They started to praying. And Elisha got in the Spirit and he saw a vision. Now, he said, when he saw the vision, he said, “Go out yonder in that desert, right where you’re at, and go to digging ditches. And the—dig them out. For THUS SAITH THE LORD, you’ll not hear any wind, any rain, but there’ll be water that’ll come from the way of the wilderness.” Why? Where’d that water come from? From that Rock, that Smitten Rock that was in the wilderness. That’s right. It was back there somewhere. It might’ve been covered up, but there was a Smitten Rock in there that Moses smote, coming through the wilderness. And that Smitten Rock still lays yonder too, to be touched tonight: waters of life.

Make the Valley Full of Ditches, 1952-07-19, Hammond, IN, §10