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When You Need Hope

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Tom LundeenJanuary 9, 2022

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Passage: 1 Kings 17:7-24

Even when we don't understand, we need to have hope, trusting in God's power and plan. 

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When You Need Hope

Pastor Tom Lundeen

 

Last Sunday we began this new series where our focus is on learning what it means to stand for God and His truth and embrace His  when everyone and everything around us is standing for anything and everything else but God and His truth.

 

Note 1 Kings 17:6, 7

When everyone and everything around you is standing for anything and everything else but God and His truth, you need .

 

1. Follow God’s Word Even When It’s Hard to  

(note 1 Kings 17:8-9)

 

Of any place God could have sent Elijah, He sends him on a  mile journey () to a foreign nation where God and His truth were unknown or rejected, where false religions dominated the culture, and where Elijah would be a “fish out of water”.

 

And who is Elijah to be helped by? A !

Note Deuteronomy 15:11

Note 1 Kings17:12

 

And God’s Word to this widow also seemed  (note 1 Kings 17:13-14).

Both Elijah (note 1 Kings 7:10a) and this widow (note 1 Kings 17:15a)  God’s Word even when it was hard to understand...

 

2.  God to do What Only He Can Do

 

Will we actually  what God has said (not just intellectual ; note James 2:19)?

Note 1 Kings 17:12, 15-16

 

3.  Cry Out to God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

 

Note 1 Kings 17:17-18

Note John 9:1-3

...this widow honestly cried out in her grief, pain, and …

 

Note 1 Kings 17:19-20

Notice in both the case of the widow and Elijah, God doesn’t , correct, or strike them down for honestly crying out to Him.

His shoulders are wide and strong enough to bear the weight of our , struggles, and pain.

 

Some tried to claim Elijah did the first  here (note 1 Kings 17:21a).

Purely  (up until 1 Kings 17, no one had ever been raised from the dead; Elijah had no  to work with).

But Elijah knew who had the  of life and death (note 1 Kings 17:21b).

 

SO WHO'S GOT THIS IN YOUR LIFE?:

  • At the beginning of 1 Kings 17, God demonstrated He alone had power over .
  • At the end of 1 Kings 17, He shows He alone is the Giver of life… (note 1 Kings 17:22-23).
  • And this widow moves from acknowledging that Elijah  the Lord (note 1 Kings 17:12a)…
  • ...to saying ‘YES!’ to this God and  for herself this truth (note 1 Kings 17:24). Add Your Own Notes

 

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