I wonder if He answered my prayers because He saw that I desperately believed in Him. This shows that God does not just withhold rain when sin prevails; it works the other way as well. This daily newsletter provides a starting point for personal study, and gives valuable insight into the verses that make up the Word of God. It was Suz’s job to stick close to Shane so that he wouldn’t go too far from us. I had already found and memorized John15:7: “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.” If God said it, I not only believed it, I clung to it. These people were obviously worshipping God. The Holy Spirit of God is the only Person with sufficient (supernatural) power to do this restraining. God’s Word For Times Like These. If we do right, if we ask Him in sincerity and humility, He will give rain in due season. God held back the rain until we finished eating! He loves you and longs for you to know and love Him. First Communion Bible, GNT New Testament, White Leather-look, French/English (GNT) New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs--imitation leather, blue, GNT Pew Bible Catholic, Paper Over Board, Burgundy. It was September 1970 and the Vietnam War was still raging in this part of the world. He promised and He doesn’t lie! On February 1st, 2020, God told our prayer group something that changed my life. Do we see His Spirit being poured out as it once was in the church? He withholdeth the waters - This is, I think, an allusion to the third day's work of the creation, Genesis 1:9; : And God said, Let the waters be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear. 13 Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people, 14 if they pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again. He held back the rain until we had eaten our picnic dinner! God's chastening of Judah and Jerusalem has begun with a famine inducing drought and Jeremiah reacts to the punishment he sees as too severe for God's people to endure. Article Images Copyright © 2020 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. What is this dew that is to be withheld? Remember how these fools insult you all day long.” Yet God holds back for a time, so that his purposes might be fulfilled. … When we see God being mocked today, when we hear people deride the Lord and ridicule Jesus Christ, our hearts are stirred with indignation. Website Design by THE PC WORKS by THE PC WORKS. Subscribe to get updates right in your inbox. All was peaceful there. Richard T. Ritenbaugh The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. Genesis 8:1,2 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; …, 1 Kings 8:35,36 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: …, Genesis 6:13,17 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth…, Genesis 7:11,23 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened…, Psalm 104:7-9 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away…, Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular, To inclose, to hold back, to maintain, rule, assemble, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural, To be ashamed, confused, disappointed, to dry up, wither, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural, To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert, Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up, . Unlimited Relationship. Like the psalmist, we pray, “Arise, O God, and defend your cause. All was peaceful there. She dearly loved her brother. Job 12:15 If God holds back the waters, there is no rain; if he lets the waters go, they flood the land. He delights in answering our prayers. God can hold back the rain or send a flood, Good News Translation Drought comes when God withholds rain; floods come when he turns water loose. Good News Translation Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people, New American Standard Version "If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My … It was September 1970 and the Vietnam War was still raging in this part of the world.