Christian Living
Welcome,
This is the 4th and concluding part of the series I started on my personal theme for 2019; ‘The Drought is Over, The famine is Gone, The Rains are Here‘. A New Season is here. 🙂
You may wish to read up on the first 3 blogposts;
‘Look up! The Drought is Over’
‘The Drought is Over’
‘When you see the Clouds’
That will bring you up to speed to where I am at….the Rains are here.
The inspiration for this series has been from 1 Kings 18:41-46.
Rains are significant because they bear a newness and freshness to them, especially after a period of drought. In which circumstance rains would indicate or symbolize a washing away of the old and regrowing of something new, something better.
In the context of this article, the rains symbolize better things, new experiences, productivity, growth, fruitfulness, new potentials, life, health, outpouring of God’s goodness in great measures.
The rains water the earth (ground), cause it to bud, flourish and to yield seed.
Every time, I’ve heard about this new season in my spirit, interestingly, there’s an emphasis on RAINS as against RAIN. There is a plurality to it. And that caught my attention and got me thinking for a while. But then the clarity came, as I clearly heard ‘the former and the latter rain’.
There are different theological explanations for the former and latter rain, Deuteronomy 11:14 tells us the importance….
“…then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil”. NKJV.
The early (former) rain and the latter rain bring in the Grain, the New Wine, and the Oil.
So, in this New Season I am expecting all-year-round Grain, New Wine and Oil; from beginning to end and every time in between. The Early (Former) Rain will bring its grain, new wine and oil, and just when it seems done, the Latter rain will come along bringing its grain, new wine and oil. Halleluyah! Every day is pregnant with FULL and COMPLETE miracles of the grain, the new wine and the oil.
I expect bountiful harvest (as the rains fall); unprecedented outpouring of God’s goodness and favor in areas that hitherto were dry, unyielding and unproductive. I expect manifestations of covenant blessings in great measures. I expect fresh inspiration, insights and workings of the Holy Spirit.
Indeed! It’s a New Season.
Thank You Lord for my Rains are here. My grain is pouring on me. My New Wine is pouring on me. My Oil is pouring on me. Thank You Lord for You have moved old boundaries and given me new frontiers. Thank You for the Abundance of the RAINS…in Jesus Christ name.
Amen!
