For generations, Christians have prayed for an outpouring of the Spirit, the same prayer, over and over again. Lord, send a move of your Spirit. Do it again, Lord. Move in our time as you did before.
It sounds holy, it sounds humble. And yet hidden behind that prayer is a misunderstanding that has kept the church powerless for decades.
The fact is that if you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit and you learn how to be so full of the Spirit, and it begins to overflow, it will touch everyone in the church you are in, and there will be a mighty move of the Spirit. It happened to me twice; it has been proven in my personal experience.
Because the truth is this, God already moved. The greatest move of God in all of history happened 2,000 years ago at the cross and again 50 days later when the Holy Spirit descended on the day of Pentecost.
From that moment on, the move of God has never stopped. It simply moved into His people.
We are not praying for power. We are discovering the power that is already in us.
The church has spent years crying out for what heaven already poured out. We cry for revival as if God were withholding Himself, when in truth, He is waiting for the body of Christ to awaken to who she already is.
Acts 2: 4 says, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. That was not the beginning of a visitation, it was the beginning of an indwelling. God did not come to visit man again. He came to stay.
This is why the New Testament never commands believers to wait for another outpouring of the Spirit. Instead, it commands us to be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5: 18) to stay aware, to stay yielded, to stay conscious of the Spirit within.
The language changed after Pentecost. Before the cross, men looked up to heaven and cried, Lord, come down. After the cross, heaven looked down and said, I already have.
Many are waiting for the latter outpouring of the Spirit, but God already poured out His Spirit, on a group of 120 totally dedicated and submissive disciples who were only born again but not yet filled with the Spirit.
The latter rain is for harvesting the crops, and how is God going to have a great harvest, except He has harvesters to disciple that multitude.
And those we disciple are going to become exactly like us.
Are you a pure and spotless bride? Do you know how to walk in the Spirit and manifest the divine nature or are you still responding like a mere man, a mere woman, a fallen man or daughter of Adam and Eve. Paul rebuked the Corinthians.
He said- 1 Corinthians 3: For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?
I you are just sitting around waiting for the former and latter rain. The Lord says, “get ready.”
You are the ones who are going to disciple them. You cannot depend on the Apostles, prophets, pastors and teacher to be able to handle so may people, you are going to have to do it.