Prayer For Rain In The Bible
Zechariah 10:1 ESV / 7 Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
Acts 14:17
Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
1 Kings 18:1-2 (NRSV) After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year of the drought, saying, Go, present yourself to Ahab; I will send rain on the earth. So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.
1 Kings 17:1 (NRSV) Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.
17 Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.
Creator God, bless us with water poured down from the sky. As surely as your word stands forever, so let the rain fall. Bring to life the water courses of the Lehigh Valley and surrounding terrain. Open up your waterspouts on high and send forth the blessing of land on our heads, on our crops, and in our reservoirs.
Bless us again that we may be energized to praise your name and to feed the hungry.
May the rains come quickly and bless us through Jesus Christ by water and the spirit. Amen.
"We praise You, Eternal God -- God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Leah and Rachel. You are the Eternal God, who causes the wind to blow and the rain to fall -- for a blessing and not for a curse, for life and not for death, for plenty and not for scarcity."