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Leviticus 26:3
"If
you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send
you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the
trees of the field their fruit."
Ezekiel 39:29 "I will no longer hide my
face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel,
declares the Sovereign LORD."
Jeremiah 10:13 "When
he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes
clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with
the rain
and brings out the wind from his storehouses."
Matthew 5:45 "...sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous. " |
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The Desert
The desert is the
wasteland of broken dreams and disillusionment. The facade of
charlatans and deceivers who masquerade in the regalia of prophets and priests,
the corruption of kings. It is the hopelessness of the evening news
and our powerless efforts to mend our self-destructive nature. It is
the hypocrisy and emptiness when we live lives of empty ritual and
irrelevance. It is our hollowness of mind when we close ourselves
off from the truth.
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The Water
The water is truth.
Liberating.
REGENERATING. Sustaining...
Without it, there is
ABSOLUTELY
no life.
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We are
the

Hands and Feet of God |
The Rain
Storm clouds
gather.
From heaven
they grow
bloated with
mercy and power.
The rain
brings the
water. The
water brings
life from
the dry and
lifeless sands
of
the
desert.
To
a dry and thirsty land, without life or hope, God sends
rain. |
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Zechariah 10:1 "Ask the LORD for
rain
in the springtime; it is the LORD who makes the storm clouds.
He gives showers of rain to men, and plants of the field to
everyone"
Job 36:27-33 "He draws up the drops of water,
which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds
pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.
Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he
thunders from his pavilion? See how he scatters his lightning
about him, bathing the depths of the sea. This is the way he governs
the nations and provides food in abundance. He fills his hands with
lightning and commands it to strike its mark. His thunder
announces the coming storm;
even the cattle make known its approach."
Isaiah 44:3-5
"For I will pour water on
the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my
Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. They
will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing
streams. One will say, ‘I belong to the LORD’; another will call
himself by the name of Jacob; still another will write on his hand,
‘The LORD’S,’ and will take the name Israel."
Deuteronomy 11:13-15
"So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to
love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with
all your soul—then I will send rain on your land in its
season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your
grain, new wine and oil. I will provide grass in the fields for your
cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied."
Job 5:10 "He
bestows rain on the earth; he sends water upon the
countryside."
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Psalm 72:6 "He will be like
rain falling on a
mown field,
like showers watering the earth."
Isaiah 55:10-11 "As
the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not
return to it
without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so
that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is
my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me
empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for
which I sent it."
Isaiah 45:8 "You
heavens above, rain down righteousness; let the clouds
shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring
up, let righteousness grow with it; I, the LORD, have created it"
Jude 1:12 "These men are blemishes
at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds
who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain,
blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and
uprooted - twice dead."
Psalm 18:11-13 "He
made darkness his covering, his canopy around him - the dark
rain clouds of the sky. Out of the brightness of his
presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of
lightning. The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of
the Most High resounded."
Psalm 147:8
"He covers the sky with clouds;
he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills." |
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Deuteronomy 32:2 "Let
my teaching
fall like rain and my words descend
like dew, like
showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants."
2 Samuel 22:12-14 "He
made darkness
his canopy around him, the dark rain
clouds of the sky. Out of
the
brightness of his presence bolts of
lightning blazed forth. The LORD
THUNDERED from
heaven; the voice of
the Most High
resounded."
Job 37:6 "He
says to the snow, ‘Fall
on the earth,’ and to the rain shower,
‘Be
a mighty downpour.’"
| Zechariah 12:10 "And
I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication." |
| Joel 2:28-31 “And
afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons
and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your
young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire
and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the
moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the
LORD." |
Job 28:25-26 "When
he established
the force of the wind and measured
out the
waters, when he made a
decree for the rain and a path for the
thunderstorm"
Psalm 68:8-9 "The
earth shook, the
heavens poured down rain, before
God, the One of Sinai,
before God, the
God of Israel. You gave abundant
showers, O God; you
refreshed your
weary inheritance."
Psalm 135:7 "He
makes clouds rise
from the ends of the earth; he sends
lightning with the rain and brings out
the wind from
his storehouses."
Isaiah 30:23 "He
will also send you
rain for the seed you sow in the
ground, and
the food that comes from
the land will be rich and plentiful."
Hebrews 6:7 "Land that drinks in the
rain often
falling on it and that
produces a crop useful to those for
whom it
is farmed receives the
blessing of God." |