00:00As reading 1 Kings chapter 18 and 19, we see that Elijah goes from feeling faith to feeling fear.
00:08That he goes from feeling confident to feeling defeated.
00:11That he goes from being victorious and now he's all in the depths of despair feeling defeated.
00:18All because of one voice, Jezebel.
00:21He allowed Jezebel to speak doubt in tomb, to speak death in tomb, to speak fear in tomb,
00:28and he took off running.
00:31And what he should have done is when she sent that message in chapter 19 that she was going to destroy him and kill him,
00:36he should have just stood his ground and said,
00:38Look lady, God just used me to do this miraculous miracle.
00:42We just executed 450 false prophets.
00:45I'm on assignment here.
00:46You're not chasing me away.
00:48I'm not allowing you to speak death into me.
00:50I know who I am.
00:51But instead he took off running to the desert.
00:53And there he is lamenting to God.
00:56He's depressed.
00:57He's ready to just give up.
00:58He's ready for the Lord just to take him.
01:00He tells him, Just take me, God.
01:01I'm all alone.
01:02And he's in the depths of despair.
01:04But the Lord is not done with him yet.
01:06And he sends an angel to feed Elijah.
01:08And after that, Elijah moves into the cave.
01:12And that's where you see this back and forth going on in chapter 19.
01:16He's saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?
01:18Elijah spills the same old thing.
01:20He's still having a pity party.
01:22He's not feeling good.
01:23He's depressed.
01:24He's just not in a good place.
01:27Well, finally, the Lord in, I believe it's verse 11, tells him to go stand on the mountain.
01:34And I'm just going to paraphrase it here.
01:37The wind comes.
01:38The earthquake comes.
01:39The fire comes.
01:40And it says, The Lord is not in any of them.
01:42But then a still small voice comes.
01:46And after that, then the Lord tells him, Go.
01:49It's time for you to get up and to get going again, Elijah.
01:51And that's where I kind of want to zone in right here.
01:54It's so important that we don't allow the wrong voices to speak into our lives.
