ELIJAH/He Took Comfort in His God

 ELIJAH ran through the rain as darkness deepened.  He had a long way to go before he would reach Jezreel, and he was no  young man.  Yet, he ran on tirelessly, for "the very hand of Jehovah" was upon him.  The energy coursing through his body was surely unlike any he had ever known.  Why, he had just outpaced the team of horses that was pulling King Ahab in his royal chariot! - Read KINGS 18:46. 

Now the open road lay before him. Imagine Elijah blinking the raindrops  from his eyes as he ran, thinking back over the most eventful day of his life.  Without question, it was a glorious victory for Elijah's God, Jehovah, and for true worship.  Far behind him, lost in the gloom of the storm, lay the windswept heights of Mount Carmel, where Jehovah had used Elijah to strike a mighty and miraculous blow against Baal worship.  Hundred of Baal prophets were exposed as wicked frauds and justly executed.  Then Elijah prayed to Jehovah for an  end to the drought that had afflicted  the land for three and half years.  The rains fell! - 1 KINGS 18:18-45.

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