Lessons from Elijah, Week 2, Day 5 -The Gospel Truth
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This series is lessons from Elijah. Learning through experience definitely makes an impression. We can all learn from hard knocks, but it’s a lot less painful to learn by example. First Corinthians 10:6 and 11 say that the experiences of those in the Bible were recorded for our examples. Elijah’s story is full of great examples, both good and bad.
00:07 Andrew continues his series on Lessons from Elijah.
01:23 It’s like the domino effect. Every one of us, in our decisions of whether we are following the Lord, it effects other people.
02:25 I’ve been talking about Elijah, how he had delivered the word that God gave him. Then, God gave him a second word, after he had been faithful to act on the first one. That’s a major point. God doesn’t show us everything, He leads us step, by step, by step.
04:22 Faith is what appropriates what God has already supplied in the spirit realm. Elijah took this woman food (1 Kings 17:13-14), and God miraculously multiplied this little bit of meal and little bit of oil for three and a half years.
05:27 This woman was a great woman of faith. When God multiplied her food, He didn’t give her three years supply of meal and oil, but every day it did not waste. It was always there. 1 Kings 17:16 “And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.”
06:04 Every single day she had to take this step of faith, feed the man of God first, and trust that there was going to be enough left for her and her son.
08:32 For the woman to take the body of her son, and put him on Elijah’s bed, to me this says something. Event hough this woman is expressing her dismay about her son’s death, she is also proving that she was believing God. (1 Kings 17:17-19)
09:43 At this time, there had never been a person raised from the dead, in the Scripture. It had never happened. And, there is no prophecy about it going to happen.
12:03 It’s one thing for us to believe for someone to be raised from the dead, but this had never happened, in this instance. (1 Kings 17:17-19) There was no promise about it. This was off the charts, and yet, this woman brought her son to Elijah, expecting him to do something. Elijah took the boy out of the woman’s arms, and she let him go, because she was expecting to receive a miracle.
13:54 (1 Kings 17:21) “And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord,…”
16:26 James 5:16-18 is a commentary on what Elijah did in 1Kings 18:41-46. In 1Kings 18:41-46, he actually prayed and sent his servant seven times to look out on the sea, to see if there were any clouds coming up, but in James, it said he only prayed once.
17:29 When you pray for something, just for yourself, you only pray once. According to (Mark 11:24) you have to believe you receive, when you pray, not when you see it, but when you pray. I believe you should pray until you see results, but you only ask for it one time.
18:55 You believe you receive when you pray (Mark 11:24). Then instead of just ignoring things, you face your physical circumstances. If your circumstances haven’t yet matched up and manifested what you know God has done in the Spirit, then instead of asking for it over again, now you move into your authority. When you move into your authority, you begin to speak to things and you begin to command things to happen.
21:21 A lot of times, people will pray for something, and in an effort not to be moved by unbelief by looking or feeling something thats contrary to their faith, they just in a sense try to ignore the physical realm. That may be more faith than praying and then looking at the physical realm and then responding in unbelief. However, the greatest faith is when you can pray, believe that you receive when you pray (Mark 11:24), yet you just keep speaking. You say, ‘Satan, whatever is hindering this, I command you to get off,’ and you don’t quit until you see the physical manifestation of what you’re after.
22:33 When Elijah prayed for the boy to be raised from the dead, he was commanding the power of God to flow. It was one prayer manifest through many different trips. You may have to keep speaking. You may have to get a prayer of agreement & links to next video.
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