It’s Friday, September 19th, 2025. At 1,412 feet below sea level, the Dead Sea is the lowest body of water on Earth. Water flows into it, but nothing flows out. The only escape is through evaporation into the scorching desert air. Because of that, it is nearly 10 times saltier than the ocean. And because of that, nothing can survive in it. No fish. No plants. No life.
That’s why they call it the Dead Sea—death is all it knows. It’s cut off, stagnant, and lifeless.
At least… for now.
Today's Reading:
Ezekiel 47,48; Luke 2
Scripture
“…where the river flows everything will live.” (Ezekiel 47:9)
Observation
From the throne of God, a river begins as a trickle. Step by step it grows: ankle deep, knee deep, waist deep—until it becomes a current too strong to cross. And wherever that river flows, life breaks out. Even the Dead Sea, hopeless and barren, comes alive. Fish swarm, trees flourish, and the very leaves carry healing for the nations.
What seems too far gone, too salty, too dead, is no match for the river of God.
Application
This is God’s promise: revival is coming. It won’t begin with a flood. It won’t start with headlines. It begins with a trickle—a whispered prayer, a spark of faith, a handful of hearts saying “yes” to God. But it won’t stay small. The river will rise. The Spirit will move. And what was dead will live again.
No place is too far gone. No heart is too hardened. No city is too broken. Even the Dead Seas of our lives—the places where nothing has grown for years, the places buried in hopelessness—will be revived when His river flows.
This is His promise: where the river flows, everything will live.
Prayer
Lord, let the trickle become a stream, and the stream a mighty flood. Let revival rise from Your presence until our homes, our city, our nation, and the world come alive again. Bring life to the dead, hope to the hopeless, and healing to the broken. I believe Your promise: wherever Your river flows, revival will follow. Amen.
-Chris Kiriakos