Elijah Journey of Destiny Reluctance

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Elijah Journey of DestinyReluctance

• Part 2 of 4
• 1Kings 191-5a and Selected
• Pew Bible page 255

Pastor Dave Martin, Cross Creek Community Church,
January 25, 2004
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Elijahs Journey of Destiny

• Elijahs Relationship 1Kings 17-18
• Elijahs Reluctance 1Kings 191-5a
• Elijahs Resource 1Kings 195-12
• Elijahs Rapture 1Kings 1913-21 2Kings 211

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• Elijahs ministry began in obscurity... all the
  while God used time and experiences to grow
  Elijah into the man He wanted him to be.
• Today, God is also shaping Your Life

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Elijahs Relationship with God Enabled him to...

• Pray that it would not rain... by his word 171
  Jam 517
• Receive divine provision at the brook with a
  raven 173-7
• Widows oil and flour miraculously - never ran
  out 178-16
• Raise the widows son back to life 1717-24
• Miraculously calls fire down from the Lord
  1818-38
• People turned back to God the false prophets
  slain 1839-40
• The drought was broken with prayer after 3 ½
  years 1841-45
• Empowered by God with supernatural strength 1846

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• 1 Kings 191-5a Now Ahab told Jezebel everything
  Elijah had done and how he had killed all the
  prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a
  messenger to Elijah to say, "May the gods deal
  with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time
  tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one
  of them."
• Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he
  came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant
  there, while he himself went a day's journey into
  the desert. He came to a broom tree, sat down
  under it and prayed that he might die. "I have
  had enough, Lord," he said. "Take my life I am
  no better than my ancestors." Then he lay down
  under the tree and fell asleep...

Where God is working... Expect opposition from
the enemy!
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Elijahs Reluctance...

• 1. TESTING often follows BLESSING. 191-2

...Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say,
"May the gods deal with me, be it ever so
severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make
your life like that of one of them."
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Elijahs Reluctance...

• My THOUGHTS are not always TRUE.
• I am the only one of the Lords prophets
  left... (See 1822 1910 1914 and 1918)

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Elijahs Reluctance...

• Satan is a LIAR!

John 844 2Co 44 Eph 612
The Devil cannot read our minds but can place
thoughts there.
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The Mind is the Control Center of my...

• THOUGHTS
• ATTITUDES
• FEELINGS
• ACTIONS

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3. Elijah Listened to the Liar and DRIFTED
from God. 193-5

• Overblown self-importance
• Became engulfed in fear
• Doubted Gods enablement
• Dragged down by Discouragement
• Swallowed up in Depression
• Ran away instead of standing firm
• Sunk into exhaustion and laziness
• He checked out in running the race

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Gods Prescription Jesus (bread Water)

• We must GUARD RENEW our minds.
• Philip. 46-9 Do not be anxious about anything,
  but in everything, by prayer and petition, with
  thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And
  the peace of God, which transcends all
  understanding, will guard your hearts and your
  minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers,
  whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is
  right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
  whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent
  or praiseworthy--think about such things.
  Whatever you have learned or received or heard
  from me, or seen in me--put it into practice. And
  the God of peace will be with you.

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Let the mind of the Master be the master of your
mind

• GUARDING our Minds!
• RENEWING our Minds!
• PRACTICING what we learn!

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MY Thoughts Shape MY Life