Droughts drain resources which results in famines that cause people to move in order to be positioned for the next outpouring. No one likes a drought, no one wants a famine, no one wants to move, this is why we resist the ways of God because we do not understand them. We only see in part, the part we are in, we struggle to rise above our current situation to see a big picture reality. We get stuck in the frame we are currently in and cannot see the movie that God is playing on a screen we do not see. We want out of the drought now, we want the famine to end, we do not want to move, because we are uncomfortable and in our discomfort we do not realize we are being brought to a place of abundance that will blow our minds. We grumble, we complain, we cry, we fight, all because we cannot see past our noses. We all do this, but thank God for His mercy that is new every morning, truly great is His faithfulness, that despite us, He is moving us into something we cannot even fathom is possible.

James 5:17-18 says “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.” We have been through a 3 1/2 year drought, that many know personally the financial drain, the emotional strain and the spiritual pain of this past season, but the drought is ending and the rain has begun to fall. Fields are starting to receive rain; people are beginning to see this was not to harm us but to help us come out together into a wide open space.

Friends, this is the word for now…Psalm 66:12 “Then you put a leader over us. We went through fire and flood, but you brought us to a place of great abundance.” We are on the edge of a place of great abudance, fear not, I can see the land of abundance and it is so great, we will forget the pain of the last seasons, for we will be so busy rejoicing in our God and how good He truly is.