Aug 12

1 Kings 19:2 (NIV84)
2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.”

After one of the greatest victories in all of the Bible and praying in the rain and having supernatural strength to run a great distance faster than a chariot, Elijah, the man who hours ago taunted the prophets of Baal, having such great faith that God would answer by fire from heaven on the sacrifice he prepared, is now running like a child who is surprised in the dark. Why? A threat from Jezebel. In Elijah’s defense, this is more than a woman, it is a high ranking controlling spirit that it making this threat, and Elijah wasn’t ready for that. This was a spiritual attack of powerful forces of darkness who were speaking to Elijah, not just a queen who was ticked off.

Are you applying this to your life? There are people who threaten us and we give it no or little attention, but there are those people in whom there is power when they disapprove or belittle or threaten that sends a chill up our spine and if we are not on guard, they (it) will send us to a place of hiding and even to a place of suicide! There is much to say about the spirit of Jezebel, but let’s see how it was overcome.

1 Kings 19:5 (NIV84)
5 Then he lay down under the tree and fell asleep.
All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”

1 Kings 19:9 (NIV84)
9 There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

1 Kings 19:15 (NIV84)
15 The LORD said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram.

First Elijah needed to physically recuperate from his spiritual warfare. Then he needed a Word from the Lord. Then he needed his next assignment. Are you getting this? Physical recuperation, hearing God speak to you and your next assignment are essential to battle depression, anxiety and the oppression of something or somebody trying to exert control over you.