Not exactly. While it is true that God never changes, it is also true that our faith plays a large role in our relationship with him—and thus opens us up to his awesome power.
In the gospels, Jesus often says that a person’s faith has saved him or healed him or that faith can move mountains. Somehow our faith seems to open a channel for the power of God to flow in our own lives and in the world.
So if faith can heal, save, and move mountains, is it too much to ask for a little rain?
- Not to Elijah! He had stood alone, firm in his faith,
- while hundreds of false prophets lined up against him in support of a false god.
- Trusting God, he watched as fire from heaven consumed a sacrifice that he had offered in an effort to turn the people back to God (1 Kings 18:36-38).
Now, as he again gazes into a cloudless sky, Elijah believes. He trusts God to send the rain that Israel needed so desperately.
He checks the clear skies over and over.
- Then, in God’s perfect time, a cloud “as small as a man’s hand” appears
- and develops into a full sky of black clouds and a blessed downpour (1 Kings 18:44-45)!
Perhaps you are currently experiencing a drought of some kind and would love to see the hand of God bring long-awaited blessing to your life.
- Is it a spouse you long for?
- Or children?
- Are family issues or physical ailments causing you pain?
- Does the lack of peace in the world burden you?
