It all started this morning as I was out jogging, trying to finish before the rain poured. Then as I was in the Word later on, the Lord helped me remember. His Word came alive. While in Kenya, the last village I had the privilege of spending time in with a youth group was called Mussul. It was way in the middle of nowhere, living with the Masai Tribe. It hadn’t rained there for 2 years. Two years! All the animals had gone in search for water, as well as husbands, and women would walk for hours to get water at a well. We would cry out for rain as we stood in the dust and watched people walk for water, and continued to pray as we watched rain clouds come in and rain in the valley, but they never touched where we were.
And this morning I was reminded also of living through that horrible drought that even reached Nairobi, and how many of you prayed through that for rain, believing that our all powerful God could form a cloud with His hands and fill it with water. And I remembered what it was like to look up and see rain clouds and knowing deep down in my soul, that there was no rain on the ground to fill up those clouds. Those clouds could have only been formed by God. It was beautiful. Listen to what Isaiah said in Chapter 41….
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“The poor and needy search for water,
but there is none;
their tongues are parched with thirst.
But I the LORD will answer them;
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 I will make rivers flow on barren heights,
and springs within the valleys.
I will turn the desert into pools of water,
and the parched ground into springs.
19 I will put in the desert
the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive.
I will set pines in the wasteland,
the fir and the cypress together,
20 so that people may see and know,
may consider and understand,
that the hand of the LORD has done this,
that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
Hmmm…may the people of all nations, of every tribe and tongue, know and consider and understand that the hand of the Holy One, the Lord, He has done it! All praise to the Mighty God we serve.
I am overcome these days with God’s grace-filled, redemptive, Calvary love.
