Elijah

Training and Testing1 Kings

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• 1Kings 17:17 Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. And his sickness was so serious that there was no breath left in him.

• 18 So she said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?"

Elijah’s Severe Test

• A Dead Person

• A Distraught Parent

• A Discouraged Prophet

• Elijah’s Calmness

• 1Kings 17:19 And he said to her, "Give me your son." So he took him out of her arms and carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

Elijah’s Sincere Trust

• Phil 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

• 7) And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

• Elijah's Compassion

• 1Kings 17:20 Then he cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge, by killing her son?"

• 21) And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, I pray, let this child's soul come back to him."

• 1Kings 17:21 And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, I pray, let this child's soul come back to him."

Seen In his Prayer v20

Seen in his Position v 21

Seen in his Petition

• Elijah’s Conquest• 1Kings 17:22 Then the LORD

heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came back to him, and he revived.

• 23 And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, "See, your son lives!"

• Mat 21:20 And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, "How did the fig tree wither away so soon?"

• 21 So Jesus answered and said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' it will be done.

• James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.

• 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

• 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Elijah Prevailing in PrayerElijah Presenting the Proof

• 1Kings 17:23 And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, "See, your son lives!"

• Psalm 66:8 Oh, bless our God, you peoples! And make the voice of His praise to be heard,

• 9) Who keeps our soul among the living, And does not allow our feet to be moved.

1Ki 17:24 Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now by this I know that you are a

man of God, and that the word of

the LORD in your mouth is

the truth."

Elijah’s Shinning Testimony

God’s Man is Vindicated

God’s Message is Validated

God’s Method is Victorious