THE WATER WELL

Written by Irvin L. Rozier


Numbers 21.7: "Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it."

I received a call from a friend of mine. He wanted me to help him dig a well for a small church inrepparttar edge ofrepparttar 105776 next county. Overrepparttar 105777 years, this church had many troubles, includingrepparttar 105778 wells going dry. When he asked me to help, I feltrepparttar 105779 presence ofrepparttar 105780 Lord so I knew thatrepparttar 105781 Lord had just given me another mission.

I loaded my tools on my old Datsun pickup (it was using so much oil that I just pouredrepparttar 105782 oil overrepparttar 105783 motor and let it leak throughrepparttar 105784 cracks! Not really; just kidding, although it did use much oil). I droverepparttar 105785 16 miles torepparttar 105786 church where some others had gathered to help digrepparttar 105787 well. Before we began, we all joined together in a circle of prayer and askedrepparttar 105788 Lord to bless our efforts andrepparttar 105789 church.

After prayer, I said, "Let me go down in that old open well to see if it could be cleaned out." I climbed down a ladder, and at about 12 feet, saw thatrepparttar 105790 well was clogged up with all kinds of debris. I climbed uprepparttar 105791 ladder and stated, "This well represents what has happened to this church overrepparttar 105792 years. It needs a new refreshing spring of water...a new well."

One elderly gentleman there stated, "Well, you can try to dig a new well but you probably won't be successful. All ofrepparttar 105793 other five wells have been failures." These wells had been dug at places where someone had used a divining stick to determine whererepparttar 105794 underground source of water was. I knewrepparttar 105795 use of divination was not of God (Deuteronomy 18.10).

I prayed and askedrepparttar 105796 Lord to show me where to dig. I know God knows where everything is located. He answered my prayer, and showed me a spot and told me we would hit water at 29 feet. We began to dig and things started going wrong. Pipes broke. Pumps tore up. The enemy sure didn't want us to get water!


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