How to Overcome the Grip of Loneliness
Ernest L. Easley
1 Kings 19.1-18
As we continue our current series of messages under the heading ''OT,'' take your ''OT'' and join me in the book of 1 Kings chapter 19 where we find the account of Elijah the Prophet fleeing from Queen Jezebel and do you remember why?
Well, after he called down fire from heaven on Mt. Carmel, defeating the Prophets of Baal and then having them executed, the Queen was angry! In fact, she was so angry that she sent an email to Elijah, I'm sorry, I meant to say she sent a messenger to Elijah and his message is found recorded verse 2, ''May the gods punish me and do so severely if I don't make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.''
In other words, ''Elijah, you have 24 hours to live.'' So, how did Elijah respond to her threat? Verse 3 tells us that he ''...became afraid and immediately ran for his life.'' After facing 850 angry prophets and defeating them, he ran from the threat of one woman!
But it gets worse. Elijah became so depressed and discouraged he cried out to God in verse 4, ''I have had enough! LORD, take my life, for I'm no better than my fathers.''
Now I can hear some of you thinking, ''Ernest, how could this Prophet of God, who was used so mightily for God, reach the point in his life of throwing up his hands and crying out to God saying: ''... I have had enough! LORD, take my life ...''
May I tell you why we need to know what brought him to that point in his life and how he overcame it? Here's why: if it can happen to Elijah, it can happen to us! Not one of us is immune!
So, what caused him to sink to that point after such a great victory? The answer is found in verse 10. After a couple of encounters with an angel of God, the angel told him beginning in verse 7, ''Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you. So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to Horeb, ...
Ernest L. Easley
1 Kings 19.1-18
As we continue our current series of messages under the heading ''OT,'' take your ''OT'' and join me in the book of 1 Kings chapter 19 where we find the account of Elijah the Prophet fleeing from Queen Jezebel and do you remember why?
Well, after he called down fire from heaven on Mt. Carmel, defeating the Prophets of Baal and then having them executed, the Queen was angry! In fact, she was so angry that she sent an email to Elijah, I'm sorry, I meant to say she sent a messenger to Elijah and his message is found recorded verse 2, ''May the gods punish me and do so severely if I don't make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.''
In other words, ''Elijah, you have 24 hours to live.'' So, how did Elijah respond to her threat? Verse 3 tells us that he ''...became afraid and immediately ran for his life.'' After facing 850 angry prophets and defeating them, he ran from the threat of one woman!
But it gets worse. Elijah became so depressed and discouraged he cried out to God in verse 4, ''I have had enough! LORD, take my life, for I'm no better than my fathers.''
Now I can hear some of you thinking, ''Ernest, how could this Prophet of God, who was used so mightily for God, reach the point in his life of throwing up his hands and crying out to God saying: ''... I have had enough! LORD, take my life ...''
May I tell you why we need to know what brought him to that point in his life and how he overcame it? Here's why: if it can happen to Elijah, it can happen to us! Not one of us is immune!
So, what caused him to sink to that point after such a great victory? The answer is found in verse 10. After a couple of encounters with an angel of God, the angel told him beginning in verse 7, ''Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you. So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to Horeb, ...
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