It Will Rain

This post is not related to Bruno Mars' song in any way but the exciting season that God has in store for me as revealed by the Holy Spirit during the last day of the mid-year Prayer and Fasting last July 3. The mid-year fasting has a mark of being a time of God's clear revelation for me starting last year 2013, when He clearly told me about a turning-point in my life that I had to obey. Until now, I'm still in awe and very grateful that He caused things to happen last year though they put me in difficult valleys.

I entered the fasting season very much excited and expectant that God will exceed what He did last mid-year. Remember that my 2014 has been themed by God with Fire? You can read it here. I never entertained the thought though of praying "Lord please let it be over soon," as I have accepted that my entire year will be a year of fire... very challenging, draining and stretching but my character has never been this firm as before :) Although He's turning it around now! At the last day of fasting, during the worship time when we were instructed to just wait to be filled with the Holy Spirit to the tune of Like A Fire by Planetshakers, God just showed me a vision looking up with clouds producing light raindrops that i can feel with my skin. For me it just represented the Holy Spirit "raining down" upon me, until I heard God tell me "This is your next season." At first I can hardly believe it because it's too sweet to be true! Rain has been God's special way to remind me of His comfort as if each drop is His embrace to me, and of His provision as if every raindrop is a piece of blessing. But instead of shrugging it off, I accepted it and still in that moment of worship while Like A Fire was playing, the Holy Spirit started to remind me of what's in "RAIN" because I wanted to have a list of verses/principles that relate to it. 

First thing that He reminded me of is Noah's time in Genesis 6-9 when God sent rain for the first time to CLEANSE the world of its sin. That one was easy to accept as I've been in a season of cleansing and purification during the first half of the year through fire... this time it's gonna be through water. The second He reminded me of is during the time of Elijah when God showed himself off on top of Mt Carmel and proved that He alone is God and the baals are nothing in compared to Him. That moment marked off a time when the long drought that Israel experienced for years was ended by God sending off RAIN! Too sweet to believe that God will let me experience something that I haven't experienced for a long time :') I didn't wanna get ahead of God but right there my soul started to claim that  I'm gonna reach my targets starting this July! Then the worship song ended and I was so filled with God's presence and revelation I had to share it with Lovely and Jen!

Friday the next day, I was so excited to leave the office and head to my favorite quiet time spot: Starbucks, The Columns. I sat there with my mint tea and started to read the verses pertaining to Noah and Elijah's experiences of rain, and now I'm writing here the bulk of it.

God's Personal Revelation to Me About RAIN

1. DURING NOAH'S TIME

We all know the story. God sent rain for 40 days to wipe off the Earth from wickedness and it says in Genesis 7:11 and 8:2 

     "...on that day, all the springs of the great deep burst forth , and the floodgates of the heavens were opened"

     "Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been cosed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky."

Did floodgates of heaven ring a bell to you? It sure did when I was meditating on it! It was also mentioned in Malachi 3:10 where is says:

     "'Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,' says the Lord Almighty, 'and see if I will not throw open the FLOODGATES of HEAVEN and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.'"

And right there, God told me that when the floodgates of heaven open up, it's not just the rain that pours out of it. It's also the pathway for blessings! Honestly, my doubtful self wanted to ray, "really Lord?" because I have NEVER experienced having so much blessings that I didn't have room enough to contain it. I give my tithe faithully and I'm already happy that God provides me with JUST enough! So hearing God tell me that He's gonna pour out more than enough took a lot of faith from my heart! 

2. DURING ELIJAH'S TIME

As you may have read/heard before, Elijah was an important prophet whose one of the highlights being able to turn off the rain supply as one would turn off the shower (borrowed Steven Furtick's words there), of course through God's power! So there was at least 3 long years of drought in Israel which is a consequence of the people sin for worshiping other gods. Then when it's time for God to show himself up to the people, He uses Elijah to disprove the false prophets of the false gods by sending FIRE from heaven to consume the offering in front of the people, which the false gods, of course were not able to do. So after the sending the fire, God finally sent rain to the people who long yearn for water. Although Elijah's faith had to be tested once again when he had to check 7 times if rain was indeed coming as he claimed in front of the people and King Ahab of Israel. On the 7th time of checking (which is the number of God or of completion), finally they saw a cloud formation which eventually sent rain!

God already revealed to me on the 3rd day of fasting that He was going to do something that I haven't experienced for a long time just as how the people of Israel haven't experience rain for a long time. But it was when I was meditating on this story that he confirmed to me through numbers that it's going to be about my sales figures. For 6 months I've been trying to reach my quota, just as how many times Elijah checked to see if there was already rain. Now, this July which is the 7th month since I got promoted to the position, it's going to happen! :) Not to mention that July also is my birth month! So could you imagine how sweet it is to hear God promise something so tangible to me? :)

July is indeed a month of surprise to me, answering my request to God which I posted on Instagram.

Also not forgetting that aside from these great revelations, He also answered my 2 faith goals in my list:

-Get teaching load in RTU

-Provision for my Medan Mission Trip

This blog doesn't justify the excitement I feel so if you're my friend who wants to personally hear this testimony of God's sweetness, date me! :D

Ready for the rain!!! :)