21 Days of Fasting & Prayer Devotional – Day 1: Let it Rain

As we begin 21 days of prayer and fasting, there are specific things we are seeking the Lord for (for the full prayer list, visit jamesriver.church/21days). Certainly, you have things you are asking the Lord to do in your life or in your family through this time of fasting, which is good and appropriate because God loves to pour out His blessing on our lives. In Ezekiel 34:26 God says, “I will bless My people and their homes around My holy hill. And in the proper season I will send the showers they need. There will be showers of blessing”.

This is an amazing promise in Scripture, but notice that showers of blessing are connected to proximity to God’s presence. God said, “I will bless My people and their homes around My holy hill” (Ezekiel 34:26a). The imagery of those who have set up their homes around His holy hill is a metaphor for people who have positioned their lives around His presence. It’s not the person who is just visiting the house of God, but the person who is living close to the presence of God, that He chooses to rain down showers of blessing. He is a God who loves to answer prayer and bless His people. But the first and most important blessing He desires to give us is to be with us. When we are closest to Him, we find all we need.

Fasting has a way of orienting our lives around the things of God. As we minimize our physical appetites and increase our spiritual hunger, God will rain down His presence, His power, and His blessing.

During this fast, the most important thing we can ask for is to know Him in a deeper and greater way. Our prayer is that during this fast, God will rain down His presence, His power, and His blessings in your life. Lord, let it rain!

Scriptures

Ezekiel 34:26
“And I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.”jam