Module 6 Dig a well
Desired outcomes of Module 6
- Understand what is living water?
- Understand how to dig a well?
- Recognise 7 Ways that quench the Holy Spirit.
Steps
- Lesson 1 – Recap and Intro.
- Lesson 2 - Understand what is living water?
- Lesson 3 - Understand how to dig a well?
- Lesson 4 - Build the retaining wall.
- Lesson 5 - Become a container.
- Lesson 6 - Drawing living water from your well.
- Lesson 7 - Recognise 7 Ways that quench the Holy Spirit.
Lesson 2
What is living water?
Read John 4:1 – 26 v14 spring of water welling up to eternal life.
- V10 – If you knew - Living water.
- V11 – nothing to draw with – no bucket or rope – well is deep.
- Where do you get this living water?
- V14 become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
- V15 give me this living water.
- V16 go fetch your husband.
- V17, I don't have a husband.
- V18, you have had 5 husbands and are now cohabiting -word of knowledge – rhema word – living water.
- V19 sir I perceive that you are a prophet.
- V23 worship the Father in spirit (from the heart, the inner self) and truth for the Father seeks such people to be His worshippers.
- V24 God is spirit.
- V26 Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you, am He (the Messiah)".
John 7:38 Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.
A leaky container.
Deep well with bucket to draw out.
Proverbs 20:5: "Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out."
Lesson 3
How to dig a well!
- Remove the dirt - Repent of your old way of thinking and living.
- Build the retaining wall with bricks of revelation, progressive revelation.
- Become a container, for living water that never runs dry!
- Remove the dirt - Repent and Believe.
Mark 1:15 The time has come, he said, the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news! …… come and follow me ….
Jesus always brings change - It begins with changing the way we think.
- Recognise the wrong thoughts.
- Resist those thoughts.
- Replace those thoughts with the truth.
A caterpillar before it transforms into a butterfly.
A caterpillar develops into a chrysalis contained in a cocoon and totally transforms its physical appearance, which is an example to us, that God wants us to transform from glory to glory.
You are transformed as you renew your mind.
Prayer - Grace to repent from wrong thinking and living.
Grace to renew our minds.
Lesson 4
- Build the retaining wall - Seek revelation of God's Word.
Joshua 1:8
Meditation brings revelation, revelation brings about manifestation.
How to meditate on God's Word?
Read through a chapter of the bible quickly, speaking it out as you read and then return to the parts that stuck out to you or you did not understand and begin to ponder on them. Give yourself enough time for the Lord to begin to shed light on these parts of the passage.
If you have a study bible, follow the connections, and check out connected passages.
This passage links to John 4 and is an example of what you can notice and meditate on.
Proverbs 4:1 – 27
- V 1 Listen – humble yourself and realise some people know more than you.
- Pay attention – don't allow distraction to rob you of this instruction.
- Gain understanding – progressive addition of wisdom.
- V 4 Lay hold – with all your heart / not just your mind.
- Keep my commands – be obedient to the instruction you receive.
- You will live – this brings real life.
- Don't forget – this is the main problem revelation can be lost.
- V 7 Value of wisdom – more important than all your possessions.
- V 8 Exaltation – promotion and success.
- Honour – recognition of your value.
- Long life – not only many years but many quality years.
- Guide – personal help and instruction.
- Leader – directions to follow.
- Unhindered – easy progress / buttered steps.
- Righteous path – grows brighter and brighter.
- Life – not just existing but living in abundance.
- Health – wealth without health is worthless.
- Guard your heart – protect the revelations of wisdom don't lose them.
- Wellspring of life – This is where it all flows from, inside of you.
When you begin to remember each verse and begin to ponder on them, the Lord begins to reveal His Word to your heart. This is like building a retaining wall in your well.
Each revelation is another brick in the wall.
It stops the dirt from falling back into your well, that is, it stops the wrong thoughts from retaking their place in your heart.
Backsliding is falling back into your old sinful ways.
Prayer –
Grace to remember scripture.
Grace to meditate on scripture.
Grace to understand scripture.
Isaiah 28:9 - 11Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Lesson 5
- Become a container - wellspring of life to others.
As you fill your internal well with the living water of the Word of God, so the Lord will bring across your path, those who are dry and thirsty.
You will be amazed, at times, how the Word of God flows from your lips to explain and answer the needs of those in front of you.
Luke 6:43 – 45
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart…. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
Lesson 6
Drawing living water from your well.
Another way of drawing water from your well is to pray in the spirit and ask the Lord for the interpretation.
1 Corinth 14:12 – 15 So it is with yourselves; since you are so eager and ambitious to possess spiritual endowments and manifestations of the Holy Spirit, concentrate on striving to excel and to abound in them in ways that will build up the church.
Therefore, the person who speaks in an unknown tongue should pray for the power to interpret and explain what he says. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
So, what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.
This is the way we train people to operate in the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, so practice this listening prayer as often as you can – Pray in the spirit and listen to what the Lord is telling you.
Lesson 7
Stir up the Gift/ Fan it into flame by filling your heart with the word and the spirit of God.
Is this man fanning the flames or trying to put them out?
7 Ways to quench the Holy Spirit derived from an article by Sam Storms on Desiring God website.
The Acrostic – DISTAIN.
- Diminish His personality and Deity.
- Ignore His leadings.
- Suppress His Spiritual Gifts.
- Traditions instead of spontaneous leading.
- Alienate us from the cry of Abba Father in our hearts.
- Invalidate the importance of prophetic utterance.
- Negate emotional and intimate worship of the Lord.
If there is no word going into your heart, there will be no word coming out, you will not be living by faith, you will not be pleasing God, and anything you do achieve will be by your own strength.
Prayer for those who have not received yet.
- Baptism in the Holy Spirit with the ability to pray in tongues.
- Gift of interpretation of tongues.
- Gift of prophecy