God speaks today Thursday | January 6, 2022
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
(1 Kings 19:10)For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
(1 John 5:4) My love for you consumes me
Elijah had just experienced two great spiritual victories but still fled in terror and abandoned his duty. God asked him twice, "What are you doing here?" Similarly, we can also find ourselves in the wrong place despite feeling close to God. We need to trust in His direction and be willing to be relocated for His glory. Our love for Him should consume us and guide us to obedience. When we feel weak or fearful, God will be by our side and speak to us in a soft whisper. We should strive to be in the exact place where His glory is the only thing that counts.
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But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
(1 Corinthians 15:57)Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
(1 John 4:4)For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
(1 Kings 18:4)Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
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