WHEN ORDINARY FAITH WON'T DO (1 OF 4)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: 1 Kings 19:11, 1 Kings 19:15-20, 2 Kings 2:1-25
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Title: When Ordinary Faith Won't Do (1 of 4)
Series: Elisha: When Ordinary Faith Won't Do
Author: Scott Maze
Text: 1 Kings 19:15-21, 2 Kings 2
Trusting God in really challenging times in your personal life is really difficult to do. When marriages break up, finances fail, and good friends desert you, God's seeming absence is really difficult to bear. When you are going through a foggy time in life, you want to see God's bright light to guide your way. When God seemingly fails to provide that light that He's promised, you are left depressed and despondent.
I want to introduce to you a man of extraordinary faith who lived when few people had faith in the living God. His name is Elisha, and he is the successor in ministry to Elijah. Elisha was a bright light in the darkest of skies. Let me say this at the outset... if you're like me, it's hard to distinguish your pronunciation of Elisha from Elijah.
Elisha was the son of a wealthy landowner and farmer. He would go on to be the spiritual leader of Israel for 50 years during some of the darkest days for God's people.
I invite you to find 1 Kings 19 and put a bookmark there as I ask you to find 2 Kings 2, pages 355 and 362 in your Pew Bibles.
Elisha's name means "My God Saves." Elisha is a spiritual light for God's people in really dark days. When times were the bleakest and hope was the rarest, God put forth Elisha. If you want God to teach us by Elisha's life, then we learn what it means to provide spiritual and moral light during dark days.
Today's Scripture
"So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him. And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, 'Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.' And he said to him, 'Go back again, for what have I done to you?' And he returned from following him and took the yoke ...
Series: Elisha: When Ordinary Faith Won't Do
Author: Scott Maze
Text: 1 Kings 19:15-21, 2 Kings 2
Trusting God in really challenging times in your personal life is really difficult to do. When marriages break up, finances fail, and good friends desert you, God's seeming absence is really difficult to bear. When you are going through a foggy time in life, you want to see God's bright light to guide your way. When God seemingly fails to provide that light that He's promised, you are left depressed and despondent.
I want to introduce to you a man of extraordinary faith who lived when few people had faith in the living God. His name is Elisha, and he is the successor in ministry to Elijah. Elisha was a bright light in the darkest of skies. Let me say this at the outset... if you're like me, it's hard to distinguish your pronunciation of Elisha from Elijah.
Elisha was the son of a wealthy landowner and farmer. He would go on to be the spiritual leader of Israel for 50 years during some of the darkest days for God's people.
I invite you to find 1 Kings 19 and put a bookmark there as I ask you to find 2 Kings 2, pages 355 and 362 in your Pew Bibles.
Elisha's name means "My God Saves." Elisha is a spiritual light for God's people in really dark days. When times were the bleakest and hope was the rarest, God put forth Elisha. If you want God to teach us by Elisha's life, then we learn what it means to provide spiritual and moral light during dark days.
Today's Scripture
"So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him. And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, 'Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.' And he said to him, 'Go back again, for what have I done to you?' And he returned from following him and took the yoke ...
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