If you read the article Time to Dig,Time to Sow,Time to Grow, you will find II Kings 3:1-24 to be very interesting. Three kings set out to go to battle against the King of Moab. After a seven day journey they found themselves in a land with no water. When we fail to maintain a daily relationship with the Lord we may find ourselves in a dry and thirsty land. The kings called upon Elisha to ask the Lord for help because they feared they would all die. We die spiritually when we neglect our prayer and worship time and time in the Word of God. The prophet of God asked for a minstrel to be brought to him and as the music played the Lord spoke to him. Worship is our vehicle into God's presence. As we worship and adore Him in humble adoration He manifests Himself to us. The Lord told the armies of the kings to make the valley full of ditches. They were to dig ditches and wait for the water. Just as the Word from the Lord in "Time to Dig,Time to Sow,Time to Grow" told us to dig in preparation,to dig up the stubborn rocks of the flesh and break up the hardness of the heart and wait for the water of the Spirit. The armies had to dig wells and trenches and then wait, so we must dig wells and trenches in our lives, making room for more of God, more of the Word, more prayer and worship and then we wait on Him. The scripture says that at the time of the morning offering that the water came by way of Edom. As we offer ourselves up as a living sacrifice (Rom.12:1) the waters of the Spirit will come. The presence of the Lord will wash over us " deep calls unto deep at the sound of Thy waterfalls; all Thy breakers and Thy waves have rolled over me." Ps. 42:7 NAS. As we dig wells and wait and offer our lives to Him as a living sacrifice He will pour down upon us as the waves and breakers of the ocean. He will flood our souls with His lovingkindness and speak great mysteries to us. Now is the the time to sow but first we must dig the wells to receive the water.
It says in II kings that the water came by way of Edom. Edom means red,rosy or blood. This great privilege that we have of sitting in God's presence and being filled with the water of His Spirit comes to us by way of the precious Blood of Jesus Christ.
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"It's not too mysterious, it's not so far away" I woke up in the night singing that line over and over. We have been fed a lie that you have to be so intelligent to figure the Bible out, or to walk deeply with God. He sent His son for the common man not the overly intelligent and sophisticated. Jesus was a commoner. He desires for us to simply dig a ditch. How many time we joke about being a college student or a ditch digger. Lord give me a shovel I would rather dig than reason!!
Mel
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