God desires to
overtake us with His love, peace and presence. Just like one becomes saturated
when standing under a downpour of rain, God has His abundance of rain ready to
saturate our lives, changing, blessing and enriching us in His fullness in
every way.
In order to be
affected by rain, we have to be in the correct position. In the natural sense,
the correct position would be standing under the rain. In the spiritual sense,
part of positioning ourselves is asking. Zechariah 10:1 says to “ask for rain
even though it’s raining”. That means that even though we know that God’s
presence, peace, joy, health, and hope are available, we should ask for it, and
by faith, believe that we are going to receive it.
It’s important
to take what you know a step further and by faith, out loud, acknowledge the
manifestations of God’s presence, and part of doing that is to praise and
worship.
It’s
interesting to think about the components of water. A water molecule is
composed of two hydrogen atoms bonded to a single oxygen atom. Likewise, the
rain of God is God Himself and everything that comes along with Him. What is
that? It’s healing, peace, goodness, forgiveness, self-esteem, joy and so much
more. When it rains, you experience and have access to it all.
There is
transforming power in the declaration of praise. I believe that worship along
with our praise, thanksgiving, and confessing the word of God is essential to
our Christian life. Worship is our response to God in our lives which only
enhances intimacy, obedience and revelation of who He is and who we are.
I leave every
worship experience in the presence of God more influenced by Him and more like
Him than before. That’s why I take advantage of every opportunity to praise and
worship the Lord. It always brings more strength, wisdom and understanding
toward whatever situation I might be going through. As a matter of fact, there
have been times when I’ve entered prayer with concerns and after being in His
presence and worshipping Him, it wasn’t even worth bringing up because I knew
that my needs were already taken care of.
Worshipping
the Lord is not only a privilege, but it is life. It’s in the life of every
believer. The Bible says that even the rocks cry out and give God worship. God
is so worthy of our worship and adoration. We all have something in which we
are thankful; for one, Jesus saved us and came to give us a full life! We have
a reason to live and we have hope in our lives. That’s reason enough!
Through
worship, we activate and release our faith by acknowledging God’s lordship in
our lives. And according to Psalm 1, when we acknowledge the Lord in all our
ways, He directs our steps and gets us into proper alignment; that’s an
abundance of rain.
And it’s
through our worship and adoration that we experience and are drawn more and
more into all of the manifestations of God’s presence. The cloud of God’s favor
opens up, and begins to pour over our life, equipping, anointing and enriching
us.
The presence
of the Lord is the safest place that you can be when it seems as if your world
is crashing around you. I love the fact that when you are close to Jesus, you
will see your life and everything around you from His perspective, which is
found in the abundance of His rain.
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