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All right we are and get ready for today's sermon.

All right, we are two-thirds of the way through our study of Elijah.

I hope you've enjoyed it.

If you've got a Bible, go in the Old Testament

to 1st King's chapter 19 and we're going to answer this question

how do you discern the presence of God and this is a significant moment in history

where God speaks to a man of God and he obeys that word of God,

and it changes his life.

So the big issue is, how do you know

that God is present in your life

and speaking into your life?

I'll start with a bit of a story.

I've been a senior pastor now for 27

years and one thing that always happens is people are I just need to meet with a

senior pastor or a pastor so they will tell me what to do it. I'll tell you

we don't know what to do it. I'll tell you we don't know what to do let alone

for you and the thought is that well surely God would speak to the leader.

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