See, a king will reign in righteousness 
and rulers will rule with justice.

Each man will be like a shelter from the wind 
and a refuge from the storm, 
like streams of water in the desert 
and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.

Isaiah 32:1-2

God showed me this scripture to pray for my church, for the leadership, for the Body -- that we would indeed be a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storms of life.  Too often we allow the enemy to create storms, turmoil, damaging winds inside the walls of the church.  So, what is intended to be a safe place filled with love, mercy, encouragement, exhortation, grace and peace becomes just one more place of tension, conflict and hurt.  We must pray against this, fix our eyes on Jesus, and strive for peace -- in the church corporately and in our individual lives.

Do we offer streams of water in the desert lands of people's lives?

Jesus said of himself in John 4:10-14 that He was the source of living water.  Are we pointing others to that source?

I love the imagery of this scripture from Isaiah -- "the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land."  Can you picture it?  Perhaps it looked like the rock at Horeb from which God gave the Israelites fresh water. (Exodus 17:1-7 )

That certainly was a thirsty land!  Physically it was a desert, but spiritually the people were thirsty for God's presence, His deliverance. Any spiritual moisture in their souls was being sucked dry by their grumbling and unbelief.

God showed up in a mighty way, gushing fresh water from that huge rock.

So, too, in our lives our Rock offers not only shade in our desert-like lives but a rush of living water which, if we let it, will saturate our very souls.

Other scriptures for study: Psalm 91:1 ; 46:4; Numbers 20:1-13 ; John 4:10-14 ; 7:38