When Elijah was at his lowest point, God told him these three important things: <\/p>\n
(1) Spend more time with God. \u2018Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Kings\u00a019:11\u00a0NKJV) That was where God spoke to him in \u2018a still small voice.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Kings\u00a019:12\u00a0NKJV) The word \u2018still\u2019<\/i> teaches us that instead of always working for God, we need to spend time with Him. If you don\u2019t, you will run on empty, and get nowhere. When David was feeling down, he wrote: \u2018Many are saying\u2026 \u201cGod won\u2019t rescue him.\u201d But, Lord, You are my shield, my wonderful God who gives me courage. I will pray to the Lord and He will answer me.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a03:2\u20134\u00a0NCV) <\/p>\n
(2) Stop trying to do it all yourself.<\/i> That\u2019s the fast route to depression. Leadership isn\u2019t just about getting the job done; it\u2019s about developing others and getting it done through them. Elijah wasn\u2019t alone. God told him, \u2018I have reserved seven thousand in Israel\u2026 whose knees have not bowed to Baal.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Kings\u00a019:18\u00a0NKJV) Don\u2019t just operate\u2014learn to cooperate! <\/p>\n
(3) Realise your assignment isn\u2019t over.<\/i> God showed Elijah there were still kings to anoint, battles to win, and a successor to be prepared (see 1\u00a0Kings\u00a019:16). Need a reason to get out of bed in the morning? God will give you one! When you\u2019re \u2018down\u2019, He doesn\u2019t get mad at you. On the contrary, His Word says, \u2018He will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the dimly burning flame. He will encourage the fainthearted, those tempted to despair.\u2019<\/i> (Isaiah\u00a042:3\u00a0TLB) <\/p>\n
That\u2019s<\/i> the loving-kindness of God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Elijah was at his lowest point, God told him these three important things: (1) Spend more time with God. \u2018Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.\u2019 (1\u00a0Kings\u00a019:11\u00a0NKJV) That was where God spoke to him in \u2018a still small voice.\u2019 (1\u00a0Kings\u00a019:12\u00a0NKJV) The word \u2018still\u2019 teaches us that instead of always working for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}