The latter rain(End-time outpourings)
By Apostle Joshua Selman
Matthew 7:8
It is important that we understand God's goal for our lives.
When you understand what he's doing you can obey him.
When you understand what he's doing you can be patient him.
When you understand what he's doing you can discerning.
When you understand what he's doing it fuels faith and gratitude.
God's goal is to make us objects of praise, that your life becomes a holistic capture of what God can do with a man who decides to be yielded.
John 1:9
Never stop yielding yourself to the ministry of the holy spirit, never stop yielding yourself to his word.
Your body may be tired, fatigued, especially on the account of the vicissitudes of life and the reality of the times, but you must have a determination before you.
Heb 12:2
There is always a joy set before every believer.
2 Cor 4:18
Roman 8:18
It takes time for God to build people.
Are you patient enough to allow the spirit of God to finish what he's doing?
Don't give in to the temptation of satan.
Satan is the master of the sense realm, he knows that once you become sensual, you are in his domain.
Roman 8:6
The moment you reduce yourself to the level of carnality; you start calculating your destiny mathematically, calculating your destiny sociologically, it will not add up and the end of it is that you'll be discouraged and you will not see the profit in serving God, you will not see the profit in living for him.
First charge: you must realize that the holy spirit is on a journey with you.
You can choose to tell him you are tired and because he's God, he'll respect your will.
But with that privilege will come catastrophic consequences. It is better not to start the journey than to start and not arrive.
We are not of them that drawback.
When you set your hand on the plough you obtain grace and when you get tired, you cry for help.
Do you know why the holy spirit is called a helper?
There are two assignments of a helper.
1. To make things possible
2. To make things easy
When you call on him as a helper, he comes to your life and guarantees that which God has shown you must come to pass.
He eases the journey.
He does this by comforting and restoring you.
Make up your mind that you have began this glory with the holy spirit and there is no going back.
1 John 3:2
Your life becomes an answer to many people's prayer.
Joel 2:23-27
We are in the days of his power.
Psalm 110:3
If we are in the days of his power then it's important to know that the power of God depends on how many vessels are willing and are aligned to be endued with power from on high.
Isaiah 32:15
What does a season of outpouring look?
What does it look like when God is moving?
- It comes with the manifestation of mighty works. In and through the saints. The season of the latter rain. A season of extraordinary manifestation.
- A season of greater influence where the church gains ascendence and their influence becomes incontestable even within their world not just from a spiritual standpoint.
Isaiah 2:2-3
It does not happen to a few, multitudes are affected.
- It is characterized by greater witness
Act 4:33
It comes with grace to be a witness like never before
John 1:17
John 20:30-31
One and one evangelism may not be able to do the Job, there needs be an outpouring.
- It comes with greater salvation. Massive salvation of souls.
Beyond the effort of crusade, beyond the effort of tracts.
A move of spirit that you see men being saved without human beings talking to them. Visions in the similitude of that which happend to Saul.
Individuals who in their salvation is the salvation of a Decapolis.
John 4:29
There are individuals that satan is fighting their salvation, because in their salvation can be the salvation of 10 million other people. And satan will fight with everything that he has.
Every territory is at the mercy of the number of people saved within the territory.
When it has the business of salvation, numbers matter.
The journey of the believer starts with an encounter with the son of the living God.
1 John 5:12
Real success in life in ministry and in destiny is measured by how many people come to Jesus through your life before other things.
God's ultimate passion is that all men are saved.
It is dangerous when someone has not met Christ but has met church, because there's almost nothing you'd tell them. They'll recite your revelation to you.
Like culture, a career, church can be learnt. The greatest and the highest objective of the outpouring, is to see that people are translated from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of his dear son.
- Increase and abundance.
2 Chronicles 7:14
Anytime when there's economic crisis, it is usually because of the sins of the people.
Joel 2:25
When you do everything right and you don't catch fish, maybe you need to step back to a point of brokenness
- Higher dimensions in the spirit.
Greater command of spiritual power.
God will never force or impose his program on anyone. it isn't consistent with his ways.
The manifestation of God's desire and plan on the earth, depends on the availability, willingness and yieldedness of the saints.
Isaiah 6:8
Luke 1:38
God is mighty and can do without you, but he chooses to depend on you. You should see it as a privilege.
God is not like a man abandoning people, he can be patient with you.
Pray:
Lord I repent, I’m tired of inventing my own way of living my life.
I’m willing to return to the assignment You called me for.
I cannot lose my call, with so much You’ve vested upon my life. Help me!
Lord, I'm tired of doing things my own way, I'm ready to return to you. I repent!
What kind of a vessel is God looking for?
As much as God would love to use everybody, the unfortunate reality is that God may not use everybody, because there are conditions.
- God is looking for a man who desires to know him
Daniel 11:32,
It is impossible to be passionate about a God you do not know
Jeremiah 9:24
The kind of men who this later rain will fall are men who are ready to pay the price to know God. It takes time to know God
John 17:3
Exodus 3:13-17
There are major ways to know God:
We know God by studying:
1. Characters
2. His ways
3. His power
Eph 1:17-19
Not all of him can be known. But he has broken himself to dimensions that is affordable for our minds and spirit to receive.
We can know how he works and so how does not work.
John 2:23, John 2:11
Miracles point God to Jesus.
Those that God will be using are not men and women who will stand on the battlefield and are confused as to who sent them. We must be people of knowledge, people of power
1 Samuel 17:45
Act 17:23
2 Timothy 1:12
There's profit in knowing God.
Daniel 11:32
If you don't know God you cannot know who you are, because who you are is derived from who he is.
2 Cor 3:18
You must look at your life from the mirror/lens of the scripture.
Before you access yourself, verify what mirror you are looking at.
There are so many mirrors out there(social media, culture, society, men of God...)
Any mirror that is inconsistent with the word of God is lying to you.
When you know who you are and what God has mad you become, it becomes inconsequential what else people, time, sociology says about you.
Your confidence in life is derived from the stability of who you know you are in light of who Christ is.
The secret to rising is humility
James 4:10
One of the many things you need to run away from is pride.
The knowledge of God demands your time, concentration and devotion, study of the word, fellowship with the spirit in prayer and worship
- The latter rain is looking for a man who will truly and whole heartedly love him.
The more you know God the more you love him.
Matthew 22:36&337
The common word here is "all"
The business of loving Jesus demands your all to love him
Eph 3:17-19
Most revivals died and most move of God has suffered because the love component was not added to power.
There are 3 biblical prove that a man loves God
- He becomes your priority
Exodus 20:3-5
Ministry, anointing, charisma can be an idol
When you exalt yourself more than Christ...
2 Chronicles 15:12-15
Exalted above ministry, above pursuit
- Obedience
Deuteronomy 10:12
John 14:21
- Love for the brethren
1 John 4:20
Love and hate cannot coexist, because perfect love does not just drive out fear, it drives out anything that is not love
Roman 12:10
You want to show that you love Jesus, you must love his body.
Love is a very powerful force.
Those who will receive the latter rain are not hypocrites.
Hatred is a signature of the presence of evil.
Roman 12:21
It was love that defeated death on the cross.
Love will always triumph over death.
Love will always triumph over hatred.
Pray:
In the name of Jesus the love of God is at work in me.
2 Corinthians 13:14
- He becomes your priority
- God is looking for a vessel who will serve him
Romans 12:11
What does it mean to serve the Lord?
It means to be an active contributor to his birthing and manifestation of his will, of his program
God is looking for men who are prepared to serve him with their time, gifting and resources.
Deuteronomy 28:47-48
In any case you'll either serve the Lord or things.
You are not giving the liberty to not serve, you are only given the liberty of who you will serve.
There are some of you who are wanting because some aspects of them cannot serve the Lord.
It is impossible to serve God genuinely with your resources and remain poor.
When you serve God it is not only money that comes wisdom, favour, the loyalty of men comes to you.
Not everyone who wants to be part of this move will be.
When you dwindle and chicken out, many may for call.
Eph 6:13
Isaiah 32:15
For many of us, the salvation of many has been given to your hands, do not fail God
For many of us, the prosperity of many has been given to your hands, do not fail God
For many of us, the encouragement that will come to many has been given to your hands, do not fail God.
For many of us, the influence of the Kingdom has been invested on your shoulders, do not fail God.
The creativity of the kingdom is your job description as far as this move God is concerned, do not fail God.
His presence is the guarantee that the mission will not fail
Proverbs 3:5-7
God has instructed me to blow this trumpet in Zion and to announce to you that the latter rain has began.
Joel 2:28
Pray:
Father in this outpouring, this awakening, this move of the spirit that is springing forth from this place, from this nation, from this continent, and spreading like an inferno, spreading like an avalanche to the nations of the earth, I open up my heart and my spirit and I declare that I am a vessel, available, willing and yielded to be used by you.
Matthew 25:27
If you can't say sincerely that you are saved. Even if you've been in church and you consider yourself a good person but have not consciously made the decision to be saved, I urge you to make that decision right now.
This is the wisest decision any man can make in his life time.
Lift your right hand high above your head and say, "Lord Jesus, I have heard your word, I love you with all.my heart, I believed that you rose again for my justification. Right now, I receive you into my heart as my savior my Lord and my king. I declare that the power of sin, satan, hell and the grave is broken over my life. From tonight and forever, I am a child of God washed by the blood of the lamb. I go forward ever and backward never. Amen"
Father thank you for these ones, the bible says that, "for as many that come to you, you will in no wise cast away," they have come declaring your lordship over their lives. And I pray in the name of Jesus, the keeping grace that sustained us through this journey, let it rest upon you. I call you the righteousness of Christ Jesus, bonafide recipient of the life of God. and based of the authority of scriptures, I declare your sins forgiven, and I curse every spirit that will not let you rest, that will stop you from working in victory and righteousness, I release you right now, let that influence leave you forever. From now you go forward ever and backward never.