Title Go to the brook Grit (2012.1.15)
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Date: January 15, 2012
Word: 1 Kings 17:1-7
Title: Go to the brook Grit
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As Ahab was king, he married and loved Jezebel, a foreign woman, so he brought in Baal and Asherah, whom Jezebel served, and Israel became a den of idols and sins.
At this time, receiving God's command, he went to the evil King Ahab and said, "It will not rain for the next three years and six months.
There will be neither rain nor dew.”
And Elijah fled from the presence of King Ahab, but God told Elijah to go to the brook Cherith and hide.
Maybe the heroes of faith have a lot in common even though their circumstances are slightly different.
Jacob went to Paddan Aram to escape from Esau's sword and lived there for 20 years, Moses went to the wilderness of Midian to escape the sword of Pharaoh in Egypt and lived in hiding for 40 years, David lived in the Philistines to escape from King Saul's sword and lived there for 10 years. He lived in exile, and Jesus went to Egypt to escape the sword of King Herod, where he lived for two years.
It is so difficult and difficult that when we seek God, God gives us more difficult problems.
The work of digging many streams to the soldiers who were dying from drinking water for 7 days, the words that Naaman, who was running out of water, had to bathe seven times in the Jordan River, the words of the weary and weary disciples to cast their nets on the right side of the boat, maybe God Here we can tell the saints that he sees trust in God, that is, faith and thorough obedience.
Why did God tell Elijah to go to the brook Cherit?
The brook of Grit is a place where the word of God is. Where there are no people and there is nothing to eat, why on earth do you have to go there?
Because it is a place the Lord has commanded.
Wherever the Lord is, wherever the Lord has commanded, that is a place of refuge and refuge.
The brook Cherit is a secret place to pray. What did Elijah do at the brook Cherit?
Did you feel frustrated, curious, bored, and annoyed all day long?
It must have been a place of prayer.
This is Jacob's Jabbok River ferry site.
This is Jesus' Mount of Olives.
Believers should set up a time and place for their prayers.
The brook Cherit is a place where you can experience the power of God.
God feeds through crows All things obey and obey the voice of the Lord.
If we hold on to the word of the Lord, God will feed and clothe us.
Where is the creek that God commanded me?
What was the brook Cherit that God commanded me?
Please listen carefully, listen to the voice of the Lord and obey it.
God is the God who feeds and cares for me.