Elijah on Mount Carmel: Lesson Ten

Keep praying until the rain comes.

After the fire, Elijah went to the top of Carmel and put his face between his knees to pray.

1 Kings 18:42 (KJV): So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,

His servant looked and saw nothing. Elijah told him to go again seven times.

1 Kings 18:43 (KJV): And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.

Then the heaven was black with clouds, and there was a great rain.

1 Kings 18:45 (KJV): And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

He prayed again, and the heaven gave rain.

James 5:18 (KJV): And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.

Luke 18:1 (KJV): And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;