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The God of Elijah, who never
changes, is going to change every level of your life today. God never changes, my friend.
He loves you as much today as He did Elijah the
prophet. The God that knew how to take care of Elijah the
prophet is going to reach into your life on every level … and
provide for you … and work that miracle you need right now, this
very day. If you'll learn to obey God as Elijah the prophet, God will reach nations through you, my friend. You may be a housewife. You may be a school student, a business man. You may be in the ministry. You may wonder, "How could God use me? How can God use me in my finite environment with my human incapabilities?" But, my friend, the Spirit of God knows no limits to the one that's yielded to Him. What kind of man was Elijah? He was a man like Jesus of Galilee who moved in the Spirit of God.
Elijah confessed that God was
going to move in the situation. Elijah set the situation up for
God. You know, the Bible tells us that, Elijah was a man of
like passions as we are. He had the same humanistic
drives, the book of James says. The same temptations. The same
frustrations as you―as me―yet he prayed and it did not rain
for three and a half years. He prayed again, and God brought rain
to the Earth. There were probably a lot of fellows in Elijah's country on the other side of Jordan that could have done the same thing. However, Elijah had something different in his life. He spent time with God. He had told the leader of the nation, "As the LORD God of Israel, before whom I stand."
Elijah knew that one of God's
judgments on a wicked nation was that God would cut off rain.
Elijah knew that King Ahab―the leader of the nation of Israel―had
not been living godly. And Elijah knew that if he would just go
confess God's Word, it would give God access to move on the Earth
in that situation. You see, Elijah simply set the situation up for God as he confessed and said, "Ahab, as the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years but according to my word." Elijah didn't assail to go, my friend. He went. He would do what God told him to.
One time I was praying in a room.
I had been resting. I'd been preaching for days on the streets, and
my body had been taxed. If you obey God and rest when God tells you
to, you'll never hurt your body. I was resting at some facilities
that a man and his wife had provided. I had a great desire,
a great burning in my heart to pray for the then President of the
United States -- President Nixon. Later that evening a fellow came
to the place where I was staying, and he invited me to go
somewhere. I didn't want to go, but I felt a strange impression to
go. I felt the Spirit of God rolling inside of my being,
that it had an answer for what I had prayed that afternoon. I went
with that man, and that night God crossed my path with the wife of
a man―a key political figure. That wife of that man
prayed with me and received Messiah Jesus as her LORD. She
repented of her sins. She had a new birth from above. She stayed up till about three in the
morning reading her Bible, and later God touched their family, and
that family had a ministry for years. That man was
one of the leading figures―if not the key figure―in the Watergate
case. You know, you never know
who God will cross your path with today or tomorrow. You
don't know what God's going to do through your life. You may be a
younger person, an older person. You may be a person that God
seemingly has left in a holding pattern. I want to tell
you―if you'll open up to the Holy Spirit―the
blessings of God will be aimed at you from every direction … if
you'll just receive them. Yes, moving in the Spirit is
being obedient to God's Word and leading. It's important to obey. The Bible
tells us, "To obey is better than
sacrifice." God may tell you “Put on a red sock
on one foot and a green sock on the other, and go into the middle
of the freeway and hold up a big Bible and preach.” (Or, go to
the shopping mall and preach.) You may say, "That's
stupid." Well, I imagine Elijah the prophet thought a lot of
things God told him to do were stupid. They seemed foolish
superficially, but Elijah had walked with God long enough that
he knew the God of Israel―the God that had provided for
him―would never ask him to do something for which there was not a
reason. We don't have to understand the reason.
All we have to do is obey. If God tells you to put a red sock on one foot
and a green one on the other and to preach in the freeway, how do
you know that some fool is not driving down the freeway cursing
God, denying God's Son, and yet asking for a sign and saying, "God,
if you'll put somebody in front of me with a red sock on one foot
and a green sock on the other, then I'll receive Jesus."
You don't know what God is doing in the lives of other
people. One time God actually told
me to preach on a freeway in Canada. I preached,
and God reached a great crowd of people (as I remember
there were TV crews filming an accident there). When I got back in
the automobile, a preacher who was from another country said,
"God's Spirit told me to do the same thing, and I
disobeyed Him?" Do you know what? That was a sign to
me from God, and I got blessed for doing that. God reached many
people. Yes … Elijah wasn't
invited to the king's palace, but he went anyway. My
friend, God may send you a lot of places where you're not wanted. I
remember one time that, in His divine providence, God
allowed me to be arrested for preaching on the streets, and God
gave me a great court trial. Before the court trial,
nine people alone were saved in the jail, and I
preached myself back out of the jail. I've learned that if can
preach yourself in jail, you can preach yourself out of jail. It seemed foolish, but while I was
in jail they put me in a room with four cement walls, a
cement ceiling, and a cement floor. I said,
"God, surely you wouldn't want me to preach here.
Nobody can hear me?" But the Spirit of God said,
"Preach," and so I preached. I started at
Genesis, went to Revelation and back again, and the sound was
miraculously multiplied and anointed of God, went under the steel
door, through the administrative area where the secretaries and the
officers were doing the book work, clear out into the lobby,
and four college age students gave their lives to
Christ out there. I want to tell you, you don't know
what God's going to do. Nine were saved in the jail. Then
the Lord Jesus won the court trial which was a big jury trial which
extended for days. It opened up a door for street
ministries all over, and gave street workers boldness in the Lord.
My friend, obey God. You know, I've been to
that place in Israel where Elijah went to see Ahab. He
probably had some fears, some doubts at times in his life. Possibly
before he went to see the leader that time. Condemnation from the
enemy probably attacked his mind. Maybe depression tried to
set in, but he knew how to resist it. You can, too, my
friend.
The greatest place you can
be is under the anointing. When I feel the attack of the
enemy―or when I sense Satan doing things to try to confuse―I just
simply pray, "God, show me a new way to reach seven new
countries for Christ in the next six months just to make the Devil
mad." Go on in. Get under the anointing. Will you move out in faith
today instead of fear? Elijah was like Jesus―he obeyed God
and the Spirit of God. He moved in the Spirit. Will you obey God? |
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