JOSHUA TIME 446

Welcome, Joshua, to the Prophet’s Chamber of Pastor Rod Parsley!
Joshua, if you have ever traveled through the desert, you know how dry, dusty and parched the land can be ... sometimes it looks as if rain may never fall there. If you have ever felt like a desert in your spiritual, financial or family life with no healing rains coming to your rescue, I want you to take heart! The nourishing rain of God is about to fall! And my prophetic word for you is Let It Rain!
This Month’s Prophetic Word:LET IT RAIN!!!
It looks like rain ... and as my devoted Partner, I am praying that through this teaching you will learn how God’s blessing, provision and healing rain can bring superabundance to you. Joel 2:24-26 is a perfect picture of the kind of life you can lead when God’s healing rain waters the barren places in your life.
“And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.”
God’s rain - the water of His Word - is the key to this life of superabundance.
Water in the Bible symbolizes the Word of God. Just as every living being on this planet requires physical water for continued existence, God’s people require His spiritual water for His supernatural provision. God says in Isaiah 55:10-11:
“For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
God’s rain is His Word, and it cannot return to Him void. But how does it return to Him at all? Job 36:27 says, “For He maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof.” This gives you three important concepts about God’s rain, His living water, His Word:
He gives it to us in small droplets, because otherwise we could not handle it. Just as a raging flood of physical water would be too much for us to control, a deluge of the living Word would be beyond our comprehension.
The rain of God falls in accordance with “the vapor thereof.” This is key: Where vapor arises from the earth to the heavens, rain can be produced. If the ground is dry, there is no moisture to evaporate, so clouds cannot form. If there is no vapor, there is no rain.
Vapor is produced by HEAT! The cooling rain we desire cannot come about unless the moisture is super-heated enough to rise as vapor. Do you see where I am going here?
HEAT MAKES THE RAIN: FIRE MAKES VAPOR AND VAPOR MAKES RAIN!
John the Baptist said in Matthew 3:11, “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. But He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.”
To be baptized with the Holy Ghost, you first have to be saved — baptized with water. The fire of the Holy Ghost turns that water of the Word into vapor, which can return to heaven. Job 36:27 and the laws of physics say vapor going up to heaven is going to come down as rain —
IT IS THE LATTER RAIN OF BLESSING PREDICTED IN JOEL 2:23-27!!!
Did you make it there with me? Do you see how the rain of God flows down with a torrent of blessing, “according to the vapor thereof”? Hosea 6:3 says, “Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.”
The latter and former rain! In Joel 2:23-27, those promised rains bring:
Abundance - Joel 2:24, an intense blessing of provision for you and your family!
Restoration - Joel 2:25, a recouping of every loss you have suffered.
Fulfillment - Joel 2:26, the Lord promises to deal wondrously with you in every way.
Renown - Joel 2:27, you will never be ashamed!
These blessings are all yours because of the torrent of latter rain God wants to unleash upon you, as you receive His Word and allow the fire of the Holy Ghost to refine you into the blessed and victorious child of God that He wants you to be.
Today, my prayer for you is this: “Heavenly Father and Holy Savior, Precious Holy Spirit, our mighty Triune God, my Platinum Covenant Partner is your beloved child and the apple of your eye. In the name of Jesus who died to save us, I speak the blessings of the former and latter rains over my Partner: Abundance, Restoration, Fulfillment, Healing and Renown. According to your Word, these will rest upon my Platinum Covenant Partner because of Your grace and faithfulness, oh Lord. Amen!”
Let it rain in your spirit with God’s blessings of superabundance today!