W. Robert Godfrey
speaker
2,522 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 31 Jul
W. Robert Godfrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He prays, and then he and his servant look for a cloud.
No cloud.
So what does he do?
He says, I guess I couldn't change God's mind.
I'm going home to dinner.
No, he prays again and goes—no cloud.
He prays seven times, we're told, in 1 Kings, and then the seventh time he goes to look and he sees a little cloud far away emerging, and he knows God is answering his prayer.
Now, God had promised that rain was coming.
So why do we need to pray?
Because God uses the prayers of His people to accomplish His purposes.
Because the universe in which we live is a personal universe where a personal God cares personally for His people.
And when James is referring to Elijah and rain, he's not just talking narrowly about the subject of rain, but he's drawing us back into the Old Testament to one of the great moments in Old Testament history where the subject is not really rain.
The subject really is who is God.
Right?
Elijah in chapter 17 and 18 is involved in a great contest.
as to who is God.
And the antagonist in this context is Ahab, the king of Israel.
And we're told in 1 Kings 16 that Ahab was quite a successful king.
He had economic success at home, and he had some good foreign alliances that he had built.
But from Elijah's point of view, the only thing important to know about Ahab was that he had failed in his most important duty as God's king, namely to worship God and exalt his name.
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