Going From Fame To Defeat To Celebrating The Victory

SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES

(1 Kings 19: 1-8) "And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword." (2) "Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time." (3) "And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there." (4) "But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers." (5) "And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat." (6) "And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again." (7) "And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee." (8) "And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God."

(James 5:17-18) (17) "Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months." (18) "And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit."

(Job 11:13-18)) ( 13) "If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;" (14) "If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles." (15) "For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:" (16) "Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:" (17) "And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning." (18) "And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety."

PREFACE SUMMARY

Dear reader, this is a much-needed message today, especially with all the fear, death, wars, and the recent pandemic that affected nations throughout the world causing people to get a vague understanding that life is uncertain.

Saints, his message is about a powerful Prophet of God who had just experienced a revival at the top of Mount Carmel by defeating Jezebel's prophets, only to leave everything and run for his life.

Beloved, his defeat over the powers of darkness at Mt. Carmel caused the wicked Jezebel to place a death sentence upon his life, and this message is about the everyday trials we face that are sometimes so severe that our prayers run out of words and become a cry, but how many know that the scriptures tell us in (Psalms 34:15) "The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry?"

Dear reader, the bottom line of this message is, "When running the Christian race, it's essential to focus on overcoming obstacles by seeking guidance from God rather than allowing our problems to cloud our perception of Him."

Beloved, what should Christians do when they face impossible trials that leave them at a loss for words, well dear reader, in this article, we are going to learn some valuable lessons from God's prophet, who was able to pray a prayer that shut up the heavens for three years and six months and a prayer that caused the fire of God to fall, consuming the altar including licking up the barrels of water that they had soaked it with.

Beloved, through the life of this prophet, we are going to learn what we need to do when our faith gets weak, causing us to run into the clutches of a spirit of fear, and not allow that fear to make us lose our focus on the one who promised never to leave us his children but promised to go with us all the way even to the end of the world.

FROM FAME TO DEFEAT

Dear reader, if we study the life of Elijah, we will discover that not only was he the prophet who foretold us of the coming messiah, but he was a prophet who several times had called fire down from heaven, which consumed captains along with their fifty battle-hardened soldiers who attempted to arrest him, and this is why I do not think that after his victory in defeating the four hundred fifty prophets of Baal and four hundred prophets of the grove at Mt. Carmel, that he was running from Jezebel, but my personal belief is, he wanted to get to a place that he may get some direction, and I believe this because he thought that he was the only real Prophet of God left on the planet.