“Do you know who I am and what I have done?” So often we don’t feel like people really know us. Obadiah wasn’t sure that Elijah really knew him. Read 1 Kings 18:13-14. 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? And now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here “‘; he will then kill me.” 1 KINGS 18:13‭-‬14 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/1ki.18.13-14.NASB To be fair, Obadiah was living a secret life as a…

Do you believe God will do the impossible? It can often be hard for many of us to imagine God doing miracles in our everyday life. Yet for Obadiah, he not only imagined it, he expected it. Read 1 Kings 18:11-12. And now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here. “‘ 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. 1 KINGS 18:11‭-‬12 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/1ki.18.11-12.NASB…

“What did I do?” Obadiah thinks he is in trouble. Elijah tells him to go and find Ahab and talk him that Elijah is here. But Obadiah knows how much Ahab has been looking for him and that Ahab wants to kill Elijah. Obadiah also knows that the Lord will keep Elijah safe. Read 1 Kings 18:9-11. He said, “What sin have I committed, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to put me to death? 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,…

Elijah is found. That is the message that Obadiah is to give to Ahab. Obadiah had been able to maintain his cover and continue to work from the inside and help protect believers from Ahab and Jezebel. Now Elijah is going to challenge that. Read 1 Kings 18:7-8. Now as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him, and he recognized him and fell on his face and said, “Is this you, Elijah my master?” He said to him, “It is I. Go, say to your master, ‘Behold, Elijah is here. ‘” 1 KINGS 18:7‭-‬8 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/1ki.18.7-8.NASB Obadiah and Ahab have split up to search for water, but Obadiah…

King Ahab trusts Obadiah. As we saw yesterday, Obadiah is a follower of God, yet he is in the service of evil King Ahab. Obadiah is over everything in the household, a very powerful and prestigious position. And now Ahab has a job for him to do. Read 1 Kings 18:5-6. 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.” So they divided the land between them to survey it; Ahab went one way by himself and Obadiah…

Secret agent. Our story of Elijah adds a new character, Obadiah. He has a very interesting position. He is something like a secret agent. He works for the evil king Ahab and yet follows the Lord. How do those go together? Read 1 Kings 18:3-4. Ahab called Obadiah who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly; for 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.) 1 KINGS 18:3‭-‬4 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/1ki.18.3-4.NASB Obadiah follows God first and foremost. He is in the service of King Ahab and Queen…

Three years, no rain. It’s been a long 3 years for the people of Israel. Now God is on the move again. God has been providing for Elijah through this whole time and now God is ready for Elijah to take action again. Read 1 Kings 18:1-2. 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.” So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. 1 KINGS 18:1‭-‬2 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/1ki.18.1-2.NASB This whole situation started when Elijah went…

Seeing is believing. Elijah had told the widow that he was a man of God. The widow had seen the food continue to replenish each day. However, it wasn’t until this moment that she believed. Read 1 Kings 17:23-24. Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, “See, your son is alive.” Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.” 1 KINGS 17:23‭-‬24 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/1ki.17.23-24.NASB Each one of us, no matter how religious or…

God answers prayer. People can say all they want about feeling like God doesn’t hear them, but at the end of the day, God truly does answer prayer. Read 1 Kings 17:20-22. He called to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, have You also brought calamity to the widow with whom I am staying, by causing her son to die?” Then he stretched himself upon the child three times, and called to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, I pray You, let this child’s life return to him.” The Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned to him and he…

The widow’s son has died. The widow feels like it is a punishment. So what does Elijah do? Read 1 Kings 17:19. He said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed. 1 KINGS 17:19 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/1ki.17.19.NASB Elijah took action. He wanted to make sure that whatever God’s plan that he was going to be right in line with it. He took the son from the widow and placed him in his own bed. When we see needs that others have, do we reach out and…