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In 1 Kings 18, Elijah, a prophet of God <\/span>had a \u201cshowdown\u201d on Mount Carmel with the prophets of Baal, wherein they set up two altars and declared that whoever is able to call on their god to bring down fire on the sacrifice is the true God. Sure enough, even when 450 prophets of Baal cried out to their false god from morning to evening, shouting and dancing and even slashing themselves as was their <\/span>practice when offering sacrifices, nothing happened. But when Elijah had the people pour water on the sacrifice and drench the whole altar in water, he simply prayed that God would show the people that He, the Lord, is God, and fire fell from heaven and burned the sacrifice, the altar, even the stones and soil and dried up all the water. This miracle resulted in the Israelites’ repentance and they killed all the false prophets. This <\/span>also greatly <\/span>angered King Ahab’s wife, Queen Jezebel, so much that she sought to kill Elijah, and Elijah ran for his life and hid in the wilderness to escape Jezebel’s wrath.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Here we find Elijah after all his running and hiding. He was feeling very much sorry for himself and he didn’t know what to do. But God had a message for him; <\/span>a plan, a message and a word of instruction; and in Elijah’s case, <\/span>this is how He let His presence be known.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Bible Passage: 1 Kings 19:11-12<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThen He said, \u201cGo out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.\u201d And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Points to Ponder:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Application:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n P<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>rayer: <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>(A prayer by <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Fr. James B. Reuter, S.J.<\/i><\/span><\/span>)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n LORD, Look down upon us, this day, this hour. Regardless of what has gone before, or what will come after, give us the grace to consecrate this time entirely to You\u2014all the actions of our body and soul.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n May all the thoughts that come to us be true.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n May all the things to which our hearts go out be beautiful, with the beauty of God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n May all the things we want be good.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Give us the light to see Your will, the grace to love it, and the courage and strength to do it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n We ask You this through Christ Our Lord.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Amen.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fruits of the Spirit: LESSON 8 PART 2 \u2013 Gentleness (1 Kings 19:12) LESSON:\u00a0GENTLENESS (The Spirit’s still, small voice) Memory Verse: \u201cAnd after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.\u201d – 1 Kings 19:12 (NKJV) Background: In 1 Kings 18, Elijah, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,835],"tags":[83,274,311,320,333,383],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fruit-of-the-spirit-lessons","category-lesson-8-gentleness","tag-a-still-small-voice","tag-elijah","tag-fr-james-b-reuter-s-j","tag-fruits-of-the-spirit-lessons","tag-gentleness","tag-holy-spirit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3712,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/3712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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