Do Not Re-Dig Tainted Wells

A word for the body of Christ in 2025

On Thanksgiving night I had a dream that was unlike most of my dreams. I’ll spare most of the details, as they are irrelevant to the main message of the dream. I’ll spare them because I saw the enemies camp, and he is ugly, and never to be glorified.

In this dream, a beautiful old town sitting on a hillside in the winter time, covered in snow, needed to dig another well. A man of influence in the town went to an old well that had been filled in for some reason or another. It was clear that the well had once been working, because the well was filled in with rocks, pebbles, and dirt.

As he continued to dig, about halfway down, a thick black sticky substance began oozing from the right side of the well wall. The man continued to dig, and as he threw his shovelfuls of dirt and black substance out of the hole, it ran down the hillside and began turning all of the water black (the snow was melting, which was the water running down the hill). I cautioned that maybe he should rethink this, and instead dig a NEW well, but he kept digging.

Suddenly I was taken into the depths of what I sensed was the “town hall” or “town council” building in the town. There was a pipe there that connected to the old well, and apparently another well that was beside it (which is where the black substance was oozing from). There were several men down there who thought that if they drained the tainted well that was beside the older well, that they could continue with the digging up of the “good” well.

The rest of this part of the dream I will leave out. As sometimes imagery can be scary when shared online and taken out of context. I was not afraid of the enemy that I saw, but it was clearly a principality. I quickly realize that the enemy had authority over these two wells, and these people were, in fact, digging up a well in a territory they had not YET been given authority to dig. Nor did they yet have the understanding of what was happening. They were unprepared as the enemy began to awaken.

I knew that spiritually I was in a territory that the enemy had brought me into in this dream, and by the Spirit of the Lord I knew I needed to leave. As a “seer”, I have to navigate the realms in seeing into, and I knew I was being distracted and needed to get back to the message the Lord had for me. What I was now seeing was not the message of the dream, but still something that was relevant to see.

I returned to the top of the hill where the man was still digging. At this point the well was full of black water. It was now officially tainted. And I realized that this well wasn’t filled in by the enemy. This well was filled in by the Lord. Why? Because of “mixture”.

We often talk about redigging the wells of our fathers and ancestors when it comes to revival. But some of those wells…while amazing and effective in their time…became tainted.

Proverbs 25:26 says, “Like a muddied spring or a polluted well are the righteous who give way to the wicked.”

1 Thessalonians 5:22 (MSG) says, “Throw out anything tainted with evil.”

As we move into 2025, the Lord has a better way. He is calling us away from the tainted wells where we are striving and mixing with the enemy, and He is calling us into the back breaking work of digging the new wells of revival that will sustain generations to come. He is asking us to birth something new with the original foundational principles. He is asking us to be Nehemiah’s, watchmen, wall builders, and well diggers. He is stretching the old wine skin. And He is saying, “see, I am doing a NEW THING! Do not dig up the old thing that is tainted, lest you wander in the desert another 40-years!”

Forgive us Lord, when we try to do the easy thing of digging up the wells of old, yet we don’t realize it is actually not easy at all…but striving and wandering. May we be willing vessels ready to hold a cup of pure water where Your Spirit will rest. May we be committed to the work you have for us, not just the “every Sunday service”. May we be watchmen and women who sound the alarm on the city wall. May we be capable diggers of new things, sustained by your strength and supernatural power. May we be an army that commits to reconnaissance so that we avoid mixture. And may we be malleable in your hands, oh Lord, as we take on the identity of the Kingdom, and stop trying to be something we were never created to be, for such a time as this. May we do this with humility and grace for one another.

ISAIAH 43:18-21

18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.

19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

20 The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

21 the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.