WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN!
“HOLY GHOST RAIN”

(Gen 7:4 KJV)  For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
(Gen 7:5 KJV)  And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
(Gen 7:6 KJV)  And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
(Gen 7:7 KJV)  And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
(Gen 7:8 KJV)  Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
(Gen 7:9 KJV)  There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
(Gen 7:10 KJV)  And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
(Gen 7:11 KJV)  In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
(Gen 7:12 KJV)  And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
(Gen 7:13 KJV)  In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
(Gen 7:14 KJV)  They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
(Gen 7:15 KJV)  And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
(Gen 7:16 KJV)  And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
(Gen 7:17 KJV)  And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
(Gen 7:18 KJV)  And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
(Gen 7:19 KJV)  And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
(Gen 7:20 KJV)  Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
(Gen 7:21 KJV)  And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
(Gen 7:22 KJV)  All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
(Gen 7:23 KJV)  And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
(Gen 7:24 KJV)  And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
(Gen 8:1 KJV)  And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
(Gen 8:2 KJV)  The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

TALK ABOUT A RAIN STORM!

• • 40 DAYS…40 NIGHTS
  • KILLED OFF EVERY THING

GOD DID THIS TO CLEANS THE EARTH

• THAT’S WHAT RAIN DOES
• SPRING RAINS
• IT CLEANSES

I’LL TELL YOU WHAT IT ALSO DOES

• IT NOURISHES
• IT PREPARES THE SOIL FOR NEW SEED
• WITHOUT THE RAIN THE SEED IS HELPLESS
• IT WONT EVEN BREAK OUT OF IT’S HUSK
• IT CAN’T GROW ROOTS
• IT CAN’T BE NOURISHED

(Deu 11:10 KJV)  For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
(Deu 11:11 KJV)  But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
(Deu 11:13 KJV)  And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
(Deu 11:14 KJV)  That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

I WANT GOD TO POUR OUT A HOLY GHOST RAIN

• IT WASHES
• IT NOURISHES
• IT PREPARES US FOR THE SEED
• IT CAUSES FERTILE GROUND IN OUR HEARTS
• IT WILL LET THE SEED TO BREAK FORTH
• IT WILL GIVE IT ROOTS – SO WE DON’T LOSE IT

(Job 36:27 KJV)  For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
(Job 36:28 KJV)  Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

JOB HAD THIS FIGURED OUT!
WE THINK WE HAVE A HANDLE ON GOD

• WE THINK THAT WE CAN JUST GET A BLESSING ANY OLD TIME
• HEY GOD I’M HERE … BLESS ME
• HEY YOU IT’S CHURCH TIME… TURN ON THE WATER
• COME ON I’M WAITING
• START THE DOWN POUR
• BLESS ME …BLESS ME… BLESS ME

BUT YOU SEE HIS BLESSINGS DON’T JUST COME DOWN ANY OLD TIME!

• JOB SAID ACCORDING TO THE VAPOR THEREOF
• HOW MUCH VAPOR HAS GONE UP
• HOW MANY MOLECULES HAVE GONE UP
• HOW MANY PRAYERS HAVE GONE UP
• HOW MUCH WORSHIP HAS GONE UP
• HOW MUCH DEDICATION HAS GONE UP
• HOW MUCH PRAISE HAS GONE UP

WE SAY WE WANT REVIVAL
“COME ON GOD RAIN ON US”

• POUR IT OUT
• MAKE IT A DOWN POUR
• MAKE IT A GUSHER
• GET ME ALL WET
• CLEAN ME ALL UP
• GIVE ME NEW LIFE

BUT GOD SAY’S WHERE’S THE MIST, WHERE’S THE VAPOR

• YOU SEE WE HAVE TO GIVE HIM SOMETHING TO WORK WITH
• SO WE SEND UP WORSHIP
• SO WE SEND UP PRAISE
• SO WE SEND UP PRAYER
• SO WE SEND UP FASTING
• SO WE SEND UP DEDICATION TO THE HOUSE OF GOD
• AND HE SENDS DOWN… BLESSING
• AND HE SENDS DOWN… MORE BLESSING
• AND HE SENDS DOWN… HEALING
• AND HE SENDS DOWN… THE HOLY GHOST
• AND HE SENDS DOWN… POWER PACKED SERVICES
• AND HE SENDS DOWN… ANOINTED PREACHING
• AND HE SENDS DOWN… MIRACLES…SIGNS…AND WONDERS
• AND HE SENDS DOWN… ANSWERS TO PRAYERS
• AND HE SENDS DOWN… SAVED LOVED ONES
• AND HE SENDS DOWN… A GROWING CHURCH
• AND HE SENDS DOWN…REVIVAL

AND I WANT REVIVAL
AND SO DO YOU
BUT IT’S ONLY GOING TO COME WHEN WE’VE SENT UP THE MIST

(2 Chr 7:14 KJV)  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
(Mat 7:7 KJV)  Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
(Mat 7:8 KJV)  For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

• FIRST WE HAVE TO ASK
• HAVE TO SEEK
• WE HAVE TO KNOCK …
  • I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYONE GET THE HOLY GHOST THAT WAS NOT SEEKING IT
  • I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYONE GET A MIRACLE WHERE SOMEONE WASN’T PRAYING FOR IT.