Elijah on Mount Carmel: Lesson One

When God speaks, it comes to pass.

Elijah stood before Ahab and said there would be no dew or rain but by his word.

1 Kings 17:1 (KJV): And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed, and it did not rain for three years and six months.

James 5:17 (KJV): Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

The rain came back the same way it stopped, by the word of the LORD.

1 Kings 18:1 (KJV): And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.