The last few weeks we have been talking about being a kid that takes flight or just an average kid. A kid that takes flight is a someone who does their best to follow directions and obey, they read their Bible and pray all on their own. An average kid only reads their Bible if they feel like it, they don't always obey because again they don't feel like it and just want to be able to do what they choose to do. Elijah is a man in the Bible that took flight. He followed God's direction no matter how scary or silly it sounded. He was to camp out near a river and have raven bring him food, he stayed with a widow who had no food but when she followed the simple instructions of making a meal with the last of her flour and oil God provided for her so that it never ran out until it started to rain again when her crops could grow. When the widows son died and she blamed Elijah, Elijah didn't become angery instead he took his body upstairs and prayed for him until he was alive again. Elijah gave God all the credit.
Then one day when Elijah was challenging the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, they were to have their god send fire on the sacrifice they had prepared and Elijah would call on his God. All day these prophets shouted out to their God and danced around but nothing happened. Finally Elijah called them over, rebuilt the alter of the Lord that had been torn down and with one prayer God send down fire that consumed the whole sacrifice. Wanna learn more about the story; read 1 Kings 17 & 18. I've added a video clip of the experiment we did just this last Sunday.
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