Today one of my dear nieces and husband celebrated their 9th anniversary. One thing she wrote to him as she posted from her page was so profound that gripped my heart. She expressed that this year was filled with rainbows, and you only get rainbows after a storm.
I wrote back to them and told them, “Your union is so important to our family’s tapestry. May God’s love and grace continue to sustain you through every flood. May God continue to give you wisdom to build and understanding so his purposes can be established. And after you both have obeyed him like Noah, as he built his ark for his family, may the Lord himself shut you both in and forever secure your union from being destroyed. I love you both to the moon and back! Your ability to overcome in your marriage is a prayer answered and a rainbow in my sky after all my teary years that God would restore honor and marriages in our bloodline.”
When I finished writing this, I began to thank God for their union, and I went into a travail of gratitude and a worship for their covenant as God spoke to me and said, I came to reminded you that I didn’t forget your sacrifice. God showed me today that their marriage is a rainbow in my life like God told Noah.
Genesis 9:12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
You are somebody’s rainbow.
Don’t give up in the flood and the storm. Let God show you the rainbows he has placed in your life. It’s not just about you. God is not finished with you yet. He is not finished with your family. Keep believing him to restore your family and all he has promised you. He made us a promise. Apostle Dr. Matthew Stevenson III, called me to stand years ago for an open congregational word. He said God says, I am going to begin to avenge your tears and I am going to start in the life of your nieces. God wants us all to continue to obey him and build our ark like Noah and when we have done our part, allow him to shut us in like he did Noah in the boat. There is a rainbow on the other side of the flood and storm. Somebody is depending on you to make it through the storm because you will be a sign of God’s covenant.
Gensis 7:16 Male and female of every creature came just as God had commanded Noah. Then God shut the door behind him. 16 Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.