In last week’s blog, we spoke of saturation rains which came to the drought-filled nation of Israel during a five year stretch from 1986 to 1991. Israel was accustomed to the former rain and no latter rains which brought abundant harvests to the land. During the drought, the population of Israel was swelling because of the Russian Jews who were returning from the collapse of communism. Strict water rations were enacted even to the point of regulating flushing toilets. The Israeli newspapers were reporting that the greatest threat to Israel was not all the Arab enemies of Israel but rather the severe drought. It was so severe that the water supply was next to nothing. Then, a miracle took place. It began to rain, and not just some shower. The rains came in buckets and sheets and it wouldn’t quit. It kept on raining. The Hebrew newspapers reported MIRACLE, MIRACLE, across the front pages. It rained from October to March, it never stopped. The former and the latter rains had come together. This is how God moves not only in the natural but also in the spiritual. He moves via the principle of saturation.

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The Saturation Principle of Buildup

• Floods’ don’t just all of a sudden happen.
• It has to rain for a while.
• There has to be a build up of rain.
• Showers may break out here and there but it takes accumulation to reach flood proportions.
• No one just wakes up on a given morning and then all of a sudden there is a flood outside coming from nowhere.
• Right now, it’summertime in Oklahoma.
• It’s hot, humid and 106 degrees outside.
• You can’t expect a flood with these conditions.
• It’s the same way in God.
• The saturation rains of His blessing doesn’t just come all of a sudden.
• It takes buildup.
• And, some time and fulfillment of prophecy.
• It takes God’s plan and His timing.
• And so that is what we are seeing now in the earth today.
• Movings of God.
• Stirrings of His Spirit.
• Outpourings of revival.
• An outbreak here and an outbreak there.
• A move of God here and a move of God there.
• God is moving in Korea.
• We a little rain there and we have a little rain in China and Russia.
• And, we have some rain falling on college campuses and we had some rain falling in Toronto and in Florida.
• We have some rain falling in South Africa.
• We have had holy laughter rain falling.
• You will see and hear these revival out break in different places.
• What do you suppose is happening to the ground called mankind as all this rain is falling?
• It is bringing saturation.
• It is swelling the very ground we walk, the very air air we breathe.
• You can’t stop God from coming
• When the rain keeps falling and the grounds can’t hold it anymore, when the water starts to rise out of the earth, do know what happens when another deluge of rain comes?
• You have lightning like floods.
• Crashing waters that sweep everything away.

Those Who Say a Great Revival Is Coming

• I would hear ministers say that the Great end-time revival has already started.

Acts 2:17–20 (NKJV) — 17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. 18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy. 19 I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.

• I couldn’t figure this out.
• How could they say that this revival has started?
• You wake up in the morning and the sun is shining and everything seems to be the same.
• Where is this revival?
• It’s in the ground.
• The ground is undergoing saturation.
• We are not at flood tide yet but hold on to your hats because it’s raining.

Rain is God Moving

• When we talk about rain falling, we have to translate that correctly into our thinking.
• Rain is God moving.
• It is God manifesting Himself.
• How did people know that it was raining at Azusa Street at the turn of the twentieth century?
• They saw people speaking with tongues just everywhere.
• You knew it was raining by the manifestations that accompanied the move.
• There were and are certain men of God whom God used real strong in the earth.
• They were men that paid the price to be used of God.
• Anybody can be used of God who is willing to pay the price.

Psalm 63:1–2 (ESV) 1 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. 2 So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

• Psalm 63:1-2 tells you what the price is.
• It’s seeking God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your being.
• We have to do this early, often and strong.
• Just like the one hundred and twenty did on the day of Pentecost.
• They stayed in the Upper Room and prayed ten straight days until all of a sudden rain came pouring down.
• They filled the streets speaking in tongues unknown to them, preaching the gospel until three thousand people came to know Jesus as Lord.
• What did the early church say about this rain from God?
• They uttered these words.

Acts 2:16 (KJV) — 16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;

• Did you hear it?
• This is that.

Call to Action

• There were men who paid the price to bring down saturation rains from heaven. God used them in mighty ways and with a strong anointing. It’s not just a past tense phenomenon. There were men who paid the price and there are men who are paying the price. Do you hear the sound of the abundance of rain? (1 Kings 18:41) How about joining in on the fun?

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