It's "Dew" Time

Recently I discovered some significant and interesting ideas relating to dew.

For the seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give its
fruit, the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give
their dew - I will cause the
remnant of this people to possess all these. Zech. 8:12

In his book, Possessing Your Inheritance, Chuck Pierce describes a dream in which he was walking in a thick, blue mist. When he asked the Lord what this was, he was told, "It is dew." The color blue signifies truth in the Word of God. He began a study of dew and discovered many correlations between the effects of dew on the earth and how God desires to move us to our next manifestation of His glory. Let's look at them.

1. Dew renews the face of the earth. During the night when dew falls on the earth, vegetation is nourished. Without the dew, dryness and desolation would set in, inhibiting the growth process. This is similar to the experience we have of being renewed by/in the Lord. There is an ongoing, day by day renewal that He does n our hearts and lives.

According to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of
regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Titus 3:5

As dew regenerates and renews the earth, so the Holy Spirit regenerates and renews us. The dew, though only a fine mist, is often enough to soften hard and barren ground. And the Holy Spirit also, can transform and renew, through the quiet spiritual soaking of the dew of renewal. But He needs our cooperation, through obedient and submissive relation with H, to soak us with the dew of His renewal.

2. Heavenly dew provides strength to move forward. First, realize the dew is released when all is still. At night, the temperature falls,the air comes to a point of rest and then the dew begins to cover the earth. For us, too, it is when we rest that we can receive from God. If we will get still before the Lord,we will receive new revelation [strategy] to move forward.

The opposite of stillness is haste. Haste leads us to poverty and lost inheritance. Why? Because we misunderstand or are not willing to wait for God's strategy for our next step.

But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles they shall run and not be
weary, they shall walk and not faint. Is. 40:31

In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. Is. 30:15

When we get quiet and rest before the Lord, we are in a much better place to hear and understand His strategy. In this process, His dew of refreshing can fall on our lives, bring us new levels of strength that will move us forward.

3. The dew of the Holy Spirit imparts overcoming power.

His heavens shall also drop dew ... Your enemies shall
submit to you, and you shall tread down their high places.
Deut. 33:28, 29

In this passage, appropriating the power of God through the Holy Spirit is likened to dew. It gives us authority to dethrone the enemy's plan, which keeps us from spiritual life and wholeness. The high places here refer to places of sin and idolatrous altars.

4. The refreshing dew of the Lord uncovers new supply and provision.

Therefore may God give you of the dew of heaven, ... Then
Isaac his father answered and said to him: 'Behold, your dwelling
shall be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from
above. Gen. 27:28, 39

When Isaac blessed Jacob, he equated the dew of heaven to the material prosperity that Jacob would receive. Dew is God's gift. It brings good harvest and provides food. When the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness God supplied their needs each night as the dew fell.

...And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna
fell on it. Num. 11:9

Dew came to symbolize supply and provision, new every morning!

5. The favor of God is "like dew on the grass.
Prov. 19:12 Favor means pleasure, desire, delight, to be pleased with or favorable toward something. When God is pleased with us, His favor rests on us. The opposite of favor is reproach. When God's favor comes upon us, He removes condemnation, judgmentalism, failure,and the like. We exchange disapproval for favor.

6. Dew is not permanent. Dew falls at night when all is quiet and calm. As the morning breaks, however, the dew begins to evaporate. We cannot settle into all that the dew brings and expect it to last beyond the time God would allow.

Remember, the children of Israel received just enough manna for one day. And the earth receives just enough dew to be refreshed for a short season. So, we cannot allow ourselves to settle into our current state of glory. We may find God moving in a new way that our old understanding can't handle.

We need to move to our next place of glory. And for that, we must receive we revelation from God. His glory falls like dew.