Parable 97 - Parables of Steel by Robert Dean Steel

   Lack of rain had turned the countryside into a dust bowl.  Animal and human alike were suffering.  Crops were failing, rivers and wells were drying up.  Things were becoming desperate.  A special prayer meeting was called at a local church.  The subject of the prayer was simple, rain was needed and it was needed now.  The believers gathered together with great anticipation and faith.  They knew they had to have rain and they made a decision they would not leave the building until the Lord opened up the heavens with the sound  of the abundance of rain.  As they gathered one their members arrived.  What was different was he was the only one who came with an umbrella.  This man not only came in faith but he had come prepared for when the answer came.  He was the only one who went home that night and did not get wet.  Faith is believing and then acting on what you believe.