1 Kings 19:10 “I, even I only, am left;”
I want to ask you a couple of questions. Have you ever let your feelings take over? Have you ever said or done things totally based on your feelings and not on the facts? Have you ever let what someone else said take over your feelings? The reason I ask is because there’s a whole lot of exaggerations being circulated right now. Exaggerations and unfounded predictions that are being declared as facts.
In 1Kings 19:10 Elijah says something based totally and exclusively on how he felt. He said “I, even I only, am left”. The problem is, that wasn’t even close to being true, but he knew that already. The truth is, in 1 Kings 18:13 Obadiah told him there were at least 100 other prophets who he hid in a cave. In 1Kings 19:18 God told him “I have 7,000 in Israel who haven’t bowed their knee to Baal”.
Faith has a different voice than fear. Faith says what God’s Word says about any given situation. It really doesn’t matter how you feel about what goes on around you or tries to happen to you. Faith “calls things that be not as though they were”. Faith says “It is well”. Faith has a completely different sound than feeling. Elijah declared how he felt, then acted on it as if it were reality. In these times that we live in, don’t let how you feel dictate what you say and do. Let the truth of God’s Word dictate what you say and do. That’s faith over feelings.
