Beloved, It's time to PLAY in the water!
- Darcy Downing
- Aug 16, 2020
- 4 min read
For the raging roar of stormy winds and crashing waves cannot erode our faith in you.
Pause in his presence
God has a constantly flowing river whose sparkling streams bring joy and delight to his people. Psalm 46:3-4 TPT

Did you know that you are God's "holy dwelling place?" The water is pooling, the reservoirs are full!
I hear the Father say,
"Come to me with all of your heart- come all the way in, into the deep waters that you may know and comprehend my goodness. Enter into the deeper waters of my heart- There is more to be found. Lately, you have been setting Me down, walking away discouraged, and returning to other comforts. Return again and you will discover that there is more to me than meets the eye. Today is not about tradition. Today we're going to play in the river. Today I'm going to splash some cool river water onto your face. Today you are going to remember that you are alive!
"You need some FRESHWATER. Who are you like but your Creator? When you are not creating you begin feeling like a dry river bed. New information and a new direction is coming your way. I have some ideas to share with you," says the Father. I have some plans to open up to you. You are not alone, help will come. Keep pressing into me. Don't let up. When I said you will run and not grow weary, I meant it, but you gotta run. Don't stop. No more stagnation, for a nation is not built on stagnation but it is built on a foundation with a steady stream running through it. It is time to move below the ground to discover the hidden treasure I have waiting for you. Today, I summon you by name.
"Just like the city of David- the river ran through the Kidron Valley, feeding the people with life, but it ran underground. Come to me. You are like the Gihon Spring to me, Beloved, gushing out water one minute, holding the water of my presence the next. Some days you gush like that underground stream, but always there remains a reservoir so people may come and drink. Have you not noticed how you are like that underground stream, secretly feeding those whom I send with living water? Some days you gush, some days you rest and the water pools, waiting to be discovered like a hidden treasure that has escaped the earth. There is a great mystery to this river, Beloved, waiting to be discovered. Rest in My words, let them come to you like the water rolling and let the reservoir of my presence collect.
"A nation is marching with river rumblings. In the next few months, you will see spurts of my presence, and hear of people gathering around the reservoirs."
I see local reservoirs, state reservoirs and national reservoirs where people are beginning to gather. These "reservoirs" are places where the water, the spiritual refreshing of God has pooled. I see people coming for fellowship and then suddenly healing occurring. Some will want to televise the events, but I sense a caution from the Father that these moments in time will be like an underground movement where word will travel by mouth and people will just show up like in the days when people showed up to hear about Jesus, only this time, people will already know him and will bring those who don't. These meetings will be Spirit-led, like a natural formation in the Rock, the water will burst through and pool for people to gather and drink deeply.
The Holy Spirit will tell them, "You gotta go, You gotta run so you don't grow weary," and people will just show up. Important connections will be established at these reservoir gatherings. It is a strategy of the Lord's, for God's people to connect and remain connected. They will be like waterways so that the water- the SPIRITUAL WATER will flow throughout the earth. People from every tribe and nation will come. I see many gatherings! Like in King David's Day the enemy has tried to bind God's people and muzzle them from speaking- he has tried to kill them by removing the spiritual water forcing a drought- but the Word is Life to the hearer! In the same way that the waterway was built to replenish the people inside the city gates during King David's time, the Father is providing for his people an underground water system, a"tsinnor (Hebrew, pipe or shaft) mentioned in the Bible in the description of David's conquest of the city (2 Samuel 5:8).
2 Samuel 5:7-10 NIV
7 Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David.
8 On that day David had said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those ‘lame and blind’ who are David’s enemies.[a]” That is why they say, “The ‘blind and lame’ will not enter the palace.”
9 David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces[b] inward. 10 And he became more and more powerful, because the Lord God Almighty was with him.
I hear the Father say,
"This is how my river flows. Go when I send you- go and drink deeply and refresh yourself. I will provide a reservoir for you to drink, gather and collect your water. Your family will be provided for, your animals also. You will not need to worry, I will provide a way for you. Let the refreshing begin- the city has been taken by the King of Glory! declares the Father. The water is unstopped it's time to gather, it's time to go, it's time to let the river flow!"
To learn more about the water systems in the Bible and about the strategies used by king David click on the word tsinnor.
God bless you as you gather in God's waterways!
A little video from the mountains where the
river gathers at Opal Lake in Pagosa Springs, CO.
This is such a GLORIOUS word and packed with confirmation of years’ worth of dreams and “water-meditations”. Even this morning our pastor said “The waters are breaking forth into underground springs.” And these outpourings are equipping us for assignments. And FYI—There are never any “closed” signs at God’s watering holes lol. They are open 24/7/365. Hallelujah!!
Awesome word! Here I am Lord, send me!
This is the best word I've heard all year! I'll go anywhere you send me Father! Rivers of living, alive and living waters gushing from me unto others!