IN GOD’S WORD: 1 Kings 18

GPS For three years, no rain fell in Samaria. All this time, God took
care of Elijah. Then God said to him, “ Go and see King Ahab again. I
will soon make it rain.”
Grow When the king saw Elijah, he shouted, “There you are, the biggest
troublemaker in Israel!”
“No,” said Elijah, “you’re the troublemaker. You are not supposed
Pray to worship Baal. This is against the Lord’s commandments.”
Elijah told King Ahab he would prove that the God of Israel was

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the one true God.
K—2nd He told the king to call together the prophets of Baal and meet him
grade on the top of Mount Carmel.
Soon a crowd came to see what was going on. Elijah said to the

January 17, 2010 people, “You cannot have it both ways. If the Lord is God, worship Him!
But if Baal is God, worship him.”
He told the prophets of Baal to build an alter and put wood on it.
He would do the same. “Baal’s prophets will pray to their god, and
Question from the Lesson: What did David use to fight Goliath the I will pray to the Lord,” Elijah told the people. “The one who answers by
Giant? starting a fire on the alter is God.”
Baal’s prophets went first. They built their alter and danced
around it. They shouted and prayed. But no fire came.
Elijah said, “Maybe your god is daydreaming. Maybe he’s on a
trip. Or maybe he’s asleep.”
The prophets shouted louder. Baal did not wake up.
Then it was Elijah’s turn. He built his alter with twelve stones and
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Be strong and courageous; for placed wood on it. Then he dug a ditch around the alter.
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Elijah told the people to pour buckets of water over the alter to
the Lord your God is with you make it good and wet. The water filled the ditch.
wherever you may go. Elijah was ready. He prayed to God, “Please answer me, so these
people will know that You are the Lord God, and their hearts will turn back
to You.”
Joshua 1:9 At that, Elijah’s alter burst into flame! The fire burned the wet
PARENT SPOT!
wood and stones. It burned the ground around the alter and dried up
Yes! I’m proud to initial that my child has every drop of water in the ditch.
worked on their GPS! The people all bowed down and cried, “The Lord is God! The Lord
is God!”
A few minutes later, the sky filled with clouds. Wind blew, and
rain began pouring down.