Digging

• Notice the last part of the verse: “when you shall search for me with all your heart”

• Something that I always wanted as a child was a metal detector. Not a cheap one, but one that could really detect stuff deep in the ground. I could imagine hearing it going off really loud, grabbing the shovel, and discovering cool and rare things.

• Going on a search for treasure. To find that treasure on that search would require some digging.

• There is more to God than what we know or have experienced. There should be a burning and growing desire within every Child of God to diligently search and seek more of God.

• As we search, it requires some digging to go deeper in God.

• Tonight, I want to minister on two types of digging we should be involved in.

1. DIGGING WELLS AGAIN

• “And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.” Genesis 26:18

• What wells are stopped up in our lives?

• Rest assured that we all have some wells in our lives that the enemy has tried to stop up tight in our lives. Whether by trials, situations, or circumstances that happens in our lives, the wells in our soul get filled up with stuff.

• Maybe it’s our praise or worship, our prayer life, our talents and abilities for the Kingdom.

• Those wells still have water down deep in them. They just someone to dig them out.

• The spiritual wells in churches can become stopped up as well.

• These wells require the work of digging by the body of Christ as a team and whole.

2. DIGGING DITCHES

“And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches.

17 For thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.”

2 Kings 3:16-17

• Ever been through a battle? Has it ever dried you out? Ever been in a difficult season or valley of life?

• God speaks to King Jehoshaphat through the prophet Elisha and tells him to prepare for water in the valley though you won’t know how it comes. (Won’t see the wind or rain)

• To receive from God, we prepare ourselves to receive. Make sure our lives are ready to receive.

• This requires digging ditches of expectation, dedication, and of full surrender to God.

• Digging requires time, commitment, and a heart and soul that thirst after Him.

• “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:19