Israel over the last few months has had wonderful rain– the best rain there has been in 50 years!
“These are pictures in the [Israeli] desert. ’The desert shall bloom, the Scripture says, “and it will bring forth flowers and it will bring forth fruit.’” And so [on my recent trip to Israel in Nov. 2009] we found these flowers along the way in the desert.” Rabbi Ron
More water is still needed. We’ve been asked to pray for steady rains that will soak into the ground and fill up the reservoirs.
There is a need for physical rain, and there is also a need for spiritual rain. Please pray for a wonderfully wet winter in Israel, with steady rains that the ground and cities can absorb.
Deuteronomy 11:14
14That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
Hosea 6:2-4
2After two days will He revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.
3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Yaakov (James) 5:7
7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
In Isaiah 51, The L-rd has promised, “The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.”