Will God Win?

                God set out to prepare Elijah to be a great man of faith and prayer.  To do this, He set up and obstacle course of tests.  To this point in I Kings, Elijah had passed everyone, and God has met Elijah’s every need.  When Elijah feared for his life, God showed him where to hide.  When there was no food, God sent ravens to feed him.

                   When the wadi dried up, God sent Elijah to a widow in Sidon.  When Elijah discovered that this poor woman had no food left to share, God provided flour and oil every day to feed them all.  At this point God designed another crisis.  It was the greatest test Elijah had faced thus far.

               If you are at the end of the rope and you can’t see anything left to help you then you must depend on God.  When you think that there is nothing left to feed you physically, emotionally or spiritually then you must understand that God operates in the extra-ordinary and not the ordinary.  You may have been put at the end for a reason, at the point where you see no help or resolution.  For it is as that point where you decide if God will be allowed to win or lose in your life! 

                God has food for you every day! You must pray!  Pray and ask God to feed you.  Prayer is the feet to God’s will.  It sets God’s desire and power into action.  I challenge you to turn off the radio, turn off the TV and computer and spend 30 minutes a day in prayer!  Watch what God can do for you if you only take time to tell Him your need!  It is not that He doesn’t already know your need, He does!  The point is that God wants to hear you ask! 

The Legacy of Failure and Success

Elijah is a stand out in Biblical history and was one of the most significant Old Testament prophets of all time.  Why did God use him in such amazing ways?  What was the true story of his life?

Elijah's success was based on no secrets.  The reasons for his success stand out clearly from the numerous events in his life as though they were three high mountain peaks standing out against the evening sky.  As the sun begins to set on this old prophet's life, we can look back and see three primary reasons God used Elijah to accomplish His purses in the world.  

Elijah was a man of God's Word (I Kings 17:2-10), A Man of Prayer (James 5:17-18), and lastly, A Man of God (II Kings 1:2-10)

As a man of God, he was one of the special people who had access to God's power to work miracles.  As a man of prayer, he was one the few men that saw God respond in most unusual ways.  As a man of God's Word, he heard God speak to him directly on numerous occasions, revealing His specific will.

If evangelism and church growth are ever to get to number one in our church we must be about God and about prayer to God.  Evangelism is based on the leading of the Holy Spirit and His power, mandated by Jesus and ordered by God's purpose for His Children.

This week ahead determine in your mind and heart that you will serve God and you will take on the role of evangelism by simply doing acts of kindness based on God's power!