After this pitiful spectacle, the faithful prophet Elijah steps forward, prepares his wood sacrifice, pouring water on everything just to heckle the false prophets. Then he prays.
1 Kings 18:37-39 Hear me, O Lord , hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it,, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
What power! God doesn’t do things half-way. He still answers prayer in a magnificant way. Did Elijah live happily ever after? Not for awhile. King Ahab’s wife put a contract out on him, and He fled in fear of his life.
Much later, far away, he sits under a Juniper tree discouraged and depressed. But God sent an angel to comfort him, feed him, and restore his strength. God does the same for us when we are discouraged and depressed.
“The God on the mountain is still God in the valley”
