I wrote and published this word in August 2011. I felt to post it tonight. Let it be, Lord...
Recently we stayed with friends on a 5000 acre farm in central Queensland. What a place to get away from the noise and busyness of modern life! On the way to their farm, we drove through the Callide Valley and I was struck with how dry and dusty and barren the land looked. I imagined how the wild animals must pursue water in that unforgiving environment.
Without a doubt, our nation is experiencing a desert-like environment when it comes to the sweet flow of God’s Spirit. And like those animals in the Callide Valley, there are so many people desperately looking for a water source that might quench their thirst and impart life. Not knowing any better, many look for satisfaction in the devil’s paltry offerings. They seek satisfaction in empty entertainment, alluring drugs and alcohol, soul-destroying sexual pursuits, and ever-demanding materialism – all are cruel mirages that promise so much and deliver only disappointment. There is only one thing that satisfies the human spirit and that is drinking in and enjoying God’s presence.
As the world system fails and people become increasingly desperate for life-giving water, they will come looking to us. Our outreaches and gatherings and churches may be the last roll of the dice for burnt-out, disillusioned travellers. And so it is essential that we truly are the oases they are looking for – springs that gush forth with the sweet rivers of revival that transform dying souls into brand new men and women! Reservoirs that offer living water and where Jesus Christ is seen and heard and His grace and power are not obscured by dead religion or fancy trappings. The rivers that flow from Jesus are sweet and they revive!
And when one life is mightily touched and transformed by the power of God, many more lives are impacted as a result. Jesus gave living water to a woman he met at a well and so she went and brought the rest of the town back to get some!
From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me all the things that I have done." John 4:39
There is a mighty rushing river about to flow in this nation, it will come like a flash flood. It is the sweet Spirit of God, the anointing that scares Satan to his core. He remembers being messed up by it when Jesus walked the earth and defeated him at the Cross and he remembers his kingdom being plundered when the early church walked in that same anointing. And ever since, the devil has been broadsided when the anointing flows. It’s the river of life that makes the lame to walk and the blind to see, that opens prison doors and sets the captives free. And it’s about to flow again in a mighty way for the healing of the nations, to the praise and glory of God!
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. This people I have formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise. Isaiah 43:19-21
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