When the priests and representatives from each tribe put their feet into the river, the water would divide. Forty years previously, when the children of Israel crossed the Red Sea, the water parted before they stepped in (Exodus 14). But not this time. When it comes to the issues of the Spirit, we’re to step in by faith.

“But what if hands are laid upon me and I seek the Lord’s power aggressively, yet nothing happens? I’ll feel like a big drip,” we say. So we stay on the bank where it’s safe and dry - real dry, dusty dry, wilderness dry.

Why doesn’t God part the water first? I’m convinced it’s because the language of eternity is faith. This life is only eighty years long at best. So God uses every opportunity to teach us to see and hear with the eyes and ears of faith. “Step out. Step in. Step up in faith,” He says. “And watch and see what I’ll do.”