Power for Abundant Living

The Power of BelievingTo whom is God talking? He says, "my people."He is not talking to people who are on the outside ofHis fold; He is talking to those within the fold whenHe says, "... my people have committed two evils;[first] they have forsaken me the fountain of livingwaters ..." God is a fountain as opposed to cisternswhich belong to people.A fountain has an unlimited supply of water. Whenpeople forsake God who is a fountain, they hew outfor themselves cisterns which are man-made andwhich hold only a limited amount If the cistern is afifty-barrel one, fifty barrels is the maximum supply aperson can get from it. When people forsake God, thefountain of living waters, they hew out for themselves,not fountains, but cisterns. Furthermore, thosecisterns are broken cisterns; always leaking away theirlimited supply.I too was like a broken cistern at one time in mylife. I too had hewed out for myself a supposedlyvalid theological system. I had read this, I had readthat, I had concluded this, and I had concluded that;but just when I needed power, I didn't have the necessaryresources. When I needed the limitless supply ofliving water, all I had was an empty hole. This dilemmais what brought me to the years of Biblical research;the questing for a solution to my emptycistern spurred my start in the Biblical field.6