1-20-19 || Victim Or Victor

1. WHAT do you HEAR?
I am a VICTIM
1 Kings 19:10 – “So he said, ‘I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.’”
I am a VICTOR
Romans 8:37 – “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”

2. WHO are you listening to?
Father of LIES
John 8:44 – “…When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it (lies).”
Founder of FAITH
Hebrews 12:2 – “Looking unto Jesus, the author (founder) and finisher of our faith…”

3. WHERE do you go to LISTEN?
Place of the PITY PARTY
1 Kings 19:4 – “But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, ‘It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!’”
Where God Reveals HIMSELF
1 Kings 19:8 – “So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.”

4. HOW Does “The Voice” Speak?
Not Rock Breaking…Not Earth Quaking…Not Fire Breathed
1 Kings 19:11-12 – “And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire…” In the Still Small Voice
1 Kings 19:12 – “…and after the fire a still small voice.”

The voice says – You are not alone…You are not defeated…
You are a VICTOR…I have something MORE for you!