1 Kings 18:17-40This picture is found in the Gospel Art Book (in this book are a few more pictures than in the Gospel Art Kit....but no stories are printed on the pictures.)
Click on the scripture reference above or look it up in your own scriptures (pg. 497) It's a great story!
WOW! I just clicked on the reference above and then continued to "click around".... there are NO excuses for not "knowing"!
MY WORD: Elijah must have been "highly favored" by God. I know of one other Prophet that used the Priesthood power to stop the rain from falling, that was Nephi (the son of Helaman). Read about Nephi and learn what he did to be given such power. Do you suppose that Elijah was the same type of man? What was the point of Elijah's challenge to the priests of Baal? How important is it to KNOW that the Prophet is called of God? If you KNOW this to be true, how does it change your heart, mind, choices? FYI: The reason Elijah had the alter and sacrifice soaked with water was because some alters of Baal were 'rigged' with firestarters under the sacrifice. Not only was Elijah's sacrifice wet but the fire came down to consume the offering, and everything around it!
ASSIGNMENT: Read 1 Kings 18:21....what choices are you struggling with? "Develop discipline of self so that, more and more, you do not have to decide and redecide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You only need to decide some things just once!" President Spencer W. Kimball (the Prophet when I was a teenager!) What changes will you make in your life to be more like Elijah and Nephi as far as "seeking the Lord's will and not thine own life"? (Believe it or not that is a big challenge for me!) In what ways is President Thomas S. Monson like Elijah and Nephi?
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