Keep Your Water Shaft Unpolluted
“David said on that day, Whoever smites the Jebusites, let him get up through the water shaft and smite the lame and the blind who are detested by David’s soul….” 2 Samuel 5:8 (Amplified)
As we read this story about the capture of Jerusalem from the Jebusites we will find that King David had a strategy. This reminds us that whenever we are going to be victorious in any type of confrontation – we must first have a strategic plan. Bear in mind that our adversary isn’t powerful nor a genius - but he is strategic and tenacious.
David’s plan was to use the water shaft. A water shaft was an underground conduit for bringing water from a spring into a city. David knew that the water shaft would give him the access into the city – yet give him the ability to arrive undetected. David didn’t attempt to devise a new method to gain access – he just used what was already available.
What is the water shaft in your life? What is the source in your life that keeps your soul, your mind and your spirit refreshed? Whatever the source we must make certain that our personal water shaft remains free from debris. We can’t afford to permit our water shaft to become clogged nor to circulate polluted water.
The enemy will use whatever access is available to gain entrance. He will try to poison your water shaft. He will try to clog up your water shaft. By any means necessary… he still wants access to kill, steal and destroy. He will use your eye gate, ear gate, etc. to gain an access to pollute your water shaft.
You see…Water is one of those resources that our bodies need on a regular basis. Both our physical and spiritual bodies need a fresh supply of water on a daily basis. Our natural body is composed of mostly water. Statistics have revealed that our bodies are more than 60 percent water. Blood is 92 percent water, the brain and muscles are 75 percent water, and bones are about 22 percent water. A human can survive for a month or more without eating food, but only a week or so without drinking water.
So in the natural – so in the spiritual. It is vital that our spiritual bodies receive water – that living water…. in order to be effective. So by any means necessary – keep your water shaft unpolluted.
Daily maintenance is a dire necessity.
Ask the Lord for a sharpened and a keener discernment with the ability to detect the enemy while he is yet afar off!
Remember: It’s the “little” foxes that spoil the vine…. So it only takes one small action, one gate left unprotected, one small breach in the wall….. to permit an access to your water shaft…. Which can lead to the potential of your entire water shaft becoming polluted!
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