Components for this 4-session study will include a book, leader guide, and four streaming videos available online featuring Magrey outlining each topic in an accessible and engaging way. For just like ravens at the Brook Cherith, God is with you, giving you everything you need. Read these stories, pray through them, and listen as you receive encouragement and guidance for whatever you are facing today. Your story of hurt, heartache, and hopelessness has been heard, and God has a message for you. God provides for Elisha, when he brings healing to Naaman and when he is surrounded by enemies and praying for spiritual eyes to be opened to hope. God provides for Elijah, as he faces down opposition in a mountaintop showdown and when he feels alone and ready to give up while hiding in a cave listening for God’s still, small voice. Once they arrived, Elisha watched his friend in. But Elisha replied, ‘As surely as the Lord lives and you yourself live, I will never leave you’. And Elijah said to Elisha, ‘Stay here, for the Lord has told me to go to Bethel.’. Series 12 Study 1 ELIJAH, THE MAN AND HIS MINISTRY (Scripture Portions: 1 Kings 16: 28-34 17:1 James 5: 17-18) Elijah was a mighty man of God in some respects the greatest of all the prophets since Moses and until the advent of John the Baptist (Matthew 11:11). When you look closely at the accounts of Elijah and Elisha from 1 Kings 17 to 2 Kings 8, you will find amazing stories of God’s provision. In 2 Kings 2:2, we are told that Elijah wanted to ascend alone. , author Magrey deVega examines the lives of the great biblical prophets Elijah and Elisha and reveals a consistent message in their stories: Don’t give up, and don’t lose hope. She had nothing to give the prophet except that which she and her son would have eaten as their last meal and then the Lord performed a miracle. During hard times, it often seems like the only option is to throw in the towel. When Elijah met a widow in Zarephath, a town located between Tyre and Sidon, the woman expected she and her son would soon die of starvation.
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