Dance In The Rain (Jump And Dance)

Todd Dulaney paints rain as a prayer in “Dance In The Rain (Jump And Dance).” A river that “never will run dry” and open floodgates set the scene, with “Lord, rain” sung back and forth like a call. The main request lists what the downpour should carry: “Release Your favor... Your power... Your glory... let it rain on me.”

The second half drops the asking and starts moving. The command “Jump and dance in the rain” is repeated six times in each pass, with “Rain on me” stretched to eight, and the song ends on “Deep calls unto deep” again and again. Most of the writing is repetition, which lets a congregation settle into the image instead of following a story.

“Deep calls unto deep” comes from Psalm 42:7, and the floodgate and river images fit Isaiah 44:3, where God pours water on the thirsty land and his Spirit on descendants. Joel 2:23, about the autumn and spring rains sent in their season, supports the idea of favor arriving like weather.