THE SPIRIT AND THE RAINS

THE SPIRIT AND THE RAINS

Everyone knows people on earth couldn’t live without rain. In the desert, life is in the rain. There is another outpouring the scriptures speak of. An outpouring is not only of water but the Spirit of God. The rain of the Spirit.

So, what is the connection between the two; The Spirit and the rain? The rain pours down from the sky and gives life to the land. The Spirit of God pours down from Heaven and gives spiritual life to those who will receive it.

The outpouring of the rain causes barren land to revive and become fruitful. The outpouring of the Spirit causes lives to revive and become spiritually fruitful. What we call the former rain or the outpouring has happened.

Joel 2:23   ²³ Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

Rejoice for the rains He sends are an expression of His grace. The rains of autumn will come as well as the spring. This outpouring of rain was for the land. This rain is called the former rain.

The latter rain is the outpouring of Gods Spirit that will happen sometime later.

Acts 2: 16-17   ¹⁶ But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;

¹⁷ And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

All of this was predicted centuries ago by the prophet Joel. At the day of Pentecost, the spirit of God was poured out on the whole world. This is the latter rain that causes barren lives to bear fruit.

It is the outpouring that produced the book of Acts and changed the history of the world. There has never been another outpouring like it.

There wasn’t just one rain in Israel, there were two different rains. Each with its own name. one was called “Moreh”, the former rain and the other was called the “Malkosh”, the latter rain. One in Autumn and one in spring. Two outpourings, two rains.

So, if there are the two outpourings of rains in the land of Israel, then would it not also follow that there would be two such outpourings of the Holy Spirit in the age.

God promises in the book of Joel to send both the former rains and the latter rains and to pour out His Spirit in the last days.

There must be another outpouring as it was in the former outpouring. So, as in the latter, that which was barren will bear its fruits and that which was dead will come alive again.

Seek the outpouring of His spirit on your life, prepare and receive your latter rains.

Stay in the word,

Brother Andy