A Royal Pain | Part 8

Jezebel Jitters

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It’s axiomatic: the lowest valleys in life follow the highest peaks. Elijah’s life is no exception. Look at what just happened:

• He watched his God drop fire from heaven to consume his offering
• He slaughtered 450 prophets of Baal
• He prayed for and received rain for the first time in 3 years
• He ran in front of Ahab’s chariot all the way from Mt. Carmel to Jezreel

Life doesn’t get any more spiritually thrilling than that.

Now see what happens next: Jezebel threatens Elijah’s life so he takes off running into the wilderness in a downward spiral of fear, myopia, loneliness, self-pity, despair, and spiritual deafness.

In this week’s message we examined those qualities that fear brought to Elijah along with how God cared for and corrected his prophet.

Note: I read from The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon during the message.