1 Kings 18:40–46—Outline not available.

Prayer Take Home Points

• Much can be accomplished on your knees.
• Make time to pray.
• Effectual prayer has to have a definite purpose.
• God answers prayers of those who obey His commands.
• Know the Word—know the promises of God.
• God doesn’t give answers right away.
• Go through the scriptures and see how others prayed.
• You can be a prayer warrior like Elijah.

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Outline—1 Kings 18:30–40

1. The fine details (vv. 30–37)
2. The fire (vv. 38, 39)
3. The finale (v. 40)

Take Home Points

• God measures the details—He cares that we are faithful in the small things.
• The Lord is the same today as He was then, ready to show Himself strong on behalf of those who walk as Elijah did.
• God will always honor good.

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1. The challenge (vv. 22–25)
2. Baal’s failure (vv. 26–29)
3. The fire (vv. 30–38)

Take Home Points

• When you love truth, the world thinks you are mocking them: Truth is mockery to those who hate it.
• You can speak to the conscience, and you can speak to the reason, but God is the one to bring fire into the soul.

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Outline—1 Kings 18:16–25

1. The troubler (vv. 16–18)
2. Throwing down the gauntlet (the challenge) (vv. 19–21)
3. Challenge explained (vv. 22–24)

Take Home Points

• You can’t believe in God and keep one foot in the world.
• If God is God, serve him!
• If you are a believer, make a declaration so that others will know.
• Don’t live in hypocracy.
• You might be the only Christian around, but stand for God—He is equal to all the trials that will come and He will sustain you.

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1 Kings 18:1–15—Outline not available.

Take Home Points

• Remember the sin does not evolve—it devolves—tearing out your heart and replacing it with stone.
• If there is sin in your heart, you need to confess it to God today.
• Live your life and your relationships with one another with good theology.
• You may not be “called to the ministry,” but you are in it!
• Stand for Christ every day courageously.

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Outline—1 Kings 17:17–24

1. A sense of forboding (v. 17)
2. Normal human response (v. 18)
3. The man of God in the midst of suffering (vv. 19, 20)
4. Something not yet seen on earth (vv. 21, 22)
5. Reuniting of family and faith (vv. 23, 24)

Take Home Points

• Our role is to take people away from common everyday life and point them toward Jesus Christ; to show a lost world that God lives.
• God is able to do mighty things.
• Be definite and fervent in your prayers.
• Remember that God is the One who gives you life!
• Invite people into your life of faith.

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