Bible Dictionary: Rain: Prayer For

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1 Kings 8:35,36
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:
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2 Chronicles 6:26,27
When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them;
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Answers to Prayer.
... "O God!" she prayed, "do send rain or change the wind." After repeating this prayer
several times, she noticed some large drops of water upon the window pane. ...
/.../byrum/the value of a praying mother/chapter xviii answers to prayer.htm

Elijah, the Praying Prophet
... Elijah's importunate, fiery praying and God's promise brought the rain.
Prayer carries the promise to its gracious fulfillment. ...
/.../bounds/prayer and praying men/v elijah the praying prophet.htm

Selfishness and Prayer. A Contrast.
... He had prayed that it might not rain, and for many months the heavens had been
cloudless. ... all nature is to put on a new suit of green at the bidding of prayer. ...
/.../champness/broken bread/xxxvi selfishness and prayer a.htm

God Sent Rain from Heaven for Marcus Aurelius Cæsar in Answer to ...
... Book V. Chapter V."God sent Rain from Heaven for Marcus Aurelius Cæsar in Answer
to ... the enemy, kneeled on the ground, as is our custom in prayer, [1420] and ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter v god sent rain from.htm

The Objects of Prayer
... material things bestowed upon the saints in the past as a result of prayer, and
indeed ... and which Isaac spoke of to Jacob, "God give you of the rain of heaven ...
//christianbookshelf.org/origen/origen on prayer/chapter xi the objects of.htm

Prayer --The Forerunner of Mercy
... Even as the cloud foreshadoweth rain, so prayer foreshadoweth the blessing; even
as the green blade is the beginning of the harvest, so is prayer the prophecy ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/prayerthe forerunner of mercy.htm

Answer to Objections: Signal Instances of Prayer
... had been shut to the impious three years and six months, a thing which anyone may
accomplish at any time when through prayer he receives the Soul's rain, if he ...
/.../origen/origen on prayer/chapter viii answer to objections .htm

Samuel, the Child of Prayer
... Samuel again prayed, and God heard and answered, and the thunder and rain ceased.
One more incident in the prayer life of Samuel is worth noticing. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/bounds/prayer and praying men/ix samuel the child of.htm

Triumphant Prayer
... Let us take the prayer of our context, and say, 'We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness ...
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/triumphant prayer.htm

Efficacy of United and Faithful Prayer.
... Conceived, or utter'd there,. Could miss the mark; like genial rain. Blessings
would fall on prayer. When field and forest, plant and flower. ...
/.../montgomery/sacred poems and hymns/hymn cxiv efficacy of united.htm

Subtopics

Rain

Rain of Christ in the Communication of his Graces

Rain of Righteousness

Rain of Spiritual Blessings

Rain of the Doctrine of Faithful Ministers

Rain of the Word of God

Rain: (Destructive) of a Poor Man Oppressing the Poor

Rain: (Destructive) of God's Judgments

Rain: Answer to Prayer For, Promised

Rain: Canaan Abundantly Supplied With

Rain: Contingent Upon Obedience