Cut The Bull

This is the final post in a series called “Elijah Week”. Thanks for reading, my prayer is that this week’s posts have been encouraging and challenging for you.

Let’s continue by starting in I Kings 18:1. Basically, God tells Elijah to go confront King Ahab.

Scriptures tell us that it was 450 false prophets of Baal to 1 prophet of God.

Read I Kings 18:20-40 with me (seriously, it is just a click away).

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Don’t Get Hysterical, Get Historical

This is the third of four posts in a series called “Elijah Week”. Thanks for joining us and don’t leave with out dropping a comment.

Today we continue learning from Elijah.

I Kings 17:9 (NIV) “Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food.”

I think that when Elijah heard the phrase, “I have commanded a widow to feed you there”, he thought back to when the Lord said, “I have commanded the ravens to feed you there”.

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Did God Get It Wrong?

This is the second of four posts in a series called “Elijah Week”. Thanks for joining us and don’t forget to share it with your friends by clicking on “Submit To” at the top of this post.

We talked about divine direction. As you remember, Elijah went to a place where God provided supernaturally.

Every now and then, verse 7 happens to our lives.

I Kings 17:7 (NIV) Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Why did the brook dry up?

Was it because Elijah had been disobedient and God was punishing him?

Was it because he made a dumb decision?

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