Here Comes the Rain

I’ve sensed a shift in the Spirit for most of this year. At first, it was in me. Then in my family. But now I feel it in this nation. Something is happening. God is moving. After the death of Charlie Kirk, even America is talking about a shift.

So I ask: Jesus, what are You doing? What’s on Your heart? Holy Spirit, speak to us and lead us into all truth. We don’t want to miss You. You reveal Your secrets to Your friends, so we draw near. We lean in. We listen for Your heart.

It feels like the cloud the size of a man’s hand—you can see it coming, you can sense the rain and have even felt some drops. God has been leaving breadcrumbs that have built hopefullness and hunger in my heart to see His presence invade our families and this nation like never before. I believe we are on the edge of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit beyond what we can comprehend.

But as I’ve sought Jesus on direction for where he wants our heart positioned in light of current events, I feel He is highlighting repentance.

In Ezekiel 8 the prophet describes a vision where the Spirit lifts him up and sets him at the entrance of the temple of the Lord. What he sees is devastating: idols in the house of God. Hidden rooms full of carved images. Elders offering incense to false gods. Women weeping for pagan gods. Men bowing to the sun. And then God asks in verse 17: “Is it nothing to the people of Judah that they commit these detestable sins, leading the whole nation into violence?” The violence in the nation was the fruit of God’s people compromised in their faith and pursuit of the ONE true God. And though the people cried for God to send mercy to their nation, God said He would not listen because their hearts were divided.

In the next chapter, judgment begins. God commands His messengers to mark the foreheads of those who weep over the sin of the city. But the rest—the indifferent, the compromised—are struck down. And God says, “Begin at my sanctuary” (Ezek. 9:6). The first to fall were those who “worshiped” God but tolerated idols in their lives. 1 Peter 4:17 echoes this same sobering truth: “For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household.” Revival must begin with repentance in the church.

You may be thinking….well I don’t worship the sun, or dable in astrology. But we must ask the Holy Spirit to open our eyes to what grieves the heart of our Bridegroom, Jesus. The greatest idol we see today is the idol of self. This is the spirit of the age, and every idol flows from it. 2 Timothy 3 warns us that in the last days people will be “lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy.” We worship the gods of comfort, convenience, control, pleasure, money, pride, entertainment, gossip and division. Comfort and pleasure aren’t always evil—God gives us good gifts to enjoy—but they become idols when self is on the throne. When we choose what is easy and comfortable instead of obeying Jesus. When we avoid stretching, discipline, growth, and suffering because it feels too hard. That’s when we are bowing down to self—self preservation. And Jesus was clear: “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me” (Matthew 16:24). We are either dying to self daily, as Jesus called us to, or we are living for self. There is no middle ground. The idol of self in the church is fueling the destruction of the nation. We must humble ourselves, pray and seek God’s face, repent and turn from our wicked ways—then God will forgive our sins and heal our land (2 Chronicles 7:14).

As we move forward as a nation, our only hope is the blood of Jesus. Isaiah 1:18 says, “Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool.” The blood cleanses. It redeems. It restores. At the cross, Jesus extended forgiveness, praying, “Father forgive them, they do not know what they are doing.” Stephen followed His example as stones crushed him: “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” That is the pattern for us—forgive others as He has forgiven us. And Jesus gave a sobering warning in Matthew 18:21–35 that if we refuse to forgive, we will not be forgiven.

So what’s on our lips? After Charlie Kirk’s death, how do we respond to the man who pulled the trigger and to the group of people we feel his ideologies represent? Do we partner with the accuser, speaking condemnation? Or do we plead the blood of Jesus: Father, forgive him. Redeem him. Restore his life. Chase him down with Your love. Because life and death are in the power of the tongue. If we partner with the accuser, our words carry the same death blow as the bullet itself. But if we declare the blood, we release mercy, forgiveness, and life. And so we pray: I plead Your blood, Jesus, over my sins and the sins of this nation. Purify us. End bloodshed. And send revival to America.

So this is not only a word of warning—but it is a word of hope and expectation! God IS purifying His church! He IS tearing down idols! He is exposing divided hearts! He is giving His people a new spirit to want to pursue Him and love Him with complete devotion! Rains of refreshing are here and are coming! Ezekiel 11 promises, “I will remove every trace of their vile images and detestable idols, and I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stubborn hearts and give them tender, responsive hearts. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.” As we repent and tear down our idols, God gives us singleness of heart to love Him and follow Him. And as His people turn, refreshing will come. Isaiah 35 says, “Springs will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams will water the wasteland. The parched ground will become a pool, and springs of water will satisfy the thirsty.” I believe this is the moment we are in. The wastelands we thought were hopeless WILL bloom again. And through the once-desolate lands, a Highway of Holiness will rise up.

Ezekiel was appointed as a watchman for Israel. And you are a watchman too—for your family, for your workplace, your city, your nation. If we stay silent, people will die in their sins and their blood will be on our hands. But if we obey, if we sound the warning and they still refuse to repent, they will die in their sins—but we will have saved ourselves because we obeyed the Lord. This is the weight of the call: obedience over outcome. Our job is not to control results, but to faithfully sound the alarm because God is moving in this nation and the harvest is ripe!

When God called Ezekiel to speak to the nation—He made it clear not to be discouraged or intimated by their waywardness or how hard the ground of their hearts appeared. Ezekiel 3:8–9 says God made Ezekiel’s forehead like flint—unshakable, unmovable, even in the face of stubborn, hard-hearted people. That cross references Acts 26:17–18, where ‘hard hearted’ Saul encounters Jesus— his eyes are opened, and he is sent to turn others “from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God.” I believe we are about to see innumerable Saul-to-Paul moments. The very ones we’ve written off as too far gone—the Lord is going to prove us wrong! By His mighty hand, He will redeem them! And when He does, they won’t stay silent. They’ll go back to their own people, to the outsiders, to the exiles, declaring eyes opened, darkness to light, freedom from the power of Satan, forgiveness of sins, and a place among God’s people. They will preach repentance. They will prove it by the fruit of their lives. They will risk everything to testify—and God Himself will protect them until their story is told!

Refreshing rain is coming to the dry lands we thought were hopeless! Springs will gush forth in the wilderness. Streams will water the wasteland. The parched ground will become a pool. Thirsty places will be satisfied with the Living Water. And through the once-deserted land, a great road will rise up, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. Christians, guard your lips. The very ones you perceived as enemies, the ones you thought were too far gone, will soon be standing next to you as family. Don’t curse what God is about to redeem! This is the hour of Saul-to-Paul moments! The refreshing rain of the Holy Spirit is here and coming—chasing down your loved ones, your friends, and this nation. Let Heaven Come.

So here is the call:

• Repent. Let judgment begin in us. Be grieved over our own sin and the sins of the land.

• Tear down idols. The idol of self is at the root, giving birth to comfort, convenience, control, pleasure, money, pride, and compromise. Let them fall.

• Die to self. Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus. We are either living for Him or living for ourselves.

• Cry out for singleness of heart. Lord, give us one heart after You. Tender and responsive.

• Guard your lips. Refuse to echo the accuser. Declare mercy, forgiveness, redemption.

• Pray for Saul-to-Paul moments. God can do anything, for anyone, at any time.

• Cry out for revival.

  
  

  Revival in me.

  
  

  Revival in my family.

  
  

  Revival in Richardson.

  
  

  Revival in America.

Come Holy Spirit. Purify Your church. Heal our land. Send refreshing rain. Pour out like a flood. We are desperate. We are ready.