Elijah – “Impact Player”

In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria over Israel twenty-two years.  Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the LORD than any of those before him.

 1 Kings 16:29-30  NIV

He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him.                                                    1 Kings 16:31  NIV

He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria.  Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than did all the kings of Israel before him.

  1 Kings 16:32-33  NIV

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next  few years except at my word.”                                                                                                     

1 Kings 17:1  NIV

The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.  Elijah was a man just like us.  He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.  Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.                                                                                                                           James 5:16b-18  NIV

But their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. Those who make them will be like them,
and so will all who trust in them.                                                                                              Psalm 115:4,8  NIV

No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.  
                                                                                                                                     1 Corinthians 10:20  NIV

“So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God.  He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.”