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Zechariah chapter 10 verse 1.

Ask rain from the Lord and the season of the spring rain from the Lord who makes the storm clouds and he will give

them showers of rain to everyone the vegetation in the field.

It's a simple verse, isn't it? Ask for rain from the Lord. In the season of the spring rain. So now a naturalist, secularist, someone who doesn't believe in God, just believes everything is happening naturally around us,

says why would you ask for someone to provide rain when it's the season of the spring rain?

Like it just happens.

But that's the God-centered reality at the heart of the Bible and the guard that we need to make sure

we have in our lives in a world where so much is naturalistic, materialistic, focused on what we can see, focused on what science says.

Not that this is going against science and how rain happens with clouds and this or that, but the whole point is it's not ultimately natural processes.

It's the season of the spring rain because it's the time when God chooses to

fill the clouds with rain. He's the one who brings the rain. He's the one who makes the storm clouds. When you see a

storm cloud you can know that's not just natural processes happening up there.

When you see water falling from the sky,

it's not just a natural process that you're witnessing.

It is a supernatural event. Everything around us in

creation is happening because of the sovereign Lord of creation. He's the one who commands storm clouds to form, who commands

storm clouds to bring water to the earth, to bring showers of rain,

Zachariah chapter 10, verse one,

that cause crops in the field to grow,

God does it all.

Which means it is right not just to assume rain but to pray for rain it's right not just to

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