I want to share with you about the rain from heaven. Drought and rain are part of our lives. We have experienced dry days, but abundant rain comes upon us. We don’t like the seasons much; we wish everything were the same, but life’s fluctuations are part of our life, heat and cold, dryness and rain, that’s where the beauty of life lies.
The sister who was visited by the angel. Ups and downs are proof that the heart is beating, and she is alive. She was going through difficult days.
Sometimes we are led to the valley of the shadow of death and come out of green pastures, but it is all for our growth, and the Lord is with us.
There are God’s Timing. In Greek, there are two words, Kronos (natural time of life) and Kairos of God, which are times arranged by God to bless us, seasons, cycles, times of God’s favor and grace upon us.
We have seasons in life, dry times that are times of tests, times to preserve what we already have. But when the rain begins, we must prepare the land to receive it. It comes in God’s kairos.
The time of abundant rain is coming upon us as a church.
Zechariah 10:1
Ask the LORD for rain in the time of the latter rain; the LORD makes the clouds of rain, and He will give them showers of rain, grass in the field to everyone.
There is a time of rain upon us, and this gives us many good expectations in our hearts. If in the drought, we have experienced blessings, what will it be in the time of downpour? Rejoice, your heart, much better days are ahead of us.
What does the Lord instruct us at this moment?
There are many words for rain, and two are the most used: Yoreh and Melqosh speak of the early and latter rains, the first and the last rains. In the word, there is always both. First, it is something prophetic.
In Acts, on Pentecost, it was the early rains; there was a great move there. There was teaching, healing, prosperity, and significant church growth.
But the latter rains are the last days, and we are living them. Days of rapture, and they will be more abundant than the first. They will be torrential.
These two rains also apply to us. They are growth cycles, and Israel is an example for us. Everything is typological in the word of God. There cannot be rain all the time, or there is no cultivation. It has to be at the right time.
It rains to plant and rains to harvest, but between these two seasons, there must be the sun. Everything is wonderful in the word.
Luke 2:46 – At 12 years old, Jesus was not in the temple teaching the doctors; instead, He was asking questions. The God who became flesh was not making statements but asking questions. Only at 30 did He teach because it was not the time, God’s Kairos.
Everything out of time generates many problems. Some let the opportunity time pass, like Israel, where they wept as it ended. They did not recognize the time of opportunity.
However, some, fearing to miss the opportunity, want to do things before their time, but Jesus at 12 only asked questions; that is wisdom.
There is God’s time and God’s rain – the first mention of early and latter rain is in Dt11:14.
Deuteronomy 11:14″I will give the rain for your land at its proper time, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.”
He does not send rain all the time, but when He does, you have more abundance of bread, wine, and oil. The Lord’s table and the anointing of God’s power so that you are not consumed. The bush burns but does not consume.
When the rain comes, there is abundance, bread, and wine, abundance of revelation. Bread and wine have no power in themselves but in the revelation when taken. Communion day is a day of strengthening and healing.
The first mention of rain is associated with the Lord’s supply, but in verse 10, the Lord makes an important comparison between Canaan and Egypt.
“For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables. But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, a land that the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year” (Dt11:10-12).
In Egypt, it does not rain; it rains in the mountains 5,000 kilometers away and descends there. Even the world has a supply that is God’s mercy.
In Egypt, they make only one furrow in the rainy season on the mountain, and it comes and gives them the harvest because it fills the furrows they make with their feet.
But the rain is only for His people in Canaan. In Egypt, they look only at the ground, do not depend on God, have a measure of provision, but God’s people drink from the waters of heaven.
In Egypt, in the world, we look at the ground, but in Canaan, we look at the sky, depend on God, do not trust in our arm. We teach based on revelation, not understanding.
We do not want to live relying on what we have achieved but on what God has given us. When the people of Israel were in the desert, they had a cloud, but it never rained because it only rains in Canaan.
It does not rain in Egypt because it does not have God’s blessing; it does not rain in the desert because it is not a place of life; it is a time of testing. There is shade in the desert, there is manna from heaven, water from the rock, but there is no rain because rain is only when you enter the position that the Lord has for you, as a victor.
In the desert, you are still relying on your merit, and that is the only thing the law can do—shade, never rain. The law only brings drought; Canaan has rain.
The Holy Spirit tells us that the rain is coming upon us, life, and prosperity. However, rain is not an individual blessing; it is a collective blessing. When it rains in one place, it rains for everyone. The rain is for us as a church.
Ezekiel 34:26
“I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.”
The hill here is Mount Zion, the church. There are brothers who only appear here at communion or at the end of the year.
You are a son, but it is essential that you are in the life of the church, not just attending for your benefit. It is
being in the rain; many do not understand this. They do not enjoy many blessings because they are not in the life of rain in the church. They do not get involved.
Isaiah 55:10
“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater.”
God gives everything as seed for you to harvest; do not gamble. Come and receive the seed of the word, and you will harvest because you will be in the rain. Everything in your life is a matter of seed; it needs to be planted and will be watered through the word.
Isaiah 55:11
“So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”
The rain that God will release upon you in these days will be words that are seeds that will be released upon you. You will have to believe and sow them. But he is saying that in this time of rain, you can sow, and he guarantees that it will sprout.
Ask for rain in the time of rain
Zechariah 10:1 – “Ask the LORD for rain in the time of the latter rain. The LORD will make flashing clouds; He will give them showers of rain, grass in the field to everyone.”
This is a mystery of prayer, but He wants you to ask even though it will come. He desires to relate to us in His goodness. He needs nothing and no one, but He has chosen to work together with us.
He heals, prospers, but desires a relationship. When you ask, you release faith. Do not be passive with the excuse of being in grace. You cannot reap without sowing. Sowing is getting involved. In the time of rain, get involved, ask because He wants to give.
Ephesians 1:3 says that we are already blessed, so we ask with faith, without doubting. He says we are already blessed not so that we don’t ask but to ask with confidence.
“In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes” (Daniel 9:2-3).
Daniel knew the end of captivity would come, and precisely because he knew, he prayed. The bridegroom surely comes, but it will be when the Spirit and the bride are crying out together. God acts through prayer. When the Kairos came, Daniel prayed. This is the time of rain, so come and pray because it’s time to rain.
“Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase their men like a flock. Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I am the LORD’” (Ezekiel 37-38).
God wanted to save and provide a flock of saints, so they should pray because they were sure that God wanted to save. This is the time of rain in your family; there will be salvation.
Rain removes the mask.
Rain is also important because it removes makeup when we get wet. When we receive the rain, masks fall. We are free from self-righteousness and can receive favor. There is no room to glorify man when it is God who does it.
Rain makes us take a stand, removes our passivity. We start running until we decide to get completely wet. You cannot escape the rain. When God decides to bless you, you cannot escape it. Blessings will come and reach you. In the drizzle, when we run, we get wet more.
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Three things:
“Be glad, then, children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD, your God, for He will give you in just measure the rain; He will cause the early rain to come down for you, the early and the latter rain as before. The threshing floors shall be full of grain; the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten” (Joel 2:23-24).
a. Rain restores lost time.
In kronos, you lose, and there’s nothing to be done, but in Kairos, the Lord restores. The devil sometimes steals money, health, relationships, life, but the Lord will restore you in this time of the latter rain, the Kairos of God. You don’t make it rain; you’re not an Indian, not a human work; you only ask and enter it when it comes, and then you soak, and the promise is that you will be restored. There will be a new time in your dreams, in your home, in your marriage.
b. Grain, wine, and oil – Communion and anointing, supply.
It’s not the prosperity of the world that is only apparent. There are people in the world who are so poor that all they have is money. They have a lot but live in hell. True wealth is finding pleasure in everything in your life. Blessing enriches and does not bring sorrow. We take pleasure in what He gives us. It’s very difficult to make a rich person happy, but when we keep receiving everything from God, we find joy in every little thing, until we have much. Rejoice always.
c. Will give rain in just measure.
In the original, it is “mathar,” which means rain. The other words are “ioré,” “melcochi,” but in this text, it is “moré.” “Moré” means teacher. The translators went by the context, but in Hebrew, where it says “just measure,” it is one word, “sidaque,” which means “justice.” There is a translation that says the Lord will give a “teacher of justice” and the early and latter rain. Rain in just measure is “moré sidaquê,” “teacher of Justice,” which is Christ.
He is the teacher who came and taught us the righteousness that comes from faith. From Romans onward, Paul teaches us that our righteousness is a gift we receive. When the rain comes, abundant revelation comes with it, and many brothers and sisters will not only believe but also have the ability to teach, not just pastors.
You have received the seed of this fundamental teaching, but now you will have the ability to plant it in others. This is God’s movement in the last days. Many have never heard what you are hearing. For example, Pastor Aluizio preaching in Germany, where they have never heard about this.
While you do not know, share, but believe that in this rain, God will use you to teach as well. In your home, in your cell group, in your family. In these days, you will be placed in a new position and will be used with authority to share.
Get ready because abundant rains will come upon us; the skies are already dark.
