He Reigns!

So remember how I asked you all to pray for rain yesterday? The Lord was faithful to answer our prayers :)

Just before I went to send my email, the six of us sat and prayed for a while - for a steady, life-giving rain. Deb, Heather, and Dustin went to bed while Jaynie and Brian waited for me to finish my blog. About ten minutes later, we realized it was pitch black outside when it had been pretty well lit from the almost full moon and clear skies. The clouds had already moved in!

As I was trying to send out my email, it started to sprinkle and Jaynie said to me, "Uhh Caitlin, do you think you could speed it up a little bit?? Jesus is trying to tell you he's gonna answer our prayers but he's trying to be considerate of the computer!!" :)

So the three of us went inside and Brian played his guitar as we sang. After we sang all the songs that Brian had music for, we sang any songs we could think of that had the words rain or water in them and after we exhausted THOSE songs, we started making up new lyrics about rain to other songs (it's kinda been our favorite past time since we've been here to make new lyrics :)

So after all of this, we realized it was about 2:30 in the morning, but as we listened to the wind and the sprinkling, we weren't ready to go to sleep. We kept praying and petitioning and praising until we decided we needed to go outside and do a rain dance (a dance for Jesus, not to be confused with a pagan rain dance :) So we jumped and ran and danced as quietly as we could, but it was hard to contain our excitement as the rain kept coming harder and harder. We finally went inside when we started getting soaking wet but it was pretty hard to go to bed when we were so happy, even if it was 3:30 in the morning.

I know that it's never as exciting to hear a story second hand and there's always doubt that starts to creep in, saying that this was a coincidence and it just happened to rain on this night. But I can stand firm and know that Jesus heard our cries and took joy as we praised and sang and danced before Him.

So eyalama Yesu, thank you Jesus for the millionth time and certainly not the last. God is so faithful to answer our prayers. "The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working" - James 5:16. Not that we are righteous because of something we have done - "None is righteous, no, not one"... but we receive "the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe." - Romans 3:10,22

I'm so grateful to receive the righteousness of Jesus, to be able to come straight to the Father and to be able to call out to Him. And then to have our prayers heard and answered - how blessed we really are and how great is the love of the Father!

So keep praying my precious prayer warriors. God is hearing us and our prayers are working. Pray for a life-giving rain here, the perfect balance of rain where the crops are sustained, but the roads are not washed away!

A couple more pictures for you guys :)
(Sorry about the picture mix up yesterday, by the way... Again, in a rush because of the rain:)

A picture of the rain from last night...


I really wanted to workout today so I got to go for a two mile run and do a little ab workout. Sweating was gooood for my soul, but after the rain, the paths were a littleee muddy. I might have wiped out :)


Love to you all :)
Caitlin