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Devotional: 1 Kings 17:1-7

Today’s passage: 1 Kings 17:1-7

Helpful thoughts:

  • Today, we get to meet the prophet Elijah.  His name means, “Yahweh is God.”
    • Baal was the god of storms, rains, and fertility.
    • It did not rain for 3 years and 6 months (James 5:17).
    • Elijah’s mission was to show who the real God of Israel is (Deuteronomy 11:16-17).
  • God is alive, sovereign, and able to provide.  Baal is an invention of the hearts of men.

Questions to consider:

  1. Why did God choose to prevent rain to come down on Israel?  How did this cut straight at the center of their worship of Baal?
  2. With verse 7, what might we expect Elijah to begin to worry about?  What might we expect God, who can command birds to supply food to a single man by a small brook, to do?
  3. Why did Elijah do what the first half of verse 5 says he did?  When we obey God, what must be true of our belief/motives?  When we ignore God and/or invent idols, what must be true of our belief/motives?

November 30, 2020 Category: 1 Kings, Devotions

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