The Rainmaker! - Bishop T.D. Jakes

during this time of turbulence and uncertainty during this time of upheaval in government in our families in our economies during this time of frustration dealing with a pandemic like we haven't seen in a hundred years I have fallen more in love with my bible now than I ever really did. I have done because I see many things my whole life that I have been preaching about but I have never experienced them I preached about the plagues but I have never been through one I preached about death and destruction, but I have never seen it on the level that I am seeing now and Now when I go back and read my Bible, I can almost feel the characters because I understand the feelings of being in situations of destitution, chaos and confusion. confusion and David said your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path and I want to challenge you to step into God's word during this time and just start reading how other people made it.

You know sometimes you just need to know that someone else made it someone else survived someone else went through what you went through and they were people like us and they made it and then I say to myself, well, bless God, if they made it, I I can do it too, amen, I can do it. also, if you decided that you will make it any way, clap your hands and praise God, I made a decision, I made a decision, brother Marcus, I made a decision, I will do it, I made it. my mind dr. anthony because I made a decision I'm going to make it I can cry but I'm going to make it I can crawl but I'm going to make it I may be tired but I'm going to make it I may be frustrated but I'm going to make it I have a purpose in my heart brother Corey I'm Sister Corey I made a decision I'm going to make it I'm going to make it maybe I have to slow down maybe I have to take a break maybe I have to rest a little more but I'm going to make it and guess what you're going to do to me that's why I want you to get into your spirit that's why I want you to get into your heart I want you to adopt an attitude of gratitude not because it's November, God doesn't care about anything about November, not because we celebrate Thanksgiving, it's just been for the last few hundred years, that's no big deal to God, other countries don't even know what. we're talking when we talk about thanksgiving because thanksgiving is not a day it's a way of life it's a way of thinking it's an attitude of gratitude someone says man now I'm excited I want to get into this message from the lord I've been talking to me about this message and I'm excited to share it with you.

I want you to get your Bibles to go to 1 Kings 18 41-46. I was tempted to read the whole chapter, but I'm not going to take you there. Through that I am only going to read the most pertinent elements and then I am going to put the text in context with the intention that we can get away from two things that I want to achieve one I want you to know your Bible better and understand it your Bible and demystify your Bible two I want to dispel some of the propensity that we have to know Bible stories and we know what happened but we don't know why and it's anytime you know what and you don't know why I don't understand the full impact of the story and thirdly, I want you to extract things from the text that are relevant to your contemporary life and that will affect the coming week.

Your Bible is so relevant that it goes back historically and extends far beyond history. predestined future and it is still relevant to what you are facing today, so we are going to start at verse 41 and we are going to read from there and Elijah said to Ahab, go eat and drink because you hear the sound of It was raining heavily and Ahab He went to eat and drink, but Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, went down to the ground and put his face between his knees, go and look towards the sea, he said to his servant and he went up and looked, there is nothing there. said seven times Elijah said: come back the seventh time the servant reported that a cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea, then Elijah said: go, go, that is, go and say ahead, go up to your car and get out before the rain stops you.

Meanwhile, the sky turned black with clouds, the wind rose, heavy rain began to fall, and Ahab left for Jezreel. The power of the Lord came upon Elijah and, putting his cloak into his belt, he ran before Ahab to Jezreel, can you say? Amen, okay, stay standing, let's pray, my topic this morning is the

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, let's pray what we're saying, the spirit of the living god fall fresh, fresh upon us, without your freshness we will not be able to sustain ourselves. From yesterday's bread we cannot archive the anointing we need the type of anointing for this present moment endowed us with that anointing right now and let the word become flesh as it is preached today I thank you for what you are going to do in Jesus name, Let's pray, someone shout, amen, you can sit in the presence of the Lord, I will sit too, so I want to start by telling you that one of the things I treasure most about my life and my walk with God are opportunities. that I have had to travel I appreciate traveling around the United States and there are many parts of our country that I have seen how beautiful and amazingly amazing, each city is unique, different and apart, but I really appreciate being able to travel around the world.

The first time I left the country I went to London. I couldn't believe there were so many people outside of the United States that I had never seen, and my whole idea of ​​everything about life was transformed when I recognized that we were not alone. I knew it intellectually but I didn't know it experientially when I knew it experientially it changed my way of thinking and I don't remember where I went next. I think we ended up going to Greece for something and we were there for a while. Meanwhile, Switzerland and I've been to a lot of different places, but one time I went to Africa and I went to Africa and I was on a mission trip and I was there because of the work that we were doing. about the whales and we had to go by helicopter because it was so far from the city that we had to go by helicopter to get there and and while we were on the helicopter it started to rain and I thought to myself, not now I don't want to be in the middle of Africa in a helicopter that had not met FAA guidelines during a storm and I thought this is not good, this is not good and the pilot said something to me, we both saw the same thing but we saw it was so different I saw it as turbulence and danger and disturbance and discomfort and he said oh look

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you are so blessed that you have brought us a blessing he saw the rain as a blessing I saw the rain as a burden he saw the rain as a blessing I wanted the rain to stop he wanted it to stop The rain came down and I was surprised that they saw the rain as a blessing and that's when I realized how privileged I was because I had never been in a drought, I had never been in a dry place and I didn't understand that the rain was a blessing. because sometimes I draw water from the tap and just leave it running while I answer the phone.

I've had enough water to water the lawn, the garden, the flowers and raised gardens and take baths and do all kinds of things and run around with the shower running for 15 minutes before getting in. I've had water and lots of it, but when you haven't had enough of something, then you see it through a completely different perspective, I would say just get me off this plane, off this helicopter, as fast as you can, with the greatest possible security. Drove in the rain and got to a dry place and we landed on dry ground and there we started uh, starts and dedicated to the whales and we were starting to the whales and all the kids and everyone was singing and shouting over the water oh yeah I didn't hear what I was saying, they were shouting about the water, they were not shouting because they had a new toy or because they bought a car they bought a new bicycle or truck they rejoiced over the water in order to understand the magnitude of the text that we are going to talk about today I wanted to share that experience because if you see it with your Western mind if you see it with your 21st century mind then you really won't understand the substratum of the text you won't understand why I call it the rainmaker you won't understand why this text is so relevant because until recently we haven't been challenged but today we are starting to be challenged today we have middle class people in bread labs looking for food today we have people who were making six figures and now they are trying to make dinner with a bag of food today god is shaking us shaking us making us know oh you're not so far away that I can't that I can't reach you that I can't demand your attention that I can't command your respect you're not I'm so safe in your Western world that I can't disturb everything and force you to depend on me and force you to pray for rain and make you scream for water and make you start gardening again and canning and making gelatin again.

I can rock your world. up because I am god and when I prepare I get your attention that is why it is always better to give him your attention than to make him have to get your attention because if God has to get your attention that changes everything now brothers and sisters in In today's text I want present some characters in context so you can understand them. One of them is that they have and you've heard Ahab say before, I'm sure, and if you haven't heard of Ahab, you've definitely heard of him. His wife's wife's name is Jezebel and you don't have to be a church person to be familiar with Jezebel.

The name Jezebel has become synonymous with betrayal and promiscuity and betraying her. Her name has become interchangeable and you don't even need a Bible. nothing to know that Jezebel if you're not careful your grandmother would have called you you look like a Jezebel you're not going to leave this house looking like a Jezebel with your mouth full of tobacco she'll be telling you you look like a Jezebel that's too tight you know you haven't worn 10 since Vietnam yes you know how they talk to you right they got that name from this woman who was married to ahab so you will meet these two people ahab and Jezebel are husband and wife they are king and queen and they are king and queen of the northern province and then You will encounter this name Elijah because God sends Elijah to challenge what is happening between Ahab and Jezebel and then you will occasionally encounter Obadiah, whose name you will remember from writing a book of the Bible, but you will come to understand that Obadiah is now serving. under King Ahab as his CEO, his administrator, he does everything, he takes care of everything and he is leading. everything and then there is this unnamed character who is Elijah's servant who we will see later in the text which is important now that we have the characters let me explain some things to you I want you to understand that rehab is not a part of the family, I mean, Jezebel is not part of the family.

Jezebel is the result of an alliance that occurs when the two families come together and make an agreement that she was not a part of and her marriage to Ahab. It is more political than romantic, they made a deal since she was the princess of another Phoenician country, she was the princess of that country that if she married Ahab, who was the king of the northern province of Israel, they would unite as a conglomerate and that was how. they negotiated the deal with Jezebel's life and I want to talk and I'm not trying to paint Jezebel as an incredibly wonderful person, but the more I studied about Jezebel I understood what made her evil, look, you have to understand someone's. story before we start judging him because we have a tendency we like to put people in compartments this is good this is bad this is right this is wrong this is a man of god this is the god son of satan we love to put them in cubicles, but You can't really judge what I did if you don't understand why I did it.

Jezebel never asked Ahab, she never asked to leave her country with her relatives and be connected to her parents and her countries. They came to terms with her life, prostituted her through this marriage before it began, and she left the Phoenicians, known for their ability to build ships and trade, to the Phoenicians, known for their ability to build ships and trade. Fanisha was a progressive metropolitan liberal city that traded with people from all over the world. world and she was used to living and growing up as a princess in a city with wealthy people and people of means and they had various religions and diverse ideas and merchants traveled from afar and built ships that we still study today Venetian ships are famous all over the world some They have even suggested that they arrived in America on Phoenician ships before Columbus set sail.

Fenesha was progressive and mobile and she was the princess of that city until they took her from that city and sent her to this deserted and dry place with Hebrew people singing songs and dancing on the land and she was frustrated because they were nomads they moved all the time. time they didn't get along with each other they always had internal disputes she was a Have you ever been married? in a messy family oh I'll bring it where you can get it and now you have to deal with all that drama and you didn't ask for this, she married into a messy nation and a messy family and a messy situation and she missed home so much, she missed it, she missed the turns and the interesting conversations and the way they did things and the open-mindedness and the liberal ideologies that come from being from Phenicia and the only thing they talked about here was Yahweh, she was nostalgia and she said since I have that being here might bring some of the prophets from home so she can expose them to different ways of thinking, so she summons 800 prophets of Baal to come to Hebrew territory so she canExplain to him that there are other ways to worship God besides how you all do it.

It's here I want you to understand the backdrop I want you to see the topography I want you to understand that she hated having to give up what she was used to so she was trying to bring with her what she was used to New life and 800 prophets of Baal have arisen now over the Hebrew people and she began to influence Ahab until Ahab worshiped Baal like the prophets and sometimes worshiped God, and they knew more than that, but for the love of a woman, many men. oh yeah yeah yeah this is as old as Adam and Eve for the love of a woman, whoever you let influence you impacts your decisions, your choices and you wouldn't think that someone you meet in person would affect the way you see tosomeone.

He knew it in the spirit, but she had that kind of control over him like Eve had over Adam, that little by little she was taking him further and further away from God and Ahab was becoming more decadent and crueler and meaner, and that's how when she decided to start killing some of God's prophets, he agreed because once you open yourself up to something, you never know how far it will go. Oh, you all didn't listen to what I'm saying, once you open up to something. I can never be sure how far it will go and all of a sudden they found themselves in a situation where they were killing the prophets and Obadiah who is the CEO.

He runs things under King Ahab. He knows it's wrong, but he's afraid to say it. anything because they will kill him too. He managed to sneak away some prophets and hide them in a cave and leave them with a little bread and a little water so they could survive, but in front of King Ahab he confessed loyalty and pledged himself. He because he didn't want to die and many of the Bible stories we read about widows and their husbands were killed because Jezebel had turned that place into a bloodbath and God got tired of it now when God gets tired of something he changes everything because We serve a god who knows how to deal with you.

God's displeasure with her and the way she expressed her discontent caused a drought on the land and God has sent a drought on the land so strong, so powerful and so debilitating. that god said I'm going to get your attention now the bible talks about a drought and a famine these are the root causes of the problem and I want you to understand that when you start dealing with drought you will inevitably have a famine because one problem creates one problem, another The problem is like the pandemic and the economy, you cannot fix the economy if you do not fix the pandemic, because one thing feeds the other, come on, someone has to understand, then, what if you don't get to the root of the problem? and all you do is cut the leaves of the problem, it will continue to grow again, so you must understand that every time you have a pandemic it will affect the economy and affect the emotions and well-being of the country is a domino effect, so when God sent a drought, he didn't have to sin with a famine because if you send the drought, the drought will send the famine, so the drought is the problem, but the famine.

It is killing people, good god of mercy, I said drought is the problem, but famine is killing people and God said I will send a drought to the land until it gets their attention because they think they are strong and powerful. And they brought these two nations together and they think they have control, but I will bring them to their knees until they have to seek my faith. I will dry everything. I will dry up the streams. I'll dry myself. the lakes I will dry up the streams I will dry everything until everything starts to die because I will get your attention I will get your attention when I was in Africa there was a place I went and they told me that the areas where we were building whales dried up so much that a woman gave birth looking water can you imagine giving birth in a dry place looking for water and finally she pushed her baby and the bees came and stung the baby and the mother to death because she saw the placenta as a dry fluid that is very dry a dead woman stung by bees Desperate people who are trying to survive in a dry place Have you ever had to try to survive in a dry place?

Have you ever walked into a situation of such misery that people didn't? I didn't even know that you were in a dry place your hair was done your nails were done you smelled good and you were walking but no one knew that you were in a dry place you had your shirt on you had your tie you had your designer things but deep in your soul you were in a dry place, have you ever been stung in a dry place by something that you would normally be able to escape from and something that normally wouldn't even be interested in you, but when you are in a dry place, strange things start?

Oh, everyone hears what I'm saying, the drought has gotten so bad that King Ahab and Obadiah are looking for water to keep the cattle alive. This is everything that precedes the text. They are looking for water and Ahab says. obadiah, you go this way and I will go this way so that we can keep the cattle alive and the cattle alive and they will be in a dry place. Have you ever been worried not about success, just survival, just trying to hold it together? I'm just trying to stay calm, anyone right now. You're not worried about a yacht, a Bentley, a Mercedes, a private jet or a penthouse suite.

You say: Lord, I stay here. I'm just trying to keep what I have right. now which direction should I go which direction should I look I'm trying to hold it down I'm trying to hold it down I'm trying to hold it down I'm trying to hold it down I'm in a dry place obdias is around here looking for water for the animals and that's when he He bumped into Elijah and looked at Elijah and said Elijah oh my God Elijah is you and then he thought stay away from king Ahab sees you he will kill you he doesn't know that Elijah has come to see Ahab why would Elijah come to see Ahab?

It's almost as crazy as Moses to go back to Egypt to see Pharaoh but I want you to understand this I'm right now at point one we have a god of confrontation we don't have a god who hides from problems we have a god who will get close to your face and he will activate it and god has told Elijah, I want you to go there and confront Ahab and if you face a mano, I will stop the drought that is causing the famine that is killing people that is leaving widows and I want you to go to the front, confront, ahead, we have a confrontational god, glory to God, he is not a scared cat god, he is not a pennywise god, he is not a lily. -liberated god he is not a god who is afraid to say what he thinks he is not a god who will not deal with you you may be big you may be short but when god prepares you have to move you have to move god says I'm going to confront him through you and I want you to go there and deal with Raheem so Elijah says to Obadiah show me show me where Ahab is or at least tell Ahab I'm here and no one says oh no I'm not. telling him you're here because when he gets here you'll be gone and if you're god he'll kill me and you won't kill me buddy you won't kill me you've been killing people Elijah you gotta get out of here and Elijah said go tell ahab I'm here to see him go and tell the man who has me on his hit list that I have come to see him go and tell the man who is committed to killing I was for all the prophets who could kill.

Killing Elijah would be a gold mine. You will remember the winner, because if I said that my husband was one of your prophets and he was killed, he could kill the master prophet. Elijah was a master prophet. He was known for his ability to see through walls and around the world he could listen in the bedroom of the king's chamber and know what was being said Elijah was a great prophet Elijah comes to him and says: show me a head on the one who walks Ahab and he knows that Ahab wants to kill him and he makes the deal in advance because not only is God confrontational, you have to understand that Elijah is also confrontational and Elijah approaches Ahab and says I tell you what you have all these Prophets of Baal Gather them as many as you can and meet me on Mount Carmel and the god who responds with fire.

They don't hear what I say. Let's figure this out today. Why would two of them honk at them? opinions the god who responds with fire that is the one who will do it and catch all your prophets I don't need anyone but god and I will stand alone if god is for me he is more than the world against me I understand everyone your prophets and take them to mount karma and I will let them choose their own bulls and we will offer them and all day long 450 prophets of baal are standing there asking for bail and at night elias was making fun of him says maybe he is busy call him louder maybe he's sleeping you have to wake him up and when they were done with all his antics there was no response from his god you know the story of how Elijah comes and suddenly he digs his own ditches you have to dig your own ditches I want you to write this you have to dig your own ditches stop sitting around waiting for people to dig ditches for you open paths for you open doors if you're going to get a get away from god you have to dig your own ditches Elijah dug his own death he said I'm a teacher I'm a master prophet but I'm a job my own digit never become so important that you can't Dig your own ditches.

Have you ever become so educated that you can't dig your own ditches? Because sometimes you can't let someone dig your ditch. You have to dig it yourself because you are the one who has the anointing to break. the yoke and when you received the anointing you have to dig the ditch, someone will dig it out, someone will shout, dig, someone will shout, dig, someone will shout, dig, shovel by shovel, by shovel, by shovel, by shovel, by shovel, by shovel . shovel by shovel by shovel I'm going to dig my way out of there I'm tired of you sitting there crying talking about I don't see any way out take your shovel and I said take your shovel I feel like something is happening in here, take your shovel and dig it out shovel by shovel, day after day, stop waiting for someone to come and do the job for you and after he dug it up and left his bulls and suddenly everything was in order.

Elijah looked up to the sky and said now God, I know you hear me and he started talking to God, he said show them who the living and true god is and suddenly the Bible said the fire came down from heaven and burned the wood and burned the bullets and he licked the water and all the prophets were horrified and they all backed away and for a while Ahab was convinced that Jehovah was god and they took the 450 prophets to the valley of Kisan and there they massacred them walking with God is a damn thing that we don't like to talk but walking with god is a damn thing the god we talk about is this nice fairy godmother type god who never gets his hands messy but god told elijah to go down and kill every one of them because sometimes jezebel You bring things with you that have to be killed later.

I know you were frustrated. I know you were alone. I know you want it the way you want it. I know. You have a strong will, I know that you are a tough woman, I know that you have already made a decision, I know that you are being bad brother, but sometimes you can bring things with you that you have to sacrifice later and if she had left they would not have been home had to die but because she brought this to that now god has to kill it this is not that what worked here won't work there get out from among them and separate yourself because if you don't and you start mixing this with that after a while, God you'll have to kill that so this can remain the source.

Do you hear what I'm telling you? Do you understand the words that come out of my mouth? Can? You don't hang out with everyone, you can't run with everyone, you can't let everyone give you advice, sometimes you have to drop bell things there with Baal and say, as for me and my house, I will defend God, he just get. killing 450 prophets of baal killing them and then he tells ahab look that now the prophet is the king of Boston and it was the king who was going to kill him, but god has given him so much power and influence that someone asked me one day.

I said, would you ever run for president? I said oh lord, no, no, number one, I love myself too much to do that, number two, I would have to go down, you didn't hear what I said, I would have to go down to be president. I'd rather be the prophet than be the president the prophet tells the president which way to go that's what's wrong with the church right now we're giving up our position to be politicians but if you stay in your place and continue being the prophet, Can you command the king instead of the king commanding you?

Do you hear what I'm telling you? Elijah says in advance go get yourself something to eat and the Bible says that Elijah goes up to the mountain of Mount Carmel, returns to Mount Carmel and he lies down on Mount Carmel and puts himself in the birthing position where he drops his head between the knees. He has told you that I heard the sound of abundant rain. Now I want you to understand that it is not always about talking prophets. It's about listening Sometimes the prophets we have today are always speaking, but if you really want to be powerful it's not about what you say, it's about what you heard, he said, I hear the sound of abundant rain now not a drop has fallen for years the place has been dry so it's dry on the outside but he hears rain you scream he hears rain inside I'm just not getting to where I want to be I want to talk to someone who hears something inside that totally contradicts everything outside I want to talk to someone who has a dream that seems ridiculous all hell is going onunleashing around you but in your spirit you hear the sound of abundant rain and if you have ever heard it rain, you know when you hear it there is a sound that the rain makes that stays with you the only problem is that he has gone up the mountain to try to get what he hears inside to come out to the outside, you didn't hear that, he is trying to get what he hears inside to come out on the outside and the Lord told me that he was going to preach today to someone you already have it inside you already have the advance on the inside but you have to get it on the outside you already have liberation on the inside but you have to get it on the outside and he goes up the mountain the bible says he goes up the mountain again the mountain that just caught fire from the sky or just this time He's up there alone, him and his servant and he has his head between his knees and I want you to listen to this I want you to listen to this very well, why does Elijah have his head between his knees, bishop? because there is too much outside noise, we are living in a season of too much outside noise, there are too many people who have access to you, they come to you through Facebook, they come to you through Twitter, they come to you through the television, They come at you through Instagram They come at you at your work They come at you through your phone They come at you in the family They come but if you are going to give birth listen to me now If you are going to give birth what God put inside you , you have to close, you have to turn off that outside noise so you can focus on what you hear inside, because in my spirit I can hear the sound of abundance. of rain I know that you don't see it I know that the cows are dying I know that the prophets are dead I know that the grass has turned brown I know that the ground is cracking but despite everything I see it with my eyes in my spirit I hear, I hear , I hear the sound of abundant rain.

I want every believer who hears the sound of abundance to put his hands together and give God a little praise. I'm going to say it again. I want every believer who hears the sound of an abundance to give God a little praise hold the organ clap clap clap how that sounds the more you touch your hands the more it sounds like rain clap your hands all of you cough your hands clap your hands until hell knows you listen the sound of a heavy rain until the demons know you hear the sound of a heavy rain until the sickness knows I hear it, I hear it, I hear the patter, I hear the drip, I hear the sound if you're in the house with someone, tell them something is about to happen if you're in the holla building and someone says something is about to happen I know it doesn't seem like it but something is about to happen I know Washington is in chaos but something is about to happen I know the Churches are closed but something is about to happen I know the pandemic is going crazy but something is about to happen I know all hell is breaking loose but something is about to happen I know the cattle are dying but something is about to happen I know the prophets are falling but something is about to happen in my spirit I hear the sound I hear the sound I hear the sound the sound the sound the sound the sound in the hospital I hear the sound of an abundance of abundance of rain in In the midst of the crisis I hear the sound of abundant rain and I am deciding that I am going to silence every voice that contradicts what I hear in my spirit, even if I have to put my head in my hands. knees Elijah who set fire from the sky now looks like an idiot with his head between his knees he doesn't walk with greatness because he's trying to pop something you can't be cute when you're trying to pop something you can't put on your eyeliner when you're trying to pop something no you can put on eye shadow when you're trying to pop something you can't paint your nails when you're trying to pop someone needs to get into a birth position because you're trying to get something out of here that contradicts everything you see around you and now he's there up on the mountain and he is praying and he tells his servant to go down to the sea and look for a sign and the servant comes back nothing here is the test here is the test can you be resilient without evidence? can you be consistent without a cue?

Can you be faithful when it doesn't seem to be working? Can you stay there and keep doing what you're doing even when your closest people? He comes back and says it's not working, they sent him back and he said to his servant, come back, come back until you tell me what I need to hear, come back to you, what you see aligns with what I hear in my spirit, come back until that changes. he didn't do like you you let the servant talk you out of your dream you let the bad news silence you you let the lack of evidence make you think you were wrong and doubt what you heard in your spirit you left something minor a subordinate individual told you something that made you stop believing on the mountain where God has shown himself faithful in your life seven times, sent him back and I asked myself how could the man who made fire come down from heaven with a single call. now he has to send it back seven times to make it rain and suddenly i realized it was never about the fire he shot never hosha, the thing you defeat easily is never your battle the thing you talk to once and it burns that It's not your fight, your real fight is what you have to put your head between your knees for and what you have to call on God for and what you have to fight with and what it looks like no matter what you do. you can't whip him so don't get caught up in what he fell easily because if he gave up easily that's not your fight your real fight requires fight your real fight requires tenacity your real fight requires endurance your A real fight means that even the closest people You have to send them back because sometimes the people who have access to you do not have your revelation.

Oh, you guys don't listen to what I'm saying. You don't listen to what I'm saying, does anyone listen to what I'm saying? I need someone to listen to what I'm saying. Do you hear what I'm telling you? Do you hear what I'm telling you? The people I am bringing you information, I do not have access to your revelation and that is why they continue to tell you what they do not see, but you must continue to concentrate on what you heard in my spirit, this shadow heard the sound of abundant rain and he went up. up on the mountain like Jesus entering the garden of Gethsemane because some things you have to pray for yourself your intercessor can't do it your prayer warriors can't do it your church mother can't get some things in order for you to be a doer of rain, you have to climb that mountain for yourself and you have to pray for yourself and he made you come back, come back the seventh time the servant came and said, well, I see something that I started not to mention.

Despite all that praying you've been doing, it doesn't seem like much, but I see a cloud the size of a man's hand. Can I talk for a minute? I'm almost done. Can I talk for a minute to someone who feels the way you do? the answer doesn't look like what you thought it would be the cloud is so small because of all the prayer you put into it the church is so small because of all the work you put into it the business is so fragile because of all the work you put into it That's what you're in you're about to get discouraged and you're about to hang your heart from the willow tree and start crying because you say Lord, I tried so hard, I gave so much effort and time, I worked overtime and stayed up all night. and all the way through all I see is the cloud the size of a man's hand, if ever there was a defining moment, this is the moment when how you respond to the little answers will determine your destiny, good god almighty, I feel that I am prophesied. me up mister mike man i feel like i'm prophesying to someone how you respond to small answers will determine your destiny i heard the bible say don't despise the day of small beginnings you can't work for god until you can be happy with something small you can't serve the lord until you can preach to a handful of people like the building is full you can't serve the lord until you can survive on a small prophet but you have great faith the cloud the size of a man's hand would have brought someone down from the mountain and say it didn't work, but look at Elijah.

Elijah jumped up and said, that's it. I want to give someone a word of confirmation, that little thing that was unleashed in your life, that little breakthrough. you have that little check you have that little first wave you have the holy spirit told me to tell you that's it that's it that's the breakthrough you've been waiting for that's the answer you've been needing that's the door that just opened I'm going to give You have 30 seconds to praise God like you've lost your mind, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, share this message, text it, tweet it, share it with someone, tell them that's it, that's it that I've been waiting for.

All I need is a little sign that the Lord is with me and everything is going to change and suddenly Elijah said to his servant go and tell Ahab to get up and get into your chariot and start riding and the Bible said while He sent his servant to tell Ahab that this was the skies turned black and the lightning began to flash and the thunder began to roll and suddenly a great amount of rain, don't you listen to me, a great amount of rain started small but meanwhile it got bigger bigger bigger bigger bigger bigger bigger the holy spirit said it will get bigger it may start small but it will get bigger it may be difficult but it will get bigger it may be disappointing but it will get bigger i said bigger bigger bigger the holy spirit said it's going to be bigger if you run with what you have god will make it bigger who am I preaching to who is ministering to who am I talking to today someone who praises it is getting bigger is getting bigger the lightning is flashing the thunder is coming out of a small head came a strong wind listen to that listen to that listen to that like this your blessing sounds like this your future sounds like this your prophecy sounds like this your destiny sounds like this your destiny sounds like your prayers bring answers sounds like it sounds like that I know we have a distance but yell at someone and tell them they're coming call someone else and tell them they're coming I'll let someone tell them they're coming tell your neighbors tell your friends tell your enemies tell your children tell them that comes, comes, comes, comes, comes, comes, it took a long time, but it comes, it comes, I cried, I suffered, I waited here here it comes here it comes the rest of the text is done in the rain, all the rest of the text is done under the rain, said, say, hey, you're going to have to drive your car in the rain because here it comes, press down, shake it and run over it, run in the rain, yeah, let someone say run, the rain is coming rain, it's coming the rain runs, comes the rain runs, comes the rain comes here he comes here he comes here he curves here he comes here he comes here he comes he has all his cherry and he was in the car in the rain ahead he was in the car in the rain and the Bible He said they had the advantage but Elijah took his tunic and tied it on his belt and ran after me and the Bible said that even though Elijah started late, he surpassed Ahab.

I'm going to close my message with this. I know the devil has been telling you it's too late. I know the devil tells you that you are too old. I know the devil said you're behind. I know the devil said no. Nothing is going to happen right now, I know it seems like everyone is ahead of you, but God said to tie the tuna on your belt and run in the rain because your lava lane will be bigger, it will be bigger, it's heavy, Elijah was running, he caught him. He got in the car and ran by.

God said that you are going to reach everything that was in front of you and you are going to run past it. I don't know who I'm talking to, but you have to answer me. If I'm talking to you, you have to tell me something right now. You're going to run past all of them. Wait a minute, wait, wait. I have had a car. Elijah had nothing but feats and he's still over the top. God said there is an anointing that will come upon you and you can have less and do more with it. I got to the end of the text and said Lord, when I started this text there was nothing but dryness, desolation, death and despair. was killing there was hunger there was poverty and uncertainty when I started this text the text was dry and when I got to the end of the text the text was soaked and I told him how I went from dry to soaked and he said because I am the maker of rain I am the maker of rain I will make it rain when you see nothing I will make it rain when there is death around you I will make it rain when there is fear around you because it is I am the rain maker I will make it rain here I will make it rain in your marriage I will make it rain in your ministry I will make it rain in your city I know the death rate is increasing I know the pandemic is fighting but God said I am the one who makes it rain, I will make it rain, I know your bills are going up and your money is going down and you are in a dry place in right now, but God said I'm going to make it rain, I know you have emotional fatigue and you're completely exhausted and you feel like you have nothing more to give and everyone wants more and more and more and you feel like you're driving.

God said I'm going to make it rain. Am. I am the rainbow. I am the rainmaker in your life raise your hands and open your mouth andpraise him praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him in the rain praise him praise him in the rain stand up straight in the rain and praise him I dare you to praise him in the rain I'm going to walk in the rain I'm going to walk in the rain I'm going to walk in the rain I'm going to move I am the rain maker I am the rain I am the rain I have the rain maker I am the rain maker let it rain let it rain let it rain let it rain in our eyes oh god let it rain let it rain let it rain let it rain oh god let it rain let it in america in ghana in nigeria australia switzerland brazil let it rain in the uk in canada let it rain let it rain in tanzania let it rain i am the rainmaker the rainbow no one about it because your situation is complicated you have been in a dry place a long time ago time I am your rainbow I want to introduce you to the rainbow you started me you are going to have to move in the rain working the rain walking the rain cooking the rain building the rain planting the rain lazy not so bitter you You are going to have to drive the rest of the way soaked father I pray right now, will you pray with me father, I pray right now, I pray in the rain, I pray that every soul that has been so dry, I pray to God that every life has been so dry and every marriage and every mind and every heart It's been so dry so dry I've been so dry I've been so dry and discouraged I pray for rain I pray for every backslider every sinner you have something to kill right They should be told that we all have some prophets of Baal that need to be extinguished in our lives.

Blow because the rain is coming, father, I pray that the rain falls on every repentant heart, every open heart, every thirsty heart, I pray, Lord, for every member of the eve, every potter. member of the house every friend who is watching us I pray that they get this wet, will you have to take care of the old ones? I pray they don't get wet. I know your name is, let it ring among your people right now in the name of Jesus, I want to leave you. in the rain i have been sharing with you what god shared with me i leave you in the rain the anointing of god that is in this place it is raining where you are now don't be in a hurry to disconnect i want you to do it open your mouth right where you are i know your Friends may be around, your husband may be around, you may feel a little weird, don't let anything stop you, open your mouth and let it rain, God bless you, the rain may be good for you.