Elijah: Dangerously Close to Ending It

Elijah: Dangerously Close to Ending It

Biblical Blunders:

When “mess” comes self-inflicted

1 Kings 19 – Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. ² 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.” ³ Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 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. ⁹ There he went into a cave and spent the night. ¹⁵ The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there… anoint Elisha…to succeed you as prophet.

Elijah being dangerously close to ending it teaches us…

#1 – The value of from .

1 Kings 19:3-4 ³ Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 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.

1 Kings 19:15 – The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came…”

1 Peter 5:8 – Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 [NLT] – A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.

John 10:10 – The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

Elijah being dangerously close to ending it teaches us…

#2 – The value of doing a .

1 Kings 19:5 – Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep.

1 Kings 19:6 – He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank…

1 Kings 19:6 – And then [he] lay down again.

1 Kings 19:8 – 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.

When you don’t know what to do, go back to the last thing God told you to do and do that.