#661 – The Lord, He is God (1 Kings 18:37–39)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 1 June 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
We pray in faith that God will call His people according to His purpose. Let's pray that by God's grace many will turn in Christ declaring, "The Lord, He is God."
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | First Kings, chapter 18, verses 37 through 39. |
| 0:11.0 | Answer me, O Lord, answer me that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned their |
| 0:18.0 | hearts back. |
| 0:19.6 | Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood and the stones and the dust and |
| 0:24.9 | licked up the water that was in the trench and when all the people saw it they fell on |
| 0:29.8 | their faces and said the Lord he is God the Lord he is God. The Lord he is God. These verses come at the end of one of the most |
| 0:39.7 | awesome pictures we see in the Old Testament, Elijah before the prophets of bail, |
| 0:45.0 | calling out for God to bring down fire from heaven to show that he, not the Canaanite |
| 0:51.0 | reign God bail, that God God alone the Lord is worthy of worship and it all |
| 0:56.7 | culminates in this prayer at the end of the chapter that |
| 1:00.5 | Elijah offers before God answer answer me, so that this people may know. |
| 1:06.0 | Show your power, send your fire, so this people may know |
| 1:10.0 | that you, oh Lord, our God, and God answers. |
| 1:14.2 | The fire of the Lord falls, consumes up this offering, |
| 1:18.0 | and all this water that was around the trench |
| 1:20.2 | and causes all the people to bow on their faces and cry out, |
| 1:24.5 | the Lord he is God, the Lord he is God. |
| 1:27.0 | What a powerful picture of prayer, |
| 1:32.0 | of pleading for God to show his glory in ways that resound to his praise among people around us. |
| 1:45.0 | Among individuals and entire people groups, |
| 1:49.0 | like think about these words as you pray for people's salvation. |
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