The drought here in Middle Tennessee has brought back to my mind a song I sang/prayed continuously while I was overseas serving NAME. Michael W. Smith sings Let It Rain on his first "Worship" album. The lyrics are simple and repeat hundreds of times. If you aren’t truly praying the song, it can be boring. But for some reason, for me, every time I hear it, I’m compelled to lift up to God the peoples and places most dear to my heart, asking Him to drench them in that summer storm downpour kind of rain. I go through naming each country, each group, each person, picturing them dancing in
drenching rain and crying out to God to make it real, to rain over them and drench them completely, enveloping them totally in His consuming love.

I’m working on post regarding this specific prayer that I’ve prayed to this song, and how it impacted my own life. But today I want to follow Micah Fries’ idea of just starting off the weekend in worship. So if you’ve got a few moments, pull out the cd (if you’ve got it) and spend a little time soaking in the drenching rain of God. He is indeed so good.

Let it rain, let it rain
Open the floodgates of heaven

Let it rain, let it rain!
Open the floodgates of heaven!

The LORD reigns, let the earth be glad;
let the distant shores rejoice.

Clouds and thick darkness surround him;
righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne

Fire goes before him
and consumes his foes on every side

His lightning lights up the world;
the earth sees and trembles.

The mountains melt like wax before the LORD,
before the Lord of all the earth

The heavens proclaim his righteousness,
and all the peoples see his glory! — Psalm 97:1-6