Cgeneration devotional

For three years Elijah had been in hiding as instructed by God after he prophesied that there would be no rain. Then one day, God tells him to go back and meet with Ahab, the evil king who by now was searching desperately for Elijah with very evil intentions towards him. But Elijah confidently obeyed God and went to meet with Ahab even in the face of danger. How could Elijah be so bold and fearless?

In 1 kings 17:1-2, God sent Elijah to Ahab to tell him that there would be no rain in the land of Samaria then He told Elijah to go and hide. Now in 1 Kings 18, after 3years of hiding God told Elijah to go back and tell Ahab that it would soon rain. So why did God change his mind? What happened in those three years to make God say that it was time for the rains to fall again in Samaria? Had Ahab and the Israelites stopped worshiping idols? The answer is No. We need to understand the times and seasons of God in order to understand what God is doing in each season.

One reality that we need to come to terms with is that we must face problems and challenges in life, regardless of our age, gender, religion or where we come from. Some of these challenges can be really painful and can shake our faith. So what should we do when challenges come?

Many Christians have been programmed to think that bad things shouldn’t happen to Christians so when they do, we get confused

At the brook of Cherith, Elijah learnt to trust God for himself as we saw at our devotional yesterday. He learnt to trust God completely as his source. But when the brook dried up, God was indirectly telling Elijah that it was time to move to a new level of trust in his relationship with God. So God directed him to a widow in Zarephath. But what did God want Elijah to learn here?

Sometimes we really can’t understand God! God gave Elijah specific instructions to go and hide by the Cherith brook only for the brook to dry up after a while! A lot of people would have been really confused at that point. Did God really speak to them to go to the brook? If He did then why did He allow the brook to dry up?

‭‭I Kings‬ ‭17:3-4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

““Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.””

There were a million and one places that God could have sent Elijah to, so why send him to Cherith? There were millions of people that God could have used to feed Elijah, but why ravens?

‭‭I Kings‬ ‭17:2-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan.”

Elijah had just pronounced God’s judgment and told Ahab that there would be no rain in the land. So why then did God tell Elijah to go into hiding?

Elijah was one of the most significant and intriguing Prophets in the bible. He was a prophet in Israel during the reign of the very evil king, King Ahab. Join me from today as we learn life lessons from this remarkable man of God.

I’ve heard people ask questions like ‘what is heaven like? Or what would we be doing when we get there? Will we just be floating around doing nothing? Revelations 21 gives us a glimpse of how beautiful heaven will be.