The Faith of An Overcomer - Audio

There is a period of time between God’s promise and the fulfillment of that promise. How we live during that time determines much about the fruition of that promise in our life. Most times, that time increment is a very frustrating time of life. It is easy for the flesh to convince us that God’s promise was not what we thought it to be. Often we will have to wrestle with our situation for much longer than we want to. Elijah was facing such at time. In our text Elijah has prophesied that there will be no rain until he says it will. After three and half years, there was a great famine in the land. Then God sends Elijah to declare that the rains would come. All of the things that Elijah did in the few chapters in which we see him, are an illustration to us on how to be an overcomer and see God’s promises come to pass in our life. In desperate times when things were at their worst; when it would have been easy to give up on ever seeing the promise come to pass. Through all this, the power of his faith showed through. When Elijah turned to Ahab and told him to get up to receive the abundance of rain, he too went on an upward path. He took himself to the top of the mountain. As Ahab elevated himself with food, Elijah elevated himself with prayer. After praying, Elijah sends his servant to look for rain. Six times, the servant returned with a report of NOTHING. After each of those six disappointing reports, Elijah simply says “Go Again.” Instead of being discouraged by repeated negative reports, he prayed even more fervently. On the seventh time, the servant returns with encouraging results, but not the magnitude that we would expect. There are three things about Elijah’s faith that are worth knowing. First was Elijah’s confidence. There was no indication that there was any chance of rain, but he trudged up that mountain confidently. Second, he had patience. There was a long time between promise and the fulfillment of that promise. No matter how many times he was disappointed, Elijah remained faithful He kept praying.Finally he persevered. He prayed and prayed again, and then prayed some more.