rainMoisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops. Rain gives refreshment and life; to pour something down from the heavens. DTP God's Spirit is to be like a refreshing rain to the disciples. We are to pray for a latter rain (with its connotation of revival) and for showers of God's blessings both upon ourselves and upon His church.God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, Gen 2:5I will cause it to rain upon the earth Gen 7:4And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Gen 7:12Then I will give you rain in due season, Lev 26:4give you the rain ... the first rain and the latter rain, Deut 11:14My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech Deut 32:2and he shall send thunder and rain; 1 Sam 12:17no rain, because they have sinned against thee; 1 Kin 8:35 (2 Chr 6:26)Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, Ps 11:6And had rained down manna upon them to eat, Ps 78:24is as a cloud of the latter rain. Prov 16:15As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, Prov 26:1the LORD our God, that giveth rain, Jer 5:24latter and former rain unto the earth. Hos 6:3till he come and rain righteousness upon you. Hos 10:12the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in Joel 2:23clouds, and give them showers of rain, Zech 10:1sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Matt 5:45gave us rain from heaven, and Acts 14:17For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh Heb 6:7until he receive the early and latter rain. James 5:7he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: James 5:17power to shut heaven, that it rain not Rev 11:6
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