Opening wells of life

Book of Genesis, Chapter 26. I have titled this message today: "Opening wells of life." I would like you to go to verse number twelve, there in Genesis 26, verse 12.

Much of what I am going to be talking about today has to do with how one generation nurtures another generation with that seed of Faith; how parents can nurture their children and their children their children with that seed of Faith that has been planted in their hearts; how a generation has the responsibility to receive that seed and to be able to continue growing in it or to drown it completely.

They are very interesting dynamics that may sound a bit simple, but at the same time they have their level of complexity and it is on these aspects that I would like to reflect with you today.

But let's go to the text, let me read something here to put things on their respective level: Genesis 26 beginning in Verse 2, it says like this: "And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped that year a hundredfold and the Lord blessed him. The man he became rich and prospered and grew until he became very powerful and had a herd of sheep and a herd of cows and a lot of farming and the Philistines were envious of him and all the wells"... -this is where we start to get to the point, to the nitty-gritty of things-..."and all the wells that Abraham's servants had opened-Isaac's father-Abraham's servants, his father in his days the Philistines had stopped them", in other words they had covered and filled them of land... "Then Abimelek said to Isaac"...-Abimelek is the King of the region of Gerard where Isaac was-..."Abimelek said to Isaac: 'Get away from us because you have become much more powerful than us. made'"; and Isaac went from there and encamped in the valley of Gerard and dwelt there. "And Isaac reopened the wells of water which had been digged in the days of Abraham his father, and which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham, and he called them by the names which his father had called them. But when the Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found a well of living water there, Gerard's shepherds quarreled with Isaac's shepherds saying: 'The water is ours', for that reason he called the name of the well Esek, because they had quarreled with him; and they dug another well and they also quarreled over it and called its name Signa". Later I will explain what those names mean.

"He called his name Signa and withdrew from there and for the third time he dug another well and they did not quarrel over it and he called his name Rehoboth and said 'For now the Lord has prospered us and we will be fruitful in the land.'

Let me leave it there.

You know, this is one of those passages that are in the Bible and you don't know why they are there until you really read them carefully and look to see what is the meaning behind all those words. What does a history of wells have to do with it? What does a story of wells have to teach me regarding my life of Faith, regarding my personal life? Regarding my relationship with God, regarding my relationship with other people around me? What does that have to teach me? I think it has a lot to teach us, my brothers. Look at this, the wells back then were the main source of life. In other words, water back then was the main resource of life. For those days, the way in which Isaac became rich was by cattle and by the agriculture that he managed to harvest.

So was a person who had fields of wheat or vineyards or any other product of the land, a person who had herds of sheep, cows, goats and any other little animal that could be found out there, was a person who was considered prosperous and enriched. Oh my God; And in order to maintain all those things, all those animals, all those vineyards, one of the main resources needed was what?... water. Imagine, we are talking about many of these places being desert places and many of those other places were also green places, but both had to be irrigated to be able to maintain that farmer of cows, sheep and also the vegetables that were harvested there, the food, the sweet potato, the plantains... everything that was given at that time. Water was extremely important, just as it is to us today. And here we see that because of that water a fight was taking place, a fight. But I want to put something in context because Isaac's character here is very key. Many times we hear in the Bible when it is said of God that "God is the Father of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob". That expression implies generation of how God is God from one generation to another and how God's Blessing is transmitted from one generation to another. What was the promise that God gave to Abraham? That he was going to give him offspring, like what? "Like the stars that were in Heaven." That promise that Abraham received was transmitted to his son Isaac. Isaac at the beginning of Chapter 26 where we read begins with a reminder of that promise that God gave to Abraham and was now passing on to Isaac. Isaac upon receiving that promise was living under a generational Blessing.

Usually when we hear that expression we tend to say that 'the curse of one generation is transmitted from one to the other', but not only the curse but also the Blessing and that promise that was transmitted from Abraham to Isaac also carried with it a series of errors. that were being transmitted along the way; what do I mean? Abraham in Chapter twenty of Genesis when he entered that land of the Philistines where Abimelek was King, he had his wife Sarah and when he arrived at that place Abraham was afraid that the men of that region were going to kill him for fucking Sarah. And what was it then that Abraham then did? Abraham lied and said that Sarah was who? ... her sister, until at one point God revealed himself to King Abimelek and told him: "Don't even think about putting a finger in Sarah's hair, because she's caught."

"But God I didn't know"... read the story, it's there in Chapter twenty. He said: "I didn't know, I thought it was the sister" "She is the wife of my chosen one, he is a Prophet and he will pray for you so that then you with your wife and your concubine can then have the generation that you have to have"; and so it happened but Abimelek went to Abraham and kind of "slapped" him so to speak. He told Abraham: "Why are you going to bring this evil, this sin to us by lying to me like that? If we have let you use our lands and be fruitful on our lands, why are you going to deceive me in this way?" So Abraham obviously apologizes to him but he also did what God commanded: he prayed for Abimelek so that he, his wife and his concubine could reproduce. But that same mistake that Abraham made, Isaac also made.

So we see that these errors from one generation to the other are also transmitted because Isaac did the same thing with his wife Rebecca when he entered that land of Gerard's, he had the same fear and said: "Oh! They are going to eliminate me here. My wife is a cover model and they're going to eliminate me so let me say she's my sister," and that was the deal they made. But what happened? King Abimelek this time was not that God revealed it to him but it seems that one of those days that he was walking and passed by Isaac's tent and realized that Isaac was treating Rebecca in a way that is not brotherly and I imagine that King Abimelek said: "Listen, you like a stick, like a splinter. The father came to lie to me and the son also comes to lie to me. What do they think, that I am stupid?" And he went and also caught Isaac's attention, but at that moment there were things that were happening behind the scenes, my brothers.

Because there was a dynamic of God with his chosen ones that was moving from one generation to the other, because God favored these two people who were considered the parents of the Jewish people. He put them in favor before one of the lands that in the future would become one of their great enemies: the Philistines, and in the midst of that land God allowed them to be fruitful. But this is where I want to bring you to the point of things, my brothers, because I believe that there is something very important here regarding these dimensions of Faith.

There is something that I see in Isaac's behavior that caught my attention. First of all, it was his persistence in wanting to provide for his family, for his wife, for his children; You know that the main sons of Isaac are Esau, Jacob - obviously his drama is involved there too - but those are his sons. He had his wife, he had his concubines, and he had to provide for his own. So Isaac had this mentality of constant effort, constant sacrifice, constant work to provide for his loved ones, and we see that in this story of those wells that he sought to open. The point is that although he knew that he was, as they say, in no man's land, they had only given him permission to be there as a foreigner, he knew that he had acquired power, that he had acquired authority from God to settle there but because of that he was receiving envy from his opponents. Those opponents began to argue with him and the first thing I see in Isaac's act was that he sought to honor, first of all, the memory of his parents; the memory of his father in this instance.

If you look with me at verse 18 it says: "... And Isaac reopened the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham, his father, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham and the called by names that his father had called them".

You know what? I want you to think about this, we are talking about a water well. Do you know what a water well is? I'm not talking about this being a three-foot-deep hole in the ground and that's not what we're talking about here. We are talking about these water wells - I really like to watch National Geographic, the channel like this when they show historical, archeological things from the Bible - and it was very interesting. One day I came across how wells were dug at that time and obviously at that time there was not the type of machinery that we can have today: that today they look for a huge drill and it penetrates the earth until it reaches twenty, thirty, forty until hundred feet below ground to reach that water.

At that time they were digging little by little and while they were digging they were sealing the walls with stone so that the earth would not fall, and they were lowering them little by little with a rope and they were removing the earth from bucket to bucket, yes They came across a stone along the way, they had to find a way to break that stone with their instruments and their own hands, the strength of their hands, in order to continue penetrating until they found the water. It was not an easy job, actually, I tell you, in the youth camp that we have done sometimes we have to make the holes to remove the stones or something like that and it is with those little "Army" type shovels.

There are times when it is difficult to dig a hole in the ground or if you are doing construction work in your house and you have to struggle with a pick and break and suddenly you come across a... I say a rock, a a very large stone and you have to find a way to remove it because it is interrupting your path; If one spends work doing those things, how much more work to open those wells? Just by being able to find the resource that was going to keep a family alive, that was going to give a family a chance to survive. And you know what? I see something very beautiful in Isaac's conduct and it was that Isaac sought to honor his father, that was the first thing he did, he sought to honor his father. And do you know? At this time the Ten Commandments were not yet, at that time God had not yet given that list of Regulations by which to live.

But I am sure that the principles of God were still very present, or were very present in terms of the relationship from one generation to another. And I see something very important because just as Abraham sought to make an effort to provide his children with the best and that they could enjoy God's Blessing, so Isaac received them.

Let me make a parenthesis here. You know, we know very well that Commandment that this relationship between parents and children talks about, right? That's the Commandment, I think it's number five in the Book of Exodus, Chapter 20 where it says: "Honor your father and your your mother" for what? "So that things go well for you on Earth and that you live long days." I believe that this is the Commandment that has a promise that encompasses many aspects of life. "Honor your father and your mother" in other words respect them, in other words do everything in your power so that they too can lead an abundant life before the Lord. And there are times that I wonder, my brothers, that the experience of God's Blessing in us is sometimes lived halfway, because we have not complied with principles as basic and as simple as this one, that we have not been able to honor our parents in the way that God expects us to do and I know that here I am before both fathers and mothers, as sons and daughters.

All of us here, even if you are sixty years old, let me leave it there, or if you are fifteen or sixteen, you have been a son, you have been a daughter or you still are, at some point in your life you are there. And very well, my brothers, the type of abundant life that we can have, many times is connected to that aspect of how we have had a deal with our parents... be it for better or for worse. Have we been the rebellious son or daughter? o Have we been the son or daughter who submits to the authority of their parents and seeks to respond in the way that God expects of them? And perhaps, I know that there will be many here who will be able to say to me, but "Pastor Omar, my father was a bandit, my father was an abuser, my father did not love me, I cannot submit, I I can't honor a man like that." And look, I'm not going to blame you, I know that doing something like that is very difficult, but the Biblical principle is there. The Biblical principle, what God asks of us, is more, I would even dare to say that when one manages to honor a father or a mother who does not deserve it, God's Blessing on you will be even greater.

I dare to declare that with complete certainty and I know that here there is testimony of those cases, I know that there are here; that they have been able to experience the Blessing of God in their lives only because they understood what God was asking of them and submitted to God's authority above all things in order to experience that Blessing that God wanted to pour out on their lives. That well, my brothers, of Isaac's relationship with Abraham gives us a lot to say as to how we can keep those wells of life open in the midst of our days. They are wells that we have to keep open, and I know that here, obviously, each family represented here has its drama.

Each family present here has its drama and no one knows it better than you and God. And my wish today is that when I read a passage like this that we can truly reflect on what God is asking for, what God is demanding of us in these days. And maybe you're not going to tell me much more, but after I'm causing you to be there in your mind and in your heart, going around a million, I prefer that that happen. At least at a time like today. But I ask this question: what are the wells for which we have to work, strive and even fight to open them? What are the wells in our life that circumstances have tried to flood, have tried to cover with earth, dust, stones, cement, with steel rods and we have to make a great effort to keep those wells open?

I have identified at least four main ones. One of those is the well of our Faith in God, the well of our relationship with God, the well of our communion with God as the main one, as the center, as the nucleus of all things.

And it may seem simple or trivial, but it is not, my brothers, because it is one of the quickest wells that can flood. It's one of the quickest wells that life circumstances can come... boom... something happens and there it's gone. Hey? One more meter that fills up day after day, every moment when you get up, every moment when you open your eyes, something is going to happen that is going to want to flood that well of your relationship with God. And those life circumstances are many other wells that I am also going to identify here. But the point is, my brethren, that it requires an intentionality to keep those wells open.

Look, Isaac; I wonder why he wanted to open his father's wells? Obviously, an understanding mind is going to tell me: "because I needed it, I had cows, I had goats, I had vineyards, well I needed those wells, I had to open them, of course." But I think there was also that aspect of him wanting to honor his father and by doing that he was going to be honoring God. Because he knew that his father moved into a dimension that no one else had moved, he knew that his dad had received something directly from God and that "something" had been passed on to Isaac. Therefore Isaac was moving in that same dimension and sought to honor God by honoring his father, but when he did that he did not stop there, he sought to open new wells. Look at this, it says it right here -Verse nineteen-

"When Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found a well of living water there, in other words they found water that had not been found before- Isaac was not satisfied with digging his father's wells, he sought to continue promoting, to continue developing , keep looking for more himself, for his own and for those who were around him"; and it is in that search that he began to encounter resistance. It is in that search where Isaac began to meet these opponents who were preventing him from truly advancing, that first well they found was the one called Eseq. Eseq in the translation from Hebrew means contention, contention, in other words that he quarrels, that he fights, it is something that he had to struggle with the others there. At that time, that well of living water was very important and they were fighting for it but they could not conquer it, perhaps because the other group was older than him, but he says: "Okay, I'm going to put a cross and a line on it, Eseq, containment. You want containment, stay with the containment." But it's very interesting that Isaac moved.

Perhaps if it had been someone else, he would have ripped off the heads of those who were fighting over that water hole -'It wasn't mine, I found it first'- and they would have been there looking, fighting, causing more quarrels and fights, but Isaac decided stay what? ... in peace. OK. ` Do you want? Now, I put the stamp on this one. I'm going to move elsewhere. He goes and starts digging in another place and he finds this other well and the stream of water suddenly comes out and the other herdsmen from the area come and they come and 'No, no no, this is in our area. That is from us too´. Hey? and behold, the weave drives from side to side from side to side until Isaac says "Okay, I'll put the "label" on it too. This is going to be Sidna."

Sidna, do you know what Sidna means in the Hebrew translation? It means enmity and there is another word that I got that was well related that meant hate. Enmity or hatred. And I want you to observe these two things, my brothers, because not only is the fact that we are wanting to dig a well being reflected here, but there was a curse that was occurring there at that very moment: if Isaac had not had the correct mentality from God, he would have brought all that evil of contention, enmity, hatred on his family. But when he sought and wanted to make an effort for something better for his family in order to be at peace with God and with others, what did he do? 'Let me go dig somewhere else' and he went to another place on the other side and went and dug another well, dug his hole, the water came out, he realized it was good water and what name did he give it? Rehobot and Rehobot what it means is: spacious places, wide places.

Tell me, if you were given a choice between those three wells, which of the three would you choose?

.... Obviously, God free us to choose any of the first two. A logical mind will think that, but the issue is my brothers and sisters, many times I don't know why, it's like a fly that gets carried away by that blue light, like it gets blinded by the light and when it goes... .. pzz!... This is how it happens to us many times that instead of going down the path of life, down the path of those spacious places for some reason or another we end up in contention, in enmity. For some reason or another we became infatuated with being in contention with other people, in being at enmity with others; "ah! because you didn't want to do things the way I want, well... Hm... there... cross and scratch for you.... there you were".

This is something that occurs in a lot of dynamics, this often occurs in relationships between husband and wife: "ah! you don't want to do things the way I want, well, oh, you screwed up, a wall, a wall five feet thick between you and me" and they go to bed and lie down and there's this big wall between them, they need one more king size bed so they can put that wall there. It occurs in relations between blood brothers and sisters; How many times are there no stories of brothers and sisters that for years and years....? and "hey! How many siblings do you have? I have like three, four, five, twelve, eighteen siblings. Wow! that family is really extended and do you get along with all of them?... ah! boy if you knew that it's a war all the time"; even within the same brothers and sisters here there are times when there are these fights that it's like we come here and "oh! brother, how are you? Nice to meet you. God Bless you." But when we walk out that door it's like......

I hope you're laughing, not because I'm doing a show here, but because I'm making you think. But that is the point, my brothers, that many times there is something in our nature that instead of gravitating to that spacious place to that Rehobot, there is something in us that gravitates to the other side; who isolates himself... "you are going against me, boy. Dare to cross this line" and we are going to go relentlessly against the other person. That is not what God wants and asks for us, that is not the abundant life that God wants us to have. God wants us to be able to get to those spacious places but in order to get there, my brothers and sisters, you know what? ... you have to fight, you have to fight, you have to have a very persistent Faith, an inveterate Faith in being able to reach the place where God wants you to be and dwell.

Today more than ever, my brothers, in those wells, I did not realize and mention the other three wells that I had, the well of our family circle is one for which we have to fight. The well of our family circle is one that we have to be there constantly digging, digging, removing the residue that the world around us puts and many times that residue comes because of us as parents, it can also come because of the children, as it can also come because of the society in which we live that wants to drown that well of the family. And we can't afford to rest on our laurels and let that pit be drowned in garbage. We can't sleep.

I believe that parents play a major role here in this regard. The ones who were digging these wells were neither Sarah nor Rebecca. They did take charge of preparing the flour cake during the day, which the boys could eat and continue working; But the ones who were there SWEATING HEAVY, their hands bleeding from all the calluses they had struggling with the instruments they were making, were those men who were there chosen by God. Today it is the same. We parents -and I'm talking parents, and thank you Lord that I can speak in the form of dad- I look at us, my brothers and we, before God, have the responsibility that those water wells in our home can be kept open, with water clean that is running all the time.

It falls on us that this filter that can stop any rubbish that may reach our home falls on us so that the well of our family life remains nourished, so that the well of our family life can remain solid.

You know what? I have a testimony that at some point I am going to be able to share it, I don't think it is the time to... No, no no, believe me, believe me, I just make you think about it a little. Because I believe that it is a testimony that God is still... how can I say?... He is still cooking it in my life... but believe me that I have seen the Glory of God, my brothers. But I have seen the Glory of God because I have recognized what it is to take the place that one must take within that family nucleus in order to be a Blessing to the people that God has placed in my life and therefore, when I do that, to be able to seek be a Blessing to the rest of all these people before whom God puts me. But everything falls on that aspect: that I can recognize what my role is, what my responsibility is before God. And you know what? Likewise, as a father has the responsibility of taking care of that family well, likewise the children also have the responsibility that this water can be kept clean. Don't think that "ah! Well, since I'm a son, I'm going to back down in the basket and let daddy and mommy take care of the rest." Look, I wrote a note here, I wrote: one generation blesses the other by opening the wells and the generation that receives it is responsible for keeping them open or closing them by their own conduct.

A father, yes, as a father, I focus on keeping that well open, but Lucas -God save us from that- at some point, as Lucas grows up, he becomes an irresponsible, rebellious son and what I have tried to open is him it's covering it up on the other side, you know what? before God I will have done my duty. But before God, Lucas is going to have a responsibility for which he is going to have to answer. I don't want him to receive that judgment, that's why I constantly maintain myself, I maintain myself: "Lucas, no! You have to open this well, you have to work for this well, you have to find that water... `No, dad, that is not what I want, I want another well,'" no, Lord, I say it in the name of Jesus that this does not happen.

But do you see the dynamic of what I'm saying here, my brothers? Children, I am speaking to you right now, you who are children now, who perhaps are sitting next to your father or mother and if you do not have it and you have it from a distance, let us think well. By chance, has the Blessing of God that we are or are not experiencing occurred due to the fact that we have covered the wells that our parents have opened in our lives?

Another of the wells that we have to work, another of the wells for which we have to fight and make an effort to open are the wells of our dealings with others. The wells of our dealings with others, and perhaps they will tell me: "Omar, here you are taking it to another level, I am not responsible for relationships with other people. I am not responsible for that. And the people who behave as they want. Look, fine, people can now behave as they want." But if you have in your head the title that you are a son or a daughter of God, you have a responsibility to fulfill that neighbor who is out there too. One of the Commandments that the Lord leaves us is: "Love God above all things" and then what happened? "and love your neighbor too." I have a responsibility before God to be able to seek to open those wells that have broken my relationship with others around me. I have to intentionally find the way that I can rebuild those bridges that connect me with other people that perhaps the lack of understanding that I had before has caused me to break them.

Have you heard that expression that says: "don't dirty the water because you never know when you're going to have to drink it again"? Whoa! How many times have I had to learn from that? that at some point in my life I dirty the water and again the turns that life takes one says "wow! How small is the world!" I come back and I find this person and it's like... ah... now what is it? let me put a Britta filter on it to see if I can drink it or something. This Britta filter is called Jesus Christ my brothers, which allows me to re-establish those connections with the people who were around me, with people who perhaps at some point when I was digging that first well there was a dispute between us and that was where the quarrel, "I'm not talking to you again" and maybe I went back and tried to make a second effort and we quarreled again in that second and.... there it was... Sidna, enmity, here we go, you there and I here. There are times when many people stay there in that second instance but if I know God's mood, in God's mood, in God's drama in one way or another, if God had intended for you to be a blessing to that person , God is going to allow that person to return to your life for the third, for the fourth, for the fifth time and in some way or another you are going to have to recognize that there is a well of life that you are going to have to open in order to experience the Blessing. of God. Not only in you but also in the other person. Do they follow me where I go?

The reason why I have mentioned these three wells is because there is a fourth well, and with this I am ending, there is a fourth well for which we also have to fight, for which we also have to fight, for which we we have to make an intentional effort to uncover it. It's a pot that if those first three aren't open this room is going to be void one way or another. It is the well of our example and our testimony with the surrounding community, of how we as a Church serve as a well of living water for the people around us, for our environment, for the community. you know?

I have been reading a book by a well-known author for all of us, who is like someone who says :"Bread just taken out of the oven", that soon they will know who he is; but it is the book of our Pastor Miranda that already, Glory to God, is out there, it is beginning to circulate and we are going to celebrate that soon; but in this book the focus, the main theme of the Pastor is that the Hispanic Church has a Redemptive call from God to be able to function as agents for the Advent of God here in this area where we are. That's one of the points he mentions. But that God has chosen a people, a generation that in the eyes of many may seem like little, that in the eyes of many may seem that they are nothing, that they are nobody, that they are strangers, that they are pilgrims, that they are immigrants here on this earth, who often look at us with disgust. God has chosen that town to remind this land of the roots from which they came. It is this people, my brothers, which God has called to open those wells of life of the Word of God, of Faith in Christ Jesus, that can nourish again this land in which we live.

But that is not easy my brothers, because being able to open those wells means that we are going to have to stand up in a difficult and firm way and proclaim a Word that many times is not received in the society in which we are. How many stories or how many news have we heard of Pastors who have been arrested because they have preached a message that is received as offensive by some sectors of society, received as homophobic or things like that and they are Pastors or are people who have been suffering now because of his principles, of his Faith.

You know what? Wednesday night when I walked out of the prayer service, I walked out of here with - how should I say? - with a sense of urgency, an urgency to pray for the role that this Church would be playing in these next few months and years here. in the community in which we live. And much of this came from the message that our Pastor delivered last Sunday.

I was saying to myself: "Lord, I know that You call us to stand firmly and declare the principles of your Word, to be faithful to your Word and so then you support us." That night around half past eleven I was writing in my journal, in my diary and for some reason I received this impression in my heart about the Hispanic Church being like that new generation of martyrs who established a decree in history. That generation of martyrs that because of many of them is that we are now in the place where we are, talking about our life of Faith. And for some reason I wrote the following in my newspaper. Reflecting on those things that God put in my heart, I said to myself: "who knows, these are my words, who knows?"

If a multitude of Pastors have to be arrested for the principles of their Faith, who knows if that is the urgent message that God wants to send to the society in which we live today?

Brothers, I tell you, those words hit me hard. I do not want to be arrested, I am sure that the Pastor does not want to be arrested, but who knows if at some point God's chosen ones have to reach a level of suffering, of effort for the principles of the Word of God? so that this world can truly open its eyes and say wow! "We were very wrong in what we were thinking, because truly there is a God that exists, who reigns over all things." Truly there is a people that is well convinced of the principles that are here in this Word, truly there is a people that has experienced a level of Blessing because they have been subjected to what God asks of them and we were lacking or we were away from all that. But my brothers, much of this requires that the people of God be able to make an effort to open those wells that society has been undermining, that it has been drowning, that it has been filling with filth and garbage, so that this life of God can truly run. and nurture the land on which we live. But in order for this to be experienced, the first three wells of which I spoke have to be wide open and nourished and running with that water of life that only comes from God.

Brothers, I imagine that perhaps these words that I have shared with you today are not very flamboyant or something like that; you walk out of here saying wow! Today the chair where I was sitting shook. But if there is something that I have in my heart, it is the intention that we all leave here reflecting on the responsibility that we have in these times, to make an effort not only to remember the promises of God's blessing, but also that every moment of In our lives we can fight and make an effort so that those wells of water can remain open so that not only we but also our descendants, the generations that come from us can enjoy those things, that promise that God pours out on us and that at At the same time, our circle of influence, the places where we are, can also receive that Blessing of God that is transmitted through a people that stands firm in the Promise of God and that is not shaken from there. I believe that we, my brothers, are called to be THAT PEOPLE, we are called to be the people that we see when the wells of our lives are being endangered or at risk and we have to make an effort not only to look for a shovel and a spike. One has to say: "Look find me a full digger so I can keep this well open" and that responsibility falls on you and it falls on me.

Isaac was intentional in doing it, Abraham was intentional in doing it too; as a father he transmitted it to his son and the son knew how to understand it and also knew how to transmit it to his generation. Therefore, my brothers, we are here today, listen well, I am speaking to both fathers, mothers and children who are here, I am speaking to everyone today.

If we truly want to experience that abundant life of which Jesus speaks to us, of which Jesus wants to nurture us, we have to understand that there is a very great responsibility with which we must fulfill. There are battle fronts, which we have to continue protecting, that we cannot let our guard down, we cannot let ourselves down there, but rather we have to continue fighting and fighting them at every moment, at every moment.

If Isaac had been someone else, from the first chant that they started fighting against him for opening that well, he would have told them: "Oh! let me leave it there, I'm going to find another little corner and there I'll stay subject to what is happening". But he was a man who had a promise, he was a man who knew that there was a call from God in him and that this call was going to extend to his descendants, to his generation. Therefore, he did not rest on his laurels but rather continued fighting, I continued battling, and that is something my brothers and sisters that to each one of you, God is transmitting this message to your lives, it may be a very mechanical message but it is a message real good. There are wells that God has placed in your lives that you have to keep open, there are wells that you have to strive for, that you have to fight for, if you fight against them, look Okay, fight here but I move then and I'm going to look to open another well around here, if there is a fight here Okay, I move and look for another until I find that spacious place that God has promised me, my offspring, mine, the people I meet around me .

Look, maybe, maybe there won't come a time where we can say "I'm free of problems, everyone is fantastically well", maybe we won't get to that point, but we can get to the point where we can say "look, I have this, this and this. but I am firm in the Lord, I am firm in his promises and I know that this well that I am looking to open here will have water that will flow from there, that will reach my generation and even the people who are around mine". But we have to roll up our sleeves and push ourselves. The Kingdom of God is snatched away by who? ... we have to be brave, my brothers, we have to be brave, we cannot let the enemy get away with it. We have to keep fighting and fighting this. And all this comes from a sense of Faith, my brothers, everything comes from a sense, a promise that one is rooted to that promise in Faith.

I would like for us to stand up my brothers and that we can truly think about these things, about these things that I have shared with you. I look around me like this, my brothers, and I see a beautiful, a beautiful congregation. Stories of people who are fantastic, who are great, but through all of those things, they've experienced their struggles, their ups, their downs. And you know what? In the middle of your life there is a well that flows with water and it does not flow with any water, it flows with the water that comes from God, because each one of you who is here, whether you want it or not, the mere fact that you arrive at this place , you have already been exposed to taste that type of water that comes from God. Sooner or later you are going to have to respond to this move of God in the midst of your life. That response from you can be a rejection or that response from you can be "Yes Lord, I accept it, I receive it and I work in that direction" and I say this to both parents and children, adults and young people, this message goes for all.

We all have a responsibility to fulfill before God. If we truly want to experience, if we truly want to live in that dimension where the Blessing of God flows and everything that falls into our hands to do prospers, I have to make a very intentional, well-premeditated effort to keep that well of living water open. , flowing. If you don't want to do anything, look, do you know the best you can do? it is to be totally indifferent to God's call. Be indifferent to God's call on your life, be indifferent to what your husband or wife asks of you, be indifferent to what your son or daughter asks of you. If you want to cover that hole, indifference is the worst enemy that can cover that hole. But that is not what God is asking of his chosen ones, what God is asking is a people who intentionally use their free will to respond to that call of God, to say "Look Lord, here is my well, here is this well that Perhaps my parents or my grandparents opened it generations ago, but for various reasons in life I have allowed residue to fall, I have allowed dirt to fall, dust to fall, stones to fall and it has been covered”.

But that water is there, it is still latent, that water continues to flow and today I need to make an intentional gesture, Lord, before You, before my brothers and sisters, to be able to find the way that this well is fully opened so that I can enjoy the Blessing to feel that water that runs through my whole being. That water that can clean my entire being so that I can then stand firm and say "Lord, here I am. I want You to bless my generation, I want You to bless my people, I want You to bless my community and I want to be an instrument of that Blessing. I want that well of water to flow for others as well. I want this well of water to remain open refreshing, to refresh the lives of others around me starting with my family, starting with my Church and then the rest of my community where I live. That is a call that God has for us today: "Opening wells of living water in our midst."

Let's open those wells my brothers. I believe that we are at the law of nothing, at the law that God only in a snap of his fingers, that we can see a move of God manifested in our midst, that revitalizes all that we are as Church and that at the same time Maybe our communities are revitalized, our workplaces are revitalized, our schools, the city in which we live, may it experience a total revitalization, and that is fruit that comes only from God.

You know, I want to take a moment now and if any of you, in a very intentional way, want to make that decision to say: "Look, Lord, I know that I have let the well of Your life get clogged with a lot of crap and I want you to that well begins to open today, I want to make a decision so that that well can be opened". There where you are, if you want to have or if you want to make that decision, I ask you to raise your hand in Faith, there where you are, raise your hand in Faith and say: "Lord, I want that well to open, I want that this well in my relationship with my husband, with my wife, with my son, with my daughter, with my father, with my mother, with my brother, with my sister, with my neighbor, with my neighbor, with my boss or With my boss, with my work colleague, I want that well to open up, I want that water of yours to flow, I'm not ready to give up, I'm not ready to throw in the towel, I want to keep fighting, I want to keep fighting for this. I've tried once, I've tried a second time and I'm going to try a third time, if I have to try a fourth, a fifth time in the name of Jesus rise up, take in your hand what God has placed and go, dig those wells in the name of Jesus."

Father right now, I declare by your Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, that those wells of living water that you have opened in the hearts of my brothers and sisters, those wells of living water, Lord, have been dug by your power, Lord Jesus, and that they have allowed that water of yours to flow in the midst of their hearts; right now I declare Lord Jesus that to each one of us who needs these wells to be kept open, Father that you bring in a special way that anointing of Yours, that you give us that new dimension, that new strength, that new intention to see those fully open wells and experience that Blessing that only You bring when You are at the center of our lives.

Father, right now, I ask that You bring restoration to the family circles represented here, that this Blessing that is transmitted from one generation to another, Lord Jesus, that You strengthen it and nourish it even more and that if a generation is transmitting to another something that is not good, something that is negative, be it at the level of character, be it at the level of thought, be it at the level of ideals, I ask that these generations can be restored, transformed by You; so that in You Lord the next generations can be nourished with your life, with your Spirit, with your anointing Lord, with your ideals and principles, my God. Father bring strength to each of your sons and daughters. Lord, to the adults, to the young people who have been exposed to this Word today, Lord, allow them to understand, Lord, the message that has been wanted to be transmitted. We are responsible before You to keep those wells open, that as children we have to recognize that our parents have wanted to sow something in us, Lord and before You we have to honor it by responding to them in the way that You ask of us; that as parents we have the responsibility to plant on our children, Lord, everything that comes from You.

Father, nurture the family circles here in this Church, Lord, may there be restoration, may there be reconciliation, Lord Jesus, may the channels of communication be opened so that we, Lord, may enjoy a strengthened Church, blessed by you and at the same time to impart your light to the nations, your light Lord Jesus here in the community where we live. Oh! Father, fill, fill your town, fill your town Lord Jesus in your name we pray like this my God. Amen and amen. Thank you Lord Jesus, thank you Lord Jesus.