Elijah: Stand Up!

WEDNESDAY’S WORD

March 13, 2013

 

FEAR

False Evidence Appearing Real

Elijah: Stand Up!

Psalm 34:4

⁴ I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

 

(quote from someone status on fb – FEAR has two meanings, 1. Forget everything and run or 2. Face everything and rise. (which will you choose)

Background: 1 kings 17:12-1 King 18:16

We left off last week where Elijah was at the home of the widow and God did the miracle of not allowing their jars to run out and they were able to eat and be taken care of.  Sometime later, the widows son became sick, Elijah also prayed for the Lord to bring the widow’s son back to life.

Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.”

As we enter this scripture, three years have passed and God spoke to Elijah and tells him to go and present himself to Ahab and He will call for the rain to return.

James 5:17 ~ Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.

1 King 18:16-20

¹⁶ So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. ¹⁷ When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”

¹⁸ “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the Lord’s commands and have followed the Baals. ¹⁹ Now summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

²⁰ So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. ²¹ Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”