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This Is The Biggest Mistake We Can Make

3/13/2019

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I Kings 19:2-4 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time." And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. 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 my life, for I am not better than my fathers.
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  • Forgetting God Is In Control
Elijah is making the biggest mistake a believer in God can make:
1. He is forgetting what God has done with him.
2. He believes Jezebel, a liar.

Elijah had displayed great faith in God and defeated 450 false prophets of Baal. He challenged them to pray to their god and he would pray to his God. The God who sent down fire from heaven and consumed the sacrifice would be the true God to be worshipped.
 
Baal failed to answer his 450 prophets, because Baal is not a real god. Yet, the God of heaven and earth did NOT fail to answer his one prophet Elijah.
 
Yet, when it was really important Elijah forgets what God has done.
  • What Happens To Us
What causes us to forget what great things God has accomplished with us?

Elijah has just defeated these false prophets. Their god Baal was useless to them but Elijah's God was not useless. He was the true God. We don't worship Baal. He is useless. We worship and serve the only true God.

How can we forget so quickly what He has done for us?
  • How Is It Possible Elijah Would Believe A Lie?
Jezebel threatens to kill him and he believers her lie. He runs for his life rather than standing his ground. Why didn't he display his faith once again?
 
He could've said, "What happened to your 450 false prophets is now going to happen to you."

What lie is the devil telling you now that you believe?
  • Displaying Your Faith Produces Positive Rewards
In the past you have stood your ground and displayed your faith and you were rewarded.
 
If your faith is being tested don't run because you are afraid as Elijah did. Stand your ground! God will reward your faith.
  • We Need To Remember What God Can Do
We would be wise to remember that Jesus Christ was crucified and God raised Him from the dead. God has the power over death. Whatever trial you are facing the worse that can happen is you die physically. Then God will show you once again His power as He resurrects you from the dead.
 
Romans 8:11 - But if the Spirit of Him (God) who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. 
 
We can not beat this promise from God. You die in Christ and you will come alive by God's Spirit.

Think On This:
 
Anyone in the world can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else in the world would understand if you quit, that is true courage.

Stay Pumped,
 
Gary A. Serago
 
Minister of God's Word
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