Hey, church family. If you got your Bible, we're going to be back in First Kings again in our Devo time.

And we're going to just pick it up with this event with Elijah, in case you missed yesterday.

Elijah faces down 850 prophets of bail. They dance around like people. They cut themselves and passionately worship this false God.

And the false God never shows up because he's a false God.

And that's what false gods do.

They make promises they can't keep.

And when you cry out to them, they let you down.

And we're not talking about something three or four thousand years ago.

We're talking about something that happens three or four times a week in our own lives. And so after Elijah calls down fire and God shows up in a mighty

way and all of Israel bows down and worships God, Elijah tells Ahab, King Ahab, all right, you need to go

back and tell everybody what just happened.

And then this crazy thing happens.

Elijah turns the rain back on.

That's kind of cool because there had been a drought for three years. And then he tells Ahab, get in your chariot, you better take off and go fast lest you get bogged down in the rain.

Again, it hasn't rained for three years, but this is what he claims.

And then Ahab gets in his chariot and takes off, and the Bible says, I love this.

He says, in the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he gathered up his garment and ran before

Ahab to the entrance of Jezrael.

So imagine this in your mind.

There's Ahab.

He just seen all of his 850 prophets get

wiped out by Elijah and the Lord, and now he's on his chariot and he's heading back to town.

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