FLOOD MY SOUL –
Pastor Calvin Cook
February 13, 2026
This morning in my prayer time while I was listening, I felt the Holy Spirit ask “What floods my soul ?” The question kept being repeated in various forms “What are you allowing to flood your soul ?” “What are you filling your life with?” “What do you need more of?” “What do you need to replace ?” But the basic question being “What floods my soul?” The question was gnawing and nagging and as hard as I tried to think, focus, or pray on something else the question returned. Was this the Holy Spirit’s way of praying on my behalf? Was this convicting grace? If I could have screamed out loud, I would have, but regardless, it lead me on this journey of answering the question of what is “Flooding my Soul?”
Being drawn to consider this question – I tried to make reason of the word choice flood. I mean I pray regularly and seek to be filled by the Holy Spirit. I long for the experience of true forgiveness leading to redemption. But there is something different between being filled and out right flooded especially by the presence of God.
I was drawn to the words of the Prophet Isaiah recorded in Isaiah 59:19-20 “From the west, people will fear the name of the Lord, and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory. For he will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the Lord drives along. 20 “The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,” declares the Lord.
Oh my, how much more humble can I become? That when I am in deep trouble, when I am searching, when I am in trouble, when I am crying out for help – I have a God who is willing to rescue me, show me a better way, all the time, regardless of who or where I am. I have a God that if I seek and revere His glory, His love, His presence, His direction that I will experience this out pouring or overflowing this flooding like never before. But in this I and you and all of us are called to repentance.
As we have been thinking about being God’s dwelling place and in preparing for lent. Micah and James, my Co-Pastors have been centering some of our conversations around – how we in our own lives can be that dwelling place of God. But mostly the agreement that Lent is not always a time of abstinence from something that is controlling or consuming us, which by the way is a good thing to do. More importantly it is taking on more of God, more of the move of God, more of the Holy Spirit, to stop limiting ourselves to just being OK. Instead making more room for God to do and be what God has always desired for us. When we take on the goodness of God, it begins to flood out sin and the things that consume us distract us keeping us away from the life of holiness we were designed to live into.
After many years of working in disaster response ministry, I have seen my share of floods of all types and magnitudes. One thing that happens after the floods subside is recovery and rebuilding begins. A new normal takes place. This must be the same in our relationship with God. Renewal and restoration cannot just be a passing notion but a life that seeks to continually be filled and close to God and then being a recovery worker helping others to see the great rescue that only God can do.
Scripture speaks often about flow, filling, and overflow—because God knows that what enters the inner life eventually shapes the outer life. Jesus said it plainly: “Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45). What floods the soul does not stay hidden; it reveals itself in words, choices, and direction.
Today can we pray together that we all might realize that God is flooding our soul and making us whole in ways we never thought possible. That through God’s sanctifying grace our living and walking around life will represent Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit causing the sin, pain, anguish, desperation and junk of life to be washed away through the flood of God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – living in us.
Now the rest is up to you !
Thoughts from the Edges 
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