I prayed about it....God still answer prayers...Elijah is honest with God and engages with him, God honored these prayers with a very rare Old Testament manifestation of his presence: It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers (1 Kings 19:4).I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away (1 Kings 19:10).Elijah’s words were self-centered and exaggerated, BUT they were still a prayer. Elijah recognized his utter dependence on God. God often brings us to the end of our own strength and we find ourselves crying out to him, he does not want to leave us desperate.Suddenly he wasn’t praying for a dead boy, or a wet sacrifice, or a cloudless sky. Now Elijah himself needed reviving. We see here that God is still interested in the man, Elijah, although he was just as weak as we are. When we are in distress and come to God, then God is eager to revive us, just as he was to revive Elijah.We must understand that we approach the living God. When the living God meets a man who wants to die, the results can be unexpected. Life instead of death. A new start. A new commission. Are YOU desperate? Do you feel disqualified? GOD wants to REVIVE! “If you are tired, go to bed. If you are weary go to God.”We all go through tough times. Jesus had Gethsemane and the cross, when God turned away. But he brought God near to us and demonstrated that God does answer. God answered by raising him from the dead!
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 02:42:05 +0000