I hate to ruin anyone’s picnic or wedding day, but many areas of our land badly need rain. I live in the Portland, Or vicinity and how bizarre for someone from the valley to be praying for rain!
Leviticus 26:4 ESV “Then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.”
Isaiah 55:10 ESV “For as the rain and snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater.”
Job 5:10 ESV “He gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields.”
Psalm 147:8 ESV “He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills.”
James 5:17-18 ESV “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.”
Lord, I am not a meteorologist , and I don’t wish to pray for anything that would bring calamity by wrongful prayers but I know there are fires destroying our forests, killing woodland creatures, leveling peoples homes and this mornings news of devastation as a small California town is now reduced to smoldering ash. Lord, so many people are homeless, out in these distressing elements, hot and past thirsty. Global warming, our world seems to be cracking in so many places that if you weren’t holding it together in your hands, we’d be sitting amongst pieces of debris floating out in the atmosphere. In short, we are falling apart down here. Lord Jesus, I ask for rain to fall across our land, helping the firefighters with their formidable task, bring a cooling breeze to revive and refresh. I ask for a stirring of the Holy Spirit within your children that we are bold and share you and your life quenching waters with the lost, the tired, the hungry, and the thirsty. I thank you for all that is good in this world as it is from you! I thank you for cooling in temperature and some rain to fall. In your glorious name Lord Jesus, I pray.
Be blessed today, stay hydrated and thank you for joining me. 🥰
Sunshine On My Shoulder 