Amen and amen and amen.

If you got your Bibles and I hope you do, First King chapter 18 is where we're going to be. We're in week five of this series on Elijah, study the life of a prophet. And I just want to let you know that we basically started news service times at almost all of our campuses. So if it's a little crowded like it is at San Pablo, if you had to park over at Publix and don't want to die on the road.

By the way, we need our Christians to park in publics

in case you get killed.

I see in heaven, you know, on the way over. But we have a 422 service here, and we really aimed it at you, you know, families with little kids, so it matches nap time and dinner time and all that stuff. So love for you to do that. or if one of our other campuses, check with your campus pastors to see what our new times are because we got a lot of people showing up.

All right,

I hope you're excited about this. This is in week five, but you ever binge watch a show and then you kind of get into it and you still got to watch the recap, you know, because you kind of forget who's doing what. So I'm going to give you a little recap just to catch us up, all right? So previously on Elijah, here's what's happened. If you remember in week one, Elijah's a prophet of God.

He comes out of nowhere. give you a little recap just to catch us up, all right? So previously on Elijah, here's what's

happened. If you remember in week one, Elijah is the prophet of God. He comes out of nowhere. He lives in utter obscurity and then kind of comes walking out of the woods with a leather belt and camel and probably baldheaded with a beard like most godly people are. And God's got a call on his life. and he goes straight to the king, King Ahab,

Ahab's no good, puts his finger in his chest.

And he's like a call on his life. And he goes straight to the king, King Ahab is no good, puts his finger in his chest. And he's like, because of you and your disobedience and the fact that you married Jezebel and you've been worshiping false God, God's going to turn off the rain for the next three years. And that was a really, really, really big deal. And then God says, and I want you go to this brook called Sharith.

It means cut off. But what God was doing is God was preparing Elijah for the ministry that he had.

And the key to understanding all of Elijah's life is in 1st King 17, it says, so Elijah went and did according to the word of the Lord.

What do you do when you find yourself in an impossible situation? That's what we're gonna talk about. Well, what Elijah did is he just did, whatever it is that the word of the Lord told him to do. And so he goes to this brook, starts out really great, these dirty, nasty, filthy birds called Ravens began to bring him food. By the way, I found out we

have Ravens fans here. What is wrong with you people, all right? But it started out good.

They bring him food every morning, every evening, everything's going great. And then there's this

one little verse in 1st King 17. It says, and then the brook dried up and sometimes the brook dries up and what's crazy

about our sovereign god is he does not mind drying up the brook in our life if it gets us off our

blessed assurance to go on to the next thing that god has for us j i packer says this and still he seeks

the fellowship of his people and he will bring both joy or pain,

whatever it takes to detach our hands from the things of this world that we would grab onto him.

And so Elijah gets up, because the brook dried up, goes to the next thing. He does what God tells

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