but I'm glad to be here tonight. Look here, I ain't got no sad tales to tell tonight. It's been so good in my life since the last time I saw y'all. Took a little church with a handful of people and God moved in. And we had a youth rally, and we had another young preacher preaching that's actually out of the Wales Church, and he preached two nights, on a Wednesday and Thursday. He wasn't supposed to preach at all. We come in on a Wednesday night, and God fell, and people started getting saved. And I said, we need to come back tomorrow. And we did, and that young man preached, and the Lord, I love that young man, but the Lord let me know he wouldn't meet for Friday. We were supposed to come back. And I said, Lord, you're gonna have to show me who you want to come on Friday night. And I told the men in the prayer room, I said, we need the Lord to send Friday night's preacher. So we're gonna pray about that. And we prayed, and when we got through praying, my wife opened the door. And she said, somebody's here to see you. And then walked Brother Josh Griffith. And the Lord said, there's Friday night's preacher. And I said, thank you, Lord. And he preached on Friday night, and God moved, and I said, can you stay on Saturday? He said, I just happened to bring two suits. So we had service again on Saturday. He left and went home. We come back on Sunday and they started getting in again. People rejoicing and shouting and crying all over the house. We had a, during the midst of that meeting, he left to go home the second time. And we called prayer meeting. And God moved in during prayer meeting. And made it very evident that it was time to go on. It was getting in everywhere. And I was, Brother Josh had said, just text me. And God the Holy Ghost said, don't text him, call him. And I knew he'd be in service. I said, Lord, I ain't never called nobody right in the middle of church before. And the Lord said, I said, call him. And I called him, couldn't get him. I called Brother Seth, and he took him to fall. We were having a prayer meeting in North Carolina. Guess what they were doing in Kentucky? Hallelujah. They were having prayer meetings, so we stuck the phone to each other's microphones at the pulpit and listened to two churches three and a half hours apart pray for each other and beg God to send the glory. And two weeks later, 21 people got saved. I bless His name. I was getting news today of things that had been wrong for years that I didn't even know about, Brother Josh, that God fixed in the meeting that I didn't know about today going down the road. People that had been at odds for years and gone to one another and got right with God and each other in the meeting. I didn't even know what happened until today. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Get it right. Get it right. Praise the Lord. Caden's here tonight, one of my young men. He watched his mama and his sister get in in the same week. His mama was a deacon's wife. His sister sang every Sunday. He watched them both get born again. God changed their lives. God bless his name. Glory to God, I bless His name. And we've been praying for drawing power at the church to where nobody could ever even come by the parking lot without knowing God was on the scene. And we had a man come by, and I'm fixing to give you what God gave me and get out of the way, but we had a man come by, Brother Mike, and he come by on an old Kubota tractor. There's a farm right there next to us. We're out in the country, and he come by on that tractor, and he said, I've been noticing y'all having a lot of church these days. Somebody's always over here. And he said, when y'all come, nobody wants to leave. Y'all stay forever. He said, I've lived next to this church for years, and that ain't normal. So I figured something must be going on. I said, yes sir, the God of glory has sat down among us. I said, I tell you what, I said, y'all come see for yourselves. I said, I'll strain my eyeballs. looking for you. Sunday morning. He said don't cause I ain't coming. He said I'm not coming. Well Sunday morning we come in and started the service and guess who walked in the back door? Mr. I ain't coming. And he come, and we shouted the house down, and I could tell Brother Joe, he thought it was a little weird, and he wasn't used to that. And they said, come back and see us. He said, I don't know about it. I don't think I'll be back. Next Sunday, Brother John, come in. There's Brother I ain't coming. I seen him Friday night, and I said, come see us. I said, it's pastor appreciation, and even if the preaching's bad, we're having an eating meeting after the service, and you'll enjoy that. They can all cook. He said, I'll just be honest with you, preacher. You know I'm honest. I ain't coming. We come in Sunday morning. When I come in, he stood up. I said, well, there's Mr. I ain't coming. I said, I knew you'd be here. He started crying. He said, preacher, I don't even know what it is. I don't know how to say it. But every time I come by this place, there's a drawing tower that I that I can't really explain, and this is what he said. He said, I tried to stay in the bed today, but I just couldn't help it. Glory to God. Say, what causes that? Revival. Revival. Amen. year old woman that had been praying for her son for 58 years, and they give him up to die on Sunday, Brother Jared. I was there when the doctor walked in and said, you ain't leaving. By Tuesday night, guess who come walking in the door? And he come walking in, and they had to help him down the aisle. And they said, we know you can barely move. Todd said, do you want to just sit on the altar? He said, no, I need the Lord and I want to kneel before him. I drank for over 40 years. I seen him on Sunday, and he shook my hand, and he said, I love you preacher, and tell brother Josh I love him, and tell him that I drank for over 40 years, but since that night, I ain't touched a drop. Woo! And he said, I feel like living. I said all that to say this. What do you want God to do with your church? Or is it good like it is? What do you want God to do with your church? I told them when I took it. Be open to your Bibles to Genesis 29. I won't be but a minute. I told them when I took it. I said I'll serve with you, I'll weep with you, I'll pray with you, I'll labor with you, but I won't die with you. There's too many distractions in this old world from the world, the flesh, and the devil without raising our youngins in dead religion. Our youngins need to be raised around the Holy Ghost. I told you that we've had 26 saved, and the 26th one was mine. Hallelujah. I went to leave. Last night she said, hey, daddy, it's still good to be saved. I said, yeah, baby, it sure is. Wow. I said, honey, Brother Edward said he's glad you're safe. She said, is that Brother Wow? She loves Brother Wow. Genesis chapter number 29. The Bible said, Then Jacob went on his journey and came unto the land of the people of the east. And here's my text. And he looked. And behold a well in the field. And lo, there were three flocks of sheep laying by it. For out of that well they watered flocks, and a great stone was upon the well's mouth. And fither were all the flocks gathered, and they rolled the stone from the whale's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the whale's mouth in his place. We were on vacation just a few weeks ago with the Griffith family. By the way, this is a good time to say, I sure do love my man of God. I am proudly affiliated. And the Lord had put this text in my heart and I mentioned it to Brother Josh and I said, when I think of Stillwater, I think of a whale in the field. We're all here tonight because behold, there is a well in the field. And the flocks are gonna lay by it and be watered this week. Amen. If it was just having a meeting, I wouldn't be here tonight. There's too much to be done back at the house, but I knew there'd be water in the well, Sister Faith. Amen. I want you to see first of all, Lord help us tonight, there is the presence of a well. Thank God there is a well. Amen. Still water, there is a well. Thank God. Glory to God, there is a whale. And it's not just for this flock, it's for the flocks. There's the presence of the whale. And then it is a particular whale. The Bible talked about it was in a particular location. There's whales all over the country, but the Lord's got us at a particular whale tonight. And then I want you to say, I want you to say, there is a problem with the well, potentially. It's got a stone. And somebody's got to move the stone. Somebody's got to labor and carry the load in order that we could water by the well. God has let us move some stones off the mouth of a whale in Marble, North Carolina. Oh my. And there's, the problem is there's a lot of churches, they've got their stone over the whale and it's never been moved. Somebody put that stone there. Now it's for protection. But you can protect the well so much you won't let anybody else drink from it. This is our well. This is our well and it's ours and they can't nobody else have it. Oh my. There's too much to be done. There's too many thirsty people to be stingy around the well. Best I can tell, Brother Josh, it was not just his flock stopping at the well. But can I say this week, it ought not just be still water moving the stones off the well. We ought to be willing to get in here with them and move the stone off the well. By the way, this stone, I'm just talking and that's all God told me to do. This stone, that spoke of preservation. How long do you want our wells to last? There's a lot of churches where there used to be a well, Brother Jeff. and nobody labored to preserve it. I feel very uncomfortable right now. I'm trying to get in preaching gear and God just slowed me down. Amen. Somebody had to preserve that well. And I'm gonna tell you what my burden is. Our economy wells are drying up all over the country. and there's sheep that are thirsting to death all over the country because the whale that used to be is no more. Can I say something to y'all? We better pray for Brother Josh this week because he's got a big responsibility looking over this whale. I've told Stillwater over and over, this church is not a church just for London, Kentucky. It's a church for America. God means to impact America through Stillwater Baptist Church. And I'm glad for the well tonight. I went down the road the other night listening to the podcast, and I told my wife, Brother Mike, there ain't never been a man alive that's ever ministered to me like that, man. Never in my whole life. Here's what I know the devil wants to do, Brother John. He means to clog up the well. The potential of this well, Brother Edward, is that they would come from all over and get water from the well in the field. Oh Lord. God's watering America right now through this well. And I don't know why God wouldn't give me something more organized. But I'm trying to tell y'all, there is a whale in the field. Me and Brother Josh were talking about this. You know who would stop by that whale? Brother Casey. Flocks on their way home would stop by the whale. Here we are, a bunch of sheep just trying to get home. but we've stopped by the well to get a drink to make the journey and I just stopped by to say I'm real glad for the well in the middle of the field. May I say again if this was nothing else Maybe it's a call of gratitude and prayer. First of all, we ought to be grateful that we got a spot by the well. Then we ought to pray for Brother Josh and for Stillwater because there's labor that goes on with keeping a well clean and running right so that others can drink from it. Oh God help us not to take for granted the will and the faith. I want to say this to you for us preachers and I'm going to get out of the way. Number one, there ought to be a time in your day every day this week that you do nothing but pray for Josh Griffith. Pray for the man of God. Number two, it's a real blessing that we all get to drink from the well at no expense. I told him I would only do what the Lord told me to do. You remember it. Our church has taken on still water at a monthly basis to help with the expense that comes and the labor that comes with letting us all drink from the well. And I'd like to challenge my fellow pastors to do the same thing. You say you really would take him on? God's using water from this well all over America. All over America. If the Lord would let me, I'd double it. That's how much I believe in him. Let us be grateful for the well. My life has never been the same. When I told Blakely where I was going, you know what she said? Tell my preacher I love him. My life has never been the same because of being able to come to the well. And I think to start this thing out, This is not what I had planned. Brother Josh can tell you I left Orlando, Florida with an eight-point outline. And I ain't give you none of it. Maybe to start this thing out, we just ought to come thank God for the well. And some of us, as pastors, might ought to pray. I don't believe we ought to wait to the end to decide how we're gonna help. You say, he ain't asked for help. No, but the Holy Ghost told me to. And if it's for me, I ain't gonna say it, but if it's for somebody else, I have no shame whatsoever. If I was a pastor, I'd come pray. Let me go a little bit a step further. If I was an evangelist, which I was, I did not wait until I was a pastor to start supporting this meeting. It don't matter who you are, I'd pray about it. And I know it's odd to bring this up at the first of a meeting, but maybe there ain't any more time to seek the Lord. I just know what God told me to do. But let us be grateful for the well. I thank God for the well at Stillwater.