How will this flood come? Zechariah 10:1 says, "Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds (lightnings), and give them showers (torrents) or rain, to every one grass in the field." We are in the latter rain. It is harvest time! He said "ask," didn't He?

Intercessory prayer will cause the rain of God's Spirit. It will harvest the human race into the family of God. It is happening right now all over the world. God is bringing the Body of Christ into unity. Rivers of living water - flowing from believers joining together - will become the flood of spiritual power in the earth. The flood constitutes the power of the former rain and the latter rain, plus the intensity of our generation at the closing of the age!

Some years ago, I heard Oral Roberts say, "Prepare yourself. There's a flood coming - not a trickle, not a stream, not a river, but a flood." That statement, along with something one of my associates at that time said, has changed my comprehension of a very important scripture: "So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him" (Is. 59:19). A trickle, a stream, a river:...each of these is containable, but a flood cannot be contained. The water overflows its banks. This verse looks like Satan comes in like a flood. He can't do that. He has been contained. He has been stopped by Jesus.

At the discretion of the translators, they have placed a comma after the word "flood." We have just as much privilege, by revelation from the Holy Spirit, to move that comma because there is no punctuation in the original Hebrew. We cannot do that arbitrarily, but if the Word confirms it out of the mouth of two or three witnesses, then we have the right. Let's back up to verse 16 and find out who is coming in like a flood. "And he (God) saw that there was no...intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak" (Is. 59:16-17). Can you see what this scripture is saying? God is the One Who is moving in. Not the devil! Jesus came in as an intercessor, with the whole armor of God.

This is the same armor described for the believer in Ephesians 6. Verse 19 should read: When the enemy shall come in, like a flood the Lord shall raise up a standard against him! Look at this scripture in The Amplified Bible: "So (as a result of the Messiah's intervention) they shall (reverently) fear the name of the Lord from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him and put him to flight - for He will come like a rushing stream which the breath of the Lord drives."

The breath of the Lord is the wind of God which is His Spirit. The wind of God will drive the flood until the enemy has to run in front of it to keep from being crushed!

God showed me that now is not the time for Christians to be "sitting on the fence" with one foot in the devils' territory and the other foot in God's. The flood of God's Spirit will wash that fence away. If you are on the fence, you will get washed away right along with it. You cannot stand in front of a flood to resist it. It will crush you. But you can ride the crest of that flood and it will carry you to high ground. That is where this move of God is headed.

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