The Fight After The Fire
Power Point: God will either work through you or around you, it is your choice.
18:23 when God does this nobody will question who it was but know it was God's doing. (18:40) Elijiah fights for his love for the work of God. He gets the victory doing what God asked him to do. God was working through him.
19:2 Jezebel heard about what Elijiah did to the people and sent a messenger to tell Elijiah " what you do to my priest I'm going to do to you." She spoke negatively over Elijiah's life. Within 24 hours Elijiah goes from shouting for joy with victory to being depressed and fearing Jezebels message, hiding in the cave. 19:9 God confronts Elijiah asking why are you in this cave? Elijiah complains about having a zeal for God, he thinks he is the only godly person left, but doesn't answer God's question. Then in 19:13 God confronts him again with the same question, but Elijah again responds the same not answering the question (v.14). Notice God does not ask the question a third time. Interesting...
So in 19:15 God tells Elijiah to go back and train others to destroy the enemies. God is replacing Elijiah with these others, and using Elijiah to train them for what he was originally supposed to do.
Elijiah was a great person with great gifts. First he FOUGHT and got the victory, but then when trouble came he FLED and then FORFEITED. He missed it. Elijiah did not understand even in v.11-13 with the fire how powerful is the Lord. If God cannot work through you he will work around you and find someone else to get the job done. You better know when you have got something to do, you better stay in the presence of God the Son and the Dove and not lose track. If a man like Elijiah missed it....then you really better be on your guard! God will either work through you or around you, do not miss it, it is your choice.
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