1. Re-digging the Wells
Genesis 26:18-22

2. Genesis 26:18-22
Isaac reopened the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.
Moreover, Isaac’s slaves dug in the valley and found a well of spring water there.

3. Holman Christian Standard Bible
But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Quarrel because they quarreled with him.
Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also, so he named it Hostility.
He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Open Spaces and said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
Holman Christian Standard Bible

5. Water Water maintains life, health, and refreshment
Isaiah 12:3 “You will joyfully draw water from the springs of salvation”
John 4:14 “But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.”

6. “…Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me and drink! The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.” He said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were going to receive”
John 7:37-39

7. Wells Are the Ways We Access Water
Time in the Word
Time in Prayer
Refreshing Fellowship

8. Stopped Up Wells
Vs. 15 “The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s slaves had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with dirt.”
Vs. 18 “…The water wells that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died.”

9. Spiritual Dehydration
Dryness
Loss of turgor – skin loses it flexibility
Disorientation
Loss of balance, stumble easily
All bodily functions are impaired
Renal failure – the body loses the ability to cleanse itself of impurities
Skin can become flaky and shed – loses its attractiveness

10. Re-digging Wells
Vs. 18 “Isaac reopened the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham”
King James: “And Isaac digged again the wells of water”

11. Re-naming the Wells
Vs. 18 “He gave them the same names his father had given them”
Going back and calling them by their proper names

12. Digging New Wells
Vs. 19 “Moreover, Isaac’s slaves dug in the valley and found a well of spring water there.”
Literally, “living water”

13. When Well-Digging, You Can Expect Resistance
Vs. 20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Quarrel because they quarreled with him.
Vs. 21 Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also, so he named it Hostility.
Vs. 22 He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Open Spaces

14. Vs “He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Open Spaces and said, ‘For now the Lord has made room for us…”
The verse continues: “…and we will be fruitful in the land.’”

16. Translations That May Have Been Used: Abbreviations & Copyright Info
AMP or Amplified: © Copyright 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
ESV: The Holy Bible, English Standard Version © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.
HCSB: Holman Christian Standard Bible © 2001, Broadman & Holman Publishers, LifeWay Christian Resources 127 Ninth Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37234
JPS: The Holy Scriptures (Old Testament) By the Jewish Publication Society All rights reserved
MSG or Message: The Message © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
NAS: Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NAS) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE. Copyright 1960, 1988, by The Lockman Foundation, California. All rights reserved.
NAS95: Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NAS95) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE. Copyright 1960, 1995, by The Lockman Foundation, California. All rights reserved.
NET: The NET Bible, New English Translation (NET) Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998 By Biblical Studies Press, LLC. All Rights Reserved The Holy Bible: The NET Bible(r) Copyright © 1998 By Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. All rights reserved
NIV: Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by The International Bible Society. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. Scripture quoted by permission.
NJKV: Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NKJV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW KING JAMES VERSION. Copyright (c) 1982 by Thomas Nelson Inc. All rights reserved.
NLT: Quotations designated (NLT) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW LIVING TRANSLATION Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois, All rights reserved. New Living, NLT, and the New Living Translation logo are registered trademarks of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
NRSV: Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NRSV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION. Copyrighted 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, and are used by permission. All rights reserved.
Phillips: J.B.Phillips, "The New Testament in Modern English", 1962 edition, published by HarperCollins, is presented here with the kind permission of Mrs Vera Phillips and the J.B.Phillips estate
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Weymouth: WEYMOUTH NEW TESTAMENT: NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN SPEECH by Richard F. Weymouth 3rd Edition (1912)--Revised & edited E. Hampden-Cooke
YLT: Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible by J.N. Young, 1862, 1898 (Author of the Young's Analytical Concordance)