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THE START OF A PROCESS

Everybody wants the Mount . We want the flashy display

of God’s in our lives.

And yet in the shadow of these magnificent events is a .

There’s always a .

We’ve got to to go through the process.

Are you willing to do to get

?

First and Second Kings shows a time when idolatry was not just ,

and not just , but was actually legislated.

Elijah means: is .

He didn’t just say Yahweh is God; he said is .

Then he said to King Ahab, Yahweh .

Here’s how God was going to remind Ahab that He alone is alive: “There

shall be neither nor rain these years, except by my .”

Not only was the drought a judgment against the people’s ,

but it was also a specific indictment against the of Baal.

We can have the courage to rise up in the of Elijah, and to

make sure we are God’s mouthpiece in this .

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PREPARATION BY SEPARATION

THE PREPARATION PROCESS

1. God wants to ________________ you.

Here’s how you know when God is beginning to _______________ you for the

next season in your journey with Him. He calls you to _______________ your

grasp on something, someone, or someplace.

Ask the Holy Spirit to spotlight any specific ways where God is asking you

to _______ __________ from here, to get up and get out, to relocate and

_____________ your life in some way.

2. God wants to _____________ you.

Give God the opportunity to show you what it’s like to be

_________________ by God and God ______________.

Open your eyes to see the water He has given you in that place where it’s

__________________ or might feel ______________ to you.

3. God wants to ______________ you.

According to Ephesians 3:20-21, God does exceedingly, abundantly, above

and beyond anything that you can _______ or __________.

4. God wants to _____________ you.

Elijah had no idea that while he was being obedient in ________________, he

was actually being ______________ from something he didn’t even know he

was in danger of.

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DEALING WITH DEFICIENCY

Here in Zarephath, Elijah is going to be . He’s going to be . He’s going to be for Mount Carmel.

Faith is trusting God enough to go to an , unfamiliar place, and interact with people that it’s unusual for us to interact with, so that God can use us to help inaugurate His move, both in lives and lives.

Elijah could never have known that by yielding to the unfamiliar, territory where Yahweh sent him that he was actually helping to tell the entire story.

HOW TO DEAL WITH DEFICIENCY

The widow was . She was . She was .

1. Take inventory.

Sometimes is the hinge upon which a rests.

2. Do not .

More than times in Scripture we are told, “ fear” or “fear .”

3. .

Maybe you’re at the stage where your faith needs to get a —it needs to go to .

4. what you you would.

Those sticks you’re gathering are not useless. They’re the for the that God fully intends to set in your life.

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WEEK THREE

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PREPARATION BY SEPARATION

THE PREPARATION PROCESS

1. God wants to ________________ you.

Here’s how you know when God is beginning to _______________ you for the

next season in your journey with Him. He calls you to _______________ your

grasp on something, someone, or someplace.

Ask the Holy Spirit to spotlight any specific ways where God is asking you

to _______ __________ from here, to get up and get out, to relocate and

_____________ your life in some way.

2. God wants to _____________ you.

Give God the opportunity to show you what it’s like to be

_________________ by God and God ______________.

Open your eyes to see the water He has given you in that place where it’s

__________________ or might feel ______________ to you.

3. God wants to ______________ you.

According to Ephesians 3:20-21, God does exceedingly, abundantly, above

and beyond anything that you can _______ or __________.

4. God wants to _____________ you.

Elijah had no idea that while he was being obedient in ________________, he

was actually being ______________ from something he didn’t even know he

was in danger of.

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DON’T DROP THE BALL

There’s a that sits right between Elijah’s time in Zarephath and his coming experience on Mount Carmel, and this link, this bridge, is .

Stop downplaying the of your position. Stop undervaluing how critical and purposeful your current posture is. You are , right where you are.

God’s hand is on you wherever He has you, to be used for His purposes and His glory. Keep your spiritual eyes open, and don’t .

There’s something to be said, not only about being in a position, but also about making an unwavering pledge, having a fierce of the things of God.

What are you doing to make sure you are the of God in this generation?

Just in doing your job, that leads to a moment of .

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INVITING THE FIRE

HOW TO INVITE THE FIRE OF GOD

1. Be .

Elijah the altar.

He the promises of God’s .

He the of Baal.

He his trust in God.

2. Step .

Don’t only be intentional, but be . Live the kind of life that steps forward, out and from the crowd.

3. Never the power of a .

Prayer doesn’t God. Prayer just all the things He to do for us anyway.

After Elijah prayed that prayer, the sky , and God down .

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DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?

1. God said it; let’s it (1 Kings 18:41).

You don’t adapt to your . As you live in light of

God’s , your surroundings need to begin to adapt to you,

as you communicate God’s and His promises clearly.

It requires spiritual . It requires ,

to be able to see the things that cannot be seen in the physical realm, to be

able to hear the things you cannot hear unless the Holy Spirit heightened

your spiritual ears.

2. God said it; let’s in with it (1 Kings 18:42).

His promises are what ignite our prayer lives with an extra measure of

and as we pray.

Base your prayers directly on the of God.

3. God said it; let’s for it (1 Kings 18:43).

Be always of how what’s happening could be to

what you’ve .


Faith is acting like it , even when it’s

, so that it might , simply

because God .

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FAITH, FAILURE, AND A FUTURE

God knew all these things, them all in, and still

us to be for His .

Every time we see their failures, it should underscore the fact that we

are looking for a , that we need somebody else to be

our .

He has been and will always be the , the

, and the .

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WEEK SEVEN

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DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?

1. God said it; let’s it (1 Kings 18:41).

You don’t adapt to your . As you live in light of

God’s , your surroundings need to begin to adapt to you,

as you communicate God’s and His promises clearly.

It requires spiritual . It requires ,

to be able to see the things that cannot be seen in the physical realm, to be

able to hear the things you cannot hear unless the Holy Spirit heightened

your spiritual ears.

2. God said it; let’s in with it (1 Kings 18:42).

His promises are what ignite our prayer lives with an extra measure of

and as we pray.

Base your prayers directly on the of God.


Be always of how what’s happening could be to

what you’ve .


Faith is acting like it , even when it’s

, so that it might , simply

because God .

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