Aug 31, 2026 · 38 min · 9 segments
The first sign that a drought is breaking is smaller than you want it to be — and it's not the finish line, it's the starting gun.
So last week, we started a real short three-week series, teaching series on this prophet Elijah.
And through this kind of big idea, and we talked about this last week, that oftentimes in life, God doesn't remove the drought.
And so today we pick up in the next chapter, chapter 18, and what I want us to wrestle with just a little bit before we get into this morning is three years have passed.
I know it gets compressed, right, and we just read right on to the next part, but three years, and we remember that there was a man who sat by a riverside, a creek side, and miraculously he watched God provide for him in some incredible ways, and over time he watched this creek shrink down to nothing, dry ground.
And then God moved him, and he traveled, and he was then provided for by a widow who had nothing.
And over a period of time, this magic jar of flour and oil never ran dry.
Three and a half years, three years of this.
No rain, famine, drought, nothing.
No crops, no food, there's hunger everywhere.
Three and a half years, not a drop of rain.
And we read this this morning as we start chapter 18.
Go and present yourself to Ahab.
I will send rain on the surface of the land.
That's quite a promise that comes in year three of a drought.
I will send rain on the land.
He says, I'm gonna send rain.
He doesn't talk about vindication.
He doesn't talk about this contest that's about to happen.
The actual promise is given three years into this thing before anything happens.
So last week, we started a real short three-week series, teaching series on this prophet Elijah.
And through this kind of big idea, and we talked about this last week, that oftentimes in life, God doesn't remove the drought.
And so today we pick up in the next chapter, chapter 18, and what I want us to wrestle with just a little bit before we get into this morning is three years have passed.
I know it gets compressed, right, and we just read right on to the next part, but three years, and we remember that there was a man who sat by a riverside, a creek side, and miraculously he watched God provide for him in some incredible ways, and over time he watched this creek shrink down to nothing, dry ground.
And then God moved him, and he traveled, and he was then provided for by a widow who had nothing.
And over a period of time, this magic jar of flour and oil never ran dry.
Three and a half years, three years of this.
No rain, famine, drought, nothing.
No crops, no food, there's hunger everywhere.
Three and a half years, not a drop of rain.
And we read this this morning as we start chapter 18.
Go and present yourself to Ahab.
I will send rain on the surface of the land.
That's quite a promise that comes in year three of a drought.
I will send rain on the land.
He says, I'm gonna send rain.
He doesn't talk about vindication.
He doesn't talk about this contest that's about to happen.
The actual promise is given three years into this thing before anything happens.
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