It came as a personal revelation to me the other night as the Lord spoke to me in a form of a question. The question being, "Haven't you noticed, son that when you come into a city or a nation; when Sara and you come prayed up, the level of Spiritual conflict is often manifested by sudden changes in the weather?" I remember just a few short years ago, we brought a team with us from City Church and several other churches. Pastor Jay Smith, one of the associate pastors from another church has blessed the Body of christ as a gifted song writer. He had a melody in his heart and head for ten years but no words to complete the song. While flying to the Ukraine with us, at 30,000 feet in the air, the words began to flow, "Letit rain upon the Ukraine as never before; Let it rain on the Ukraine with the floy of the Lord. I can see the lightening flashing; I can hear the thunder roar; Let it rain upon the Ukraine, with the Glory of the Lord."
Several nights later in a village venue, Pastor Jay decided to sing this song with God's new words. Just as he began to sing in an area that had not seen rain for over three months, God punctuated the daybeau of the song with lightening flashing and the roar of thunder. Needless to say, the congregation and all under the covering of this "House" were electrified by the punctuation of Heaven. As he began to sing, the tin roof of the church began to be pelted with a heavy saturating rain. Heaven was making a statement and earth got the message in the Ukraine.
As I watched the news real the other night, here in Perm, Russia, the news was punctuated by a heatwave and fires in Greece, Crete and France; a snowstorm in Austria and a heat-wave in New York. Jesus rebuked His generation for being able to discern the skies and not know the hour of their visitation. Is it possible that all nature is convulsing and groaning for Its' REDEMPTION AND THE RETURN OF THE LORD, JESUS CHRIST! Perhaps our generation needs to be rebuked because we see all these things happen and so many millions on the planet are unaware of the part that weather is playing in the final pageant of time.
When in the Ukraine a few weeks ago, one of the elders made a statement that resonated in my Spirit. He said, "We are so glad to see you and your team because whenever you come to town, the weather dramatically changes." Our cry before the Lord upon our leaving the Ukraine was, "Lord, one more time, bring the rain to this dry and thirsty land." I can see the tears of the 'babushka's from the villages telling us this summer, "All we have left from the crop is straw; all else has been burned away from the heat. Unless God does a miracle, we will have nothing to eat!" During the time of Elijah, there was a famine where it had not rained for 3 1/2 years, yet God had provided for His Prophet through blessing a widow and her son. Whether God supernaturally ministers to these widows or better yet, the rain falls on the just and the unjust.
Let the testimony of the Lord fill the land that God answers the prayers of the destitute and hears the cry of His own. The day we were preparing to leave the Southern Ukraine, already the clouds were beginning to form and light rains were beginning to fall here and there. Our petition and prayer is, " Lord, let it RAIN ON THE UKRAINE, both in the natural and in the SUPERNATURAL."
Pray with us that the testimony and the goodness of the Lord will lead many wayward sons and daughters to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ through the tangible testimonies they understand; food on their table and grain in their garners. Let it be Lord for your NAME SAKE, AMEN! In Christ for the Whitened Harvest,
Richard & Sara Michalski
with Impact Ministries
P.O. Box 2500
Redmond, WA. 98073-2500
