The Honor and Power Connection-Digging up the Wells of Your Father(s)

In the last few posts, we have been looking at something the Lord spoke to me, called, "The Honor and Power Connection." I have been studying it, and think we're at the place where the Lord wants us to be, so let's jump on in.

We have discussed reverence, honor, and how those are the keys to a manifestation of the power of God. I want to discuss one more thing on this topic. Maybe we'll revisit it later, but let's finish this series up.

Genesis 26:12-18

¹² Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him.

¹³ The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous;

¹⁴ for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him.

¹⁵ Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them with earth.

¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

¹⁷ Then Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

¹⁸ And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He called them by the names which his father had called them.

Now, notice the key phrase here in verse 18. "Issac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father." I want to focus on that.

I think we need to get back to the basics as the Body of Christ. We need to go back to what got us to where we are today. If we are to truly rise up, and be the Church, preparing the earth for the Last Days move of God, it's time we start acting like it. Let's get busy.

We need to dig again the wells of our fathers! Go back to the early 1900's, dig up the wells of the Azusa Street revival, where people would fall out in the Spirit blocks away from the church!

Dig up the wells of the Healing Revival, expecting God to move, and make Himself known with signs and wonders!

Dig up the wells of the Charismatic Renewal, with the gifts of the Spirit flowing in our services!

Dig up the wells of faith taught to us by such great men as Smith Wigglesworth, Kenneth E. Hagin, and (even though he's still alive) Kenneth Copeland!

Dig up the wells of prosperity, so that we can finance the end times move of God!

You see, the problem is, we've become too lax in the church. We're content to let a man like Brother Copeland, or Keith Moore, or some other great man of faith march in front of us, and tell us everything God's done in their lives, and then we leave the service, go home, and act just like everyone else in the world.

Well, I'm tired of it. Get strong in the Word. Get yourself built up. Then go out and do something. Make a change. Part of the problem in the church is, we're so scared of missing God that we won't step out, and when we don't step out, we miss God.

No saints, we need to be bold! Step out in faith! Lillian B. Yeomans said it this way, "God delights in His children stepping out over the aching void with nothing underneath their feet but the Word of God."

So, step over the line of faith. Refuse to pull back.

If you look at all these revivals, they all have a few things in common. First, they occurred when a group of people prayed. And they prayed. And they prayed. And they prayed.

Revival is birthed in prayer. And in that time of prayer comes an expectation.

Second, the people who desired revival desired nothing more than the Word of God. They would go to meetings and hear the Word preached. They would spend time reading the Word, meditating on it, studying it. They lived the Word.

So, get in some meetings! If you have to take time off work, or whatever, find where God wants you to go, and get there!

Then the pray-ers and the ones who have made the Word first place step out in faith.

As they do that, they step out into what the Great Commission says in Mark 16. Notice at the end of that chapter, most Bibles say that the Lord was "working withthem and confirming the Word through signs following" or something to that extent. The word "them is added by the translators. If they put it in, I can take it out. How does it read then? "The Lord working with and confirming the Word through signs following."

Okay, so, the Lord is working the Word. It is irrelevant who is stepping out in faith to fulfill the Great Commission, because God isn't working with them, He's working with the Word.

When you put your faith in the Word, and put action to your faith, you'll see results happen. God will honor His Word, because He's not a respecter of persons-He's a respecter of faith.

When we step out in faith, we are honoring His Word (and we will be doing everything we talked about Honor being in the last two posts), and when we honor His Word, He honors us, by turning up the power.

I'm going to close this post out with a Word I believe the Lord has given me. "So go out, be bold. Be strong, and of a good courage. Dig up the wells of your fathers, and do not forget what I have taught you through them. Keep putting the teaching I have given them to work in your life, and you will see changes. Them that honor Me, I will honor, and them that despise Me, I will lightly esteem. Do not turn from My statutes, and I will honor you by turning up the power in your life"