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*DAILY DEW 26/MARCH/2023*
*Where Are the Elijahs of God?* (IV)
_Key Bible Text:_
*"Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God."* (1 Kings 18:38-39 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
Later, Elijah’s prayer at Carmel was a masterpiece of concise praying. ‘‘Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again’’ (I Kings 18:37).
*E. M. Bounds is right in saying that short, powerful public prayers are the outcome of long secret intercession.* Elijah prayed, not for the destruction of the idolatrous priests, nor for thunderbolts from heaven to consume rebellious Israel, but that the glory of God and the power of God might be
revealed.
We try to help God out of difficulties. Remember how Abraham tried to do this, and to this day the earth is cursed with his folly because of Ishmael. On the other hand, Elijah made it as difficult as he could for the Lord. He wanted fire, but yet he soaked the sacrifice with water!
God loves such holy boldness in our prayers. ‘‘Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession’’ (Psalm 2:8)
Oh! my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice! Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is sullied, His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His Book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts.
Does God ever need more patience with His people than when they are ‘‘praying’’? We tell Him what to do and how to do it. We pass judgments and make appreciations in our prayers. In short, we do everything except pray.
No Bible School can teach us this art. What Bible School has ‘‘Prayer’’ on its curriculum? The most important thing a man can study is the prayer part of the Book. But where is this taught?
_MEDITATION:_
*"Let us strip off the last bandage and declare that many of our presidents and teachers do not pray, shed no tears, know no travail. Can they teach what they do not know?"*
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*DAILY DEW 25/MARCH/2023*
*Where Are the Elijahs of God?* (III)
_Key Bible Text:_
*"Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee."* (1 Kings 17:9 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
*The difficulties to world evangelism are legion. But difficulties give way to determined men.*
‘‘Got any rivers you think are uncrossable?
Got any mountains you can’t tunnel through?
God specializes in things thought impossible,
And He can do what no other pow’r can do.’’
*The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us.*
Elijah lived with God. He thought about the nation’s sin like God; he grieved over sin like God; he spoke against sin like God. He was all passion in his prayers and passionate in his denunciation of evil in the land.
He had no smooth preaching. Passion fired his preaching, and his words were on the hearts of men as molten metal on their flesh.
But ‘‘the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord’’ (Psalm 37:23). The Lord said to Elijah, ‘‘Hide thyself,’’ and again, ‘‘Show thyself.’’ It would be wrong to hide when we should be rebuking kings for His sake; it would be wrong to preach if the Spirit is calling us to wait upon the Lord.
_MEDITATION:_
*"We must learn with David, ‘‘My soul, wait thou only upon God’’ (Psalm 62:5). Who of us dares to invite the Lord to cut out all our props? God’s ways are not our ways. His ways are ‘‘past finding out,’’ but He reveals them unto us by His Spirit. God ordered Elijah to Cherith, then to Zarephath—to lodge at a swank hotel? No! No! This prophet of God, this preacher of righteousness, was commanded by the Lord to stay at the home of an impoverished widow!"*
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*DAILY DEW 24/MARCH/2023*
*Where Are the Elijahs of God?* (II)
_Key Bible Text:_
*"And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over."* (2 Kings 2:14 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
Brethren, if we will do God’s work in God’s way at God’s time with God’s power, we shall have God’s blessing and the devil’s curses.
When God opens the windows of
heaven to bless us, the devil will open the door of hell to blast us. God’s smile means the devil’s frown! Mere preachers may help anybody and hurt nobody; but prophets will stir everybody and madden somebody. The preacher may go with the crowd; the prophet goes against it.
A man freed, fired, and filled with God will be branded unpatriotic because he speaks against his nation’s sins; unkind because his tongue is a two-edged sword; unbalanced because the weight of preaching opinion is against him. The preacher will be heralded; the prophet hounded.
Ah! brother preachers, we love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, reformers: our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys, Asburys, etc. We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their cenotaphs. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch the first drop of
our own!
John the Baptist did well to evade prison for six months. He and Elijah would not last six weeks in the streets of a modern city. They would be cast into a prison or mental home for judging sin and not muting their message.
The enemy has come in like a flood. Is there no Spirit- filled messenger today, armed with all the panoply of God, to lift up a standard against him? One place alone will keep the heart in passion and the eyes in vision—the place of prayer. This man Elijah, with a volcano for a heart, and a thunderstorm for a voice, came to the Kingdom for such a time as this.
_MEDITATION:_
*"The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known. There is no fault in God. He is able. God ‘‘is able to do . . . according to the power that worketh in us.’’*
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