21/09/2022
THE STILL SMALL VOICE
( Are you tired of manifestations that carries no message for your soul? Then read this!)
kings 19 11-12
1 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: , but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Elijah had traveled for forty days and forty nights to mount Horeb looking for an answer from God to his depression occasioned by the threat of Jezebel whose regime he confronted and whose prophets he slaughtered. It is quite shocking to read how a great prophet of God could go from great exploits in one day to nursing suicidal thoughts the next day because his life was threatened by the queen of the land.
When he got to the mountain, he lodged in a cave and the Word of the Lord came to him saying "Why are you here?"
When he laid his complaints before God, he was told to come out of the cave and stand on the Rock before the Lord and as he stood there, certain divinely orchestrated manifestations began :
The first manifestation here was a powerful wind. it was so powerful that it broke rocks in pieces, it was a wind like a hammer but the Lord wasn’t in the wind.
what does it mean by the phrase the lord was not in it? it means there was no message in the manifestation.
This wind wasn’t an ordinary wind,it was a wind like a hammer that broke hard mountain rocks into pieces yet the Lord wasn’t in it.
sometimes, something powerful can be happening but there is no message in it for you!
After the wind, came an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake neither.
what does it mean by the phrase the Lord was not in it? it means there was no message in it. It was a manifestation but