Genesis 26:18 Isaac unblocked the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham…
Not everyone is going to like you being blessed. Like Isaac, other people became envious of his blessing and they asked him to leave and go somewhere else. This is not all that they did. They saw the Lord’s blessing in his life, so they blocked up those wells.
The enemy will always come to attack the blessing. And the way the Philistines attacked Isaac’s blessing was to start filling in all of his father’s wells. They blocked them up!
But look at what Isaac does. He starts excavating and he unblocks those wells. And here is the spiritual principle: It’s in the “unblocking” of the well, that the blessing begins to flow.
What is blocking the blessing from flowing in your life?
Medically when we are all blocked up it might be because of our sinuses, we can’t breathe freely and we feel run down and tired. In the world of sports, when the athlete is blocked up they have lost their flow or rhythm. Financially it means cashflow is tightening up and something needs to happen to get that currency flowing again.
The unblocking of our inner well – the living well – is important spiritually because if your heart is blocked up you won’t be fruitful.
Proverbs 4:23 says Above all else guard your heart.
Guarding your heart is a term that refers to protecting your heart from unforgiveness, hardness through setbacks or difficulties, negative or cynical mindsets, fear, and unbelief.
Notice that Isaac didn’t dig new wells, he unblocked the old wells. The way people deal with disappointment and failure is to leave one thing or one place and try a new thing – in other words: dig new wells. But this doesn’t deal with the issues of the heart that are blocking up the Living Well from flowing.
How do we unblock the well of our hearts?
It’s not by fixing yourself, it’s by turning the issues of your heart over to the Lord. By letting go and casting the cares that are causing wrong attitudes, bitterness, and worries upon the Lord.
1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your cares upon the Lord for he cares for you.
Wherever you have issues that you are holding onto such as hurts, unforgiveness, anger, condemnation – surrender it to Jesus by casting your cares upon Him.
This is not a once-off thing, it's something you need to do over and over – maybe many times a day in the beginning. Some need to cast the care of worry, others need to cast the burden of anger – but whatever it is, casting it upon the Lord is how it is uprooted from your heart.