Preparing for Rain: Slaying Idols

Pour Over Nights begin tonight!

I want to share my heart about what I’m praying for in pour over nights and get us in position to receive what God is going to do at the first Pour Over Night.

Pour Over Vision Reminder: Pour Over Nights are not about hype or performance; they are about pursuing, preparing, and praying until God pours out His Spirit on us and through us.

Pour over nights aren’t about big lights or chasing a moment.

We’re not here to manufacture a move of God. We’re here to prepare for it — to get our hearts low, our faith stretched, and our vessels emptied of every prideful thing that might block the flow.

If there’s anything religious, stale, or self-made in us — it gets laid on the altar.

Just like Elijah stood on Mount Carmel, we’re here to slay the false things and pray for rain that only God can send.

Review Morning Service topic

1 Kings 18:40 NASB95

40 Then Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape.” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

Key Point: Kill What Competes with the Fire

The prophets of Baal represent the hype, performance, and manipulation that tries to produce man-made fire.

Elijah didn’t just call down real fire — he made sure the counterfeit couldn’t rise again.

For us as leaders, this means we kill the need to manufacture:

We’re not going to work up emotion — we’ll welcome the Spirit.

We’re not going to perform — we’ll prepare.

We’re not going to control — we’ll surrender.

Practicals:

No hype

No “make something happen.”

We will pray for the fire and wait for the rain.

Every detail - prayer, worship, altar time - is about pursuing the real thing, not performance.

If there’s a prophet of Baal still whispering - an old habit of hype, a show, a fear of silence, a need for control, a desire to push people into the spirit, a forced tongue or interpretation, - SLAY IT. Kill it dead.

As a reminder, I will be using the moving of the Spirit and things that happen in service as teaching moments. We have a whole group of people who don’t know the why, and we need to teach them.

If you’re singing, be mindful of what’s happening in the room. God may be nudging you to get off the platform and pray and sing at the same time.

If you’re praying, look around the room and see if there’s others you can pray with.

We aren’t in a hurry, but we aren’t wasting time with fluff. There will be no announcements or opportunities other than to point them to the site and explain how the night works.

Pattern of Service:

Opening Prayer

3 Songs:

Rest on Us

Here as in Heaven

Fill the Room

Sermon (I’m hoping to flow with the worship, so worship team don’t run off)

3 Songs:

Fill the Room

Here as in Heaven

Rest on Us

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