People love to have mountain top experiences. They are uplifting, encouraging, and faith building, but it is difficult to live on a mountain top. Maybe you have had a mountain top experience but found out the valley was just ahead. In our story, Elijah had a great mountain top experience when the Lord used him …
Imagine that the most important being in the Universe wants to talk to you. There is no one in all of creation that is more interested in you than He is. We can talk to Him anytime we want and for as long as we want. You don’t need a special phone, or an appointment …
In our story of Elijah from 1 Kings 18:38 – 39 God intervenes in a dramatic style. The Lord God sends fire down from heaven to consume the sacrifice, the wood, and the stones, and even licked up the water in the trench. The people then call out “The Lord is God.” The longer I …
In our story from 1 Kings 18:22-24 & 38-39 God’s prophet Elijah has two sacrifices prepared. 1 Kings 18:22-24 – Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only prophet of the Lord who is left, but Baal has 450 prophets. 23 Now bring two bulls. The prophets of Baal may choose whichever one they wish …
Can we gain encouragement and wisdom from fellow believers? How do believers build each other up? What does the Bible say? Who is the Lord putting on your heart to encourage and build up? Below are five of my favorite verses about building each other up. 1 Thes. 5:11 – So encourage each other …
In the story of Elijah, the prophet, in 1 Kings 18:16-39 we see the nation of Israel had drifted away from the Lord. As they drifted away from the Lord they chased after other gods including worshiping Baal. Baal was fertility God to which they sacrificed children. It says in Jeremiah 19:5a They have built …
In the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal in 1 Kings 18:16-39 we see a great spiritual battle. On one side of the battle is God’s prophet Elijah and on the other side of the battle is satan working through the prophets of Baal. Do you feel like you are in a spiritual …
God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. 10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, …
Look at the ravens. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for God feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than any birds! Luke 12:24 Tyndale House Publishers. (2013). Holy Bible: New Living Translation (Lk 12:24). Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.
Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor abandon you.” Deut. 31:8. Tyndale House Publishers. (2013). Holy Bible: New Living Translation (Dt 31:8). Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.