Acts 14:17

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,

For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked works.

For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.

You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the east country.

Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield,

After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”

They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.