Cgeneration devotional

Psalms‬ ‭103:11-14‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ “For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.” ‭‭

Elijah had just achieved very great victories in his life and ministry. However, right after the victory was a big challenge threatening to pull him down. How can we ensure we sustain our victories?

Elijah had given his word to Ahab that a rainstorm was coming. Yet when Elijah went up on mount Carmel to pray and he sent his servant to check whether there were any clouds, nothing had changed. He sent his servant out several times but still, the circumstances did not change. What should we do when we pray but the situation doesn’t seem to change? What can we learn from Elijah?

James‬ ‭5:17-18‬ ‭NLT‬‬ says “Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years! Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops.”

1 Kings‬ ‭18:38-39‬ ‭NLT‬‬ “Immediately the fire of the Lord flashed down from heaven and burned up the young bull, the wood, the stones, and the dust. It even licked up all the water in the trench! And when all the people saw it, they fell face down on the ground and cried out, “The Lord—he is God! Yes, the Lord is God!”” ‭‭Hallelujah!

Isaiah‬ ‭45:20‬ ‭NLT‬‬ says ““What fools they are who carry around their wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save!” You may have gods and idols and not even realise it! There are so many contemporary idols and we may not know when we get hooked on them.

Matthew‬ ‭13:15‬ ‭NLT‬‬ “For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes— so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.’”

1 Kings‬ ‭18:21‬ ‭MSG‬‬ “Elijah challenged the people: “How long are you going to sit on the fence? If God is the real God, follow him; if it’s Baal, follow him. Make up your minds!” Nobody said a word; nobody made a move.” Where do you stand? Are you still sitting on the fence or limping between two opinions? If Jesus is Lord, then follow him!‭‭

In 1 Kings 18:1, God sent Elijah as His representative to meet with Ahab. As Christians, God is daily sending us out as His representatives to the people we come in contact with daily so that we can reconcile them to Christ. How well are we representing Him?

For three years Elijah had been in hiding as instructed by God after he prophesied that there would be no rain. Then one day, God tells him to go back and meet with Ahab, the evil king who by now was searching desperately for Elijah with very evil intentions towards him. But Elijah confidently obeyed God and went to meet with Ahab even in the face of danger. How could Elijah be so bold and fearles...

In 1 kings 17:1-2, God sent Elijah to Ahab to tell him that there would be no rain in the land of Samaria then He told Elijah to go and hide. Now in 1 Kings 18, after 3years of hiding God told Elijah to go back and tell Ahab that it would soon rain. So why did God change his mind? What happened in those three years to make God say that it was time for the rains to fall again in Samaria? Had Ahab a...

One reality that we need to come to terms with is that we must face problems and challenges in life, regardless of our age, gender, religion or where we come from. Some of these challenges can be really painful and can shake our faith. So what should we do when challenges come?

Many Christians have been programmed to think that bad things shouldn’t happen to Christians so when they do, we get confused

At the brook of Cherith, Elijah learnt to trust God for himself as we saw at our devotional yesterday. He learnt to trust God completely as his source. But when the brook dried up, God was indirectly telling Elijah that it was time to move to a new level of trust in his relationship with God. So God directed him to a widow in Zarephath. But what did God want Elijah to learn here?

Sometimes we really can’t understand God! God gave Elijah specific instructions to go and hide by the Cherith brook only for the brook to dry up after a while! A lot of people would have been really confused at that point. Did God really speak to them to go to the brook? If He did then why did He allow the brook to dry up?

‭‭I Kings‬ ‭17:3-4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ ““Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”” There were a million and one places that God could have sent Elijah to, so why send him to Cherith? There were millions of people that God could have used to feed Elij...

‭‭I Kings‬ ‭17:2-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ “Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan.” Elijah had just pronounced God’s judgment and told Ahab that there would be no rain in the land. So why then did God tell Elijah to go into hiding?

Elijah was one of the most significant and intriguing Prophets in the bible. He was a prophet in Israel during the reign of the very evil king, King Ahab. Join me from today as we learn life lessons from this remarkable man of God.

I’ve heard people ask questions like ‘what is heaven like? Or what would we be doing when we get there? Will we just be floating around doing nothing? Revelations 21 gives us a glimpse of how beautiful heaven will be.

Some people say that once we accept Jesus and believe in him as our Lord and saviour, then we automatically have eternal life and we will go to heaven regardless of how we live our lives after we get saved. But what does the bible say?

2 Corinthians‬ ‭5:10‬ ‭EASY‬‬ “Because all of us must go and stand in front of Christ as our judge. He will decide about the things that we have done during our lives here on earth. Whether we have done good things or bad things, we will receive what is right for us.”

1 Chronicles‬ ‭29:15‬ ‭NLT‬‬ says “We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so soon without a trace.”

God loves us to bits but He’s not going to do what we want.

Serving God is a big priority for us as God’s children. But there are times that God doesn’t want us to serve.

Giving to God has been surrounded by all kinds of ideas and opinions but what does the bible say?