praying -- like Elijah

"[Elijah] 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." (James 5:17)

Go, Elijah...

Elijah was one of the most notable prophets in the Old Testament.  He appears, in Scripture, as if from out of nowhere, thundering out his dire prophecy, in the face of Ahab king of Israel, saying: "As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word" (1 Kings 17:1).  Elijah was never a man to be kowtowed by political correctness, but he was one whose heart and mind burned with zeal for God's glory.