Lessons from Elijah, Week 3, Day 5 -The Gospel Truth

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Andrew Wommack’s daily TV program: Gospel Truth To subscribe to Andrew’s email newsletter: http://www.awmi.net/youtube-subscribe/ This series is lessons from Elijah. Learning through experience definitely makes an impression. We can all learn from hard knocks, but it’s a lot less painful to learn by example. First Corinthians 10:6 and 11 say that the experiences of those in the Bible were recorded for our examples. Elijah’s story is full of great examples, both good and bad. 00:06 Andrew continues his series on Lessons from Elijah. 02:03 The truth is, there is no god, but one true God. (John 17:3) 03:02 There is a great truth here in 1 Kings 18:41, and that is that you can see things by the Spirit. You can know things spiritually that you cannot know physically. 03:42 People who are praying, and then asking for a physical manifestation, but they haven’t first seen it on the inside, they aren’t going to get it. You have to first see it on the inside, before you see it on the outside. 05:37 (1 Kings 18:42) “So Ahab went up to eat and to drink…” This is amazing. He’d just seen his Baal worship, that he instituted, totally defeated, and possibly in danger himself, yet he went to eat and drink, as if nothing had ever happened. 08:37 (1 Kings 18:42-43) Elijah was praying, and seven times he sent his servant to see if there was a physical indication of what he was praying for. This is one of the lessons that I learned from Elijah. I don’t ask God for things over, and over, and over. For instance, if I prayed twice for healing in my body, then one of those two times, I didn’t believe I received when I prayed. “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” (Mark 11:24) 10:06 (1 Thessalonians 5:17) “Pray without ceasing.” This means pray, and don’t quit that prayer until you see that manifestation. It’s never God that doesn’t answer our prayer, God answers, and we receive the moment we pray. But, there is a period of time when we say amen, and there it is. Until we see the manifestation. 12:15 Elijah prayed once for rain, but sent his servant seven times to check for the manifestation. This is recorded in James 5:17….”he prayed earnestly…” He didn’t just pray one little prayer and say, ‘Oh, God, send rain,’ and then sit back and just wait. No, he prayed, and he knew that God was flowing through him, and he didn’t quit his intercession, until he saw the beginning to the answer to his prayer. 13:40 Here’s a direct lesson to learn from Elijah. You just ask for something from God one time, and you believe you receive it. You continue to pray, but you are just enforcing the prayer that you’ve already prayed. You aren’t re-praying it. You’re not doubting that you receive the first time, just because you couldn’t see something. You just continue to pray. 14:57 You have to pray prayers of intercession for other people, over and over. But when you’re praying for yourself, you just believe that you receive, but you don’t just quit praying. You stand on that, and you command your body to respond. You command your finances to respond. You rebuke the devil and get him out of the way. It’s just one prayer, but then you enforce it. 16:50 Elijah had come from nowhere. He had spoken the word of God, and boldly stood in front of King Ahab, who had been killing all the prophets of God. (1 Kings 17:1) He identified himself with the God that Ahab was trying to stamp out. Yet, he was bold and he was protected. (1 Kings 17:3-4); (1 Kings 17:9-16); (Luke 4:25); (1 Kings 17:22) 18:15 Elijah had a string of unbroken successes. He had seen things happen that no other living person on this planet had ever seen. Elijah was flowing in the power of God, and he was so pumped and excited, that he outran a chariot of over twenty miles, with the chariot having a head start. 20:37 Elijah was operating in the full measure of what he had, but it was inferior to what you and I have. We have power, and authority that Elijah never even thought of. God has equipped, He has given everything that we could need, not just for our own lives, but so that we could affect our nation, and others. The problem is that we just don’t know what we have, and we aren’t fully utilizing it. 22:38 We would see the miraculous power of God manifest through our lives the same as Elijah did for his and even greater (if we would boldly stand up and speak the word not being afraid of man) & links to next video. ============================================ Andrew Wommack Ministries http://www.awmi.net/ https://www.facebook.com/AWMinistries https://twitter.com/andrewwommack https://instagram.com/andrewwommack/ https://www.pinterest.com/andrewwommack/ ====================================================== https://youtu.be/X6cIlUgGSSQ

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