{"id":6682,"date":"2015-07-16T01:17:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T01:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2015-07-16T01:17:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T01:17:35","slug":"deep-calls-to-deep-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=6682","title":{"rendered":"Deep calls to deep"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn the six hundredth year of Noah\u2019s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.<\/em>\u201d Genesis 7:11<\/p>\n

“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.<\/em>‘” John 7: 38<\/p>\n

\u201cDeep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts\u2026<\/em>\u201d Psalm 42:7a KJV<\/p>\n

A while back while praying with some other folks, I\u00a0experienced the presence of God in an unusual way.\u00a0Waves of worship in languages given by the Spirit of God filled the atmosphere, spilling out in joy, peace, and great awe. It felt as if I had entered a river, toes first, splashing and washing away the tiredness of my flesh. I saw swirling eddies and light\u00a0dancing in\u00a0the water\u00a0with my mind\u2019s eye, and realized that, try as we might, no human could really control a living river.<\/p>\n

As I worshipped God, I reflected upon rivers I had known\u2014fishing expeditions with my dad, float trips with my friends, rope swings over deeply-rooted banks, and the torrents of flood waters that often\u00a0crash through the \u00a0mighty rivers of my region. Rivers\u2014life-giving, playful, refreshing, cleansing, powerful, dangerous, destructive\u2014rivers.<\/p>\n

I sang quietly to myself, \u201cOh, oh, the River of God! Wash it away, wash it away, wash it away in the River of God!\u201d The river of God was<\/em> washing me, and I allowed it to carry me into the deeper flows of the peace of God.<\/p>\n

Then I caught a glimpse of how an outpouring of God might begin upon a people or a land. God said to Jeremiah, \u201c\u2026call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart<\/strong>. I will be found by you<\/em>\u2026\u201d (see Jeremiah 29:12-14).<\/p>\n

When the heart cries of God\u2019s people are toward Him, seeking Him with their whole beings for mercy, salvation, and restoration to be poured out upon themselves and their\u00a0land, He listens and responds. During times of chaos, distress, crisis, and upheaval, men and women have cried out to God earnestly, beseeching Him for deliverance from their backslidings and sin, crying out for relief from the fruit of wickedness in the land. And as a result, revivals have nearly always erupted in those darker times.<\/p>\n

By Noah\u2019s time,\u00a0although the earth was still young, wickedness had spiraled out of control and evil permeated the thoughts and intentions of the human race. The world was not merely corrupted by sin; it was saturated in it. Violence, greed, and all types of perversion ruled the day, and God had seen enough.<\/p>\n

He directed Noah to build an ark for the preservation of the race and every animal species on the earth.\u00a0According to 2 Peter 2:5, it is likely that Noah preached righteousness to anyone who happened by throughout the entire ark-construction project. The door to the ark was left open until the last minute; had anyone taken Noah\u2019s message to heart, my guess is that they would have been welcomed aboard.<\/p>\n

Genesis 7:11 gives the report of the fateful day when the flood began. \u201cAll the fountains of the great deep burst open<\/em>\u201d declares the Word, \u201cand the floodgates of the sky were opened<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In our day, as wickedness\u00a0spirals out of control once again, and as evil thoughts seem to\u00a0inundate the very atmosphere with perversion, violence, and greed, God is once again leaving the door of the ark open for a while longer.<\/p>\n

And He is now stirring the depths of the hearts of His people\u2014deep is calling unto deep\u2014and He is pressing by His Spirit upon all of us\u2014anyone who will\u2014to \u201cburst open\u201d and allow the release of living waters from\u00a0the innermost being.<\/p>\n

As we cry out to Him and seek Him with all of our hearts, He will be found of us. The great depths within us, placed within our hearts from the moment we received Christ, will be met by the opened floodgates of Heaven, and another great Flood will occur.<\/p>\n

In this Flood, souls will be saved<\/em>, not lost; and as we cry out to Him, perhaps\u00a0one last time the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.<\/p>\n

It is our time; may\u00a0each one\u00a0of us yield to the Holy One pressing upon our hearts in this hour and cry out to Heaven, “Send the outpouring of your Spirit! We must<\/em> have revival!”<\/p>\n

Dorothy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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