Sunny Shelton in Sunday school yesterday taught on 1 Kings 19. In it Elijah was in a desolate place. He was running for his life and he was in a cave - a dark place - and wanted to get out. God appeared to him in a silent whisper not a huge exciting event. God wants us to listen to him on a daily basis, he meets us where we work, in what we are doing and urges us to take action. If we don't we may stay in that dark place for a prolonged period.
Elijah went to anoint Elisha as his replacement as a prophet. When he told Elisha, Elisha was plowing fields with his oxen. Elisha went back to his family, slaughtered the oxen so he could not return back to his old profession and became Elijah's attendant. He left no remains of his former work that he could return to, he went all in.
If we are going to be God's servants, we are going to have to listen to his gentle whispers and not expect fireworks to go off every time we are called to do something. We also have to give up things in our past, comforts and pleasures that we once depended on. We have to set it up so we cannot return to them if we know God has called us. We need to go all in .
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