Elijah – Remaining Steadfast Through Uncertainty

• Success as a parent? Commitment to the church? Business acumen? Patience? Faith? Concern for others?
• All important qualities, but what is most important of all? Elijah’s life shows us what it is. Elijah was…

• The widow of Zarephath knew it (I Kings 17:24) There was an obvious relationship between Elijah’s ability to unleash God’s supernatural power and this title
• Ahaziah’s captain knew it (II Kings 1:9)
• Elijah knew the God he served (I Kings 17:1, I Kings 18:15)
• Elijah was committed, and would not compromise his convictions.

• Every major miracle associated with Elijah was also associated with prayer (James 5:17-18, I Kings 17:17-23, I Kings 18:36-37)
• But there’s a deeper lesson. Elijah prayed so that God would demonstrate to Israel that there was only one true God (I Kings 17:1, 20 18:36)

• Each time God told Elijah to do something, Elijah responded.
• I Kings 17:2,5; I Kings 17:8,10; I Kings 18:1,2; I Kings 19:15,19; II Kings 1:3,4; II Kings 1:15
• It’s interesting to see the parallels in the life of Elisha. He too was…

• The Shunamite widow knew it (See II Kings 4)
• Elisha knew the God he served (II Kings 3:14, 5:16)
• Naaman knew it (II Kings 5; See also Luke 4)

• Elisha prayed (II Kings 4:33)
• Elisha prayed for God to demonstrate His power (II Kings 6:17)

#1) We, too, can be men and women of God

#2) We, too, can be men and women of prayer

#3) We, too, can listen to and obey God’s voice

For next week, read Nehemiah 13