You might have noticed on Sunday that Zion Creative featured the Elevation Worship song ‘There is a Cloud‘, it is a song that we believe mirrors where we as a Church family are and where we are going, but as lyrics can be vague I did a little bit of research around where Elevation Worship found their inspiration for this song. In particular there was mention of the verse 1 Kings 18:43-44 (NIV)
Go and look toward the sea,” he told his servant. And he went up and looked.
“There is nothing there,” he said.
Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”
So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
These verses were taken from a time in Biblical history where the people of Samaria were experiencing a severe famine and Jezebel was killing off the Lords prophets. It was a time of fear, persecution, and of noticeable lack for all people.
As we absorb the words of ‘There is a Cloud’ as we declare:
We receive Your rain
We receive Your rain
We receive Your rain
Like a flood, like a flood
We receive Your love when You come
Like a flood, like a flood
We receive Your love when You come”
I am excited to see our church family prepared to receive the rain, the promise, the future God has prepared for us, and to share our abundance with the community around us.