{"id":2919,"date":"2022-06-30T18:53:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2022-06-30T18:53:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:53:25","slug":"where-are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/30\/where-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are We?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To the question, \u201c\u2026 Where is the LORD God of Elijah? \u2026 \u201d <\/strong>(2 Kings 2:14), we answer, Where He has always been- on the throne! But where are the Elijah\u2019s of God? We know Elijah \u201c\u2026was a man subject to like passions as we are\u2026\u201d<\/strong> (James 5: 17), but alas, we are not men or prayer as he was. One praying man stands as a majority With God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God is by-passing men today, not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks. Elijah came on the Old Testament stage, out of obscurity, a full-grown man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen Jezebel had routed the priests of God and had replaced them with groves to false deities. Darkness covered the land, and gross darkness the people, and they were drinking iniquity like water. The land, fouled with heathen temples and idolatrous rites, saw smoke curling from a thousand cruel altars every day. All among a people who claimed Abraham as their father, and whose fore bearers had cried unto the Lord in their trouble and had been delivered out of all their distresses. How is the glory departed? The salt lost its savor? The gold become dim?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the midst of this measureless backsliding, God raised up a man- not a committee, not a sect, nor an angel, but a man a man of like passions as we are! As then, so now, God says, \u201c\u2026 I sought for a man \u2026\u201d<\/strong>, not to preach but to \u201c\u2026stand in the gap \u2026\u201d<\/strong> (Ezekiel 22:30).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abraham and now Elijah both stood before the Lord. The blessed Holy Spirit wrote the life summary of Elijah in two words, \u201che prayed.\u201d<\/strong> No man can do more for God or for men than that. If the church today had as many agonizers <\/em>as she has advisers, <\/em>we could have revival!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Praying men are our national benefactors. Elijah was such; he had heard a voice, seen a vision, tasted a power, measured an enemy, and, with God as partner, wrought a victory. The tears he shed, the soul agonies he endured, and the groans he uttered are all recorded in the book of the Chronicles of the things of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he emerged to prophesy with divine infallibility. He knew the mind of God. He \u2013 one man \u2013 strangled a nation and altered the course of nature. He stood as majestic and immovable as the mountains of Gilead as he shut up the heavens with a word. Wonderful indeed it is, when God lays hold of a man! Earth can know only one greater wonder just now, and that is when a man lays hold of God. Let Moses in the spirit groan, and God cries out, \u201c\u2026 let me alone \u2026\u201d<\/strong> (Exodus 32:1 0). We follow Paul in doctrine, but not in suffering. We would Elijah\u2019s accomplishments, but not his banishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brethren, if we all do God\u2019s work, in God\u2019s way, at God\u2019s time, with God\u2019s power, we shall have God\u2019s blessing. When God opens the windows of Heaven to bless us, the devil will open the door of Hell to blast us. God\u2019s smile means the devil\u2019s frown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The preacher may help anybody and hurt nobody. He may go with the crowd; the prophet goes against it. A man freed, fired, and filled with God will be branded unpatriotic if he speaks against his nation\u2019s sins. He will be labeled unkind because his tongue is a two edged sword, and unbalanced because the weight of preaching opinion is against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The preacher will be heralded, the prophet hounded. We love the old saints, missionaries, and martyrs and will read their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs \u2013 do anything except followtheir example. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch carefully the first drop of our own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John the Baptist did well to evade prison for six months. He and Elijah would not last six weeks in the streets of our modem cities. They would be cast into prison or some mental institution for not muting their message. The difficulties to world evangelism are legion, but difficulties give way to determined men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Got any rivers you think are uncrossable?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Got any mountains you cannot tunnel through?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God specializes in things thought impossible,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And He can do what no other one can do.<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us. Elijah lived with God, thought like God about sin, grieved over sin, and spoke against sin. He was all passion in his prayers, and passionate in his denunciation of evil in the land. He did no smooth <\/em>preaching. Passion fired his preaching, and his words were on the hearts of men as molten metal would be on their flesh.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"