RAIN

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Key Verse

  • “So let’s learn, let’s press on to know the LORD. His appearance is as sure as the dawn; And He will come to us like the rain, As the spring rain waters the earth.” Hosea 6:3 NASB
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  • Yes, let us know (recognize, be acquainted with, and understand) Him; let us be zealous to know the Lord [to appreciate, give heed to, and cherish Him]. His going forth is prepared and certain as the dawn, and He will come to us as the [heavy] rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth. Hosea 6:3 AMP
Full Passage 
 
  • I will return again to My place Till they acknowledge their offense.
    Then they will seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.” Come, and let us return to the LordFor He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight. Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the LordHis going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to the earth. Hosea 5:15-6:3 NKJV

What we can do

1. Ask

  • Ask the LORD for rain In the time of the latter rain. The LORD will make flashing clouds; He will give them showers of rain, Grass in the field for everyone. Zechariah 10:1 NKJV
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  • Ask for rain from the LORD at the time of the spring rain— The LORD who makes the storm winds; And He will give them showers of rain, vegetation in the field to each personZechariah 10:1 NASB

2. Break up, Seek

  • Break up your uncultivated ground, For it is time to seek the LORD Until He comes and rains righteousness on you. Hosea 10:12 NASB

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  • Sow for yourselves according to righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God); reap according to mercy and loving-kindness. Break up your uncultivated ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, to inquire for and of Him, and to require His favor, till He comes and teaches you righteousness and rains His righteous gift of salvation upon you. Hosea 10:12 AMPC

3. Humble, Pray, Seek, Turn

  • If I shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or if I command locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence and plague among My people, and My people, who are called by My Name, humble themselves, and pray and seek (crave, require as a necessity) My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear [them] from heaven, and forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:13-14 AMP
Read: FASTING 
Read: PRAYER
Read: SEEK GOD 
Read: REPENTANCE

4. Worship

  • And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them. Zechariah 14:17 AMP
Read: WORSHIP

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