GET READY FOR THE RAIN
- Oct 13
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Updated: Oct 18
EXPECTANCY, RAIN, SUPER MOON, AND THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES
Thoughts from Tuesday October 7, 2025
In my last post, we talked about Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) and how the Father has said that He has unleashed a new thing in the nations. Well, I think we can confidently say that we are seeing some of it!
There has been so much news in recent weeks that it’s becoming difficult to digest and keep up with even small portions of it! Our amazing God is on the Throne and showing His might! And while there are also a lot of disappointing and infuriating things out there, we must resist the temptation to focus solely on what the enemy is doing. Remember, the forces of darkness are only howling louder because their usual tactics are losing potency, as the Spirit of God moves throughout the earth.
Today is a highly momentous day as we celebrate the release of hostages in Israel and Gaza after two very long years. Following that, more than 20 world leaders are convening in Egypt to discuss the impossible – a peaceful path forward in the Middle East. But, hallelujah, our God is a God of the impossible!
This evening also brings to a close the week of Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles, which I talk a little bit about in the below thoughts from October 7th. This post is a prelude to tomorrow’s, where I will be following up with the corresponding message the Lord spoke to me, “I Am Raining Down Upon Your Wilderness – And Atheism... Is Dead.” Stay tuned for that one!
Keep your eyes on Jesus! Let your heart rejoice! Worship extravagantly! And, tell the world that OUR GOD REIGNS!
GET READY FOR THE RAIN
EXPECTANCY, RAIN, SUPER MOON, AND THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES
Thoughts from Tuesday October 7, 2025
For a full week, I’d known that I’d heard from someone that it was going to rain on Tuesday. Now, I don’t keep track of the weather; that’s my hubby’s thing, so I’d assumed I’d gotten it from him.
“There’s absolutely no rain in the forecast for the next ten days!”
This was my husband’s lament as he set up the sprinklers in our front yard Monday night.
Well… hmmm. Maybe I’d actually just heard it from someone while were up in Missouri last week. All I knew is that it was going to rain on Tuesday… somewhere. It was all very matter-of-fact in my mind.
Today—Tuesday—I was walking through the church sanctuary during our regular noon-hour prayer meeting, when I thought I heard rain on the roof. And then I heard more… and more. And then, it POURED!
The sweet gentleman who watches the doors for us came in to report that the weather radar showed absolutely nothing in the area, as he held up his phone. No storms, no showers, no rain anywhere (our facilities manager later told me the same thing). And yet, it continued to pour and pour before eventually settling into a gentle rain.
As soon as I’d heard the rain start, my heart leaped a little and I was filled with so much joy, because I finally understood that it had been the LORD all along who had spoken it into my heart. Of course it’s raining! I knew it would! I’d missed that it was His voice, much like the young boy Samuel who’d assumed Eli had been the one calling to him in the night (I Samuel 3). The two men who'd unwittingly walked with the risen Savior on the road to Emmaus had also temporarily had their eyes veiled, but later recalled:
“Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us?” (Luke 24:32).
Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20. Yes, I’d KNOWN it was going to rain on Tuesday; the fact had been burned into my heart, and I was thoroughly delighted when it came.
And now, not only were the Heavens opening up, but they were opening up right over my church, and right during our prayer time! This rain was a spiritual picture of something that we have been praying for and watching for… for such a long time.
“I am unleashing a new thing in the nations.”
I was reminded again of what the Father has said to me several times now and was also the subject of my last post. And then, He also reminded me of something else – something from the start of the summer...
We’ve had a steady trickle of salvations in our church this year. Children have been approaching their parents at home and telling them that they want Jesus in their hearts. Some weeks, there have been multiple families with the same report! And one Sunday, we all rejoiced as a man baptized his entire family. What an amazing and beautiful thing to watch God moving in families!
But the Lord has been showing me for some time that there will soon be a BIG HARVEST, with people flooding into churches from the outside, desiring to be saved, healed, and set free. So, while the home-grown move of God within our children has been wonderful, we are still expectant of a bigger move that we have not yet seen.
And then one Sunday—June 8th, to be exact—an older gentleman walked into our church from the community, came forward at the end of the service, and asked our pastor how to have a relationship with Christ. The joy I’ve felt over that one precious man’s salvation has been overwhelming. For, it was in that moment that the Father said to me:
“THIS is the cloud the size of a man’s hand.
Now, get ready for the RAIN!”
The reference, of course, was to the report of Elijah’s servant after having been sent out to look for rain—seven times—while Elijah prayed (I Kings 18:41-46). A three-year famine had parched the land. Elijah had already told King Ahab it was going to rain. He knew the word of the LORD, and He expected the LORD would come through. But he needed a sign, and a small sign was all it took. And, after embracing that small sign, supernatural strength ensued, as Isaiah outran Ahab’s chariot back to Jezreel.
Are we filled with expectancy at the word of the Lord? Are we looking for the signs as we pray? Will we embrace them and take action when we see them, even if we deem them to be small? And, are we ready for the miracles that will ensue?
Perhaps someone else might have dismissed this one man’s salvation at my church as insignificant. And, maybe some rolled their eyes at my crazy exuberance over today’s rain. But let me tell you:
I have been LOOKING for the signs, and I am EXPECTANT!!
So yes, these things are a BIG DEAL. And, while these happenings were just in my local church, they are also pictures of what God is doing in The Church (capital “C”).
EXPECT the GLORY that He’s been PROMISING to pour out all over the earth!
The great harvest of souls is ready to come in. So, will we choose to believe and take action? Or, will we just go on about our mundane day-to-day lives, ignoring what He has said. If you’ve been waiting and looking, please don’t miss the signs! And if you’ve been totally out of the loop and think maybe we’re beyond hope, you’d better get prepared!
God is NOT DONE with America, nor is He done with His Bride.
So, getting back to the rain… and Tuesday… let’s go ahead and take a look at what was going on this particular Tuesday – October 7th, 2025:
2nd Anniversary of Attack on Israel, as Peace Deal with Hamas is Imminent Today, as I write, it is the 2nd anniversary of that horrific day in 2023 when the nation of Israel was attacked by the evil Hamas. Also as I write, we appear to be on the very brink of a historic peace agreement in the Middle East, as President Trump’s team negotiates—today—with Israel and Hamas in Cairo, Egypt.
Feast of Tabernacles
Today—October 7th—marks the first full day of the Jewish Feast of Booths, Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot, which began last evening at sundown (Monday October 6th). Sukkot is a weeklong holiday in which the Jewish people dwell, or at least eat their meals, in temporary shelters they’ve constructed, called sukkah huts. It is a commemoration of their forty-year journey through the wilderness after being set free from the bondage of Egypt, as well as God’s faithfulness during that time. Succoth, or Sukkoth, is the first town we see mentioned on this journey of freedom (Exodus 13:20).
Super Moon and Harvest Moon
And finally, today (or last night, here in the Western Hemisphere) marks the first of four Super Moons in a row (October, November, December of 2025, as well as January of 2026). Due to its elliptical orbit, the moon is sometimes slightly closer to the earth, giving it a larger appearance in the sky. When this coincides with a full moon, we have what is called a Super Moon.
In addition, this Super Moon also doubles as the 2025 Harvest Moon, which is the full moon that is closest in time to the Autumnal Equinox. While both of these were plainly visible after sundown on Monday October 6th in the United States, the date was Tuesday October 7th on the other side of the globe.
(Disclaimer: I found listings with either date about an equal number of times in the many sites I researched, so I’m just taking my best guess on the date discrepancies here.)
So, when you take all of that and add into it a pouring rain…
that was nowhere to be found on the radar…
directly over my church…
during, and only during, our prayer meeting…
I’m pretty sure that we should understand that things are stirring and shifting in the Heavenlies, and that:
Surely, He has unleashed a new thing in the nations.
(Final Note: I was surprised to later learn that we barely even received a few drops at my house, just 10 minutes away. That rain was a picture for the CHURCH!)
41And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of the rushing of rain.” 42So Ahab went up to eat and to drink.
And Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel. And he bowed himself down on the earth and put his face between his knees. 43And he said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” And he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go again,” seven times. 44And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”
And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.’” 45And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel. 46And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he gathered up his garment and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
-I Kings 18:41-46, ESV
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