Speaker 1: Gonna bless you guys this morning. How are you?
Speaker 2: Are we good? You excited? Come on? I was excited
Speaker 2: to see or today. How many love Terrell?
Speaker 1: He comes in, you know, Terrell's the Amen corner and
Speaker 1: uh and so he's uh, Amen, you can I'm preaching
Speaker 1: on communion today.
Speaker 2: You could say that's juicy. I like that. I just
Speaker 2: thought of that. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 1: But uh, I'm I'm extremely privileged to come to deliver
Speaker 1: the word today. Thank you, pastor, and uh we love
Speaker 1: our pastors. Amen, you know, Sandy and I we love
Speaker 1: this house. We love what God is doing here at
Speaker 1: New Horizon. And and I tell you there's a there's
Speaker 1: there's a presence, there's an anointing on this place that
Speaker 1: many of you walk in that I hope you're tapping into.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: We were recently on Maui for a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: and we went into a store and the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: walked in with us, and pretty soon I'm ministering to
Speaker 1: the to the lady working in the store. And then
Speaker 1: a few days later we're at a different store, same chain,
Speaker 1: different store, and the woman that we had seen that
Speaker 1: night was there. And as I walked in. I thought
Speaker 1: she was going to pass out. And what I found
Speaker 1: out was that at that moment she had been sharing
Speaker 1: with the owner of the stores what had happened at
Speaker 1: the store the other night with us.
Speaker 2: And little Dos.
Speaker 1: She realized, you know, twenty miles away, we're gonna walk
Speaker 1: in with our kids and all, you know. And and
Speaker 1: she introduced us to this lady and we began to
Speaker 1: minister to her, and come to find out she was
Speaker 1: a in twenty years earlier, she had been a Bethel
Speaker 1: student SSM down and reading. She she had I mean
Speaker 1: just and I'm telling you, power of Holy Spirit walks
Speaker 1: with us into places. And we began just to declare
Speaker 1: things over her life. And I'm telling you it it
Speaker 1: rocked her world. And so be prepared that as a
Speaker 1: part of this body, there is an anointing on you
Speaker 1: to touch the lives of people as.
Speaker 2: You walk out. Amen.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that we've been talking about,
Speaker 1: so a few weeks ago we started a series on
Speaker 1: ancient pathways. Elder Craig preached a couple of a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, about three weeks ago, and then we had
Speaker 1: Pastor Zach preach, and then really last week, Pastor talked about.
Speaker 2: Vision, and truthfully, it's one of the wells as well.
Speaker 1: And we're on this series and today I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about the Well of Communion and you're gonna play
Speaker 1: with me a little bit. This is our well right here,
Speaker 1: This little bucket is my well. And and because it's
Speaker 1: the best I could do. I didn't have the ability
Speaker 1: to build that well, even though Ai built that well
Speaker 1: and it was pretty quick. I sent that to Bethany
Speaker 1: the other day and said, here's AI's idea for a
Speaker 1: logo for Sunday morning. So anyway, but I want to
Speaker 1: just I want us to begin to catch it. And
Speaker 1: I know many of you we're catching this well of
Speaker 1: Communion and realizing what the Lord has for us in there,
Speaker 1: and and so I want to just pray and just
Speaker 1: begin to deliver this. But I really trust that this
Speaker 1: morning your hearts are open to receive. So, Father, this morning,
Speaker 1: we thank you for your word, God, to thank you
Speaker 1: for the opportunity to speak with your people to share.
Speaker 1: And Father, I asked that every word that comes out,
Speaker 1: Lord is your word.
Speaker 2: Father. We just speak. We say that we ask you,
Speaker 2: Lord to speak.
Speaker 1: And we say your servants are listening this morning Lord,
Speaker 1: we want to hear what you have to say to
Speaker 1: us who we declared in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, I wanted to just start with this
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 1: Bit that you know, I had some thoughts on communion
Speaker 1: the other day, just thinking about our own journey and
Speaker 1: and kind of what we've experienced in our our years
Speaker 1: of marriage, and and uh, really, what what God has
Speaker 1: done When I look back on it, I realized, man,
Speaker 1: we we never started out with this, but it sure
Speaker 1: has become a part of us. And how many of
Speaker 1: you would say you've had some things happen to you
Speaker 1: in life that that you didn't realize early on, but
Speaker 1: they defined you. And and so you know, I was
Speaker 1: thinking about it because you know, we've all taken communion
Speaker 1: a lot in our lifetime. If you if you've grown
Speaker 1: up in the church period, whether it doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: church you grew up in, you've taken communion a lot.
Speaker 1: And and many times we've we've we've you know, we've
Speaker 1: held the bread, we've lifted up the cup, and we've
Speaker 1: about our heads in reverence. But there's this shocking truth
Speaker 1: that a lot of us had never heard until you
Speaker 1: came here, and that is that buried under the tradition
Speaker 1: and softened by routine and overlooked by generations. There's this
Speaker 1: power of communion that Jesus wants us to walk in.
Speaker 1: And you know, the early Church they lived in this.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because if you read the passages of scripture
Speaker 1: about communion after Jesus had died, you see the early
Speaker 1: Church had it all the time, so daily in their
Speaker 1: houses they were receiving communion.
Speaker 2: And and you know.
Speaker 1: The Church lived in it the truth. The apostles they
Speaker 1: proclaimed it. And honestly, Hell absolutely fears this with intensity
Speaker 1: because communion is is more than some little symbolic thing.
Speaker 2: It's not some real ritualistic thing.
Speaker 1: It's not a quiet religious moment added to the end.
Speaker 2: Of the service.
Speaker 1: Communion is the covenant in action. It is the believer
Speaker 1: in enforcing what Jesus has already accomplished. And One Corinthians
Speaker 1: eleven twenty nine is often quoted during communion services, and
Speaker 1: Paul wrote it, and he says, he who eats and
Speaker 1: drinks unworthily eats and drinks judgment to himself. Why because
Speaker 1: he's not discerning the Lord's body. Now, this is what's interesting,
Speaker 1: and you might not hear this anywhere else, Maybe you will,
Speaker 1: but rarely will you hear this. But you know that
Speaker 1: whole thing about discerning the Lord's body, it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: a moral failure. It is speaking of a failure to
Speaker 1: realize the revelation. It's the lack of recognizing what Jesus
Speaker 1: did for us. It means that we're not understanding it,
Speaker 1: we're not grasping it. The covenant reality of what you
Speaker 1: hold in your hands is so much more than what
Speaker 1: you've been taught in tradition religion, traditional religion, the early Church,
Speaker 1: they treated communion with reverence because they saw it as
Speaker 1: a release point.
Speaker 2: Of divine strength.
Speaker 1: They saw the bread as a point of contact with
Speaker 1: the body of Christ.
Speaker 2: They have to remember, most of them had seen him
Speaker 2: physically in form, they had seen him, they had experienced
Speaker 2: his life, and so it meant something different.
Speaker 1: You can imagine, if you knew him personally, communion probably
Speaker 1: might have meant something different than it does today. And
Speaker 1: so they they saw this, they remembered him, they knew
Speaker 1: of it, and they saw the body and the blood
Speaker 1: as points of contact with the covenant that had been
Speaker 1: sealed in him. Remember, he said, this covenant is sealed
Speaker 1: with my blood. And so they understood what most of
Speaker 1: us have either not you know, not been taught, or
Speaker 1: that we've forgotten, and that it's not you know, communion
Speaker 1: is not like a memorial of his death. It is
Speaker 1: a celebration of his victory.
Speaker 2: This bread's not merely bread.
Speaker 1: We just talked about this the other day, that this
Speaker 1: is un common bread. Come on, there's something about the
Speaker 1: bread that is not common. I don't have time to
Speaker 1: talk about the story of David going in and asking
Speaker 1: for bread from the priest, but.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you something.
Speaker 1: The priest said to him, all that we have is
Speaker 1: uncommon bread. And then when he asked for a sword,
Speaker 1: he said, the only sword that's here is the one
Speaker 1: that's back there, behind that one place. It's in his presence,
Speaker 1: and it was the sword that you cut off goliaths
Speaker 1: head with.
Speaker 2: Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 1: The weapon of our warfare is the one that's in
Speaker 1: the presence of God.
Speaker 2: Come on, come on.
Speaker 1: That's I have time for that subject today, But I
Speaker 1: encourage you go read this stuff.
Speaker 2: It'll rock your world.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that he was wounded for our transgressions,
Speaker 1: and that by his stripes we are healed. These aren't
Speaker 1: just poetic statements. These are legal declarations that you get
Speaker 1: to speak. Come on, well, these are legal you.
Speaker 2: Come on, you can walk out that by his stripes,
Speaker 2: I am healed. That's a legal declaration.
Speaker 1: That should send the demons of Hell running every time
Speaker 1: you say it. Come on, by his wounds, I've been
Speaker 1: My transgressions have been wiped out.
Speaker 2: Come on, thank you Jesus. Come on.
Speaker 1: That whipping post was where your sickness was carried, and
Speaker 1: that cross was where our sins were born. Come on,
Speaker 1: he bore those sins on his back, and here at
Speaker 1: new horizon. We're growing in all of this. But today
Speaker 1: I want to talk about redigging the wells, redigging the
Speaker 1: well of Communion, specifically who jump to Genesis, chapter twenty
Speaker 1: six and verse eighteen. Bible says Isaac reopened the wells
Speaker 1: that had been dug during the days of his father Abraham,
Speaker 1: for the Philistines had filled them in, filled them up
Speaker 1: after Abraham died, and Isaac restored their names.
Speaker 2: There are some things of God.
Speaker 1: That he is given to us, that he never intended
Speaker 1: for them to be closed off, that they are for
Speaker 1: generation to generation. You know, wells are not lost by accident.
Speaker 2: They get filled in a little bit at a time,
Speaker 2: and they can be filled in by the enemy.
Speaker 1: They can filled in and get filled in by people
Speaker 1: who might not realize their value. But nonetheless they get
Speaker 1: filled in. And eventually, when you go to that well,
Speaker 1: you can't get the hat all out. It's buried, it's
Speaker 1: under some things.
Speaker 2: But guess what.
Speaker 1: The well doesn't stop being a well because somebody threw
Speaker 1: some stuff in there. The Bible says Isaac, he uncovered
Speaker 1: those wells. I'm telling you today, we're gonna be a
Speaker 1: people of God who uncover some wells.
Speaker 2: We're gonna say, Lord, we we uncover the ancient wells, the.
Speaker 1: Pathways that you have for us. We're uncovering those in prayer.
Speaker 1: We're gonna uncover the well in baptism. We're gonna uncover
Speaker 1: the well of healing. We're gonna uncover the well of deliverance.
Speaker 1: We're gonna uncover these wells because God, we want everything
Speaker 1: that you have for us. I want us to have everywhere.
Speaker 1: There should be wells across this property, across your homes,
Speaker 1: across this church, that are the wells of salvation, the
Speaker 1: wells of deliverance, the wells of healing, the well of
Speaker 1: change is breaking up. People walk in the door. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, deliverance comes. Come on, well, we don't
Speaker 1: even have to preach. We just have people breaking free
Speaker 1: all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: How would you like it?
Speaker 1: During worship, All of a sudden, somebody jumps out of
Speaker 1: a wheelchair and just begins to run this building.
Speaker 2: Come on, there's a well of healing. Come on.
Speaker 1: We don't need necessarily a flowery prayer. We just see
Speaker 1: the power of Holy Spirit. Recently, our daughter and our
Speaker 1: son in law making a shiloh.
Speaker 2: Some of you probably know them.
Speaker 1: They live over in Idaho, and recently they're well. Quit
Speaker 1: working the pump died. Now, when you live a little
Speaker 1: bit off grid, mostly off grid, and you've got four
Speaker 1: children and a mini farm, water is a problem if
Speaker 1: you don't have it. And I encourage you if you
Speaker 1: want to test the theory, just today, when you get home,
Speaker 1: shut off the water at the street, away the key,
Speaker 1: and just live for a few days and see how
Speaker 1: much you depend on water. But you know, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, bathing becomes a challenge, Cooking becomes a challenge,
Speaker 1: Cleaning become everything becomes a challenge. You need it, and
Speaker 1: the thing is what's frustrating is you know you have it,
Speaker 1: but you can't access it.
Speaker 2: And so they had to go for a week or
Speaker 2: so without.
Speaker 1: Water, and and and they had to run and get
Speaker 1: water all the time. Water became very laborious, you know.
Speaker 1: But then they can fix that. But in the same way,
Speaker 1: you see, the access and the flow are essential for
Speaker 1: our lives. The well of communion, it's essential for our lives.
Speaker 1: The other wells that we're talking about, they're essential for
Speaker 1: your life. It's interesting because you know, as soon as
Speaker 1: Jesus ascended to Heaven, the enemy began to fill in
Speaker 1: the well of communion.
Speaker 2: We we talked about it well. The communion in the early.
Speaker 1: Days of the church was often daily in their homes,
Speaker 1: the Bible says. And then the enemy he begins to
Speaker 1: fill it in over time, and so he drops in,
Speaker 1: you know, a little rock of passivity or disappointment, discouragement,
Speaker 1: the rock of religion.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you about the rock of religion.
Speaker 1: When when I was a young man, when I was nineteen,
Speaker 1: so that's a couple of weeks ago, Sandy and I
Speaker 1: were we were serving on this on staff at a
Speaker 1: church in Tacoma, and we were youth leaders. We weren't
Speaker 1: youth pastors. We were youth leaders because I wasn't credentialed,
Speaker 1: so we were youth leaders. Pastor knows what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Titles are important in some of these places. And so
Speaker 1: one day the pastor calls in sick. Early on a
Speaker 1: Sunday morning. They called me and said, hey, we're going
Speaker 1: to need you to preach, and we're talking through the
Speaker 1: service in the and they're like, well, you know, today's
Speaker 1: the first Sunday of the.
Speaker 2: Month, which meant thank you communion.
Speaker 1: You guys that grew up in church, you knew and
Speaker 1: so on the you know, we had community in that day.
Speaker 1: I said, well, I can handle that. I was trying
Speaker 1: to the pastor's wife. I said, I can handle that.
Speaker 1: I can certainly receive communion. She goes her voice deepens. Oh, Joe,
Speaker 1: you know you're not able to administer communion because only
Speaker 1: licensed ministers can do that. I want you to catch
Speaker 1: something here.
Speaker 2: Now. At nineteen, I didn't know any better.
Speaker 1: I hadn't read all the scriptures I've read today about communion.
Speaker 1: So I it ceded me into believing that there was
Speaker 1: some rule in place. You see, it's the same rule
Speaker 1: that says your children can't receive communion. Come on, I'm
Speaker 1: messing with some of us. But the reality is those
Speaker 1: things are not in the Bible. They are in the
Speaker 1: bucket of covering communion up.
Speaker 2: They are in.
Speaker 1: The well of coverage so that you can't access it.
Speaker 1: Come on, but I'm telling you, the enemy has tricked
Speaker 1: us out of our blessings. He's tricked us out of
Speaker 1: our access. He's tricked us out of the very things
Speaker 1: that got intended for you.
Speaker 2: To walk in.
Speaker 1: And he's disqualified us. He's made us unqualified. He's made
Speaker 1: us think we don't deserve something. And I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, there's power in the well of communion that
Speaker 1: you need to access because it will walk you in
Speaker 1: freedom like you've never seen before. The enemy he's wanted
Speaker 1: to stop this pump from pumping. But what he doesn't
Speaker 1: understand is this pump can't be stopped because it is
Speaker 1: not powered by human hands.
Speaker 2: It's powered by the very heart of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: It's powered by the very heart of God. It's time
Speaker 1: for the Church to uncover it. It's time for the
Speaker 1: enemy to be returned back to where he came from.
Speaker 2: And for us to return to this well that sustains us.
Speaker 1: About two thousand and three, a wonderful friend of ours
Speaker 1: gave Sandy and I a CD set, and this is
Speaker 1: we had no idea that this would ever become a
Speaker 1: big part of our lives, but she gave us a
Speaker 1: four part CD set by Pastor Gregory Dickow out of Chicago.
Speaker 2: How many of you know I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: And he put this CD set out and was called
Speaker 1: The Cup of Blessing and we began to listen to
Speaker 1: it and it just completely.
Speaker 2: Rocked our world.
Speaker 1: I remember listening to it the first time and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like we sensed the power of the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit entering our home, and it changed us. I
Speaker 1: mean it shocked us, It rocked us, It changed us.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know Pastor knows this. I walked into
Speaker 1: his office on a Sunday morning, began to share with
Speaker 1: him some of the things we'd been learning, and we
Speaker 1: felt the Holy Spirit come into the office there. But
Speaker 1: up to that point, communion was just something we did.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, we realized something. Communion
Speaker 1: is someone we made all of a sudden it became like,
Speaker 1: when we have communion, we received communion. We're dining with
Speaker 1: the King of Kings, with the Lord of Lord, with
Speaker 1: God Almighty, with Jesus Christ. We're dining with them.
Speaker 2: And it began to change the way our perception was.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the table was no longer a checkpoint,
Speaker 1: but it was a meeting place.
Speaker 2: It was a meeting place.
Speaker 1: One Corinthians ten sixteen says, the cup of blessing that
Speaker 1: we bless, does it not mean we participate in the
Speaker 1: blood of Christ and the bread that we break? Does
Speaker 1: it not mean that we participate in the body of Christ.
Speaker 1: That word participate, it's not symbolic language. It means that
Speaker 1: you're going to share something, You're going to commune with him,
Speaker 1: You're going to have fellowship with him, You're participating in something.
Speaker 1: It's a living encounter with the presence of our Savior,
Speaker 1: and it's not only a reminder of what Jesus did,
Speaker 1: but it is an invitation to experience who he is now.
Speaker 1: When we started realizing this stuff, it changed the way
Speaker 1: we receive things because we stopped rushing through it and
Speaker 1: we stopped kind of reducing it down to something that
Speaker 1: it was never intended to be, and we stopped treating
Speaker 1: it kind of casually.
Speaker 2: All of us have been through communion services, and we you.
Speaker 1: Know, if you grew up in a a in a
Speaker 1: liturgical environment, you might have just you know, kind of
Speaker 1: you went through the motions, so to speak. God never
Speaker 1: intended us to go through the motions. This is not powerless,
Speaker 1: this is powerful. Jesus didn't say take this occasion only
Speaker 1: when you feel worthy. He said, as often as you
Speaker 1: do this, do this in remembrance of me. Luke twenty
Speaker 1: two nineteen says, then he lifted up a loaf, and
Speaker 1: after praying a prayer of thanksgiving, he gave each of
Speaker 1: his apostles a piece of bread, saying, this loaf is
Speaker 1: my body which is now being offered to you. Always
Speaker 1: eat it to remember me. That means communion is going
Speaker 1: to carry some emotion.
Speaker 2: Think about it.
Speaker 1: If you go to a funeral and you're in a
Speaker 1: memorial service, there's emotion there. There's a carrying of the emotions.
Speaker 1: There's this carrying of affection, of closeness, and it's a
Speaker 1: relational moment every time that we receive it.
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be.
Speaker 1: That in two thousand and nine, the same friend of ours.
Speaker 1: She was diagnosed with stage four cancer. And we begin
Speaker 1: to pray with them, and we believed with them.
Speaker 2: We stood in faith with these people.
Speaker 1: These were some of the most incredible people on the planet,
Speaker 1: and we received communion together. We did everything we knew
Speaker 1: to do, and yet she passed away. And see this
Speaker 1: is where a lot of us we stopped drawing from
Speaker 1: the well.
Speaker 2: You see this.
Speaker 1: The enemy loves this rock of loss because he can
Speaker 1: throw it in your bucket and it's one more thing
Speaker 1: to hold back that ladle. He loves the rock of disappointment.
Speaker 1: He loves to confuse you and pour some dirt back in.
Speaker 1: And this is where we allow those things to quietly
Speaker 1: convince us that maybe this stuff doesn't work the way
Speaker 1: we thought it did.
Speaker 2: But I want to say.
Speaker 1: Something to you that I think is really important. That
Speaker 1: is that faith isn't proven by outcomes. Your faith is
Speaker 1: proven by trust. You cannot stop trusting God regardless of
Speaker 1: the outcome. Hebrews eleven thirty nine says these were the
Speaker 1: true heroes commended for their faith, yet they lived in
Speaker 1: hope without receiving the fullness of what was promised to them.
Speaker 1: Another way to say it is these heroes all died
Speaker 1: still clinging to their faith.
Speaker 2: Come on, I might die, but I'm gonna die clinging
Speaker 2: to what I believe.
Speaker 1: God has said over my life.
Speaker 2: They died trusting. They didn't allow faith to collapse when
Speaker 2: the healing didn't come. See. Faith collapses when our trust.
Speaker 1: Is replaced with control, when we begin to decide, well,
Speaker 1: I can't trust God to do it, so I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna go do it on my own. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you've moved out of faith into control. Some of us
Speaker 1: we sit back and we said, well, it didn't work
Speaker 1: out the way I thought it would, so I'll just
Speaker 1: step over here and do it the way I think
Speaker 1: it should be done. We're walking into a situation where
Speaker 1: we're no longer walking in the faith that we should
Speaker 1: and in the trust that we should. We're walking in
Speaker 1: the arm and strength of men. And all of a sudden, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's when trouble really begins. I'm looking at the clock,
Speaker 1: realizing time goes by really fat when you're preaching. Luke
Speaker 1: twenty two twenty says after supper was over, he lifted
Speaker 1: the cup and again he said, this cup is my blood.
Speaker 1: Of the new Covenant I make with you, and it
Speaker 1: will be poured out for you soon. Covenant doesn't promise outcomes,
Speaker 1: but it does promise his presence. His presence is promised
Speaker 1: in our lives. Covenant says, I'm with you when you're suffering.
Speaker 1: I'm with you in healing. I'm with you in life,
Speaker 1: I'm with you in death. I'm with you beyond death. See,
Speaker 1: communion is not some lever that we pull to make
Speaker 1: Heaven move. It's a table where Heaven meets us. I
Speaker 1: want us to catch this because see, it's not some
Speaker 1: magic thing we go, oh, you know, new slot machine.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: This is where I'm meeting the King of Kings, the
Speaker 1: Lord of lords. And I'm saying, God, no matter what
Speaker 1: I'm going through, keyword through, you are with me. The
Speaker 1: Bible says that that though I walk through the valley
Speaker 1: of the shadow of.
Speaker 2: Death, he is with me.
Speaker 1: Come on, and he says, I've prepared a table in
Speaker 1: the presence of your enemies. Come on, come on, He's
Speaker 1: prepared something for you that even when you.
Speaker 2: Are walking through that valley.
Speaker 1: Even when you are in the presence of your enemies,
Speaker 1: he's there to sustain you. He's there to feed you,
Speaker 1: he's there to hold you, he's there.
Speaker 2: To comfort you. Come on, our friend.
Speaker 1: She may not have made it through the cancer, but
Speaker 1: I want to tell you something. Communion carried her. It
Speaker 1: sustained her. It reminded her of who she belonged to.
Speaker 1: It anchored her in hope. And when she passed away,
Speaker 1: I tell you what I know, Oh, that she got
Speaker 1: her healing.
Speaker 2: She was made complete at that very moment.
Speaker 1: Come on, Romans eight thirty eight and thirty nine says,
Speaker 1: for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
Speaker 1: nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Speaker 1: nor height nor depth, nor any other created things shall
Speaker 1: be able to separate us from the Love of God,
Speaker 1: which is in Christ, Jesus, our Lord.
Speaker 2: Come on, not cancer, Come on.
Speaker 1: Not death, not sickness, not disappointment, not lost.
Speaker 2: Nothing can separate you from His love. Thank your Lord.
Speaker 1: She Communion tells a bigger story than just survival. It
Speaker 1: tells the story of redemption, tells a story of eternity,
Speaker 1: tells a story of victory beyond the grave. Healing is powerful,
Speaker 1: but resurrection is permanent. The Bible says that Isaac didn't
Speaker 1: just reopen those wells, but that he restored their names.
Speaker 1: Would you just stand with me? I ask the prayer
Speaker 1: team to come. I want to encourage you this morning
Speaker 1: that we're talking about the well of communion, but we
Speaker 1: could be talking about the well of prayer, the will
Speaker 1: of baptism.
Speaker 2: The well of healing. But if you're standing here today
Speaker 2: and you say, you know what, I've allowed.
Speaker 1: The enemy to fill in one of my wells with
Speaker 1: loss and it's keeping the ladle from being lifted.
Speaker 2: Or maybe he's just convinced you that it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: So he's filled it with passivity.
Speaker 2: Or maybe you've had some things happen in life and.
Speaker 1: He filled the well with disappointment, maybe filled it with limitation,
Speaker 1: Maybe filled it with doubt, unbelief m m. Maybe filled
Speaker 1: it with limiting your access. And you're like, I can't
Speaker 1: do that at home. They taught me in catechism.
Speaker 2: I had to be.
Speaker 1: I can only go and get the priest to do it.
Speaker 1: God's telling you today, I open this up for everybody.
Speaker 1: Jesus said, do this in remembrance of me.
Speaker 2: He was talking to all of us.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's been some pain in your life, and you
Speaker 1: just haven't allowed that pain to be healed, and you
Speaker 1: n me just filled it.
Speaker 2: I just tell you something. Jesus wants you to.
Speaker 1: Be able to dip that ladl freely, freely, freely Father today,
Speaker 1: I need your healing freely Father today. I need your
Speaker 1: deliverance freely Father today. Come on today, I need your
Speaker 1: touch God, Jesus today. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: But I'm facing something I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: And he says, wisdom is yours. Well today, he says,
Speaker 1: healing is yours.
Speaker 2: Come on. He says, unity in your home it's yours.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 1: He says, this well will never run dry. It has
Speaker 1: everything that you need in it.
Speaker 2: When the woman at.
Speaker 1: The well stood there and Jesus touched her, she went
Speaker 1: for water. She walked with healing, She walked with forgiveness,
Speaker 1: and she walked with her eyes open up with a
Speaker 1: new prophetic word over her life.
Speaker 2: God has something for you yet this well.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to encourage you if you say to me, man,
Speaker 1: I have never allowed myself to do this.
Speaker 2: The way that it was intended to do.
Speaker 1: I want you this morning to allow our prayer team
Speaker 1: to pray with you, begin to pray through these things,
Speaker 1: begin to uncover. Bible says that I Exait went and
Speaker 1: he uncovered those wells. You have a part to play.
Speaker 1: This wasn't a spiritual only. It doesn't say that God
Speaker 1: did this. Is Isaac did it. He had a task,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you you have a task. You can
Speaker 1: recognize these things, and you can say, Lord, I just
Speaker 1: declare right now, loss is no longer a part of
Speaker 1: my history. Well, I declare right now, disappointment, you are
Speaker 1: out of my life. I declare right now, doubt you're gone.
Speaker 1: Come on, I declare right now.
Speaker 2: I stand in.
Speaker 1: Faith believing that what Jesus said he is going to do.
Speaker 1: What the Holy Spirit is has said over my life
Speaker 1: is true, in forever and going to happen.
Speaker 2: Come on, come on. There's a power of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: He wants to move in all of our lives.
Speaker 1: And as we receive communion in our homes, as we
Speaker 1: receive communion in our church, as we receive communion with
Speaker 1: one another, there is power in the blood and the
Speaker 1: body of Jesus Christ, and its restoration time for the church.
Speaker 1: Come on, it's restoration time at your home. It's restoration
Speaker 1: time in your life. It's restoration time, thank you.
Speaker 2: Lord.
Speaker 1: So if that's you today, just as we begin to worship,
Speaker 1: as we dismissed today, I encourage you to come forward, pray,
Speaker 1: be prayed for. Let the power of the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: just begin to rock your world and move your life.
Speaker 2: And let the power.
Speaker 1: Of the Holy Spirit fill all those places, uncover those wells,
Speaker 1: begin to dip in deep and cool water of refreshing
Speaker 1: in your lives.
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Father, we declare it over your people today. God, how
Speaker 1: declare there's a revival happening in this church. There's a
Speaker 1: revival happening in our homes. There's a renewal happening God,
Speaker 1: And we're running.
Speaker 2: To your wells.
Speaker 1: Lord, We're running to the paths that you have for us. God,
Speaker 1: we declare it in the Mighty name of Jesus. Come on,
Speaker 1: give him a shout of praise this morning. Lord, You're
Speaker 1: so worthy.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 1: We glorify your name in this house. Lord, we thank
Speaker 1: you for Jesus name. God, do your work and your
Speaker 1: people this week glared over us in the Mighty name
Speaker 1: of Jesus. Come and be prayed for, and just allow
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to move in your life this week.
Speaker 2: God bless you Church,