1052. The Contest on Mt. Carmel — 1 Kings 18: 25-40

1052.

​1. A Plague of Blood

 

Today's Passage: 1 Kings 18:25-40

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Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you for insight.
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6th strategy.
Cause and Effect
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• Begin by inviting God to show you what is the cause and effect hidden in these verses. Ask Him to show you nuggets of wisdom.
• Read the passage completely.
• Divide a piece of paper into two columns.
• Title the first column Cause and the second column Effect
• Reread the passage. This time ask if there are any instructions that are given that have a direct end result.
• Write down the causes (in Cause column)and the effects (in the Effects column).
• Do you find a pattern?
• What are your thoughts?
• Now as you wrap all these thoughts up in your mind. Stop and thank God for being with you this very day.

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25. Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "You go first, for there are many of you. Choose one of the  bulls, and prepare it and call upon  the name of your god. But do not set fire to the wood."

26. So they prepared one of the bulls and placed it on the altar. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning until noontime, shouting, "O Baal, answer us!" But there was no reply of any kind. Then they danced, hobbling around the altar they had made.

27. About noontime Elijah began mocking them. "You'll have to shout louder," he scoffed, "for surely he is a god! Perhaps he is daydreaming, or is relieving himself. Or maybe he is away on a trip, or is asleep and needs to be wakened!" 

28. So they shouted louder, and following their normal custom, they cut themselves with knives and swords until blood gushed out.
29. They raved all afternoon until the time of the evening sacrifice, but still there was no sound, no reply, no response.

30. Then Elijah called to the people, "Come over here!" They all crowded around him as he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down.
31. He took twelve stones, one to represent each of the tribes of Israel, 
32. and he used the stones to rebuild the altar in the name of the LORD. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold about three gallons.
33.  He piled wood on the altar, cut the bull into pieces, and laid the pieces on the wood.
Then he said, "Fill four large jars with water, and pour the water over the offering and the wood."
34. After they had done this, he said, "Do the same thing again!" And when they were finished, he said, "Now do it a third time!" So they did as he said,
35. and the water ran around the altar and even filled the trench.
36. At the usual time for offering the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet walked up to the altar and prayed, "O LORD, God of Abraham  Isaac, and Jacob, prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant. Prove that I have done all this at your command.
37. O LORD, answer me! Answer me so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God and that you have brought them back to yourself."

38. Immediately the fire of the LORD flashed down from heaven and burned up the young bull, the wood, the stones and the dust. It even licked up all the water in the trench!
39. And when all the people saw it, they fell face down on the ground and cried out, "The LORD — he is God! Yes, the LORD is God!"
40. Then Elijah commanded, "Seize all the prophets of Baal. Don't let a single one escape!" So the people seized them all, and Elijah took them down to the Kishon Valley and killed them there.
1 Kings 18:25-40 NLT

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