A great outpouring of His Spirit is nearly upon us and at the very door. It’s not because we have faith that it will, but because His Spirit burns within our hearts keeping the flame alive with anticipation for His great wave of love just as it has poured out in the last great moves of His Spirit within most of our lifetimes. We have a seed of faith planted by His hand inside that eagerly awaits the rains to make it sprout. The moves of His Spirit that we have experienced left behind seeds of His doing. Some seeds take awhile to sprout and when the rains comes like they do in the desert the desert comes alive with a glorious array of blossoms. So too for any of us who have felt like we were in a desert, the clouds are forming above us ready to drop an outpouring of His grace never seen before. We resonate with that because His Spirit inspired it within us. The waiting has purged us of our self generated hopes so that now when hope is fulfilled, that Hope is Jesus appearing with all His might and power and anointing for all who would receive Him. We’re going to see Him more clearly in our midst. He’s at the very door.
I have heard people over the years say that indeed His outpouring is already here and I would agree with that to a degree. I have sometimes felt like I had a lack of faith in the face of some who had that passion that His outpouring was here. I always felt like something was missing because I knew what it looked like when the Lord was over the top in how He moved upon people and the church. Like baking a cake, there is a difference between smelling the cake baking and actually pulling the done cake from the oven. The closer the cake gets to being done, the more the house is filled with a powerful, delicious, inspiring aroma, but the aroma is not the cake. You can’t slice the aroma and have it with milk. I believe that at last the cake is done and is about to be presented. The Good Shepherd, Our Friend is about to show up and there will be no mistaking who He is and what He wants for everyone.