Everyone has his or her own well in life. A well during Old Testament times was important. It gave your livestock and you water and if you were in times of war, it provided water for your soldiers to drink. And a common practice of the enemy was to fill their oppositions well or wells with dirt so they couldn’t get water for their livestock or soldiers.
We still have those “type” of wells today in 3rd world countries and armies there still do this kind of thing to their opposition or people they want to destroy or defeat. Water is very important. It preserves all life.
We all however have a spiritual well. Our enemy, Satan, hates when God blesses us and when God shows himself in mighty ways and one way he likes to defeat us is dumping dirt in our spiritual well. If he can through enough crap at you and I at one time after we have been blessed or see a move of God – it is a pretty good chance we will take our eyes off of God and the things He has done for us. Satan has had a lot of time to perfect his skills but God is more powerful.
Remember what I have told you in the past. I used to think Satan was pretend or some kind of folklore until I saw him for real when God let down the spiritual veil down and let me see first hand how real and evil Satan is. Remember how I told you about the blood curdling screams and cries that surrounded him and woke me as if the cries were right by my bedside. Just as angels are real so are the devil and his demons. I am grateful however am not the only one who has seen Satan and an angel, Jesus and other spiritual things.
Remember Satan wants to make sure you either do not hear about Christ and his saving power for life and eternal life or do not walk out your faith. If he can get you to not walk out your faith you aren’t representing anyone but yourself and it might as be like walking away from Christ and God. Satan will temp you to use your own pride and understanding to keep you a slave to this world - that is following him without a clue. Satan will also use circumstances and situations in our life to temp us to give up or turn back to what the world thinks is privilege and right. And where do you think the world’s thinking comes from? It is certainly not from God.
God is not just a provider but our encourager, healer, builder and protector. Our human eyes tend to just look at the so-called “practical” side of life instead of the “spiritual” side of life, which can causes us to lean on our own human understanding then the spiritual understanding we learn and get from God. When the human understanding is at work it is difficult for God to work in our lives because human understanding is like a chokehold or grasp on the flow of God in our lives. When we use human understanding it’s like shutting off the facet and allowing no water to come through. And often-human understanding negatively affects our lives and those in our lives because we resort to human ways of handling and dealing with situations – instead of the ways of Christ. If our eyesight is not on God, we are going to make mistakes and have negative results but if we use the spiritual eye -sight that God is teaching us and has given us, we are going to have peace and positive results because we are not going to depend on worldly or human understanding. Out of the human understanding the mouth and body produces sinful results but out of Godly wisdom the mouth and body produces righteousness and blessings.
Proverb 18:21 “Those who love to talk will experience the consequences, for the tongue can kill or nourish life.”
Proverb 18:4 “A person's words can be life-giving water; words of true wisdom are as refreshing as a bubbling brook.”
Dependence on God is something awesome which allows a person’s well to not get clogged up but to bubble over and over-flow into not just our life but also the lives we share our life with. You become that well… that well of blessing when you depend on God for and in everything. Imagine a well that has green all around it and flowering with flowers and trees which supports other life and brings those who are thirsty -to God. That is what God wants us to be but in order for that to happen we must be obedient and surrender our lives and understanding to God to gain Godly understanding that never ceases.
John 7:37-39 On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, "If you are thirsty, come to me! If you believe in me, come and drink! For the Scriptures declare that rivers of living water will flow out from within." (When he said "living water," he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him. But the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory.)
So when Satan tries to throw things down your well and at your life, know that God is building you up and wants to show himself in your life. Trust and depend on God and do not lean on your own understanding.
Pro 3:1 My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart,
Pro 3:2 for they will prolong your life many years and bring you prosperity.
Pro 3:3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Pro 3:4 Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
Pro 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
Pro 3:6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Pro 3:7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil.
Pro 3:8 This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.
Pro 3:9 Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops;
Pro 3:10 then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.
Pro 3:11 My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline and do not resent his rebuke,
Pro 3:12 because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.
Pro 3:13 Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding,
Pro 3:14 for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold.
Pro 3:15 She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.
Pro 3:16 Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Pro 3:17 Her ways are pleasant ways and all her paths are peace.
Pro 3:18 She is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be blessed.
Pro 3:19 By wisdom the Lord laid the earth's foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place;
Pro 3:20 by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew.
Pro 3:21 My son, preserve sound judgment and discernment, do not let them out of your sight;
Pro 3:22 they will be life for you, an ornament to grace your neck.
Pro 3:23 Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble;
Pro 3:24 when you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
Pro 3:25 Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
Pro 3:26 for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared.
Pro 3:27 Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act.
Pro 3:28 Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back later; I'll give it tomorrow”—when you now have it with you.
Pro 3:29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you.
Pro 3:30 Do not accuse a man for no reason—when he has done you no harm.
Pro 3:31 Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways,
Pro 3:32 for the Lord detests a perverse man but takes the upright into his confidence.
Pro 3:33 The Lord's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
Pro 3:34 He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble.
Pro 3:35 The wise inherit honor, but fools he holds up to shame.
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