07/13/2026
🌧️ SEND THE RAIN 🌧️
Today my new song, “Send the Rain,” was officially released, and I wanted to share the story behind it.
For most of my life, I lived with a mindset of striving.
As a single mom, I worked multiple jobs, built businesses, served in ministry, and did everything I knew how to do to provide for my children. I wasn’t just trying to meet today’s needs. I was laboring day and night to build a legacy for the next generation. I carried the weight of making sure everyone was cared for, believing that if I worked hard enough, sacrificed enough, and never gave up, somehow I could produce the harvest I was praying for.
I wasn’t striving because I didn’t trust God.
I was striving because I loved my family, loved the Lord, and wanted to be faithful with everything He had entrusted to me.
Then the Lord stopped me in Deuteronomy 11.
He showed me something I had never seen before.
When Israel lived in Egypt as slaves, even their agriculture reflected a life of bo***ge. They depended on carrying water from the Nile to irrigate their fields. Their harvest depended upon exhausting human effort. It was a picture of striving.
In many ways, our culture still celebrates that same mindset. We glorify busyness, hustle, self-reliance, and the belief that if we just work harder, stay up later, and carry more, we’ll eventually produce the life we’re longing for. We become slaves to performance, achievement, and the pressure to make everything happen ourselves.
But when God brought His people into the Promised Land, He wasn’t just changing where they lived. He was changing how they would live. He was teaching them to depend on Him instead of their own strength.
“The land you are crossing over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.”
Deuteronomy 11:11-12
That verse changed my life.
The Promised Land wasn’t a land without work. It was a land without striving.
They still had to sow the seed.
They still had to tend the fields.
But they no longer had to carry the water.
They had to trust the God who sends the rain.
That revelation changed me.
I realized how much of my life had been spent carrying things that belonged to God.
That’s why I hold so tightly to the promises of Scripture and spend time studying His Word every day. His Word renews my mind. It reminds me who God is and who I am. It helps me surrender instead of control, trust instead of strive, and praise instead of panic.
I’ve discovered that peace isn’t found when I finally get everything done.
Peace is found when I stop carrying what belongs to God.
My responsibility is to faithfully sow whatever seed He places in my hands.
His responsibility is the rain.
“Be glad then… for He has given you the former rain faithfully, and He will cause the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain.”
Joel 2:23
“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.”
1 Corinthians 3:6
“But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth.”
Deuteronomy 8:18
That is why I serve such a good, good Father.
His burden truly is light, and His yoke truly is easy.
When we surrender what only God can do, we’re finally free to faithfully do what He has called us to do.
This song is my prayer for anyone who feels exhausted from trying to carry what only God was meant to carry.
Keep sowing.
Keep trusting.
Keep praising.
He will send the rain. 🌧️🌾
🎵 “Send the Rain” is now streaming!
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7cEfbWfXRks9FqvlgSdygl?si=wDa-cPQ2T-mnckQ2kq1H3w&utm_source=copy-link
Debra Avey · single · 2026 · 1 songs
