June 14, 2020
1 Kings 16-18

THE TELLING TRAITS OF GOD’S PROPHET, ELIJAH...
IN A CULTURE OF IDOLATRY, UNFAITHFULNESS, DROUGHT, AND EVIL!

This week in the Change Your Life Daily Bible, we will be reading the story of the showdown between Elijah and Yahweh versus Ahab and Baal in 1 Kings 16-18. From this reading, we can observe four traits from Elijah that he exhibited as someone who God chose to come against the culture of his day. Might God be calling you to do the same?

Ahab’s god, Baal, was ineffectual, impersonal, inanimate, and impotent. Elijah’s God, whom he served, was personal (able to communicate and provide for his needs), and all-powerful over all things and all men! Elijah was called by God to come against the culture of idolatry, unfaithfulness, and evil. How did he do it? He exhibited four traits:

# 1 Elijah heard God speak to Him and immediately obeyed Him (1 Kings 17:1-3, Hebrews 11:1).

#2 Elijah was a conduit of miraculous healing the widow’s son in 1 Kings 17:19-21. [We will also read in this week’s NT reading that Peter heals Tabitha (who was dead) and a man who had been paralyzed for 8 years!]

#3 Elijah had fearless faith and was undeterred by circumstances or bullies! He could see beyond the impossibilities and the obvious terrible circumstances... (Hebrews 11:6).

#4 Elijah was a powerful, persevering pray-er (as we read 1 Kings 18:36-38; 42-44, James 5:16-18).

Is God asking you to step into any of these traits today?