When you Feel like Being Voted Off

WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE BEING VOTED OFF...
1 KINGS 19:1-18



STORY: IN 1982 LARRY WALTERS A MAN WHO WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT HIS RECENT RETIREMENT AFTER 25 YEARS OF TRUCK DRIVING - SAT IN HIS LAWN CHAIR IN HIS BACKYARD IN A SUBURB OF LOS ANGELES …. THE REPORTERS ASKED THREE PROFOUND QUESTIONS

· #1 – WE’RE YOU SCARED?
· #2 – ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT AGAIN?
· #3 – WHY DID YOU DO IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?

UNFORTUNATELY– THE DESPAIR AND MEANINGLESSNESS GOT THE BEST OF LARRY WALTERS – HE TOOK HIS OWN LIFE IN 1993

WITH GREAT VICTORY – CAME THE AGONY OF DEFEAT

THE PROPHET ELIJAH EXPERIENCED THE SAME TYPE OF SITUATION – READ PASSAGE

ELIJAH WAS A HEBREW PROPHET, WHO LIVED IN THE NINTH CENTURY BEFORE THE BIRTH OF JESUS.

HE BECAME A LEGEND IN ISRAEL, SO MUCH THAT 900 YEARS LATER, PEOPLE WERE STILL TALKING ABOUT HIM WHEN JESUS CAME ON THE SCENE.

ELIJAH WILL RETURN TO ANNOUNCE THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH, THEY SAID. SOME PEOPLE EVEN THOUGHT THAT JOHN ...