Restoring the Well: Direct Power Access

Prophetic messages are sometimes revealed in our everyday natural occurrences. This makes life in the Spirit very interesting, at times both exciting and perplexing. Recently we had one such occurrence that carries a prophetic message for Body of Christ for what the Spirit of God is cultivating and our response in yielding to this process.

- Rene Springer

​What is that Smell?

A group of us wild prophetic intercessors arrived early to pray before one of our recent worship and intercession times. When we walked in the door we were immediately met with the smell of smoke, like that of cigarette butts. This was not too unusual for those of us who have high spiritual senses; on several occasions we have smelled spiritual fragrances in the room, oftentimes very pleasant like floral or cinnamon, and every once in a while not so pleasant. These fragrances powerfully inform our intercession times, indicating the clearing of the spiritual atmosphere and/or the increasing weight of God’s glory. 

We saw nothing that would naturally cause the smoke smell, so we approached it spiritually, going at it with everything we had in our prophetic arsenal to clear the atmosphere of all spiritual defilement… but to no avail. The smell didn’t shift. We were perplexed!

Soon others started to arrive, and I asked them about it. The ones I asked are more evangelistic in nature, and they didn’t seem to be very bothered by the smell. They thought someone was joining us that needed freedom from some heavy smoking. (Evangelists have a grace for welcoming people to come as they are; no need to clean up first.) Though this was a possible explanation, the smoke smell was lingering much longer and stronger for it to have been from just one person. 

Our sound tech assessed the smell was not coming from any media equipment and alerted my husband, Steven, of the mysterious smell. Immediately upon walking through the door, Steven identified the smell was coming from some burnt wires. He checked the wiring of our well pump in the main room. The wires inside the overload protection box had completely overheated, caught on fire, and the whole circuit board had melted. Mystery solved!

Although there was a natural reason behind the smoke smell, there was also a prophetic message in it all.

The Process of Restoring the Well

Steven ordered and installed a new circuit box, only to discover that wasn’t the cause of the issue. He then became concerned that the submersible well pump, which was placed 600 feet below in our 700-foot well, had burned out. This would be very costly and time-consuming to fix. Thankfully we had an honest Well Technician working with Steven, and in the process he discovered one of the old safety devices was sending false signals, indicating there was an overload when there was not. It was just an old, faulty timing system that caused the wires to overheat and the circuit to catch fire. 

The technician bypassed the old timing system (which was no longer needed) and the overload box, directly connecting the pump to the breaker. This direct connection to the power source allowed the submersible pump to pump freely again at 8 gallons per minute. What could have been a massive project costing thousands of dollars in the end was a $150 fix. 

Are you catching some prophetic parallels here? 

By bypassing the old emergency overload box that had caught fire and the old timing system, with a direct connection to the power source, it allowed the well pump to release an endless flow of water from the deep, deep well. 

Out with the old, in with the new - Direct power access that keeps the flow going! 

We are in a season where the wells of revival are being unlocked. The key to its restoration is intimacy. God is longing for His Church to come into a deep, direct connection with His life-giving Spirit. There is a grace to enter into deep wells of rest in His love. 

God’s fire is here to burn up the old systems we have put in place in our lives that we believe are for safety and protection. These old systems are sending false signals, leading us to overthink and overreact, allowing anxiousness and worry to overload us.

Hindrances are coming under fire. Where we have been overloaded with many things, even good things, God’s heart is that we experience the best — and that comes from setting our hearts on the One thing (Psalm 27:4). 

We will need to let go of the old timing systems and the mindset that says, there is not enough time… or wait for a better time… or the time is right when… 

Beloved, NOW FAITH IS for the wells of revival to flow in and through us. NOW IS THE TIME, do you not perceive it? 

“See, I am doing doing a new thing, Now it springs up; Do you not perceive it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.”
Isaiah 43:19

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Hebrews 11:1

"One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.”
Psalm 27:4

“With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.”
Isaiah 12:3

“…But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
John 4:14