 The Lord is good. The Lord is good. We thank God for giving us an atom of unity this morning so that we can be able to go back to the word and see what He has for us this morning. Welcome once again our online wash pass and those who are in our office co-attenders. May God keep you, may God help you, may God shine His face upon you, that you can be able to receive blessings. Immensely bless you. I know Paul is writing unto us in the book of Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20 where he says, he who is able to bless you and keep you and give you abadans abundantly exceedingly and that's what you want this morning that God can able to give us whatever he wants in abadans. Now welcome you once again to our morning devotion. Just a reminder that this week we have a theme on our morning devotion that is saying let God be God. Once again I'm back with this theme. We want to see and know and at least get to understand when I'm saying that let God be God. Yesterday we ended by saying that even if it is death you still want to maintain it and say I will be faithful, I will stand with God even when it seems that he's silent, that God is never silent, that God is speaking visibly. It's only that he has given us time to open our eyes and think in the word and be able to give the world what it needs. So this morning once again we are here and before we go to read that word may we pray. Our heaven father, our God who reigns from the asian to now untreatanity. We pray that God you can able to speak to us this morning. We are still maintaining this theme that God let God be God. This morning may you speak to us in a power way that you see it is better for us in the stillness of your voice may we hear it and answer it according to our will. We pray and trust in Jesus name. I want to start by saying this that many times when we are facing adversity we ask ourselves so many questions and we want to wonder and ask is God really hearing my prayer? Is God answering me? Is he walking with me? And one thing that comes to my mind that at times when we have been crushed and we feel that we are in despair that there is a time we don't worship God in the right way. But it means that sometimes we disconnect. But here this morning I'm here to let you know that do not disconnect from God. Remain holding on because him he will never stay away from you unless you stay away from him. Him he will remain to be God. Him he will remain with the mightiness that he wants to be able for you to see in his life. And that's why sometimes I sit back and pond in my mind and see the mighty works of Jesus Christ in my life. Then when I look around and see that people can doubt God and ask is God really answering? Is God really hearing? Is there with us? And I remind you this that even in silence God speaks the loudest. So this morning I want us to turn our eyes to the story of Elijah. Elijah was a man of God. And Elijah has been caught up in a situation whereby he must be able to tell us whether this God is worshiping. Is he the true God of Israelites? Is he the true God who can answer even when other people are doubting? Can you still hold on? And Elijah was given a word from God in the Book of First Kings chapter 17. But I will go to chapter 18. But quickly in chapter 17 Elijah is given a prophecy from God and the one says that there will be no rain for three and a half years. And people suffered and people had issues. People were not able to get food. Then quickly the story changes when God is coming in to let people know that when he is given an opportunity even in the worst adversity he will be able to stand and let people know that now this is the one who is supposed to be worshiping. Now Elijah, he faces King Ahab. And this is what the Bible says from chapter 18 verse 17. It says, and it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah that Ahab said unto him At Thou hid that trouble at Israel when he was able to see Elijah is like this man you have given us trouble enough you have set us on fire and there is no way we are going to get it out. He did not know that the Lord was answering was able to take these people to the decisions that they had made once you disobey God there must be consequences. Now the people, the Israelites they were facing their consequences of disobedience and when they did not have rain for three and a half years it was because of their what their disobedience. Now when he saw Elijah is complaining but Elijah answers this and he answered, I have no trouble Israel but Thou and their father's house in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and Thou has followed bound. You see the problem of the Israelites at this time they were worshiping God's God's I know from a Bible study we are differentiated yesterday the difference between the small g God and the true God that we serve so he was telling Ahab it is not me but you people have turned your back against the true God and you are worshiping other God's and now you are facing the consequences. When this man had like this then Elijah when he looked to King Ahab he said now let's have a challenge let's see which God is supposed to be worshiped who is supposed to be given the reverence who is supposed to be given that power who is supposed to be worshiped in reverence and say that now when he stands no one can be able to stand against this God and was that one then Elijah came up and said this and Elijah came unto all the people and said how long had he built how long had he between two opinions if the Lord be God follow him but if Baal and if Baal then follow him and the people answered not a word why they knew what they were doing they knew they have been serving God they have been serving Baal and now Elijah is coming to them and saying if you know that the Lord is God if you have been letting him to be in your situations serve him and we want to see what he can do but if Baal is then continue then these people they kept quiet then he said now let's do this these people we are going to divide ourselves we have the true God who is supposed to be serve and we have Baal and there were prophets of Baal and there were prophets of Arshel these people in total but when they came here they wanted to be able to confront who Elijah with his God then Elijah said now let's do this let's have two blocks brought here you cut one you dress it on your altar and do not put fire on it I will also cut one and put it on the altar and I'm not going to put on fire on it then we are going to pray verse 24 says and call ye on the name of your God and I will call on the name of the Lord if you see that word Lord is written in capital L-O-R-D that one was a unique way of addressing the mightness of God infact in the Hebrew canon it was written Y-W-H-W it does not have the vowels it is just consonants meaning they were unable to pronounce the word and even when they were writing the Bible those who were writing the Bible when they got to get this word then they will go wash themselves well come write the letter Y they go again they consecrate themselves once again they come and write the next one meaning it was that mightness and they were saying it was holy it was not supposed to be what to be even uttered so he is saying you people if you know that you are serving your God go and offer your sacrifices to what to your God but me I will call the name of the Lord and the God that answered it by fire let him be what be God and the people answer and say yes well spoken now we are able to take the challenge you know sometimes I wonder when Satan has taken a seat in your life you can even cheer on something you are not even sure what is going to happen you are not even sure of the consequences they were cheering because in the past they have seen what their Gods have done but they are not experienced the power of the God of Elijah then the sacrifices were given I love what is happening in verse 26 and they took the block which was given to them they dressed it and they called on the name of who Baal from morning even until noon where was this God where was he hiding they have been calling him morning it is now noon they are still calling on the name of who of Baal saying oh Baal hear us but there was no voice nor any that answered and they leaped upon the altar you see they were very joyous they were now let us show you that our God is able to work this miracle out when they sat there they started praying they started crying to their God they cried they cried it was morning time was going it was midday now every other person was like what is happening they ripped up here and there around the altar calling the name of the one of their God and it came to pass at noon then Elijah mocked them you know when God is in your heart you do not fear Hallelujah you do not fear Elijah came in and mocked them and said cry loud why perhaps for he is a God for he is a God Elijah knew what he is talking he is saying cry even if you cry he is what he is just a God he is not someone who is going to be able to answer this thing neither he is talking or he is pursuing or he is on a journey he is God who can be able to forget that is what I can be able to say that this God that you are praying unto he can be able to forget maybe he was struggling and now he has forgotten he was offering a sacrifice then he says all paradevenja he is sleepy he is sleepy a God who is sleepy a God who is lambas is that a God who can be asked anything and he must be awakened Elijah is telling them you people see look here if you are if you are God as travel he is on a journey maybe he is relaxing somewhere he is sitting maybe he is taking tea this man maybe he is having his dinner or something of that but one thing that makes me to be able to love what Elijah said paradevenja this man this God is sleeping a God who is sleepy our God that we let into our situation he does not he does not then he says that maybe this God must be awakened for him to be able to know that there is something that is happening if you are calling or you are going for help to somebody and this somebody is not like answering then you are on a wrong way but they cried aloud and caught themselves after their manner with knives and lances till the blood gashed out the issue here is when Elijah is coming unto them is asking them if you are God must be awakened for him to be able to know that there is a mission that is supposed to be done then you cry aloud make sure that you tell him what is supposed to be he is supposed to hear then make him to be able to be awake to answer your prayer see they cried until time was not there but let me come back and remind you this but our God is God our Lord is God and he says when he says in the book of Jeremiah 33 verse 1 verse 3 says that call unto me and I will answer and show you great things that you do not know about Hallelujah when you call unto God our God has answers even the things that you do not understand when he answers every other person around us can be able to experience that this one is not an answer from the human being then Elijah went forward and said unto all the people come near now if your God went for a journey he is sleeping he has not been awakened now come come come come come near let us experience the power here then he brought the people near they came near to him and he repaired he repaired the altar that was that was ruined the altar that was supposed to be used for the power of God and he repaired the altar he called every other person there then he dressed the pulok he put it he put it on the on the altar then verse 36 says this and it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice that Elijah the prophet came near and said Lord God of Abraham Isaac and Israel remember in our Bible study yesterday we were told in the old testament God was a person of God was a person of being that if it was it was Jacob it was God of who God of Jacob now he is referring to that God of Abraham the one who answered in the bush he is calling the God of who the God of Jacob who traveled with him far and wide and brought him back and he is saying then the Lord of Israel let it be known this day that is now at God of Israel hallelujah let it be known even if you are going to answer this prayer in another way but let every other person know that you are the God to be worshiped and you are the God of Israel hallelujah then God then God and that I may and I am that servant that I have done all the things at that one so whatever Elijah was doing it was not his own making it was the making of the Lord himself then he said hear me O Lord hear me O Lord that these people may know at the Lord God and that Thou has turned their heart back again then then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed hallelujah hallelujah you see when these people they were dressing their block and doing their things they prayed they lived all around they cried they were able to cut themselves even blood they were able to be out of their bodies but their God did not answer but the time Elijah came to be able to dress his sacrifice he even told them if you go back to the in verse 35 32 and 33 he said that he even told them when you are I have dressed this sacrifice but even bring water pour on this water on this sacrifice but I am told when he prayed the fire came from heaven and fell on the sacrifice it consumed the burnt sacrifice the wood and the stones and the dust and it lit up the water that was in the trench hallelujah when it comes is a mighty God hallelujah and that's why in our own in our own in our own saying we can say that Yahweh you are might but because the Hebrew people were writing the Hebrew canon they were not able to speak they say that Lord you are God when you are given a situation you never let down your people you come and you stand and the people they will experience the mightiness of Jesus Christ this is the same God I am bringing to you brother sister which situation do you feel is too hard for God to be able to come in is able to come and when he comes even those people who are doubting they will be able to see because he came he consumed the sacrifice not only the sacrifice the woods the stones for God's sake the dust and even lit the water the water meaning he was able to consume why when you ponder on the mightiness of Jesus Christ when he comes to your life he will resolve your problem not only what you are going through even what you do not know hello even what you do not know and when he was given that opportunity God came out and when all the people saw they fell their faces down hallelujah they were able to know that now this one is not a normal thing and they said the Lord now they have shifted from their little gods they have shifted from their small gods and they are saying the Lord he is God the Lord he is God hallelujah I love that God I love that God because when he comes every other person must be able to do what to feel the power they are saying now let our gods be let them be born because if he was sleeping he was not able to be awake to be able to attend to us now we have shifted our focus to who the God the one who reigns forever hallelujah and that's why the psalmist is saying that our God let me read that one the psalmist is saying in the psalm 121 he says I will lift up my eyes 121 psalm I will lift up my eyes unto the hills from west come with my help my help come from the Lord still the capital Lord the Lord which made heaven and earth meaning every other thing that is happening here on earth it is seen and it is visible before God and he says he will not suffer they should be moved that he that keepeth the will not slumber hallelujah but behold he that keepeth his life he shall neither slumber or asleep if you think you are calling on God and you feel that he is sleeping he does not do that our God is awake 24 hours a day maybe 3 or 4 or 6 5 years in here is right there with you every moment every second I see the tickles God knows what is next in your life so when you call on the name of the Lord he will come and be sufficient in your situation hallelujah he be able to do something and when these people they were able to see that they all were terrified and one thing that makes me happy they knew that this God of Elijah who has been led to this situation is not going to be washed even when you are standing they fell on their faces they wash this God my friends this morning we are going home hallelujah we are going home the fact is whether you are in trauma or not whether you have been washing the gods or you have been washing the Lord we are going home it is not far from home but the only thing that is needed before we get home is that we turn our hearts to our Lord Jesus Christ one thing that makes me happy our Jesus says Father for those that you have given unto my hands I will make sure that I give them unto you hallelujah so which side are you standing are you with the bells are you with the Lord God in heaven because our God does not want he will keep your feet he does not slammer neither does he go for a leave he does not take a leave and say now maybe I am taking my deal our God is ever present his mighty power can be fell even the darkest part of your life hallelujah this morning my friends test this God and see that he is good our God neighbor slamba is looking just is waiting for you to recognize and let him be God in your situation and once you have given him an opportunity he will be able to stand up and make sure that every other person around you can be able to feel that this one this one is a mighty God this one is Jehovah and that's why many times we sing and say he is our Ebenezer sometimes you are unable to walk but when you have allowed God to be God in any situation in your life you find yourself today here worshiping and you say it is true that you are Ebenezer our God who does not sleep our God who does not slamba may I tell you that friends may we look to Jesus in every situation when you are found in in between the rock and the hand please place on a little bit and let Jesus be Jesus let God be God he will return the situations around and every other person be able to say that now this is the God to be worshiped I find it so sometimes we are daring we tell God now you know this is Nairobi we have to go up and about and do our works give God an opportunity to order your steps give God an opportunity to make sure he is ordering your family give God an opportunity to order your job give God an opportunity to order your children what about our husbands and wife give God an opportunity to do that and he will mightily do that you are going to be blessed beyond borders I will tell you that if you ask God he will bless you and when he comes to your life he will leak everything out of your life any impurity is going to wash them get them out of your life give you away and we are going to enjoy in Jesus Christ I am inviting the choristers we are going home our song 439 we are going home I have been asking around is there someone who is going home who is upward whose mind is upward who is saying that now I am tired of this journey but I want to go home time is tickling soon we are going home but before we go home let God be God in your situations let him stand to be your hero hallelujah let him be able to order everything in your life then when we are almost there he will be able to welcome us another impurity every other thing has been taken away I want to welcome you if you have a prayer request right on our prayer boxes this one and the other one as we sing this song prayerfully on our feet then you can be able to go on our knees as we pray our choristers welcome