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connection I don’t care how messed up
your children are I don’t care how far
from God they are there’s a whale in
your house somebody dug it and if you
dig you’re gonna hit the water
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I’m reading one verse of scripture today
in verse 18 of Genesis chapter 26 an
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 speaking the them is the
whales he called the whales by the names
which his father had called them notice
what he said it said that he dug again
that Isaac dug again I love that he dug
in the days of Abraham his father Isaac
dug again the wells of water and I want
to talk to you for a few moments today
on digging turn to somebody and say dig
it I gave you a spoon when you came in
today how many of you’ve got your spoon
hold it up let me see your spoons all
over the room at every campus on how
many of you got your spoon well I’m
asking God today to turn your spoon into
a shovel and transform it so that you
can read igg some wails that God wants
to open up in your home and in your
family the wells that were supposed to
refresh Andrus and revive with living
water
the Bible said the Philistines the enemy
of God’s peoples stopped them up clawed
them up filled them up with dirt it
actually says that once some
translations say earth but that’s dirt
and therefore there was no way for a new
generation Isaac and his generation they
couldn’t get to the water that the
father Abraham and his generation had
dug and it lets you know that a whale is
a pit
or a hole sunk into the earth to provide
water in other words you can’t get to
the water unless you get down into the
hole and if you’re in a hole today in a
low place you’re closer to the water
than you’ve ever been
wells in the Bible were important they
were hard to dig in ancient times they
didn’t have drills they didn’t have the
things that we have today with our
modern technology and so they were in a
middle-eastern terrain desert dry hot
extremely hot and it was a it was a
matter of life and death to find water
if you could find a well of water you
became very wealthy in Bible days a well
of water would be like an awl well to us
today and Abraham began to dig for water
and he struck it but he understood that
the time in the energy and the expense
that he put in digging for this whale
was not only for him and his wife and
his generation but Abraham understood
that I’m digging a whale for my son
Isaac in his generation my grandson
Jacob in his generation the Bible said
in proverbs chapter 13 and verse 22 a
good man leaves an inheritance for his
children’s children another way of
saying that is a good church leaves an
inheritance for their children’s
children in other words you’re you don’t
just need a good church but your
children need a good church and your
children’s children and your children’s
children’s children one day we’ll need a
good church and we need to make sure
that we have a perpetual spirit-filled
Church in every city where we have
people that we want to reach the thing
that I love about the well that we’re
preaching about today is that have been
flowing for about a hundred years and
the well of water that I’m preaching
about has been flowing for a long time
and there’s a good chance that those of
you are here your children will be in
the drinking from this whale and your
grandchildren will be drinking from this
whale God’s dream for this ministry is
that it go from generation to generation
that it go from glory to glory that it
go from faith to faith and every time we
love truth and live it we’re securing a
well for the next generation Genesis 26
and 18 said when Abraham died this is
key
the Philistines waited until Abraham
died and then they filled the whales
with dirt the water was still flowing
but they blocked it and barricaded it
and they said now that the old man with
the white hair and the long beard named
Abraham he he that he would fight for
the whale some some wells are worth
fighting over
and we couldn’t do it while he was alive
but now that he’s dead the new
generation won’t defend the whale and we
can just throw dirt in it and we can
serve mixed water we can serve dirty
water we can serve as a matter of fact
we can just drive the next generation
out and what I want you to understand is
as soon as he died they worked to cover
up everything that he had accomplished
the old patriarch died and I couldn’t
help but wonder in my mind I wonder if
the devil just sits on the sidelines and
he’s waiting for some of the elders and
some of the grandpas and grandmas and
moms and dads and families to die out
because they’re committed and they got
living water and they loved the power
and the and and the and the water of the
Holy Spirit the river of the Holy Spirit
but the enemy knows that that as soon as
they die out that way love that family
the family well we’ll try up because
they can pour dirty they can dirty up
the water they can dirty up the worship
they can dirty up the doctrine but I’m
here to declare today
that we are determined in this ministry
that our children will drink from the
same well that we drunk from that our
grandchildren will drink from the same
well that we drank from they don’t need
some water down power of the Holy Spirit
they don’t need some dirty water that’s
mixed with the world what they need is
one drink of living water and they’ll
never thirst again
they’ll never thirst again we need and
we must have an Isaac generation that
will get the shovel and let the enemy
know that you’re not going to take away
everything the previous generation
attained for us I’m saying today that
the devil would love when all these
white heads died off for something to
change in your family he’s doing
everything he can to stop the Bible said
in Joshua there arose another generation
who knew not God or his mighty axe
we’re in danger under the time that
we’re in I know the power my mom and my
dad dug a whale and their parents dug
whales and for the generations three
generations now we’ve all been drinking
but the next generation they are digging
whales and I’m not gonna let that mess
get in my house in the name of Jesus my
grandchildren four of them and one day
my great-grandchildren they’re gonna
have a whale that I have dug through
fasting and through prayer and I keep
getting the dirt out every time we fast
the Holy Spirit of bring the dirt up and
he’ll say dish it out shovel it out get
it out now
you’re gonna feel the water again the
Bible said that he covered they covered
up the whales the Abraham named and
Isaac read ugh those whales and he
didn’t change there
James I’m saying to you today that when
you understand what I’m preaching
there’s some things that we don’t need
to change the name to the name that
Wales represented somebody in a family
who digs a whale and they would name it
after that person and somewhere in your
family roots there was a mother there
was a father there was a grandparent
there was a nod there was an uncle
somebody dug a whale and in Heaven’s
Memorial their name is on that whale
that’s why you couldn’t stay where you
were in sin that’s why you’re sitting in
a church this morning somebody dug a
whale you don’t even know why you keep
coming but they dug a whale and it’s not
that the waters still not there for the
family it’s just you let the Philistines
put too much dirt in but if you would
just start reaching out for God if you
just get that spoon and you’ll say God
I’m gonna do some digging this week I
know there’s some water and before you
know it slosh you’re gonna hit the river
that your granny had because it’s still
there he’ll eNOS steal their revival is
still there family household salvation
is still there I don’t care how messed
up your children are I don’t care how
far from God they are there’s a whale in
your house somebody dug it and if you
dig you’re gonna hit the water you’re
gonna hit the water the problem is we’ve
gotten used to drinking muddy water and
we’ve got along to drink from those old
whales again read igg the whales and
don’t rename them you still got to
repent from sin and forsake your sin and
I’m not gonna rename it for this
generation
you still have to be washed in the blood
of the Lamb baptized in water and
baptized in the Holy Ghost and I’m not
gonna rename that whale you still got to
come out from among them and be separate
says the Lord and I’m not gonna rename
that whale there’s only two destinations
that you can be headed to in eternity
it’s either heaven or it’s hail and I’m
not gonna rename it to be politically
correct in the church and preach a cool
hwhip gospel you’re going to heaven or
you going to hail you’re living right or
you live in Rome you’re a hypocrite or
you’re a sold-out Christian with a cross
on your back but there is no middle
ground and I’m not will rename the whale
he said I wish you were hot or I wish
you were cold but if you lukewarm I’ll
spew you out of my mouth if you’re
living in sin you’re a sinner and you’re
gonna go to hell and I’m not gonna
rename that whale I’m not mad I don’t
hate you I love you enough to tell you
the truth you can’t have joy with one
foot in the world
getting drunk half the time getting high
half the time and then running to God on
Sunday it doesn’t work that way I’m not
gonna rename the whale and the reason
you’re not satisfied is you’re not
drinking pure water you’re drinking
dirty water and I feel like preaching
I’m telling you this is real
what I got ahold of is real what’s in
Acts chapter 2 is real you got to get
the dirt out of your life I want to give
you a couple of whales three of them
that we need to redo we got to read igg
the whale of worship at free chapel
we cannot lose the whale of worship we
got to keep the worship opened up we
can’t let the devil throw the dirt of
pride an intimidation of what people
will say
the only reason some of you don’t raise
your hands is cause you fully yourself
and pride and intimidation and the
reason we got so many team sickles is
because we got so many popsicles and if
the team sickles would see pop raising
his hands and praising God that guess
what it would move down the line in the
family you don’t have the luxury of not
coming to church and worship in the 21st
century demons are coming after your
family
you better get you a censor of worship
and start saying devil get out of my
house get out of my children get out of
my marriage I worship my way to the
throne of God into the victory that
Calvary has won you got to read igg the
wail of worship hails told some of you
the children don’t even come to church
anymore they don’t even talk about God
anymore they go never come back to
church it’s you turning that spoon into
a shovel and it looks like it’s just a
little thing instead of putting banana
pudding you getting the dirt out instead
of chocolate cake instead of steak cuz I
try to eat it with a spoon that’s how
bad I wanted
despise not the day of small things
because God told me to tell you that
even if you haven’t seen them and they
won’t come to church and you they don’t
talk about God anymore there’s a river
there’s a whale in that family and all
it needs is a Isaac generation to start
reading the way love sacrifice sacrifice
has been sacrificed in this generation
you don’t want it to cost us anything
evey but easy believe ISM we’ve
abandoned sacrifice God didn’t stutter
when he said Abraham take your boy to
the to the mountain and sacrificing it’s
a burnt offering to me God didn’t say I
suggest you do it
God didn’t beat around the bush God
required it you ought to be blessed it
requires sacrifice you own an anointing
a thousand times stronger than you are
today
it requires sacrifice I’ve been
preaching a long time and I know the
Bible pretty good and I’m gonna tell you
if I have to sacrifice I can’t lean on
nothing in my past no one morning from
the past all I can do is every year take
the spoon and turn it into a shovel and
say get the dirt out get the dirt out
get the earth out get the carnality I’ll
get the flesh out and feel me again
because I’m not just digging for me but
I’m digging for Courtney and Chrissa
Carolina Conner Drake Amelia Colette
Luka Leo my grandchildren being in Tyler
my son-in-law
they got a field they got experience
this their children has got experience
this or it won’t be real this dirty
water this this dirty worship this
mixture of the world and the spirit it
doesn’t work it’s not it’s not powerful
and it requires sacrifice God will never
take what you don’t want
but he’ll ask you for what you love I’m
preaching better than you’re letting on
but I’m just gonna tell you listen to
this
God is not your garbage collector God is
not your goodwill store where you give
him the time and money and anything else
that you have leftover that you really
don’t want this is not this church is
not a massage parlor to make you feel
good it’s not a Love Boat this is a
battleship and every now and then it
requires sacrifice it requires you
taking the the shovel and saying I’m
getting the dirt of my own carnality out
and almost sacrifice to God lastly I
will read igg the wail of faith jesus
said when I come back listen to the
question he had will I still find a
faith in the earth in other words will
anybody be preaching healing anymore
knowing with all laying on of hands will
anybody be preaching the baptism in the
Holy Ghost speaking with other tongues
prophesy will anybody be preaching
miracles signs and wonders a will the
church just be
a bunch of professionals Paul said I do
not come to you with enticing words of
man’s wisdom become a demonstration of
the power of the Holy Ghost that is what
we need desperately in this church how
do you how do you in clogged the weld of
faith you get the dirt of unbelief and
doubt out
I believe my children will be saved
I believe my body will be healed
I believe my finances will prosper and
be blessed God you can do it say it
everybody God you can do it say it again
I believe I want the dirt of unbelief
out
I want the dirt of doubt out say God you
can do it again some of you buried your
faith Lazarus died and his sisters and
family put him in the tomb and buried
their faith and said it’s too late and
some of you have children and
grandchildren and it looks like they’re
dead spiritually they don’t talk about
God anymore they don’t come to church
anymore but God knows how to move stones
read igg the way love faith and you’ll
start saying as for me in my house I
don’t walk by what I see I want by what
I hear and I believe this over anything
I see going on with any of my children
I’ve had I’m living in victory in this
area right now every one of my kids are
loving God serving God I’m so thrilled
and I’m so happy but we fault hell we
fought demons we fought Devils and I
said it when I was going through it as
for me
in my house we would sir I reminded the
devil I would read igg that whale and
say you know what you just have your
heyday but one day when this is over
those kids are gonna torment you one of
these days devil I’m gonna make you pay
one of these days you gonna break out in
a revival at Forward Conference and
you’re gonna pour out your spirit on
14,000 teenagers at one time just
because you’ve messed with my children
upon your sons and your daughters I will
pour out my spirit it’s coming muddy
water has become the norm powerless
Pentecost has become the norm we have
more deserts than we have downpours we
need to redo the wail we have more
perversion in the church than we do
power we need to redo the wail we have
more Playboy’s in the pulpit than
prophets we need to redo the wail we
have more compromised than convictions
when’s the last time you added to your
conviction list I know you you’ve saved
by grace and grace sets you free and you
mark that off your conviction list and I
used I can do that and I can do that
well when’s the last time you added
something to your conviction list
we need a fresh baptism of power you’ll
never have a public powerful
manifestation of God’s power in glory
you’ll never have a public powerful
manifestation until you have a private
conversation with God in prayer
recently a ministry partner that we have
stood with for years and years and
helping women called new beginnings
their founder Sharon Thompson began to
share with me something that happened
how that a young girl I think she was 14
years old had been sexually abused and
had all kinds of issues that were going
on in her life as a result of now
addicted and the girl showed up at her
ministry and they had nowhere to put
someone that young and she began to cry
Sharon did and she said pastor we need a
home for girls from the age of 12 to 17
if we don’t rescue them they will end up
in sex trafficking they will end up in
addictions they wind up in abusive
relationships where they’re beat and and
treated like trash
please pastor help me get a dorm for
these girls and I heard the Lord’s voice
in Sharon’s voice because this is what
the Lord told me to tell you the
scripture said he then said tell her
behold you have listened to these words
you have gone to all of this trouble for
me you’ve gone to all of this trouble
for me what can be done for you can
something be communicated to the king
for you and she answered that she didn’t
really need anything and go haze’ I
spoke up and said she’s never had a son
Jesus said I’m gonna ask you a question
what can I do for you what do you need
do you need a miracle in your home I’ll
tell you God’s speaking to somebody
right now
do you need a miracle in your home it
happens when you provide a home for the
homeless I’m telling you today that
urgently this dormitory for young girls
is needed the ages of 12 to 17 the odds
are if we don’t reach them then only God
knows where Satan will take them this is
one of the fastest growing addiction
demographics in our nation Satan says I
want these girls they’re mine
he’s doing everything in his power to
steal our daughters and our
granddaughters to destroy them before
they reach adulthood but you and I can
restore them and with the power of God’s
love they can be healed they can be
restored they can be shown their extreme
high value in the eyes of God and I
promise you girls lives will be changed
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