I read in my devotions yesterday morning of God’s promise to Israel of inundating them with an overflow of blessings. Isaiah 44:3, “For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:” You will notice that there are conditions associated with the blessings. They are 1) thirst, and 2) dry ground. If the conditions are present, the promise is that blessings will break forth like a flood, even with an abundant overflow that will affect the next generation!

There is no doubt that we live in a dry and thirsty land (Psalm 63:1). The spiritual and moral condition is drought-like with devastating consequences! Yet it is in such times, under such conditions, that God can do “abundantly above all that we ask or think” (Ephesians 3:20), by pouring out water and bringing on the flood that will refresh the dry and thirsty land. How? Our verse in Isaiah says it is brought about by the pouring out of His Spirit. When the people of God recognize the condition of the land, yea, and their own heart also, and become thirsty for God to respond to the needy conditions, He will pour out His Spirit. “Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6).

Friend, will you get thirsty for God and ask Him to pour out His Spirit on a dry and thirsty land where no water is? “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6). Could we say, like a flood?

Pastor Jeff Berg