Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Recently, God gave me a vision and a scripture to go along with it. I keep asking God for freedom in a specific area in my life and this revelation reminded me that my ability to walk in that freedom requires my obedience first. We all have promises from God that we are waiting for. If we can submit to the waiting, that’s the easy part. Often times, the hard part of our promise fulfillment is the steps of obedience God requires first. It may be something specific to our situation, or it could just be a general obedience to living a life of righteousness, holiness and complete submission to our Maker.
In my vision, I saw a dam holding back water. God was wanting that dam to be fully broken so that the water could freely flow. What does the dam symbolize? To me, it meant control. Dams are built to control water. They make lakes/reservoirs, and they keep towns below from being flooded. It’s a man-made way to interfere with God’s design. Now from a natural sense, I realize this has many benefits, but I want to see this solely from a spiritual perspective. By my vision, God was telling me that I have some control issues I need to deal with so that He can direct the flow of living water, instead of me.
The scripture that He gave me to go with the vision is Jeremiah 2:13:
13 “For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.
The word cistern in this case is the dam in my vision. I have tried all throughout my life to erect dams of control. I wanted to control the way people treated me. I wanted to control all the events that came my way. I wanted to control the way other people felt about me. I wanted to control how God showed up in my life. But there are two problems with this. First, anything we build is imperfect and will not work to our ultimate benefit. Secondly, when we try to put bumpers in place to ensure our safety and performance, we end up disappointed in our ability to be God. We will never think or act like He does. We need His fresh flowing water moment-by-moment.
Final Thoughts…
The last thing that keeps coming to me is about the incense we are raising up before God. Water that sits in cisterns gets murky. Murky water has a smell, and it is not a pretty one. It grows yucky things and certainly would not be good for drinking. But fountains of living water are fresh and never grow stagnant. I’m tired of offering up incense of murky, stagnant water. I want the offering of my thoughts, my words and the intentions of my heart to smell of the freshest, purest water out there. I want to break free of the last bit of me that is grasping for control. Lord, continue to show me the places where my focus is on anything but You. Let’s demolish that dam so the fountain of living waters can flow!