Most weeks I am able to walk and pray along the sandy beach near my home. A lot of people enjoy walking along this beach too, especially to walk their dogs. They prefer to walk along the fresh sand closest to the sea as its firmer and easier to walk on there, so this stretch becomes covered in foot prints. It always amazes me how the waves soon wash over them and they are all gone. All the activity of the day is ‘rebooted’ with every new tide, resulting in a clean slate.
It’s like this every day for us too, for all the stuff of the day can be washed away and a fresh start given after the night by God’s presence. A new day and a new chance is given.
“Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.” Lamentations 3:23
We can however, carry over all our worries and cares from one day into the next if we don’t accept His mercy, His grace, His power. I have found a powerful way to be washed and refreshed by the Spirit, and that is by getting up in the night and receiving His Dew. The Dew of the Night can wash over us if we allow it to happen. Isaiah speaks of the treasures of darkness and I believe that God has treasure in the night that He wants to impart to us.
“And I will give thee the treasures of darkness,” Isaiah 45:3
God has a supernatural dew called the "anointing" that will come upon us as we wait on God in the night. In the Song of Solomon, the Lord says to the Church.
“I sleep, but my heart wakes: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocks, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the night.” Song of Songs 5:2
Jesus comes to His beloved in the night and His head is filled with dew (the anointing). I believe that The Lord comes to us at night too, and wakes us up so that He might impart this anointing to us, but we don't understand what He wants or would prefer to just sleep. We see in this verse that the Lord soon left because of her procrastination, and she had to go looking for Him another way. She did find Him eventually but it was a harder way.
I have found that the greatest times that I have ever had with God are while waiting on Him at night. I see in the word that it was at night that God visited Samuel as a boy. Joseph the father of Jesus had his Angel visitation and the Children of Israel were delivered from their cruel Egyptian bondage during the night.
We see that King David was a Champion for waiting on God at night. He says that he often used to get up at night and wait on God and received blessings from Him. Here are a few of the statements he said about this in the word.
“I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.” Psalm 16:7
It was at night that he used to think about and praise God for His word.
“Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches, which I might meditate in thy word.” Psalm 119:148
“At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.” Psalm 119:62
The trouble is that in these days of electric light bulbs and all night TV, we are inclined to stay up late and have no time for waiting on God at night or in the morning for that matter. Once you have experienced this time of visitation you will soon discipline yourself to get to bed earlier.
In the New English version of Psalm 16:7 it says that wisdom came to him in ‘the watches of the night’. I believe that it’s then that God gives fresh revelation to our souls. In the natural, night is also the time for the dew to fall. If you sleep outside at night you get covered in dew. It comes gradually and quietly over a period of time. God has supernatural dew called the "anointing" that will come upon you as you wait on God.
“Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of your enemies.” KJV Psalm 110:3
There is a day of God's Power coming for you too and I believe that the church on this day will be powerful and anointed. They will be willing to do His will. From this verse I can see that the "Dew" will be on the Church and it will come from the "Womb" of the morning. This speaks of the early hours of the day, during the night watch. The anointing is a dew a youthful anointing. It speaks of vigor and vitality. I have often found how refreshed one can become after waiting on God at night, all the foot prints of the world are washed away from our souls. Even if you fall asleep while in prayer, the dew still seems to fall on you.
“But your dead will live, LORD; their bodies will rise— let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy— your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.” Isaiah 26:19
I know this verse is talking about the future resurrection of the dead by the power of the Spirit, but the same Spirit is with us now and can raise us up into newness of life. It speaks of the dew giving birth to the dead and He can make you feel alive.
“For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural], And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead.” Amplified
This dew is supernatural and full of light and life. It has the power to raise the dead, so surely He can refresh you by the same Spirit now. One translation says that this dew brings healing and another says that it brings a birthing. Waiting on God releases the Spirit of God in our lives.
“The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.” Romans 8:11.
Often when I get up in the night, I can feel quite dead, but as I enter His Gates with thanksgiving I soon come into His Courts with Praise and eventually I’m rejoicing in the night under the shadow of His wings. Some translations say that this anointing can pull down giants.
“for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.”
I can go back to bed rebooted and all the giants that were taunting me in my head are brought down. I’ve been refreshed, rebooted and revived. I have my own revival ready for a new day, with no footprints on the sand just me and Jesus.