Pray the Word with David Platt as a resource for Radical.net.

Zachariah, chapter 10, verse 1, ask rain from the Lord in 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. What a great verse, what a great command. Ask, ask for rain from the

Lord. It's interesting. It says in the season of the spring rain, so don't just assume it's

because it's this season that this will happen. I know good gifts come from God alone. Every single

good thing comes from God and God is inviting, calling, commanding his people here to ask him for

good things, and he will give good things. He'll bring the rain. He's the one who makes

the storm clouds. They don't just come out of nowhere and they're not just meteorological,

natural occurrences. They're the work, the handiwork of the Lord. And when we ask, he will give

showers of rain to everyone the vegetation in the field. What a simple picture that leads us to

pray for so many things, for so much rain, so to speak in our lives and in the world around us.

God, we want to ask you for the rain, for showers of rain, for clouds that bring rain, for vegetation

in the field, for fruitfulness and blessing. God, we look to you right now as the only source,

the exclusive source of everything good. Every good gift comes from you. Everything that's good.

You're the author of it all and we want good. We want good in our lives. We want good in our families.

We want good in our churches. We want good in our cities. We want good among the nations. We want

to see good. So God, teach us to pray. God, please deliver us. Save us from prayerlessness,

from just assuming that this good or that good will come when you're the only one who can bring

the good and you've invited us to ask you for good. And God, I think especially even with this

imagery in Zechariah chapter 10 of seasons of dryness in my life and others lives. God, there are so

many of us with specific things on our hearts and minds right now. We need you to bring the rain.

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