The Overflow

What happens when God's river refuses to stay within the banks we have built for it?

This message by Apostle Barbara Wentroble takes us into one of the most vivid prophetic images in all of Scripture, the ever-deepening river described in Ezekiel 47, where water flowing from God's presence begins at ankle depth and grows until it cannot be crossed.

We are challenged to see that the moves of God we have known and cherished in the past, as powerful as they were, cannot contain what God is releasing right now. The river is overflowing into dry and barren places, into our families, our neighborhoods, our workplaces, and even into the halls of civil government.

Isaiah 43 reinforces this with a declaration that God is doing something new, something springing forth in the present moment, not a distant promise but a now reality. The central invitation is for us to stop living in the memory of past moves and instead position ourselves in the current of what God is releasing today.

We are reminded that dead, dry places are not a sign of defeat but often a sign of assignment, that the very difficulty of our surroundings may be the clearest evidence that we have been sent there on purpose.

This is a message about spiritual momentum, about recognizing the kairos moment we are standing in, and about choosing to jump into the river rather than watch it flow by.