Devotional: A Rushing Torrent

God is going to visit us and send a visitation of His Spirit

May 13, 2024 A Rushing Torrent Psalm 126:4 Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like the streams in the Negev.     NIV      There's a prayer from God's people for restoration. The picture there is very vivid, if you're familiar with the Negev. The word that's translated "streams" in Arabic is a wadi. A wadi is something special that's found mainly in the Middle East. It's a riverbed, which is dry most of the year. You can see that water has flowed in it, but when rain has not fallen within a few days it dries up and you just have the evidence that water once flowed in it.      And so God's people there in that prayer view themselves like one of those dry riverbeds in the Negev, the desert of the south of Israel. But their prayer is that God will restore them like the streams in the Negev. Such a vivid picture, because at certain seasons when there's rainfall in the Negev it comes copiously, abundantly, and in a few hours what was a dry riverbed is transformed into an overflowing, torrential stream that sweeps everything before it, sometimes washing away bridges, even causing serious accidents, washing cars away so that where just a few hours previously there was nothing but dust and dryness, there's a rushing torrent.      And their inspired prayer is that God would restore His people like that stream in the Negev – that though we've been dry and dusty without much evidence of water, suddenly God is going to visit us and send such a visitation of His Spirit that it will be like a rushing torrent that will sweep all obstacles before it. —Derek Prince To view a video of scenes from Israel with Derek's original audio on our website click here. Copyright © 2024 Derek Prince Ministries, Int., All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: P.O. Box  19501 Charlotte, NC 28219-9501

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The Evidence of Things Not Seen

The Evidence of Things Not Seen 

The Christian man knows that he is but a stranger and pilgrim; and he comforts himself, as he goes through the wilderness, thinking of the home towards which he is traveling. And he weaves tapestries, and paints pictures, and carves various creations. Living, as he does, by faith, and not merely by sight, his imagining, his picture-painting, his idealizing, his holy reverie, are filling the great empty heavens with all conceivable beauty. And what if it be evanescent? So is the wondrous frost-picture on the window; but is it not beautiful and worth having? So is the summer dew upon the flower; but is it not renewed night by night? And faith is given to man to lift him above the carnal, the dull, the sodden, and to enable him to conceive of things beyond that to which any earthly realization has yet ever attained.

AMG Bible Illustrations, Bible Illustrations Series (Chattanooga: AMG Publishers, 2000).

Bible Illustrations Series (Chattanooga: AMG Publishers, 2000)

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The Beautiful Simplicity of Faith

The Beautiful Simplicity of Faith as mentioned in AMG Bible Illustrations

One of the best things about faith is its being so simple. The skeptics who know too much to believe are but wise in their own conceit. It has been well said that the Gospel is a stream in which lambs can wade, but in which elephants must swim. Children can grasp the simple fact that they are lost in sin but saved in Christ, and the wisest of men must marvel at the depth of wisdom revealed in Christ. Here is how one woman found out how simple a thing faith is. This woman told a soul winner that was eager to lead her to Christ that she would like to believe but could not. The minister replied: “Mrs. Franklin, how long have you been Mrs. Franklin?” The answer was “Oh, ever since the minister asked me, ‘Will you have this man to be your lawful wedded husband?” “You said,” the minister interrupted, “ ‘I hope so,’ or, ‘I’ll see.’ “ “Indeed no,” rejoined the woman, “I said, ‘I will.’ “ “Well,” the minister insisted, “why not give God the same answer when he asks you the question: ‘Will you take my Son, Jesus Christ as your Savior?’ “ “Oh, is that all?” the woman asked. Her relief came at once when she understood that Jesus gave salvation and that He would do all else, provided He was received as Savior. Faith is an act of the will to receive Christ as Savior. That, in turn, means two things: the forgiveness of sin and the death of sin.

AMG Bible Illustrations, Bible Illustrations Series (Chattanooga: AMG Publishers, 2000).

AMG Bible Illustrations, Bible Illustrations Series (Chattanooga: AMG Publishers, 2000).

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Excerpt from AMG Bible Illustrations from Logos Bible Software Topic "Failure"

Failure 

When All Else Fails,  Read the Instructions 

We are so good at doing things our own way. Then, when they do not work out, we turn to God and say, “Help! Now what do I do?” We are so foolish, for if we had read His instructions in the first place, we wouldn’t have had the problem in the second place. “Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.” That’s a powerful thought! 

Who Has Not Failed? 

The Apostle Paul failed; Peter failed; every one of the twelve apostles failed. David, Israel’s greatest king, “a man after God’s own heart,” failed. Moses, giant among the Israelites, giver of the law, deliverer of his people, failed. Jacob, father of Israel, failed; Isaac, son of promise, failed. Abraham, progenitor of Israel, father of the faithful, prototype of those who are righteous through faith, failed. Even our first parents, in their human perfection, failed. Who has not failed? It is not failing that is the problem; it is what one does after he has failed. To take failure as final is to be a failure. To see in failure the school of the Spirit is to let failure contribute to one’s growth in Christ.

AMG Bible Illustrations, Bible Illustrations Series (Chattanooga: AMG Publishers, 2000).

Bible Illustrations Series (Chattanooga: AMG Publishers, 2000)

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