Learned principles from the life of Elijah

Offered by Jeff Rowland

Understanding that Elijah’s life was marked by miracles, there are certain principles drawn that we can apply to our lives today.

1. In order to appreciate the flood of the Spirit we must go through many dry times.  We can all agree that there have been some dry times for the church.  However, we need to understand that God can sustain us even when we are alone.  Though a corporate move of God may not be happening where you are, we can enjoy the flood of the Holy Spirit in our own life.   How often has all of us heard the call of the Spirit to come away from among the crowds and simply be alone with Him, that we may be refreshed in the things of God.  During the drought Elijah was kept by the brook Cherith where water was in abundance.  Indeed God can prepare a table before us in the presence of our enemies.
2. To be sustained it takes more than human ability – it takes supernatural intervention.  Nothing in the experience of Elijah could be understood as coming from his own power.  Supernatural intervention comes when all natural sources are exhausted.  It is not a question of IF we will face things we have no answers for, it is WHEN we face things we have no answer for that we are perfectly set up for an intervention on a supernatural and divine level.  Elijah did not know how God would provide, he had to walk by faith facing situation that only God could deal with.
3. God will operate and provide through people you never thought he would use. Could Elijah have known that a little widow would be used of God to provide for him the food he would need?  The reason we miss so much in our spiritual journey, is because we have so devalued one another that we cannot receive but from certain ones that fits the image of what we think God will use. Read more

Can the Strong Survive?

I’ve heard it said many times by many people that only the strong shall survive.  From experience over the last 19 years of Pastoring, I have never seen this statement lived out in reality.  There is always some set of circumstances and situations that ultimately destroy the strength of the human spirit.   Fear seems to be the ultimate culprit of our demise.

In the beginning when Adam and Eve were in the garden yielded to sin, the first response after their disobedience was fear.  They hid themselves.  In other words their strength was gone.  Our struggle with fear is well documented throughout scripture.  It must be pointed out that thtis is the goal of enemy that we hide from God.  Therefore, we can say that fear is one of the fundamental tools that Satan uses against us.

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