09. The Lord heard our prayer and gave rain

The Lord heard our prayer and gave rain

There was a severe drought in the sixties because there had been no rain for several months. I was on a mission journey in Hungary. As I was travelling by train to the village Tapio (there is a great church there) a man said: “There will be great hunger in the land, because it has not rained for a long time.” I answered: “Only God can help us in this situation.” But they laughed at me. When I arrived at the church the preacher told me: “Paul, you must preach the Gospel tonight!” I opened the Bible, and there were verses about the prophet Elijah in James 5:17 : “Elijah was a man alike we are, and he earnestly prayed that it might not rain, and it rained not for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit.” And I preached about this event. The presence of the Lord was great in the congregation. The heavenly blessing came down. I said: “Now we should pray for the rain to come...” All believers prayed and glorified God with loud voices and in tongues. We finished the meeting late that night. As I looked up there was a great moonshine. Only a few little clouds were gathering on the sky, but it was very silent night. After that we went to bed. At midnight I had a dream. I saw the prophet Elijah together with some other prophets. Suddenly I heard a sound of a strong wind and all at once a heavy rain started. I went out and praised God after midnight. It was raining until morning. In the morning the pastor told me:

„It was the answer to our prayers yesterday. God’s blessing came over our land.”

We said to each other: “The God of Elijah is alive, and He is the same today and forever. Hallelujah, Amen.”

Once I was in quite a different situation. It rained very much. Crops in fields were under water. It was dangerous also for farmers. After that I travelled from the town Košice to the village called Háj. The village was 4 km away from the railway station. When I got off the train the sky turned dark and it started to rain. While walking I prayed in tongues and didn’t turn my eyes neither left nor right, but was keeping them on heaven only. After a while the clouds divided in two and between them the sun started to shine. Despite having no umbrella or raincoat, I came to the village quite dry. The first question they asked me was: “How is it that you are not wet at all and it was raining so much?” I answered: “God helped me, putting a shelter over me. Praise be to Him!”

God helped me wonderfully also in spreading the Gospel. He is the same as He was in the time of the first apostles. We can read in the Bible that when they went preaching the Gospel, the Lord worked with them and confirmed the Word with signs and wonders. He does the same things even today. Many people want to see miracles, but they never want to come near to God. God is the God of miracles even today! But without our faith and obedience to Him He doesn’t perform them.