Morning by Morning, September 7, 2026 — The Elijah Awakening — I Can Hear the Sound of Abundance of Rain!
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Rule and reign in my heart and life today. …
“Then Elijah said to Ahab, ‘Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.’ So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant, ‘Go up now, look toward the sea.
“So he went up and looked, and said, ‘There is nothing. And seven times he said, ‘Go again.’
“Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, ‘There is a cloud, as small as a man’s hand, rising out of the sea!’ So he said, ‘Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.’
“Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel. Then the hand of the Lord came upon Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel” (1 Kings 18:41-46).
I’m finishing up my book called The Elijah Awakening. It’s about hearing Your heart and making way for the King. It’s about hearing Your heart in everyday realms of prophetic intercession and acting upon Your word in everyday realms of apostolic authority in the spheres of influence and responsibility entrust to us all. It’s about a core message from nearly thirty years of ministry. And as I get ready to release it, I hear in my heart this morning “the sound of abundance of rain.”
Send Your rain upon Your people, Lord! Send Your rain upon our land, Lord! Rain down Your Word and Your Spirit! Rain down revival in a great awakening for Your great harvest to come!
Elijah was a prophet, and Elijah was a prayer warrior. He prayed what he proclaimed. When it was time to end the season of drought in Israel, You spoke it to Your prophet Elijah. “Surely the Lord does nothing, without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7). You told Elijah You would end the drought, and then You told Elijah to go prophesy it to the king (1 Kings 18:1).
When Elijah proclaimed his prophetic word that the rains would come, there wasn't a cloud in the sky. But many would say his job was done. The word of the Lord was decreed and declared; now it was time to look and see what God would do. But Elijah didn't just take his prophetic mantle and go; he bowed his knees and prayed. With his heart to heaven and his face to the ground, he passionately persisted in prayer until he saw the word of the Lord made manifest on earth as it was in heaven. And then the heavens grew dark and the mighty winds blew, as You tore open the skies with the abundance of rain.
These are the days of Elijah. You are pouring out the Spirit of Elijah upon the earth to prepare the way of the Lord (Malachi 4:5; Matthew 17:11). And part of the manifestation of this season is the marriage of prophecy and prayer. There’s an alignment of hearing Your word and acting upon Your word. What is proclaimed will be prayed, and what is prayed will be proclaimed. And what is proclaimed will be done—all in Your power, all in Your way, all in Your time.
“Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit” (James 5:17-18).
Thank You for the seeds of Your words You sow in our hearts and speak through our mouths in our prophecies and prayers by the leading of Your Spirit. And thank You for choosing us to live in this coming time of the great harvest You're bringing forth in the earth in fulfillment of those prophecies and prayers. One day Your Word will ultimately be fulfilled, even as it is being formed and fulfilled in our word today, even in the midst of the battle and darkness we face every day: “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!” (Revelation 11:15)
Seedtime and harvest, prophetic proclamation and fervent prayer—in the marriage of prophecy and prayer, or prophetic intercession and apostolic authority, we will proclaim it and pray it, we will hear it and do it, by faith before we see it with our eyes because we already know it in our hearts.
Just as You encourage us to pray and believe, to hear and to act, with our words and our actions from our hearts:
“Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them” (Mark 11:22-24).
Yes, Lord. Let it be so. Oh, I can hear the sound of abundance of rain! The Elijah awakening! In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
Be encouraged this day. In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you be stirred up in your spirit with an Elijah Awakening to pray and proclaim all the Lord puts in your heart to fulfill all He desires to do through your life in all your spheres of influence, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!
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