When God is your source, you're not intimidated by bigger people, more powerful people, because of who you have working with you.

Dr. Tony Evans talks about the important link between our commitment and our confidence.

Until you get to that place, you're not fully committed. You have limited or lost access to the miraculous.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans.

Author, speaker, senior pastor of Oaklef Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

According to Dr. Evans, seeing God show up in your life in more practical, powerful ways is directly related to something you have the power to change.

He explains what it is as he takes us to the book of First Kings for today's message.

What I want to suggest to you today from the life of Elijah is that the amount of the supernatural you get to see will be directly related to the level of your spiritual commitment.

That if you are a part-time Christian, don't expect full-time miracles. Israel is dealing with a problem that brought the prophet Elijah on the scene in the first place.

That is, they are attraction to idols. They were attracted to Bale and Asherah, Bale's girlfriend.

The idols that had now consumed the culture, even those who named the name of God.

An idol is an unauthorized now, person, place, or thing that you look to for that thing to be the source of a need being met.

Something God has not approved, but you're looking to it to be the source of your provision. That's an idol.

Granted, we over here don't worship trees by and large or the moon or the stars.

Well, I can't really say that because folks are still checking their horoscopes as an unauthorized source.

Because the Bible says when you check astrology to find your source in your direction based on the movement of the stars or the month you were born or any of the like,

you have appeal to an unauthorized source. Just look at what's happening in the culture and you gravitate to that, whether it's people or power or possessions or whether it's prestige.

We have seen some of the supernatural activity of Elijah, and we've tried to say this transfers over to you today.

The principle of God's supernatural work that we're discovering in his life relates to your life.

We come in chapter 18 and we come to a place where now the prophet Elijah confronts King Ahab.

He confronts King Ahab and he confronts him in chapter 18 verse 17.

And when Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, is this you, you, trouble of Israel?

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