The Latter Rain

UV 4285/10000 The Latter Rain When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He causes the clouds and mist to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, and brings out the wind from His treasuries and from His storehouses. Jeremiah 10 v 13 The Lord God made the earth by His power. He established the world by His wisdom and by His understanding and skill. Hence, when we trust in Him and His power to save us, we live by His wisdom, His understanding and His skill. In this uni-verse, He promises to release from His treasuries and storehouses the blessings of the latter rain. When we rely on Him for the best or first part of our lives, He will take care of the later part, the latter half. He proves to us that He is the living God and the everlasting King. When God reigns over our lives as Everlasting King, the early rain, the timely rain and the latter rain will be a feature of our lives. His promises contained in His living word are the keys to different treasuries and storehouses of the Lord. When we continually hold on to our hope in each promise, the “winds” are released, the energy or power of God is released, the oxygen of hope is mixed with our thoughts, words and actions. He causes the clouds and mist of our own limited senses, our doubts, our limited understanding and wisdom to lift to reveal the wonders hidden in His word. The power therein is released like the energy of lightning that accompanies the rain of His blessings. In the early years of our faith walk with the Lord, it falls like rain drops but in the later years, when our faith matures, it falls like a heavy downpour, a veritable flood. The blood of the Lamb, Jesus opened the floodgates of the blessings of heaven upon our lives. King David, once when his soldiers risked their lives and brought him water from across the enemy lines to quench his thirst, showed how he valued their lives over his thirst and spilt the water on the ground. Likewise, we should not take for granted the waters of the Lord’s blessings obtained through His blood and should ever be grateful, joyful and praising our Lord and our God. Jesus crossed over to the enemy lines, embraced sin and became sin to set us free from the indignation of the Lord, to open the treasures and stores of the Father’s house to us who had no right to it. He withholds no good thing from us. When the Father has not spared His Son to save us, will He not share the abundance of His goodness with His own.