GOD SPEAKS TO HIS CHILDREN

 

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30.  The mighty God

 

Often the kings of Israel forgot God and his Covenant. But God kept the Covenant. He sent the kings and the people men who spoke in his name – the prophets.

 

King Ahab was one of those who worshipped the god Baal. Elijah was a prophet of God. He went to King Ahab and said: I serve the God of Israel. He is the mighty God. You will see his might, and the whole land along with you, for from today no more dew will fall from the heavens, and no rain either. The drought will last as long as I command it to.

 

Elijah feared the anger of the king. He fled across the border to Phoenicia. There he lived in the house of a poor woman. She was a widow and had an only son. Her son fell ill and died. Then the woman complained to Elijah: You are a man of God. You live in my house. So God looks at me. He sees my sins and punishes me. Elijah lifted up the dead child and laid him on his own bed. Then he bent over the young boy and prayed: Lord, my God, give this child back his life. God heard the prayer of his prophet. The child came back to life. Elijah took the boy by the hand and brought him to his mother.

 

(1 Kings 17)

 

 

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