Wells of Living Water

Ezekiel 47: 3-5 says,

And when the man went out to the east with a line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the water came up to my ankles. Again he measured one thousand and brought me through the waters; the waters came up to my knees. Again he measured one thousand and brought me through; the water came up to my waist. Again he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross; for the water was too deep, water in which one must swim, a river that could not be crossed. NKJV

From the time we confess Jesus as our Lord and savior, the Lord takes us through a process intended for us to learn the ways of His kingdom and gain knowledge of Him. This process is activated so that out of our bellies may flow rivers of living water that will reflect Christ in us. As this occurs and we are fully prepared, then we will be ready to be vessels that dispense healing, deliverance, and salvation to those who thirst for a touch of God in their lives through us.

The thousand cubits speak of the different levels God brings His people in the knowledge of Him and of His ways. For this we are required to pursue His presence by the reading of His word, worship, and prayer. Doing this is necessary for us to understand and heed His call for our lives, and for the prospering of our souls that will help us live with purpose. The Scripture says that the waters were: first ankle-deep, then they reached to the knees, and then to the waist until they rose high enough to become a river to swim in for it could not be passed over or through. This means that depending on the depth of the river, ankle-deep or many feet deep, it is decided how much life can be sustained by these waters. This illustration is intended to explain that the more time we spend seeking God and reading His word, so we can obtain knowledge of Him and of the principles and laws of His kingdom, the more we can have access to the abundant life Jesus came to give us. Also, our wells can increase the flow of living water within us that cause us to prosper in all things. So in order to maintain a steadily increasing flow of living water in our wells, there are three important keys to remember:

1.            We must spend time seeking His presence entering His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise (Psalm 100:4). This opens the way for the Lord to draw near to us by His Spirit of Truth to reveal Himself to us. When we read His word, He also reveals to us the image and likeness of Him He wants us to display when we reach our destinies. In addition, as He presents to us His plan and purpose for our lives, He also cleanses us by removing the dross and the dirt that has kept us from responding to Him with obedience. This way, our wells will have pure water that will reflect Him to others.

 Ezekiel 36:24-29 states,

For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will call for the grain to multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.

This passage also shows that whenever there is not enough word in us to sustain the abundant life Jesus came to give us, there is instead famine in many if not all areas of our lives.

2.            We must guard our well when God presents to us His plan and purpose for our lives. For this we need to learn to keep those promises hidden in incubation like a baby is hidden in a mother’s womb. The reason for that is so it can grow and form according to God’s plan without danger of unnecessary attacks forged against us to abort our destinies. Not until we know God has sent people to help us develop in our calls, should we reveal it to others. In Luke 1:24 we see that when John the Baptist was in Elizabeth’s womb, she hid her pregnancy for five months. This verse exemplifies our need to spend time in intimacy with God, for this helps us get more acquainted with our calls. The result will be then, that we will display a Christ-like character intended to draw others to the living water He has put in our wells. One example of exposing our calls at the wrong time comes from Joseph whose brothers responded to his immaturity of revealing his dreams to them too early by trying to kill him, but instead sold him to a slave driver that took Joseph to Egypt.

One important discipline to heed in order to accomplish this is—to learn to speak when we are spoken through. The Scripture says that we should all desire to prophecy (1 Corinthians 14:1), but not everything we see or hear needs to be shared. God entrusts us with certain information for us to pray and stand in the gap between Him and the person or situation we are called to intercede for. This is also another way for us to cover and protect each other while the flow of water in our wells is growing with the knowledge of His word, of Him, and of His ways. The more our discernment increases, the more we need to get on our knees to intercede for others. If God has not specifically told us to talk about the things seen to the person and much less others, it is indicative that we are being chosen as vessels of reconciliation and not as vessels of slander or gossip, especially if we do it for the sake of recognition.

Genesis 29:3 explains that when all the flocks were gathered by the well, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth to water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to the mouth of the well. In other words, only when God tells us to speak we are to do it; after that we must continue to seek Him in prayer and the word, and any other strategy He may ask us to do to incubate the promised destiny in our wombs. It is also essential to not run ahead of God’s timing, nor outside of His ways and the path of the Cross He chose for us to walk with faithful endurance until we reach our destiny.

3.            We must dig up the obstructions the enemy has put in the wells of previous generations, so we can rescue them and make room for the blessings God has prepared for our generation and the next ones to come. This way the next generations can be enabled to dig the wells that will cause them to enjoy abundant life. In Genesis 26:15 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died and he gave them the same names his father had given them. Doing this did not go without contentions and warfare from the herdsmen of the Philistines. But in our generations, with the leading of the Holy Spirit, we can take back the things that had been stolen from us and from previous generations that did not know how, or could not endure the battles to keep guard of their wells.

Furthermore, Genesis 26:19-21 says that Isaac found wells of running water after his servants dug in the valley two different times, but the herdsmen of Gerar fought them over those wells too. Finally, in verse 22 it says, “And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, because he said, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”We can see then how the battles fought in previous generations and the securing of the wells, can have a great impact in the generations to come as shown in John 4: 12-15,

“Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock? Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

Once the Samaritan woman tasted of the water that Jesus gave to her by acknowledging He was Christ- the Messiah, she was then brought to the understanding that a true worshiper is one who worships the Father in Spirit (guided by the Holy Spirit) and in Truth (The truth of Who He is with purity and free from demonic influence) for this is the hour in which God the Father, who is a Spirit, seeks such to worship Him (John 4: 23-24). This caused a reaction from her that God intends to bring out of all of us once we become true worshipers that hold His word and worship to Him in our wells.

Verses 28-30 say,

“The woman then left her water pot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, “Come, see a man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” Then they went out of the city and came to Him.” As shown in this passage, others will be drawn to Christ through us and become part of our legacy that will have wells of leaving water deep enough to sustain the abundant life Christ died for us to have through our relationship with Him. This will cause us to prosper and multiply in everything we set our hands to do because we are doing it with knowledge, and understanding of Him and of His ways, and of His purpose for our lives. As we go back to Ezekiel 47, we see this evidence in verses 9-10 which say,

 “And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kind as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many.”

It takes faithfulness, steadfast endurance, a heart that worships God, a heart for our spiritual parents, and for each other to serve, cover in prayer, and help each other grow the depth of the water in our wells necessary to sustain abundant life. As we continue to endure in the path He has laid for us to walk individually and corporately, we can support one another and the ministry of our spiritual parents to be all God has called us to be in Him. For this we need to prepare ourselves in our personal time of intimacy with the Lord, with worship, prayer, fasting, and the reading of His word, so that when we come to fellowship with others, we are ready to serve them and serve our home church and its leaders; thus being empowered to take others to where we have been with the Lord.

Another important thing to make note of is to not fall into temptation to do things apart from God’s direction and timing as well as the input of our leaders because this will open doors to unnecessary attacks of the enemy that could result in the aborting of our destinies. The battles we fight can be overcome in a place where there is one heart and one accord among us. Also, in this place we can implement the tools and strategies God has given each of us because we have taken the time to hear His heart for us and  for others around us to bring great victories. This is a fundamental way to love the Lord with all our heart, soul and mind and our neighbors as ourselves. To Him alone be all the Glory.□

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