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  • Ajai Prakash avatar

    Rain On Me

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Apr 25, 2024
     | 1,162 views

    We are living in similar days like the days of Elijah the prophet. What needs to be revived are MIRACLES, DOUBLE-ANOINTING and THE HARVEST in our churches. You and I have a major role to play.

    Apparently, the days of Elijah were filled with trials, famine (of the Word), drought, peril, apostasy, Baal worship and discouragement but this did not dissuade the prophet Elijah from doing the work that God assigned him and so must the church (we) today. We as a church and our nation are living ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Hard Words To Hard People In Hard Times Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Nov 20, 2025
     | 245 views

    If you want God to use you to powerfully communicate His message to hard people in hard times, eat God’s Word. speak God’s Word, follow God’s Spirit, and warn God’s people.

    Our former district superintendent, Bill Smith, recalls preaching part-time in a small local church while he was still studying for the ministry. Six months passed and none of his professors had come to hear him. Finally, his faculty advisor agreed to attend one Sunday. After the service, the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    A Hard Sermon For A Hard Heart Series

    Contributed by Hugh W. Davidson on Jun 13, 2020
     | 7,078 views

    Ahab was the quintessential bad example

    Ahab I Kings 21:1-19 The party aboard ship was in full swing. Speeches were being made by the captain, the crew, and all the guests were really enjoying the week-long voyage. Sitting at the head table was a seventy-year-old man ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Rain From Heaven PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 28, 2025
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     | 83 views

    God abundantly refreshes and enriches our lives when we pray, turning our dry seasons into fruitful harvests through His faithful provision and grace.

    Some of us walked in today feeling like cracked earth—stretched thin, thirsty, waiting for a cloud to gather overhead. You’ve known seasons like that. Maybe you’re in one now. The bills feel bigger than your paycheck. The grief feels heavier than your shoulders. The prayers feel longer than the ...read more

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  • Keenan Darnell avatar

    Now, Send The Rain!

    Contributed by Keenan Darnell on Jan 12, 2008
    based on 16 ratings
     | 7,317 views

    We often pray, "Lord, Send the Rain, Lord, send revival, Lord send a blessing", but are we really ready and prepared for it? Find out what it takes to prepare for the Rain.

    Text Scripture Genesis 2:4,5 KJV 4. These are the generations of the heavens, and the earth when they were created, in the day the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,5. And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and evry herb of the earth before it grew: for the Lord God had not ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    When It Rains On The Just

    Contributed by Darin Gary on Jul 21, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,777 views

    Does God will evil upon His own? Does He cause evil things to punish us?

    When It Rains on the Just (Matthew 5:43-48) “You have heard that it was said: ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    When The Rain Comes Series

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on May 17, 2001
    based on 109 ratings
     | 8,349 views

    Chad a 34-year-old software developer married with two children from Florida would rather sleep in on Sundays...find out why.

    West Greeley Baptist Church May 20 2001 “When the rain comes” Matthew 5: 44-45 Pastor Mark Hensley 44But I tell you: Love your enemies[1] and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Send Down The Rain

    Contributed by Darrell Jones on Feb 24, 2003
    based on 101 ratings
     | 15,967 views

    Some people are content to play in the lawn sprinklers, while others are praying for God to "Send Down The Rain".

    Send Down The Rain (1Kings 18:41-46) (James 5:17-18) says, "Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not upon the earth by the space of three and one half years. And he prayed again and the heavens gave rain, and the earth ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Who Stopped The Rain

    Contributed by Jeremy Farmer on Mar 7, 2003
    based on 39 ratings
     | 7,203 views

    Who, more importantly what stagnated the Holy Spirit rain of Jesus Christ in churches across the world today?

    Who Stopped the Rain? If we take this title literally into consideration, we are talking about the rain of the Holy Spirit. We are going to be taking a look at tonight, an inward display of our lives and the church across America as a whole and we are going to find out, who stopped the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Latter Rain & The Harvest

    Contributed by Robert Simmons on May 6, 2006
    based on 158 ratings
     | 58,836 views

    Challenge to seek a revival of the Holy Spirit to enable us to better reap the harvest of our generation.

    Latter Rain & The Harvest Joel 2:23-32 "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. And the floors shall be full of ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    The City And The Golden Rain

    Contributed by Thomas Miller on Jun 30, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,230 views

    This is a living city alive in His Spirit, alive with His saints and angels, full of laughter in the joy of His presence. His presence permeates the air, work is now fun, not a burden. I could work a thousand years without a break and my fellowship with

    The City and the Golden Rain 1998 I don’t know what overwhelmed me more, the beauty of his creation or the magnitude of his presence that swept over me when I saw the city, the New Jerusalem. Whatever was more powerful would take me several minutes to recover from this ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Rainbow Through The Rain

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Feb 28, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,305 views

    God allows suffering in our lives to bring us closer to Him.

    Rainbow Through The Rain – I Peter 3: 18 - 22 Intro: In Scotland in the 1800s there lived a man of great promise and potential. He was engaged to be married and suddenly was discovered to have a degenerative eye disease which eventually left him blind. His fiancée refused to marry him and his ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    We Need Rain

    Contributed by Jerry Flury on Aug 23, 2009
    based on 14 ratings
     | 19,249 views

    Just as many of the people today in the Middle East and Central Asia, currently in the grip of one of the worst droughts in recent history, are desperate for rain, so the church needs to see its desperate need for a fresh rainfall from God.

    WE NEED RAIN DEUTERONOMY 28:1-15, 23-24 Introduction: A few years ago much of the United States went through a severe dry spell. It was so dry that it had become an Internet joke. During that drought someone published this request online: “Please pray for rain: "It’s so dry in Tennessee that the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    We Need Rain

    Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Aug 27, 2009
    based on 17 ratings
     | 12,338 views

    We need spiritual rain just like we need physical rain!

    Deuteronomy 11:14-17 Today my prayer is, “Lord, we need rain!” We need the Shower of the Holy Spirit in our lives like never before. During a good rain, vegetation is nourished -- animals are nourished -- the grass gets greener; rain refreshes the land. Rain causes things to grow and be ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    It Looks Like Rain

    Contributed by Rick Boyne on Nov 13, 2011
    based on 11 ratings
     | 8,387 views

    We are able to discern the signs before it rains; Jesus said we should be able to discern the signs of His coming!

    It Looks Like Rain November 13, 2011 Morning Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: We are able to discern the signs before it rains; Jesus said we should be able to discern the signs of His coming! Focus Passage: Matthew 24:4-12, 36, 42 Supplemental Passage: And ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist