Random - Jenny and I just found out that our lawn sprinklers have not been working at all for the last few weeks, actually since before Israel, and we didn’t even know it!

How did we realize that the water wasn’t flowing, that the automatic system wasn’t being so automatic? Well, goodness gracious, the lawn started turning from green to brown! The lush, think, healthy green blades that we are used to were turning into hard, bristle, easily-breakable brown refuse.

I just heard a guy speak of a band of Germans, Swiss, and Americans who felt called of God to worship Him in the middle of the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. They had to have generators brought out for their equipment and some of the activities they were doing with the nomads who consistently travel through there. They began to worship, and continued to do so for about 3 hours. Then, suddenly, in the middle of the August heat of Mongolia, out of nowhere, it began to rain. And rain, and rain. It rained all night long.

In the morning, when they arose, the desert began to look like a garden, as flowers and grass had sprouted out all over the place. Life was brought to that dry place - and the man said the Lord spoke to them “This is what I am doing in the nations of the earth, bringing life where there is only death.”

Isaiah 35:6-7 “The lame will leap like a deer, and those who cannot speak will shout and sing! Springs will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams will water the desert. The parched ground will become a pool, and springs of water will satisfy the thirsty land. Marsh grass and reeds and rushes will flourish where the desert jackals once lived.”

Its good to ask ourselves - Is there life flowing in our hearts? Does the river of the Holy Spirit flow within? Is the water of the Word purifying us? Do we desire to know Christ and make Him known by the power of the Spirit?

It just took a turn of the valve to get the sprinklers going. Sometimes it just takes a worship song or a prayer of faith to get the life flowing again.

Let’s not wait until the grass is brown to realize what we are missing!