IT'S BEGINNING TO RAIN

Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, You are the one, O LORD our God! Only You can do such things. So we will wait for You to help us.  Jeremiah 14:22 NLT

Ask the LORD for rain in the season of spring rain. The LORD makes the rain clouds, and He will give them showers of rain and crops in the field for everyone.  Zechariah 10:1 CSB

I hear a mighty rainstorm coming!  1 Kings 18:41 NLT

Strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.  James 5:8 CSB

R & K

Image and Likeness

 Image and Likeness/Male and Female

Genesis 1:26-27 NKJV

26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Image = H6754 צלם tselem tseh'-lem

From an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom, that is, (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence a representative figure, especially an idol: - image, vain shew.

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Likeness = H1823 דְּמוּת d^emûth dem-ooth'

From H1819; resemblance; concretely model, shape; adverbially like: - fashion, like (-ness, as), manner, similitude.

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Proverbs 1:20 NKJV

20 Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares.

Wisdom = H2454 חַכְמוֹת    חָכְמוֹת chokmôth    chakmôth khok-moth', khak-moth'

Collateral forms of H2451; wisdom: - wisdom, every wise [woman].

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Psalms 51:11 NKJV

11 Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Spirit = H7307 רוּח rûach

BDB Definition:

1) wind, breath, mind, spirit

1a) breath

1b) wind

    1b1) of heaven

        1b2) quarter (of wind), side

            1b3) breath of air

                 1b4) air, gas

                     1b5) vain, empty thing

1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)

    1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour

        1c2) courage

            1c3) temper, anger

                1c4) impatience, patience

                    1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)

                        1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse

                             1c7) prophetic spirit

1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)

    1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God’s spirit, departing at death, disembodied being

1e) spirit (as seat of emotion)

    1e1) desire

        1e2) sorrow, trouble

1f) spirit

    1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts

        1f2) rarely of the will

            1f3) as seat especially of moral character

1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son

    1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy

        1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning

            1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power

                1g4) as endowing men with various gifts

                    1g5) as energy of life

                        1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory

                            1g7) never referred to as a depersonalized force

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Isaiah 11:2 NKJV
2 The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.

Spirit Ruach H7307 Noun Feminine

Spirit of the Lord Yahweh H3068 Proper Name

Spirit of Wisdom Chokmah H2451 Noun Feminine

Spirit of Understanding Biynah H998 Noun Feminine

Spirit of Counsel ‘Etsah H6098 Noun Feminine

Spirit of Might G’buwrah H1369 Noun Feminine

Spirit of Knowledge Da’ath H1847 Noun Neutral

Spirit of Fear / Awe Yir’ah H3374 Noun Feminine

Matthew 11:19 NKJV

19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children."

"Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you. Isaiah 49:15 NKJV

I will meet them like a bear deprived of her cubs; I will tear open their rib cage, And there I will devour them like a lion. The wild beast shall tear them. Hosea 13:8 NKJV

"I have held My peace a long time, I have been still and restrained Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in labor, I will pant and gasp at once. Isaiah 42:14 NKJV

As a mother comforts her son, so I will comfort you, and you will be comforted in Jerusalem. Isaiah 66:13 CSB

*Like an eagle that rouses her chicks and hovers over her young, so he spread his wings to take them up and carried them safely on his pinions. Deuteronomy 32:11 NLT *(other translations use his or its)

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! Matthew 23:37 NKJV