Two things that God cannot, cannot do. His promises may not be fulfilled the way we want them.

They may not be fulfilled when we want them fulfilled, but he will always keep his promise. He will

always fulfill his promise. So if you already haven't opened your Bibles, and it's First Kings chapter 18,

but particularly I'm going to focus on verses 41 to 46. Those are very few verses, but they are

loaded, loaded with teaching for each of us to know not only how to pray, but what to pray for. Because here you're

going to find Elijah basically in a desperate situation again clinging to the promises of God.

Now, he's been growing. He's been walking with the Lord in intimacy. He's been developing.

And somebody was asking me last night about how to walk

by faith. And I explained, I said, faith is like a muscle. You exercise it and it grows with exercise.

If you go and you never lifted weight and then you begin with picking up a hundred pound, and you start, well,

you're going to do major damage to your body. So don't go out and begin to exercise faith by

doing something that is huge to the point of you get discouraged. But begin taking small steps. And as you grow in your faith,

take another bigger step, then a bigger step, then a bigger step. Just remember this image.

Faith is like a muscle. It will grow with exercise. The more you exercise faith, the more your faith

is going to grow. And that's what we're seeing here

in the life of elijah would be watched a man's faith growing and as he walked with the lord

and so before i get to the text i want to tell you a couple of things about the promises of god that of

uttermost importance do not miss these ones. And if you

are taking notice, I will speak slowly so you can write them down. Some of the promises of God in the

Bible are conditional. Some promises are general in nature. Some promises that God will only answer when you and I meet the conditions

for that promise. I'm going to give you some examples in a minute. Some conditional, some

unconditional. Some of God's promises are personal. That means they are limited to one person at that time in which

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