#1 kings 19

[dwuerch-blog]

A Whisper Will Do

Oftentimes, my husband speaks to me in a whisper so I’ll say, “What did you say?” Not because I didn’t hear him, I wasn’t paying attention to what he was saying. He not only repeats what he said, but he raises his voice a decibel louder. It’s hilarious – especially when I think the neighbors might hear him! Yikes! And, sometimes when I am talking to God, waiting for His response – He often…

[lena-oleanderson]

Soup for Elijah from Side Wounds

for people who are bad at taking care of themselves

(here's where i started this poem - i want to write a poem about soup. here's where it ended up - a persona poem about elijah in second person. i've had quite a few angels in my life who've told me this at choice times, mostly they have been my friends)

1 Kings 19:4-8 (NIV) - the passage referenced (i reference it twice in side wounds, actually, that's how much it resonates with me)

4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” 5 Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep.

All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” 6 He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again.

7 The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” 8 So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. 

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Elijah Flees to Horeb

1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time. 3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. 6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. 7 And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. 8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? 10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: 12 and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. 13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? 14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. 15 And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: 16 and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. 17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. 18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. 20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee? 21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him. — 1 Kings 19 | Authorized King James Version (AKJV) The Holy Bible: Authorized King James Version; Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK. All rights reserved. Cross References: Hebrews 11:34; Hebrews 11:37-38; 1 Kings 18:22; 1 Kings 18:30; 1 Kings 18:40; 2 Kings 2:8; 2 Kings 8:8; 2 Kings 8:12-13; 2 Kings 9:2; Ruth 1:17; 1 Samuel 6:14; 1 Samuel 11:5; 1 Samuel 18:19; 1 Samuel 28:14; 2 Samuel 3:9; 2 Samuel 24:22 Genesis 16:8; Genesis 21:14; Genesis 21:31; Genesis 28:12; Numbers 11:15; Job 4:6; Job 6:9; Zechariah 4:1; Zechariah 4:6; Matthew 4:2; Matthew 26:7; Luke 4:2; Exodus 3:1; Exodus 3:6; Exodus 19:20; Exodus 20:5; Exodus 24:12; Romans 11:3-4; Judges 7:22; Daniel 3:18; Hosea 13:2; Luke 9:61-62; Acts 20:37

[quotesfromscripture]

Now Ahab told Jezebel everything [kal] that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all [kal] the prophets with the sword [charev]. Then Jezebel sent a messenger [mal'ak] to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods [elohiym] do to me and more so, if by about this time tomorrow I do not make your life [naphsheka] like the life [kenephesh] of one of them."

1 Kings 19:1-2 NASB (2020)

[biblebloodhound]

Crisis and Care (1 Kings 19:1-8)

We live in a broken world, full of crises and traumas.

Prophet Elijah by Mykhailo Boychuk, 1913 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he…

[oldnightcollage]

For The Journey Is Too Much For You

[conversationsoflife]

My Watercolour and Gouache Painting of Elijah the prophet

This is my Watercolour and Gouache painting of Elijah the Prophet

Elijah the Prophet © Watercolour Painting by Ross Cochrane 2023This is the finished Watercolour and Gouache painting of Elijah the Prophet from the Christian Bible. He is looking at his world and seeing the mess that it has become. He is amazingly human. At one time he hides by the Brook Kerith, yet God is with him. He is miraculously provided for by being fed by ravens. He restores life to a…

[fardell24b]

Church Camp 2023 notes

Church Camp 2023

24th Friday Evening Session 1 Genesis 18:20 - 35 Abraham interceding for Sodom.

Can you place something on your heart for your home town.

Romans 1:11, 12

Hospital Family Embassy

Hospital Mark 2:15 - 17 Triage The church is a hospital for sinners (where triage happens), not a museum for saints.

Exodus The Israelites had left Egypt, but they were still asking for things of Egypt.

Family Functional, or dysfunctional. The Church is God's plan to reunite Humanity with Him as a family.

Embassy The message of the Gospel.

Acts 1:8

Hurting --> Healthy --> Helpful

25th Saturday Morning Sesson 2 Elijah 1 Kings 18: 23 - 29 No one answered the prophets of Baal, despite their desperation.

1 Kings 18:30 - 39 On the peak we can share the Gospel. But what about in the valley?

1 Kings 19:1, 2 Jezebel's death threat. 1 Kings 19:3 Elijah flees

1 Kings 19:4 The low point

What can bring you to a similar situation to Elijah?

How to get out? vs 3 Fear 'What could happen?' - Jezebel's message.

What is the 'what if?' that pushes you from the peak to the valley.

Lies, unforgiveness, the Enemy

Isaiah 41:10

Psalm 23:4 - 6 David knew that he had to go through the painful times. As the shepherd protects and guides the sheep, so God protects and guides us. Our environment is conducive to our relationship with God.

Romans 12:2

Environments Where do we go when we are in pain?

Relationships Proverbs 13:20

1 Kings 19:11 - 13 God wanted to be found in a whisper. Elijah had to draw close.

Do we have a life where we can hear the whisper of God when fear comes? Do we have a life that practices the presence of God?

Sesson 3 The Body of Christ Mission ready

Matthew 28:18 - 20

1 Corinthians 12:12 1 Corinthians 12:26 We are all involved in the church.

Acts 6:1 - 7 The extent of your involvement within the Body of Christ will determine the extent of your influence in the Body of Christ.

Acts 2:43 - 45

Can we intercede on behalf of our city?

26th Sunday Morning Matthew 11:28 - 30 Zephaniah 3:11

Genesis 2:15 Humanity's purpose, to work and watch over the creation, the Garden of Eden. Toil came after the Fall.

2 Corinthians 3:16 - 18

Being aware of his hand on the peak and in the wilderness.

Jesus is not an addition. He is our substitution. Genesis 3:8

1 Kings 9:1 Solomon had desired to build the Temple and had acheived it.

John 14:15 - 17

What does it look like to surrender yourself to His will?

Sanctification - Being made Holy.

[graceandpeacejoanne]

Tel Sheva

Be'er Sheva (Beer-sheba) was so well-known in acinet Israel it became part of a saying meant to comprise the whole of the land, "From Dan to Beer-Sheba." #Beersheba #Beersheva #Samuelssons #Elijah

David and I are once again in Israel, the “Beautiful Land,” as the prophet Daniel described it. Tel (Be’er) Sheva When we planned our visit to Israel, we wanted to visit those places we had not yet seen, but are important to the biblical narrative. Be’er Sheva (Beersheba) seemed like an important destination, as it is where Abraham established his herds and tents. We looked for the Tel—Tel…

[jtl-fics]

New kings perchance for wip Wednesday?? (Thank you sm I love your writing your brain is so big and beautiful <3)

WIP Wednesday 1-3-24 (Closed) | New Kings AU

"Andrew-"

"He doesn't get to stay dead." Andrew says, "You're not going to stop me." he adds.

Kevin looks at Andrew and knows that nothing on this Earth could stop him from hunting Neil down. Knows that there is nothing he could possibly say or do that would stop Andrew. It had been one thing when his reunion with Neil was on the horizon, but now?

They'll be lucky if they manage to get him on the plane and back to Palmetto. Kevin grits his teeth, feels the bottle in his pocket, and makes a conscious decision that he won't give any to Andrew if Neil isn't still in Millport.

In an hour Andrew will be incapacitated enough to bring home.

[darknessdrops]

Doggerel:

so maybe god speaks to you

in a murmur so soft and low

so that only the whispers hear it

and only the dark cave knows

[lewishamiltonstuff]

Do you understand how goated it is to be greater and better than 19 other drivers combined??? And the entire sport has only 20 drivers???!!!!

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Elijah Flees From Jezebel

1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and also how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”

3 And when he saw that, he arose and went for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him and said unto him, “Arise and eat.”

6 And he looked, and behold, there was a cake baked on the coals and a cruse of water at his head. And he ate and drank, and lay down again.

7 And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for thee.”

8 And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

9 And he came thither unto a cave and lodged there; and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and He said unto him, “What doest thou here, Elijah?”

10 And he said, “I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

11 And He said, “Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

12 And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.

13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice unto him and said, “What doest thou here, Elijah?”

14 And he said, “I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

15 And the Lord said unto him, “Go, return on thy way to the Wilderness of Damascus. And when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria;

16 and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy stead.

17 And it shall come to pass that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay; and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.

18 Yet I have left Me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.”

19 So he departed from thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth; and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

20 And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee.” And he said unto him, “Go back again, for what have I done to thee?”

21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slew them and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him. — 1 Kings 19 | 21st Century King James Version (KJV21) The Holy Bible; 21st Century King James Version Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc. Cross References: Genesis 16:8; Genesis 21:14; Genesis 21:31; Genesis 28:12; Exodus 3:6; Exodus 19:20; Exodus 24:12; Numbers 11:15; Judges 7:22; Ruth 1:17; 1 Samuel 11:5; 1 Samuel 18:19; 1 Samuel 28:14; 2 Samuel 3:9; 2 Samuel 24:22; 1 Kings 18:20; 1 Kings 18:22; 1 Kings 18:30; 2 Kings 2:8; 2 Kings 3:11; 2 Kings 8:8; 2 Kings 8:12-13; 2 Kings 9:2; Job 4:16; Job 6:9; Daniel 3:18; Hosea 13:2; Zechariah 4:1; Zechariah 4:6; Matthew 4:2; Matthew 8:21-22; Matthew 26:7; Luke 4:2; Romans 11:3-4; Hebrews 11:34; Hebrews 11:37-38

[quotesfromscripture]

Then he said, "I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of armies; for the sons of Israel have abandoned Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they have sought to take my life."

1 Kings 19:14 NASB (2020)

[biblebloodhound]

Dealing with Depression (1 Kings 19:9-18)

The prophet Elijah was downright exhausted – so much so, that he became debilitatingly depressed.

There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?” He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” The Lord said, “Go out and stand…

[bardicjay]

1 Kings 19:4-8

Elijah, flopping onto the ground and covering his eyes: "Uuuugh, I wanna sleep and never wake up again."

Angel of the LORD: "Elijah. You are not you when you're hungry."