Certainly the living God Christians worship and serve entertains the requests of his children and many of them like myself have been offering them up. Also in play, however, is the fact that God is not bound by the requests of his children in matters like these. He always answers his children, but reserves the right to pick the answer. It can be no, yes, or wait. Scripture says God is merciful and often sends things like rain on both the righteous and unrighteous. So he often gives even the wicked more good things than they deserve. (By the way, when evaluated by God's standards, we're all considered wicked. It's only his grace and forgiveness that makes any of us to be considered as righteous in his sight.)
No question that these are trying times that can quickly become desperate for many. I'm praying for God's grace to be poured out upon all farmers dealing with these trying circumstances like myself, but also am sobered by the fact that this also could be a part of deserved direct or indirect judgment from God for our nation and worlds many sins against his holy and righteous nature. (If you can't figure out what these sins might be, then just open your eyes, read the news, and look around your own local world regardless of where you live anymore.) Now there's a topic no one likes to talk about, but nonetheless it's true. We live in a world broken by sin or rebellion against God. One of the ways this manifests itself is through natural events like weather disasters. (Trust me I know about this personally. Had a tornado destroy much of our farm 4 years ago.) None of us like them, but there is a reason they happen beyond the mere technical explanation of scientists. The world wasn't created to be like this originally. Man's sin has wrecked the place, but praise God, for one day he will fix all of this by replacing it with a brand new heavens and earth. Now there is something to get excited about. Just hope to see you all there one day.:)
Seriously Don, if rain is that important to you, it`s you that need to do the asking. Just be thankfull that God doesn`t give all us what we deserve. I mean we talk about 80 bu yields on the way, well there are parts of the world that have never seen half that good and go to bed hungry every night, on our worst year we don`t know how blessed we are. And I would assume that we all bought crop insurance...right?
