I Kings 18: 1-29

Elijah and Obadiah

Luke 19:44 “You did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

 

1 Now it happened after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth."

 

2 So Immediately Elijah went to show himself to Ahab.

 

Psalm 19:11 In observing them there is great reward.

 

Psalm 119:111 For they are the joy of my heart.

 

Psalm 119:114 You are my hiding place and my shield; I wait eagerly look for Your word.

 

Matthew 5:5 "Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth”

 

Matthew 5:7  "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy”

 

 

(2) Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

 

3-4 Ahab called Obadiah who was over the household. (Now when Jezebel destroyed the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)

 

5 Then Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys; perhaps we will find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, and not have to kill some of the cattle."

 

6 So they divided the land between them to survey it; Ahab went one way by himself and Obadiah went another way by himself.

 

7 Now as Obadiah was on the way, behold Look , Elijah met him, and he recognized him and fell on his face and said, "Is this you, Elijah my master?"

 

8 He said to him, "It is I. Go, say to your master, "Behold Look, Elijah is here.'"

 

9 He said, "What sin have I committed, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to put me to death?

 

10 "As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my master has not sent to search for you; and when they said, "He is not here,' he made the kingdom or nation swear that they could not find you.

 

11 "And now you are saying, "Go, say to your master, "Behold Look, Elijah is here."'

 

12 "It will come about when I leave you that the Spirit of the LORD will carry you where I do not know; so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth.

 

13 "Has it not been told to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, that I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water?

 

 

14 "And now you are saying, "Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; he will then kill me."

 

 

Ephesians 5:18-19 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

 

speaking to one another within yourself in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord

 

 

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you,

 

with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another encouraging yourself with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

 

 

Psalm 139:7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?

 

\Psalm 139:6 This knowledge is too wonderful for me

 

 

Genesis 1 And there was evening and there was morning…

 

Genesis 1:2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

 

 

15 Elijah said, "As the LORD of hosts lives is alive, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."

 

 

Psalm 16:11 In Your presence is fullness of joy

 

16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

 

17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is this you, you troubler of Israel?"

 

18 He said, "I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father's house have, because you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and you have followed the Baals.

 

19 "Now then send and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table."