We are living in one of the most distracted generations in history, and distraction is not harmless.

In the Season One finale, Heather shares a prophetic picture God gave her during a three-day prayer retreat in Mendocino: wells being clogged with dirt and debris, cutting people off from the water they need to live.

What if distraction is doing something similar to our spiritual lives?

Through the imagery of clogged wells, a dying fire, and Jesus’ words in John 15 to “remain in Me,” Heather explores how noise, busyness, worry, social media, constant information, and overfilled schedules can weaken intimacy with Jesus.

This episode is both a wake-up call and an invitation to return.

You’ll hear about:

How distraction can slowly create spiritual dryness

Why what we give our attention to shapes our appetite

How fasting, prayer, Scripture, silence, worship, and rest become “rhythms of revival”

Why intimacy with God doesn’t always feel emotionally intense

What it means to tend the fire when all you have left are embers

How stillness exposes striving, worry, and our need for control

Why abiding in Jesus is the source of real transformation

At the heart of it all is a simple truth:

Jesus is the reward.

If you’ve felt spiritually dry, distracted, distant from God, or simply hungry for more of Him, this episode is an invitation to dig out the wells, tend the fire, and return to intimacy with Jesus.

Show Notes

Dig Out the Wells

In this Season One finale, Heather returns to the foundation underneath everything discussed this season: intimacy with Jesus.

During a three-day prayer and fasting retreat in Mendocino, God gave Heather two powerful pictures.

The first came from Genesis 26, where the Philistines stopped up the wells Abraham had dug. In an agricultural culture, water meant life. Without it, people, crops, and livestock weakened.

Heather sensed the Lord showing her that distraction is doing something similar in our generation.

The Source has not moved. Jesus is still living water.

But our lives can become so filled with noise, information, entertainment, worry, comparison, busyness, and constant stimulation that our ability to hear, receive, and simply be with Him becomes clogged.

The second picture came the next morning while Heather was building a fire.

She noticed that when the kindling was packed too tightly, the fire couldn’t breathe. It needed space and oxygen.

That simple moment became another spiritual picture:

Our lives need room for the breath of God.

Prayer, Scripture, worship, fasting, silence, solitude, and rest are more than religious duties. Heather describes them as rhythms of revival—practices that create space for our hearts to become attentive and alive to God again.

The episode then turns to John 15 and Jesus’ invitation to abide.

Fruit does not come from striving.

It comes from connection.

And even when intimacy with God doesn’t feel like a roaring flame, embers are still alive. The fire can be tended. The well can be cleared. We can return.

Heather also shares personal journal entries from the retreat, including an encounter with God as the Ancient of Days and the realization that stillness helps expose the places where worry and control have replaced trust.

Scriptures Mentioned

Genesis 26:15–18

John 15:4–5

Psalm 46:10

Key Lines From the Episode

“Distracted by hunger, but eating the wrong things.”

“What I look at fuels my hunger. It either stirs my appetite or suppresses it.”

“Attention shapes appetite.”

“Rot takes time to take its toll.”

“Intimacy requires attention.”

“The fruit comes from the connection.”

“Jesus, You are my reward.”

“Dig out the well. Tend the fire. And abide.”

Season Two of Rise and Rejoice begins in October. Until then, keep pressing into Jesus.

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