Studyin 1 Kings 18 w/ Lena's Journalin'

How do you think people feel about taking a message about things unseen, about declaring impossible feats about to happen? What does it take to present your life before an enemy and say what God has said that seems absurd to your mind?
Faith in God.
Not faith in what is, but faith in Who is, and who has spoken. Faith in the fact that you listened and heard Him.
How would you feel to tell someone else to risk their lives for the same word given you by God? They didn’t receive the word for themselves, but as with Esther, were given the word of direction from someone human, who is not God? What would it take to both deliver and receive and believe that kind of word?
Faith in God.
Trusting men, always takes faith in God.
God never told us to trust men directly. Follow them, while you trust God. What if they are mistaken or go the wrong way? Is God great enough to make the repair? Is He great enough to heal a wound their mistake may have inflicted on you? Is hHe great enough in your life to redirect you rightly? Or help them lead better?
Have you been summonsed to believe the unbelievable and follow human lead, all the while, trusting God?
What about to the risking of your own life, especially the making of adjustments of your own vision and plans?
Esther, who’d made it into the king’s palace, must have had a few ideas for what her life would now be, and when Mordecai came in with, “Hey Esther how about risking your life for the word God gave me?” She really had to consider it before diving in. What’d she mostly have to consider? Extending and risking her own life for the cause, which seemed to be someone else’s problem and vision.
Hey Obadiah, you go tell my enemy I’m here. That may sound like a funny game to you, but who’s life would be immediately at stake? The messenger, right? Risky business! Kingdom business always is.
You and your family are the troublemakers, for you have refused to obey the commands of the LORD and have worshiped the images of Baal instead.
Many times, we wonder why trouble is upon us. Can we honestly ask ourselves, “Do I wholeheartedly obey the voice of the Lord in every instance? How long does it take me to heed His voice, through either a direct line or an indirect line? Do I always give my time and attention to God on a first priority level, or have I put Him on the leftover cart, fitting Him into my life, if it works in all else I do in life?” (By the way, that is likened to worshiping “other gods”. It has everything to do with priority.)
These are important questions a humble heart is willing to ask of himself, daily. If we are honest within ourselves, we’ll not be deceived by an outward enemy, the enemy of our souls.
The devil hates when we choose to obey God, even in the smallest of things, for it releases us from His death grip and causes life to come flood us with blessing. He hates to see anyone be blessed, for he knows his eminent doom and wants recruits to be in the torment line with him! He’s all about taking captives into hells’ fire with him. He’s all about stealing God’s chosen ones, and making them his slaves and children.
How much longer will you waver, hobbling between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him! But if Baal is God, then follow him!
Do you really think not deciding, is like being undecided? It isn’t with God, we are always either all in or all out, really. Once one chooses not to believe God they automatically chose to believe an unrighteous father figure.
Does His will and the building of His kingdom on earth consume you? If it doesn’t something else is, this is why fire licks up sacrifices. The life is given, consumed, all given, non-recognizable.
What does it take for one to give their life up to an unseen God or unto following imperfect men, to the point of major life change and consummation of what is, was, and what could be?
Faith in God. Trust in God.
Who is really your god?
You?
or
Baal (or “Other”)?
Jehovah – Lord of the universe, Lord of All (ultimately), Lord of you?
I have seen us so deceived, we answer far too quickly. We immediately say, “Oh God is My God”, but God wants us to see how we are living and gage it by how we do live, not how we intend to live.
To whom we obey, that is who we currently serve.
If God is God to you, serve Him, give your life, time, dreams, strength, love, etc., to Him. If not, don’t just go through the motion of doing so, when it is not so, just serve Baal.
I was thinking if we stopped going through religious dutiful motions and just did what our hearts are saying, maybe we’d see the true error of wrong thoughts or decisions, maybe it would cause us to run home to our Father quicker. When we act right, but aren’t right, we prolong our deception under the covering of religion. If we’d not allow ourselves the luxury of looking religious, it could be such a wake up call, we’d change quickly in the discomfort and true revelation of being on the fence.
Maybe we’d be more appreciative and more willing to rebuild what is torn down, even in other’s lives.
Do we believe in the power of God, in the most impossible of situations?
When we find who it is we really serve, and either strengthen that faith, or turn and serve who it is that is just, and true, and holy, we need to annihilate those who are against the King of Kings and Lord of Lords in our personal lives, we need to rid ourselves of the traces of his lies, past, present, and future, allow not one enemy to remain.
Why?
The promise needs to be fulfilled for us and for the world we live in. There has been a drought of those who overcome, there has been a drought of those who will go on to perfection, those who will continue in the walk of faith.
The world needs the rain of the Holy Spirit. It needs men who will command the times and seasons and look for, and bring the rain.