RIVER OF GOD
Key Verse: “You visit the earth and water it, You greatly enrich it; The river of God is full of water; You provide their grain for so You have prepared it” (v.9).
Key Theme: Revival, Reformation, and Harvest!
Key Descriptives of God: God of Our Salvation (Victory, Deliverance, Jesus)
I am seeing the amazing God-setup in how our 67-day journey concludes. Yesterday’s Psalm 64 was so prophetic and relevant and now these last 3 chapters are all fascinatingly prophetic. Almost as if specifically written for us in 2020. Psalm 65 begins with the word PRAISE and ends with the word SING. In between is an awesome feast of promises from our God and we will just have to skim it for time’s sake as there is so much. Here we go.
YOU WILL PROVIDE ATONEMENT
“As for our transgressions, You will provide atonement” (v.3).
This is just pure revelation that David had somehow received. The order of the day was bringing sacrifices and burnt offerings to atone for one’s own sins. David had prophetically seen God Himself making provision for our sins in Jesus. What insight he had into the character of God that He would ultimately ask for nothing that He didn’t also provide for.
FESTIVITIES AWAIT US
“What joy for those You chose to bring near You, those who live in Your holy courts. What festivities await us inside Your Holy Temple” (v.4).
I see this verse telling us two things. One, that God who provides atonement (Jesus) for us then has heaven for us with “festivities” awaiting. Two, this was a present reality for David and why he so saw and lived in “the age to come”. Throughout the Psalms, there is enough language to leave us concluding that David frequented heaven. He understood it as a sovereign choice of God to allow him to be brought to His presence— and that perhaps later in life it was so much so that he felt as if he were LIVING in His holy courts. If there is one thing we receive from David it is permission and passion to pursue God, His presence, and His power at seemingly unavailable levels. Ripping lions with bare hands, running unscathed through troops, leaping over walls, chasing a thousand, beholding the beauty of the Lord, the festivities of His Holy Temple etc.etc.— these are all partaking ahead of time of heaven’s realms of possibilities. There is no door of heaven withheld from him or her who relationally will pursue HARD after God. We are usually satisfied with His hand when His face is still available. No guilt or shame only a notice of more. Many “unknowns” find the David levels. Most of us so need everyone around us to know when we have made it to His front yard and so never get to His den. Applause of man satisfies our aching sense of insignificance and so we don’t even see Him at the front door beckoning us in. New “festivities” await at every level. As David would tell us in Ps. 84:11 NO GOOD THING will He withhold from those who will keep walking into God.
AWESOME DEEDS OF JUSTICE
This is from verse 5, but I had to go to my Spanish Bible to see it said rightly — JUSTICE versus righteousness. “By awesome deeds in JUSTICE, You will answer us, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION.” We see that word “salvation” (YESHUA) again— also meaning VICTORY, DELIVERANCE, and JESUS. Just so powerful. We are all needing to see these “awesome deeds in JUSTICE” for what has been exposed in our day. Our Jesus comes to “save the day” in every way. VICTORY and DELIVERANCE are what you experience when going THROUGH something and are not synonyms for ESCAPING something. He is the “though I walk through the valley” Savior and “awesome deeds in justice” only satisfies if you get to live in the aftermath of it. David confirms all this with the second half of the verse, “You are the HOPE of all the ends of the earth.” Yes, He is the ultimate HOPE but He also is such a HOPE “in the land of the living”. A story for another time but it is from here our daughter Justice Hope gets her name.
CLOTHED WITH POWER FOR THE MOUNTAINS
“Who established the mountains by His strength, being clothed with power” (v.6). The full God-narrative continues. The 7 mountains of society connect to the 7 spirits of God and the 7 blazing flames of fire around the throne. This is the stage for the display of His rainbow-colored beauty. He has nuanced beauty and power for every mountain. He is Savior but expressed as Communicator in Media, Papa in Family, Creator in Arts, Provider in Economy, Redeemer in Religion, Teacher in Education, and King in Government. He saves us in every way imaginable- past, present, and future. He was and is, and is to come. We each carry some measure of His image and that is what we “Arise and shine” with when darkness seems intense. Nations will walk to this light in and through us.
SILENCED THE SHOUTING OF THE NATIONS
“You quieted the raging oceans with their pounding waves and silenced the shouting of the nations” (v.7) This is prophetically what we accelerate into through this watershed 2020 year. The taming and subsequent reformation of nations is straight ahead. Atonement, Festivities, Justice, the Mountains, and Nations. God our Salvation provides ALL of these through who He is. Enough with celebrating Him only as a future Santa Claus. We faint unless we see Him displayed here and now. It is this full display that ultimately satisfies this “shouting of the nations”. HE is the desire of the nations (Hag.2).
THE RIVER OF GOD HAS PLENTY OF WATER
“You VISIT the earth and water it. You greatly ENRICH it. The river of God has PLENTY OF WATER. It provides a BOUNTIFUL HARVEST of grain. For so You have prepared it” (v.9). Our key verse and how KEY it is. It is why I stated our theme is Revival, Reformation, and Harvest. It is NOW. The River of God has PLENTY OF WATER for all three. We are at the Ezekiel 47 next measuring of that River of God. Prepare for a verse 9 reality. “And it shall be that EVERY LIVING THING that moves, WHEREVER THE RIVER GOES, WILL LIVE. There will be A VERY GREAT MULTITUDE OF FISH; because these waters go there; for THEY WILL BE HEALED and EVERYTHING WILL LIVE WHEREVER THE RIVER GOES.” Obviously, I needed to capitalize EVERY word of this verse but had to do something to highlight the incoming River of God and the PLENTY water it brings. As it also tells us in Ezekiel 47, this River causes many trees (Oaks of Righteousness) to grow, and the “leaves” on these trees are for “the healing of the nations”. This is a total “full-metal-jacket” description of Revival, Reformation, and Harvest. The River of God has plenty of water and so much so it is incoming as a tsunami. Everything has been shaken, the sea has pulled back (revealing its “swamp”) and the tsunami River of God so many have been seeing will soon be the story of 2020. We are still in the contradiction of it all— but the best is yet to come.
YOU CROWN THE YEAR
“You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance.” Wow, this is like a second KEY verse of the day. The Rosh in Rosh Hashanah means HEAD— as in head of the year. It starts Friday the 18th. We have a coming “crowning” now and then another at the end of 2020. Want to know what calendar God uses? All of them. Every calendar He can make an excuse to show up on. Heaven is just a special holiday (holy day) every day. In His presence is fullness of celebrations. He knows we have our calendars set for Rosh Hashanah and are expecting something big from Him. The enemy has an interruptive plan for the holidays as well. Guess who is going to win? Paths that “drip with abundance” are what He has for us. In 2021, all faucets from His throne room will be on. The enemy had a sophisticated, long-planned goal (“conspiracy theory”) of having us all as slaves by 2021. He was laughed at by our Maker. Full derision is next. The River of God has plenty of water. God wins.
Written by: Johnny Enlow
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