Abundant Rain – Part Two
Pastors Rodney & Adonica Howard-BrownePublish date: 05/25/2025
Foundation Scriptures:
And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. 1 Kings 18:41 KJV
You visit the earth and saturate it with water; You greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; You provide them with grain when You have so prepared the earth. 10 You water the field’s furrows abundantly, You settle the ridges of it; You make the soil soft with showers, blessing the sprouting of its vegetation. 11 You crown the year with Your bounty and goodness, and the tracks of Your [chariot wheels] drip with fatness. 12 The [luxuriant] pastures in the uncultivated country drip [with moisture], and the hills gird themselves with joy. 13 The meadows are clothed with flocks, the valleys also are covered with grain; they shout for joy and sing together. Psalms 65:9-13 AMPC
1. Rain Brings the Harvest.
a. Joel 2:23-24 KJV –– Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
b. God’s outpouring leads to fruitful harvests.
c. He sends both the former and latter rain.
d. The rain is sent to soften and prepare the ground for sowing.
e. And to prepare the harvest for reaping.
f. Harvest touches every area of life.
g. The Holy Spirit prepares hearts to receive.
h. The floors shall be full of wheat—symbolizing souls and provision.
i. A full floor and overflowing vats mean that God exceeds expectations.
j. Wine = joy and celebration.
k. Oil = anointing and healing.
l. Overflow comes after obedience and expectation.
m. Rain signals the restoration of all things.
n. God restores what the drought took.
o. Joy follows the rain and harvest.
p. And God’s people are no longer ashamed.
q. Rain + harvest = national and personal revival.
2. Rain Brings Life.
a. Isaiah 55:10–11 KJV –– For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
b. Rain comes from Heaven and is a gift, not a reward.
c. Revival is God’s idea—not man’s invention.
d. God’s Word never returns void.
e. His Word, like rain, brings life and accomplishes His purposes.
f. Miracles happen when the rain falls.
g. Rain is a type of the Holy Spirit, watering the earth and bringing the dead back to life.
h. The water of the Word, and the power of the Spirit, activate the seed.
i. Rain causes things to bud and bloom—and results in new beginnings.
j. God supplies both seed and provision.
k. Rain gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater.
l. Sowing increases in rainy seasons and harvest isn’t scarce when rain falls.
m. The Holy Spirit is life-giving water, bringing regeneration and revival.
n. The rain prepares the Church for Jesus’ return.
3. Rain Brings Joy.
a. Psalm 65:9–13
b. God’s provision leads to joy and celebration.
c. God visits the earth with rain.
d. Rain is a sign of God’s goodness and personal involvement, which we see in His outpouring.
e. Every revival begins with a visitation of the presence of God.
f. The river of God is full of water—and His paths drip with fatness.
g. He doesn’t do half-blessings.
h. Fatness represents overflow, blessing, and fruitfulness.
i. Joy is the natural outcome of rain and follows the path of His blessings.
j. Creation responds with joy to His rain.
k. Joy is a hallmark of the Holy Ghost.
l. The fruit of the Spirit includes joy.
m. The Kingdom of God is joy.
n. Joy is the evidence that the rain is real.
4. Rain Brings Abundance.
a. Deuteronomy 28:12 AMPC –– The Lord shall open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
b. Obedience to God leads to abundant blessings.
c. God has a storehouse in Heaven—a heavenly treasury that He opens and pours out in due season.
d. Rain is the currency of blessing.
e. Rain empowers the work of your hands.
f. God blesses work, not laziness.
g. Rain makes the work fruitful.
h. Rain + obedience + work = multiplication.
i. The Lord makes lenders, not borrowers.
j. Financial dominion is part of our covenant.
k. Rain shifts the economy of the righteous.
l. Revival produces economic overflow.
m. Abundance is more than finances—rain brings overflow in every area of life.
n. Abundance comes with responsibility.
o. Abundance fuels the Gospel.
p. Rain comes where the ground is ready.
q. You are positioned for overflow.
r. God will give ability, ideas, and favor.
s. The rain is falling!