Preparing for Rain

This morning was an awesome service in church.  You know, one of those services where you realize the whole purpose of needing to congregate and "edify" each other in the body of Christ. Yea, all us church people were there... but I tell you the Spirit of the Lord moved.  When you have half the church at the altar and the other half in their pews praying (quite frankly there just wasn't enough room down there)... you know the Lord has come into His House to worship that day. 

The Word for the day....
Do what you have KNOWN for so long that the Lord has called you to do.  Let God worry about the overwhelming circumstances.  We were made and called to do His service and fellowship with our Creator.  We let those cares and diversions of this life drag us away from what we KNOW we should be doing.

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Anybody seen that movie "Facing The Giants"???  If you haven't, get it.  It's a football movie... so even your man will watch it. ;o)

There is a sceen in the movie where an older gentleman is conversing with the main character.  He gives this parable...

There  was a drought in the land where two farmers lived.  Everyday they both looked for rain, but none came for a long time.  One farmer went out and looked each day and went back inside in disgust.  The other farmer went out every day and prepared his fields for planting.  Who do you think was ready when the rain came???

The gentleman goes on to ask what the main character was doing to prepare for the rain for harvest?? [Yes, I know this sounds a bit weird for a football movie... but get the movie, watch it and you will understand how it applies.]

When all seems lost and we feel like giving up... we should continue preparing for the work God has placed us here for.  I don't know about you.. but in our society it sures seems much easier to quit and move on most of the time.  We have no idea what God is doing in the "background" (that we cannot see) to finish His work.  What if we quit too soon?

What if Joshua had given up on the 6th day?  What if Moses quit after the 9th plague?  What if Joseph gave up in jail in bitterness over what his own brothers had done to him?  What if David decided Goliath wasn't worth the risk?

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Nehemiah 6:9
They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed." But I prayed, "Now strengthen my hands."

Acts 14:26
From Attalia they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

Colossians 4:17
Tell Archippus: "See to it that you complete the work you have received in the Lord."

James 1:4
Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

James 2:22
You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.

Lord help me to remember.... [1.Zechariah 4:6] "... Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts."