And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.
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Go again. Go again. Go again. Go again. Go again. It's kind of like a 21-day fast. Again. Go again. Go again. Another day. Another day. I'm glad he didn't give up. I'm glad he didn't stop on six. I'm glad he didn't stop on three. Then he came to pass the seventh time that he said, there is a cloud as small as a man's hand rising out of the sea. So he said, go up and say to Ahab, prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you. All he had was a cloud the size of a man's hand. And now he's making a prophetic declaration. you better move and get off this mountain while you're still alive. There is coming a gully washer like you wouldn't believe. And if you don't go now, you may not get off this mountain. now it happened in the meantime that the sky became something's happening in the meantime when you're going after God for 21 days you don't see it it may be very small seemingly now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with the clouds and wind and there was a heavy rain after three and a half years of no rain, no moisture, even in the mornings, no dew. …
and he said to his servant, go look toward the sea, that's towards the Mediterranean, and he went and looked. There's nothing there, he said. Seven times, Elijah said, go back. Nothing there, go back. Nothing there, go back. I'm telling you, there's nothing there, go back. No, there's still nothing there, go back. I can't, I didn't see anything, go back. The seventh time, the servant reported, a cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea. So Elijah said, go tell Ahab, hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you, before the road turns into a mud pit, get on out of here. Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds and the wind rose. A heavy rain started falling. Baal couldn't provide rain for three and a half years. But now here comes the rain. And Ahab rode off to Jezreel. That's the main town up the road about 15 to 20 miles away. And the power of the Lord, it's one of my favorite verses in the Bible, came on Elijah as if it wasn't already on him. …
"There is a sound of abundance of rain." 1 Kings 18:41. FROM the narrative we may learn that things can never be so bad but what God can bring deliverance in His own time. The country had been parched in Palestine for three years. Travelers in the East will tell you how brown and burned that country looks at all times, but how it must have appeared when the clouds cleaved together and all the pastures were turned to dust, I can scarcely conceive. It must have been a terrible and piteous sight when the cattle had perished and the people were ready to die through famine and hunger. Yet, bad as it was, when the clouds had long ago vanished, when the children of three years old did not know what a drop of rain meant, when the skies seemed to be as brass above the heads of poor tortured mortals, then it was that the word of God came to Elijah, saying, "There shall yet be rain." Courage, then! If the times should be full of danger, if there should be forebodings in the hearts of the bravest, if infidelity should threaten to put out the light of the Gospel, or if Romanism should seem to blot out the name of Christ from under Heaven, yet God can still appear! And if any one Church is left and the Lord commands the clouds that they rain no rain upon her, her hedges be broken down, the wild boars out of the woods waste her and she seem to be utterly left, yet at the last hour of the day, when her hope all but expires, Jehovah, her Friend, may come to help her! And so with us personally—if we are brought to the last handful of meal in the barrel and the last drop of oil in the cruse—if we are brought so low that now it seems relief would come too late, or could not possibly come at all, the Lord, who has His way in the whirlwind and who makes the clouds the dust of His feet, can now come from above! On cherubim and seraphim, right royally can He descend in speedy flight and bring help to His needy servants! Let us, therefore, drive despair away! There is no room for that in Jehovah's world! As long as He still reigns, let the earth rejoice and let His people wait upon Him in hope. …