W. Robert Godfrey

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Renewing Your Mind · Does Prayer Change Things? · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

And why is that such an important judgment?

Well, because Baal was the god of storms, amongst other things.

And so what Elijah is really saying when he talks about rain is the God who can act is the true God.

So my God, Elijah says, the Lord God, the living God, he will see that there is no storm and there is no rain for three and a half years.

Now I have go into the temple of Baal and pray and ask the God of storms to send rain.

And what happens?

Well, I'm sort of intrigued.

I wish one of the learned men here would develop this, but apparently God not only sends the rain on the just and the unjust, but he sends drought on the just and the unjust.

The whole of Israel has nothing but drought.

This is in fulfillment of the threat of judgment made in Deuteronomy 28 to a people who are disobedient to the Lord.

And then, of course, you know that story, how it works out at the end of three and a half years, the contest becomes very focused.

And Elijah says to the people in Dahab, how long will you limp between two opinions?

If the Lord be God, serve Him, follow Him.

And then the contest on Mount Carmel and the fire from heaven consuming the sacrifice in the name of the Lord.

And the people, finally touched by the reality of what they have seen and experienced under the judgment of God, the people cry out, the Lord, He is God, the Lord, He is God.

And then Elijah prays, and the rain comes, the blessing to confirm that the Lord, he is God.

And what is happening in this contest?

It's a contest about who is truly God.

It's a contest about what God can hear and act, and therefore whose name

the name of which God should be exalted in the face of the people.

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