Sentences with phrase «pray for rain»

We hope you will plan a return visit very soon (and we will pray for no rain!)

Texas, in a horrible record 2011 drought that is made worse by global warming, has a contrarian Governor - Rick Perry - who issued a State Proclamation urging people to pray for rain.

Back in April, Texas» Governor Rick Perry asked citizens to pray for rain to help overcome that State's terrible drought: Facing Record Droughts, Gov. Rick Perry Proclaims Official Day of Prayer for Rain.

As they used to say to religious types — don't pray for rain — pray for warm water anomalies in the right place.

Heather Buchman, «Some 100 - Degree Heat Streaks Still Going in Texas,» AccuWeather News, 12 August 2011; Bill Zeeble, «Texas Ag Commissioner: «Pray for Rain,»» KERA News, 10 August 2011; Blair Fannin, «Updated 2011 Texas Agricultural Drought Losses Total $ 7.62 Billion,» AgriLife Today, 21 March 2012; Kate Galbraith, «As Drought Intensifies, Texas Ranchers Sell Cattle,» Texas Tribune, 19 July 2011; U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, «State of the Climate National Overview — Annual 2011,» at www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2011/13, updated 19 January 2012.

It just gets hotter and hotter, as all the farmers pray for rain.

* The Prime Minister's solution is that we should pray for rain.

Anyway, pray for rain.

Periodic rains will take hold: Grass will sprout, trees will flower and farmers will sow their peanut seeds and pray for the rain to keep coming and for the crickets to stay away.

State Sen. George Latimer, D - Westchester County, said he's «not exactly betting the ranch» on the No. 13 Iona team from his district, though they could win the first round «and then you pray for rain.»

Priced at $ 79.95 and delivering tons of style and function, you'll pray for rain once you've seen Tsunami.

As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner and said, «You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.»»

Hindus and Muslims gather in Ahmedabad, India, on Tuesday, June 22, to pray for rain.

I don't question his sincerity but If you believe God is with you and talking to you, and you pray for rain and get fire, you might want to rethink things a little bit.

One thing I do know; if you believe God is directing you and talking to you, and you pray for rain and get fire you might want to rethink things a little bit.

They pray for rain but, like a shrewd Maine farmer, they do not think rain likely with that west wind blowing.

I don't care if you organize a gathering to pray for rain or an end to economic malaise.

Remember when Rick Perry rallied his state to pray for rain?

You say that good Christians will pray for rain because of their Christian values — not those concerning care for the poor, love for enemies, or hospitality to foreigners, of course — but those concerning national security, immigration reform, and tax breaks for the wealthy.

It has come to my attention that a representative from your organization has encouraged Christians to pray for rain — not rain in Ethiopia, where more than 10 million people are short of food because of drought — but rain in Denver, Colorado, where a few thousand democrats plan to hold their convention in an outdoor stadium.

You say that good Christians should pray for rain in Denver because good Christians are pro-life — not pro-Iraqi-civilian life, of course — but pro-unborn-child-life.

Remember when Rick issued a proclamation, that for 72 hours, the citizens of Texas would all pray for rain.

Pray for rain and it will come, sonner or later, but that happened whether or not you prayed for it.

From 2009 to 2016, Oklahoma's license plate somewhat controversially showcased the «Sacred Rain Arrow» sculpture, which is located outside Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum and depicts an Apache warrior shooting an arrow to pray for rain.

One day after Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters he gets on his knees every day and prays for rain, the Council for Secular Humanism - a leading atheist group - accused the Obama administration of sending the wrong message to farmers caught in one of the worst droughts in decades.

The support team from back home must not be praying for rain hard enough.

I pray for the rains to go where they are needed most, and hope that they will not continue to deluge areas that do not need the waters.

Praying for rain is not a new phenomenon.

But does praying for rain work?

In 2007, after a drier - than - usual summer, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue successfully prayed for rain.

praying for rain made national news??????

Praying for rain is kinda like wishing in one hand a pooping in the other and seeing which one fills up first.

Those that think praying for rain is nonsensical — you've never lived in Texas.

Such stop - gap intervention is bound to produce inequities of the type illustrated when a farmer growing corn prays for rain and a farmer next door growing grapes prays for clear weather.

I prayed for rain today.

So am I and I am glad I'm not the only one... while I am praying for rain, I plan on praying for mercy on those who are ignorant of just how great God's grace and mercy are for us — and who fail to see how radiant and wonderful his glory is....

He insists that Ghanaians would have to pray for the rains to come in early to enable the GWCL provide enough water for distribution.

It is sometimes intellectually difficult to imagine crowds and throngs of people praying for rain and sacrificing virgins to angry gods, but how willingly politicos and pundits prostrate themselves before the Shamans of the Gates Foundation, The Broad, the Waltons.

The entire slum is holding its breath, praying for this rain of bullets to pass, like any other storm.

The inhabitants of Uxmal prayed for rain to fill the «chultunes» around the city, which were underground cisterns.

A lodge and two smaller structures had been built near a deep cenote, where the Maya placed pots, jars, and bowls and may have prayed for rain.

A scorching summer has given way to an above - average monsoon in South Asia; people who were praying for rain are now fleeing from it

Praying for rain (as recommended by the Governor of Texas) is unlikely to correct the problem as long as we continue to emit large amounts of climate changing gasses.

The whole state has been praying for the rain that never came.

Praying for the rains to lessen here so we can finish grading and get inspections done!

Not exact matches

«I was going to bed every night and praying to the good Lord that we would get just one rain on the crop,» said Smith, who hopes to earn several thousand dollars for each acre - foot of water he can sell.

However, most poor farmers merely pray for water when rain and floods fail.

Thus anticipating when it will rain, snow, be hot, cold, windy and so on, in some human cultures even talking, praying, and perform rituals to ask the earth for food, water, protection, shelter and so on.

good job assh * le you couldve been praying for all the dying starving children of the world but instead you wasted god's effort on some rain.

(Mathew 5:45) you have heard that it was said an eye for an eye, But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.