A Will Not Yet Lived

The LORD Appears to Elijah and the word of the LORD came to him: "What are you doing here, Elijah?" 10 He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too."

11 The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 13 When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

14 He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too." 15 The LORD said to him, "Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. 16 Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet. 17 Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu. 18 Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and all whose mouths have not kissed him."



1 Kings 19: 9-18

This story has been on my mind the past couple of weeks. I have thought and prayed about it, not quite understanding why it's been so heavy on my heart. Tonight I think I might have discovered why. You see there is verse 11 where God tells Elijah to walk outside because the Lord is about to walk by. Yet, there are three situations before Elijah ACTUALLY walks outside. There are times when God reveals His will to us. He tells us to walk outside for the Lord is about to walk by. Yet, in our wisdom we need to wait for the right moment to actually walk out. We need to wait for the correct moment to fulfill the things God has told us. Elijah could have stepped out when the wind came but it wasn't when God walked by. He could have stepped out when the earthquake came but God wouldn't have been there and the same with the fire. Yet, there was that moment when Elijah KNEW God was walking by, he knew that it was time to walk out. We all have times in our lives when God has spoken things into our lives but we aren't free to walk His will out until He gives us that freedom. I have had many things prophesied over my life that are still being worked out in my life. God's will has been revealed to me about different things in my past that there will come a time when it will come to fruitition. God will "walk by." The thing is that in order to know when God is walking by we have to know Him and His presence. The Bible says that we are His sheep and we know His voice.