The Fountain of Living Waters

The first and most basic key for power for abundant living is that the Bible is the revealed Word and Will of God . This key is the greatest secret in the world today. It is a secret not because God is keeping it to Himself; it is a secret because people have not believed. Most people do not believe that the Bible is the revealed Word and Will of God. They take out one segment of the Word of God and insert another. But to be logical and consistent, either the entire Bible is the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation or it is not the Word of God anywhere. Knowing that the Word of God is the Will of God is the primary step in our search for power for abundant living. Jeremiah 2:13 says, For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. To whom is God talking? He says, “my people.” He is not talking to people who are on the outside of His fold; He is talking to those within the fold when He says, “...my people have committed two evils; [first] they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters....” God is a fountain as opposed to cisterns which belong to people. A fountain has an unlimited supply of water. When people forsake God who is a fountain, they hew out for themselves cisterns which are man-made and which hold only a limited amount If the cistern is a fifty-barrel one, fifty barrels is the maximum supply a person can get from it. When people forsake God, the fountain of living waters, they hew out for themselves, not fountains, but cisterns. Furthermore, those cisterns are broken cisterns; always leaking away their limited supply. I too was like a broken cistern at one time in my life. I too had hewed out for myself a supposedly valid theological system. I had read this, I had read that, I had concluded this, and I had concluded that; but just when I needed power, I didn’t have the necessary resources. When I needed the limitless supply of living w