Atmospheric Rivers
Wes Wick
If you’ve been praying for rain in California, we give you permission to stop. :) If you’ve been praying for revival in our nation and world, please continue!
We’ve had plenty of opportunities lately to confirm that water runs downstream.
But we’ve also observed that God’s Spirit is not subject to natural laws. God is full of wonderful, counter-intuitive surprises.
“Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Yes, in the spiritual realm an outpouring can flow upstream from an unexpected base.
Today we may not have anticipated a spiritual outpouring through Gen Z students at a Kentucky university with Methodist roots. We love how God’s Spirit is on the move, once more touching a younger generation and rippling out to all generations.
We had never even heard the term “atmospheric river” until this winter, and we’ve marveled at nature’s incredible force here in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Atmospheric rivers are happening in the spiritual realm, too. People are hungry for more of God, and a humble spirit of repentance has led to another special outpouring and call to obedience. No big names, no special effects, no incredible musical talent---just a group of committed students humbling themselves before an awesome God.
Many people have been on their knees praying that this day would come. How gratifying for those prayer warriors and for those faith-filled students who chose to continue their worship!
We also love seeing the convergence of many media efforts highlighting God’s love and redemption such as the Jesus Revolution movie, the He Gets Us campaign, and The Chosen.
America and the world have been hit by many storms in recent years, certainly not all weather-related, and we need God’s supernatural intervention.
May all of us be open to God’s fresh touch as we too humble ourselves before Him. Sons and daughters are seeing visions, and older generations are dreaming dreams.
We pray that this is only the beginning.