Regaining Your Bearings
Experience God with Bishop Dale C. Bronner
Word of Faith Family Worship Cathedral
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Sunday, May 3, 2026 I 1 Kings 19:9–13 (NLT)
When the greatest victory of your life is followed by the greatest threat against your life, what do you do? In this powerful message from 1 Kings 19, Bishop Dale Bronner shows us how God Himself restores a prophet who has lost his bearings — and how the same five movements God used to put Elijah back together are available to anyone whose soul has been shaken by trauma.
Drawing on a striking metaphor from mechanical engineering — bearings as the components that reduce friction in everything that moves — Bishop Bronner introduces the word for the day: equanimity. He unpacks Elijah's four trauma responses (running, isolating, exhausting, despairing) and then walks through the five ways God restores him — by feeding the body, giving space to process, cutting through the chaos until a whisper can be heard, restoring purpose, and correcting distorted perspective.
The message lands on a thunderous prophetic word for everyone who has been written off, delayed, or pronounced finished: "It's not going to end the way that it looks."
If you have been thrown off balance — by loss, betrayal, a diagnosis, a death threat dressed up in different language — this message is a steadying word.
📖 Scripture References:
- 1 Kings 18 (background — Mount Carmel)
- 1 Kings 19:9–13 (the still small voice)
- 1 Kings 19:15–18 (anointing of Hazael, Jehu, Elisha; the seven thousand)
- 1 Corinthians 14:33 ("God is not the author of confusion, but of peace")
- Mark 4:35–41 (Jesus asleep in the storm)
- Romans 8:38–39 ("neither height nor depth…")
- Philippians 4:7 ("the peace that passes understanding")
- Hebrews 13:5 ("I will never leave you nor forsake you")
- Isaiah 30:21 ("This is the way; walk in it")
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let's read our texts for today. |
| 0:03.0 | Just attend to your hearing to the Word of the Lord for today. |
| 0:07.0 | First Kings chapter 19, verse 9 through 13 in the new living translation of the scriptures. |
| 0:13.0 | Notice there these words. |
| 0:15.0 | There he came to a cave where he spent the night. |
| 0:19.0 | But the Lord said to him, |
| 0:21.4 | What are you doing here, Elijah? |
| 0:24.6 | Elijah replied, |
| 0:26.6 | I have zealously served the Lord God Almighty. |
| 0:30.4 | But the people of Israel have broken their covenant with you, |
| 0:34.4 | torn down your altars and killed every one of your prophets. |
| 0:39.2 | I am the only one left. |
| 0:42.4 | And now they are trying to kill me too. |
| 0:45.8 | Go out and stand before me on the mountain, the Lord told him. |
| 0:51.4 | And as Elijah stood there, the Lord passed by in a mighty windstorm hit the mountain. |
| 0:59.0 | It was such a terrible blast that the rocks were torn loose, but the Lord was not in the wind. |
| 1:05.7 | And after the wind, there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. |
| 1:09.1 | And after the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. |
| 1:13.9 | And after the fire, that was the sound of a gentle whisper. |
| 1:19.1 | And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. |
| 1:26.3 | And a voice said, what are you doing here, Elijah? |
| 1:32.2 | And I'm speaking today from the subject, regaining your bearings. |
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