The Sound Of Rain

“God does nothing on the earth save in answer to believing prayer.” John Wesley

Genesis 1:26-28 (NIV)

Rule – mashal – manager, steward or governor

Genesis 2:15 (KJV)

Keep it – Shamar – to guard or protect – it is the primary word used for a watchman in the scriptures

Psalm 115:16 (NIV)

Luke 4:6,7 (KJV)

Matthew 28:18-19 (NIV) 

Matthew 6:9-10 (NIV)

“We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.” ~ Andrew Murray

1 Kings 17:1 (NIV)

1 Kings 18:1 (NIV)

v41-46

James 5:16 -18 (KJV) 

“God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil…. The prayers of God’s saints are the capital stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth. God conditions the very life and prosperity of His cause on prayer.” (E.M. Bounds)

John 11:41-44 (NIV) 

“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow, service is gathering up the results.” S.D Gordon

Ezekeiel 22:30-31 (KJV)

2 Chron 7:14 (NIV)