This is Equip and Empower, the Christine Cain podcast.

For everyone who desires to bring hope, create change, and live out their God-given

destiny with passion and joy.

Here's your host, Christine Cain.

Hey, everyone.

I am so grateful that you've continued to join me for this incredible series on picking

up a shovel and digging.

We are in week three of this series.

We've been focused on the book of Genesis, chapter 26, the one full chapter about Isaac

in the Bible.

And we've been learning from the life of Isaac who re-dug wells in his generation.

He re-dug the wells of his father, Abraham, and then he dug brand new wells.

And we know that as a generation, it is our opportunity right now to pick up a shovel

and dig some wells for our generation.

Of course, we're talking, we're using this as a metaphor of digging the spiritual wells

of our hearts so that the life of the Spirit of God can flow through us and impact the world

around us.

And the thing that God is doing in our generation is not what he's done in every other generation.

Now, there are practices that we must bring from one generation to the next.

These are basic spiritual disciplines.

They are basic practices of being followers of Jesus Christ, part of the history and

the tradition of the church, practices like prayer, practices like fasting, practices

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