The Pipeline
With boxes still taped shut, air still smelling like someone else’s life, you pick up the phone and call the water company. You give your name, your new address, your account number… so that water can flow. So that what’s stored in the city’s reservoirs, miles away, can travel through unseen tunnels, underground arteries, and narrow pipes… all the way into your kitchen sink.
With one phone call, your home becomes connected to a system bigger than you.
With one decision, provision begins to flow. And when the water arrives… quietly faithfully… you barely think about it.
But oh, what a blessing it is.
Water lets you clean what’s dirty.
Quench what’s thirsty.
Wash what’s wounded.
Nourish what’s planted.
Refresh what’s exhausted.
You cook with it, cleanse with it, shower under it, soak in it.
You need it more than you admit, and rely on it more than you realize.
Yet even with its power… even with its necessity… the miracle of water can still be disrupted.
Pipes clog.
Sediment builds.
Rust forms.
Pressure drops.
A blockage you cannot see suddenly affects everything you can see.
A shower becomes a drizzle.
A sink takes forever to drain.
A once-steady stream becomes a reluctant trickle.
The supply was never the problem… the issue was the pipeline.
And this is where your spirit quietly nods… because you know I’m no longer talking about plumbing.
God’s reservoir… His “tank in heaven” …never runs out.
His provision isn’t delayed.
His blessings aren’t rationed.
His promotions aren’t on backorder.
The flow is constant.
The Source is full.
The water is ready.
But the pipe…
your pipe…
must be clear.
See, righteousness isn’t just about avoiding the loud, visible sins… the ones that make headlines or scandals. It requires honoring the hidden places… the quiet corners of the heart that don’t get exposed unless we’re honest enough to look.
Jealousy.
Secret envy.
Quiet resentment.
Hidden hatred.
Silent malice.
Invisible deceit.
These don’t show up on your “spiritual credit score.”
No pastor has to confront you.
No friend has to call you out.
But they sit inside the pipe like rust nobody notices… until the pressure changes.
Invisible sins constrict the flow.
They slow down favor.
They contaminate the water.
They keep blessings stuck in transit.
Not because God is withholding.
But because you haven’t cleared the pipeline.
You can pray for elevation, pray for breakthrough, pray for opportunity… but God’s promotions flow through clean channels. And when the pipe is clean, God does something miraculous:
He moves the hearts of others to exalt you.
Not because you post for it.
Not because you network for it.
Not because you manipulate for it.
But because your internal pipeline is so clear that God can trust His water to run through you without contamination.
It’s never the tank.
It’s always the pipe.
And the moment you unclog envy, release resentment, dissolve jealousy, confess pride, uproot bitterness, and scrub the sludge of hidden sins…
The water flows again.
Favor flows again.
Provision flows again.
Peace flows again.
And suddenly the blessings that felt “delayed” were never delayed… they were simply waiting on clearer pipes.
We’re all responsible for ourselves… and that responsibility includes maintaining the pipeline through which God pours everything meant for our lives.
If God opened the floodgates over your life right now… could your character handle the pressure?
Not your public character… the curated version you let people applaud.
I’m talking about the private pipeline. The places only you and God know.
Would the water flow clean… or would it hit the rust?
Because here’s the truth no one wants to sit with:
Some of us aren’t lacking blessings… we’re leaking them.
Some of us aren’t waiting on God… He’s waiting on us to unclog what we’ve learned to normalize. You’re praying for promotion while silently envying the people you want to surpass. You’re asking for fresh opportunities while carrying secret resentment toward the ones who hurt you. You’re begging for overflow while keeping malice stored in the basement of your heart like it’s an heirloom.
You can’t build a future on unconfessed corrosion.
So here’s the real question… the one most people run from:
What’s the hidden impurity in your pipeline that you’re hoping God ignores?
And deeper still:
Who would you become… how fast would life change… if you cleared it today?
You already know the answer…
You can feel it pressing on the inside of your ribs…
Because you weren’t designed to trickle…
You were designed to flow!