Anytime we walk out of alignment with God there is a danger of becoming stagnant. Apart from a real relationship with Jesus Christ we inevitably walk into adopting a form of godliness without Power.
“For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, and they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns which cannot hold water.” Jeremiah 2:13
Jesus told the woman at the well that,
“Whoever takes a drink of the water that I will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty any more. But the water that I will give him shall become a SPRING (FOUNTAIN) OF (LIVING) WATER WELLING UP (flowing, bubbling) [continually] WITHIN HIM UNTO (into, for) ETERNAL LIFE.” John 4:14
The Fountain of Living Waters is the Holy Spirits Presence through a personal relationship with the believer and God. The cistern, however, is a man-made system or device created to hold water. Over time the water stagnates and becomes undrinkable and those cisterns are broken.
One of the things that many of us as Believers have a tendency to do is to camp around a movement or an encounter that takes place between us and the Lord.
When the Lord moves in power somewhere there are always those who will attempt to camp out there. They build around the movement instead of staying Connected to the Fountain.
Instead of following the Moving and Living Waters of the Fountain itself, they attempt to build a cistern around that movement. They try to continue to draw from that man-made well until the water either becomes undrinkable or the cistern runs completely dry. The creations of man-made devices can never contain a move of God any more than a man-made device like an Ox Cart was designed to carry God’s Glory. (1 Chronicles 13)
If you feel like you’ve run dry or become stagnant, maybe you’ve camped out around someone or something that looked like the real thing, but in reality, it was just another man-made device. It’s time to return to the Fountain of Living Waters! The place where Jesus declared you’ll never thirst again! Follow the leading of the Holy Spirit as He draws you away from counterfeits back into His Presence! If you always submit to the unction of the Holy Spirit, He will never lead you astray or cause your well to run dry!
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