Ministering: Pastor E. A. Adeboye
Topic: When the Wind Blows & the Fire Falls
Text: 1 Kings 19: 11-17
While making a fire, when the fire is small, we shield it with our hands to protect it from the wind. As the fire grows, it gets to a stage where it forces your hands away and the wind fans it and makes it bigger.
Tonight, the wind is growing, and the flame is no longer small.
The wind is going to blow the fire, and the fire will become very big.
God's instructions to Elijah:
• Go and anoint Hazael as king over Judah
• Go and anoint Jehu as king over Israel
• Go and anoint Elisha to be prophet
By asking Elijah to anoint these kings, God was saying to him, "I will increase your area of influence."
Why is influence important?
Influence is that which opens doors. There are certain doors that will only open for you if people know you're a person of influence.
🙏🏽 From tonight onwards, you will become a person of influence.
When Elisha took the mantle of Elijah and smote Jordan and called on the God of his father, Elijah, he used the influence of Elijah with God. 2 Kings 2: 9-15
+ The Shunamite woman had influence, but she found Elisha's influence to be greater, such that he could bless her with the fruit of the womb. 2 Kings 4: 8-17
• God's instructions to Elijah to anoint the kings meant that Elijah would have the support of those kings, and he would no longer fight alone.
God says you will no longer fight your battles alone. Ecclesiastes 4: 9-12
By asking him to anoint Elisha, God was saying Elijah's future would be secure. Isaiah 3:10
Elisha had both an experience with both the fire and the wind. 2 Kings 2: 9-15
• Suddenly, the one who was one of the sons of the prophets became the leader of all the prophets.
🙏🏽 As the Lord lives, by the time you wake up tomorrow morning, you'll be on a new level spiritually.
• Elisha crossed Jordan by using the influence of his father. As soon as he arrived on the other side, the people of Jericho asked for his help to solve their problem, and it was so according to Elisha's words.
🙏🏽 In the Name of the One Who called me, every curse in your life will be over tonight.
• Elisha had so much influence that kings were calling him 'father'. 2 Kings 2: 9-10
☆ The Disciples
The wind blew, the fire fell, and God spoke through men.
God spoke to Elijah alone, but here, God spoke through men.
Acts 2: 1-4
>> Tonight, you will make decrees and speak to whatever mountain before you and the mountain will move. Mark 11:23
Job 22:28
+ The woman with the issue of the blood made a decree before she touched Jesus that she would get her healing, and she got it, according to her words.
Mark 5: 25-29
>> You're going to decree over all those who are precious to you.
Isaiah 45:11
>> You will decree concerning everything causing you anxiety or problems.
🙏🏽 Long before the end of this month, you will have testimonies.
The Shunamite woman decreed with her lips, and it came to pass. 2 Kings 4: 18-37
>> You're going to prophesy to dry bones tonight, and they will live. Ezekiel 37: 1-10
There are some opportunities you have lost that you're going to command to come back. Your dry bones must come back to life.
Salvation Call
If you're not a child of God or would like to rededicate your life, ask the Lord to have mercy on you, forgive your sins, wash you clean with His blood, and save your soul.
Prayer Points
1. Father, I thank You that my day has come at last
2. Father, in the Name of Jesus, I decree, every Jordan blocking my path, part now.
3. Father, in the mighty Name of Jesus, I decree, every curse upon my family, over now!
4. Father, in the mighty Name of Jesus, I decree concerning every member of my family, none of you will go to hell.
5. Father, in the mighty Name of Jesus, I hereby decree that every plant that You have not planted in my body, soul, spirit, place of work, family, and in Your church, be uprooted now.
6. Father, every opportunity I have already lost, every dry bone in my life, must come back to life.
7. Father, in the mighty Name of Jesus, let the fire of the Holy Ghost fall on me. Let the wind of the Holy Spirit blow on me.
