a firm grasp on their God focus. Then the enemy would come along and offer them shiny choices and before long they would lose their focus. Before long they had completely abandoned God and were worshipping a false idol.

There are many passages about choosing the right path and choosing to live for God. It is a choice we make daily by our actions. We need to be found doing what God has created us to do, time is short and the world needs Jesus.

Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Elijah on the top of Mt. Carmel said something similar when Israel started following the prophets of Baal. Right before God sent fire down to prove he was God, Elijah said,

1 Kgs 18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

When you wake up, thank God for allowing you to see another day. Develop an attitude of gratitude. This will start you on the path to making the right choices for the day. Some choices doesn’t have long term effects. It doesn’t matter if you have bacon and eggs or opt for the sweet roll on the road. But it does matter that we choose to stay connected to God. Each day we must choose to follow closer than we did the day before, that is the only way we will win the lost to Jesus.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING –EP419–DIGGING OUT THE WELLS

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I grew up near an artesian well. As a kid it was amazing to go get a drink out of the fountain that didn’t need a pump. There was not a handle to turn it off and on, it ran all the time. As an adult, I understand that it has to do with pressure in the water table. To a kid it seemed almost like it was magic. Even on hot days it was ice cold, which made it more magical.

Other wells, like the one my grandfather had, was a big hole in the ground that water flowed into and stayed until it was dipped out with a bucket. This is how the wells were in the bible times. In order to stop the flow of water these types of wells must be filled with dirt or rocks.

After Abraham’s death his enemy the Philistines stopped up his wells. Issac came along and dug them out again. Each time he fought with the enemy over the wells. He would walk away and try the next well until he came to a place that the enemy gave up. That well he called Rehoboth which meant the Lord has made room.

At the well of living water God too has made room. He wants us to share the living water with everyone. God has made room for everyone who is thirsty to come and be filled with is Spirit or living water.

It is impossible for an artesian to become stagnated. Water becomes stagnated when it quits flowing. This allows decaying leaves and other things to build up and contaminate the water. Our spiritual lives can be like either type of water. If it is like the artesian well, we are living close to God allowing the things he wants to pour into our lives to flow. If our living water becomes still and doesn’t flow out of us, we can become contaminated by the world and become stagnate.

John 7:37-39 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Out of our bellies will flow rivers of living water. We need God’s spiritual water to be an artesian well springing up in our lives. The spiritual water (Holy Ghost) will continuously flow and keep out impurities. As long as we stay in the flow of the Spirit of God we will not become stagnate.

But more than having enough God in us to keep us on the right path and not stagnate, we have to share the water. Some want to share God’s Spirit according to church by laws or man’s traditions. Some want to share him on their own terms. But there is only one way.

John 14:6- Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Are you ready to be one of God’s wells that will pour out his living water to the lost and thirsty souls? God needs us to be ready to spread the gospel to the lost. He pours into us and gives us wisdom and understanding for us to take and share with those who are dying to know God’s ways. The world is in desperate need of a savior, now more than ever. We can be that well that springs up and shares Jesus with them before they die lost.

Prov 10:11-12 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

I always think of the woman at the well when I think about God’s living water. Jesus was telling her that He was God and man and Holy Spirit all in one. He was telling her that even though she had been disappointed in people that he would not disappoint her. All she wanted was someone to love her and accept her. But instead, she was left with an unsatisfied life, going from relationship to relationship. To make matters worse, everyone treated her badly because of her choices. Instead of having compassion and showing her God’s love. She had been hurt and judged by the religious self-righteous people of her day. I know many who have been judged harshly by self-righteous people. These judgmental people need more of God’s living water inside of them.

The enemy will do all he can to keep the flow of the Holy Ghost from accomplishing a good work. We are the earth that can get in the way of that flow. Today, I want you to think about how much earthly flesh you allow to stand in the way of the flow of God’s Spirit. We don’t want a trickle or small stream of God’s living water in our lives. We need the artesian well, so that there is room for everyone to have a drink. The word tells us to not quench the Spirit. How many times do unintentionally do that very thing?

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