Our God is the God of encounter! Through the Holy Spirit, He is relentless in awakening us to who He truly is and opening our eyes to His great purposes throughout the earth. Wherever we are, whatever the circumstances we are walking through, God will meet us. Encountering the Living God should change us and transform us to be like Jesus Christ. It should make us stop for the one, and go to the ends of the earth, and everything in between. It is His love and grace to us that we get the privilege of saying “Yes!” to Him.
In this preaching series, we are going to look at men and women who encountered God throughout the Bible and how they responded to His Presence. Ordinary people encountering an extraordinary God. Many we will look at become heroes of the faith and show us how the Holy Spirit makes us brave and strong in His purposes. Others, more challengingly, show us it is possible to encounter the Presence of the Living God and miss out. As people awakened, we want to be hungry for more of Him. We want to be carriers of the Holy Spirit’s presence such that we change the atmosphere all around us and light fires of revival in every place we get to be. Get ready to meet “The God of Encounter”.
This week we're looking at Elijah. Elijah was a man just like us (James 5:17) and like us knew fear, mental fragility, loneliness and weakness. And yet the Lord encountered him and changed the nation of Israel, and impacted nations all around. God spoke through him; worked miracles through him; kept him safe and fed him even when he had to go into isolation at the Kerith Ravine (1 Kings 17:5-6).
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