This series consist of 13 individual sermons about: How God develops our faith by putting us in places or positions where we must totally depend upon Him.

Did you notice that God never told Elijah what the second step would be until he had taken the first step? All through the life of Elijah that’s how God dealt with him. –Many folk want all the steps at one time, but they aren’t even willing to make the first step.

What you are experiencing “now” is part of the preparation for how God is going to use you “later.”

Too many people have bought into what others are saying about what God wants to do with you and or for you “now.” But you’ve got to remember that God only functions in the “now” with the “later” in mind.   

God is not only interested in just blessing us “now,” God wants to get glory from us “later.” And that can’t happen without God getting us ready “now.”

Elijah is called to serve God in a time that is similar to ours regarding religion. The issues that Elijah faced was syncretism and pluralism, these are the very same issues that we today see challenging the church, just in a different form.

One of the first things that struck my attention was not so much how God used Elijah; it was where God trained Elijah.
It’s something about God and deserts. I haven’t figured it out yet, but it appears that great men of God, were often taken to dry desert places when God wanted to train them. God did it with Moses, Abraham, John the Baptist, and even the apostle Paul spent at least two full years out in the Arabian Desert as a training station of sorts.

It’s as if God guides people who He plans to use mightily to dry deserted places, and in some unspoken way the place and the situation they encounter in the dry deserted places, ensures them that God would never desert them… Also, God won’t just take individuals to the deserted/dry places; God will take whole nations to the desert [even churches].
Listen, if the world we live in now needs anything, it needs some Elijah’s. The world needs and it’s embarrassing to say but even churches need more Elijah’s. Men who will say what God wants said, and not what people want to hear them say.

There is another thing we can’t afford to miss here; while everyone else is suffering publically in good places, Elijah is experiencing God’s goodness privately in a seemingly bad place.

Remember

Water is important to our existence, and the God who withholds water from some can also give water to others.

Never underestimate the power of one totally dedicated life: This entire experience revolved around one dedicated life. But all of God’s critics and enemies were silenced because of the faith of one dedicated man. The bible is filled with stories of the difference one person’s dedication to God can make [Read Hebrews chapter 11]. What if more of us were really dedicated to the things of God?

THESE ARE JUST A FEW POINTS AND PRINCIPLES YOU’LL BE EXPOSED TO IN THIS SERMON SERIES