01-05: The Journey
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Thank you for joining us for worship today! We're glad you've decided to tune in with us. As we start 2025, Pastor Tag encourages us to hone in on the journey that is our lives and focus on how God is working and where it may lead us.
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1 Kings 17:1-7
[1] Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” [2] The word of the Lord came to him, saying, [3] “Go away from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. [4] It shall be that you will drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there.” [5] So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. [6] The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook. [7] It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
Notes:
This ordinary man did extraordinary things and left this world in a most extraordinary fashion.
“Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.” (James 5:17)
1. Troubled Times in Israel:
“Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, as the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
2. Temporary Times for Elijah:
“Go away from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.”
3. Teaching Times for Elijah:
“Hide yourself by the brook Cherith.”
4. Trusting Times for Elijah:
“Arise and go Zarephath which belongs to Sidon and stay there; behold I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
