Drop In Corona Cases & Deaths...a cloud the size of a man’s hand

Drop in cases & deaths.

According to: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Daily cases:

3/28/20: 66,761

3/29/20: 59,232

Daily decrease in cases: 7,529

Daily deaths:

3/28/20: 3518

3/29/20: 3105

Daily decrease in deaths: 413

As soon as I read that, I saw a cloud the size of a man’s hand and thought about Elijah (1 Kings 18 & James 5)

Elijah, a man with like passions and nature just like us, prayed that it would not rain and it did not rain for three and a half years, then, he prayed that it would rain and heaven gave rain and the earth bore fruit.

But, before it rained, he said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If The LORD is God, follow Him; if Baal, follow him.”  The people answered not a word. So Elijah challenged them to lay out two bulls on wood and they call on their gods and he’d call on his God and whoever answered by lighting the wood was the true God.

We know the story. The prophets of Baal made fools of themselves crying out to nothing and no avail. Whereas Elijah had stones laid and a trench built around the wood under his bull and the wood and trench were filled until saturated with water.

Then Elijah prayed, “Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that You are the Lord God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again.”

The fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench (1 Kings 18:37-38).

After the prophets of Baal were slain, he said to the king, go eat and drink the famine is over for I hear the sound of an abundance of rain.

Then he prayed. Seven times he prayed. Seven times he looked toward the sky for any sign of rain. Nothing but blue skies…until the seventh time. The seventh time there was a cloud. A small cloud, the size of a man’s hand. That was all he needed. He told the king, hurry, get prepared or you’ll be caught in the rain.

The drop in numbers may be small, it may only be one day in many, but it’s all we need to see and believe and pray, “Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that You are the Lord God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again.”

Prepare and preprayer, for I hear an abundance of rain; yes an end to this famine. 

NOTE: This is not a recommendation or license to run into the streets and forget all measures of precaution. We walk by faith in wisdom. Take heart and stay the course.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. 

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. 

(James 5:16-20)