THE SPIRIT OF ELIJAH

The Spirit of Elijah


And he will go on before the Lord,
in the spirit and power of Elijah,
to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children
and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—
to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Luke 1:17

In recent times the phrase from Luke 1 about John the Baptist has been picked up and referenced to the period of time we seem to be in as Christian churches in most of the nations of the west. There is a strong anticipation that God will hear the prayers of his people and come in a visitation of his Son that would see transformation of our decaying nations.

Whether that is true in the particular sense, it is certainly true in as a model of the ministry needed to prepare people for the coming of the Lord. When and angel appeared to an old priest doing his job in the temple and told him he and his wife were to have a son and his name would be called John the Baptist and that he would be the forerunner to the Messiah, we have a clear model of ministry needed that would anticipate a visitation of Jesus Christ anywhere anytime.

If those who have a very strong sensitivity to second coming teaching can just back off a little, I want to speak in another vein about the coming of Jesus. It is not the parousia (ultimate second coming of Jesus to register the end of the age) I refer to but the way Jesus comes and makes his presence known to an individual or a group of people, or a church in some region or city. For example, when a person is introduced to Jesus Christ for the very first time and experiences being born again that is certainly an experience of the coming of Jesus Christ.

From a Biblical point of view, the ultimate coming of Jesus is simply the fullness of what we experience in part whenever we experience the work of the manifest presence of Jesus. And the coming of Jesus in the personal or group sense is a prophetic sign of the ultimate coming. When Paul talks about the “seal of the Spirit, guaranteeing our inheritance” in Ephesians 1 he is describing what I am talking about here.

I want to embrace every aspect of Jesus presence of grace. I want his presence to be made known in my personal life, my family life, in the fellowship of the people who belong to my congregation. I want him to come to situations and circumstances in my everyday world that would enable people who are lost from him to know him. It has happened heaps of times, but not enough. So if I say “Come Lord Jesus” to use the words from the last book in the Bible, I am going to be referring to the microcosmic reality not the ultimate. If I wanted to put them together, I would say that if we can prepare ourselves to receive every microcosmic visitation of the manifest presence of Jesus that will be the best kind of preparation for the ultimate coming of Jesus.


Any visitation of Jesus is a sovereign work of God. The issue isn’t whether Jesus will come. That has been sovereignly declared. Jesus said he would never be with us forever, to the end of the age. What is far less certain is whether we will prepare in such a way as to recognize his presence when he does make it known. The Christians at Laodicea read a letter Jesus wrote. The letter said that he had been outside the door knocking and wanting to come and fellowship with them (Revelation 3) but their preparation had been the wrong kind. They had been gaining lots of wealth and comfort. Their lukewarmness had hardened their hearts and blocked their ears.

So we need the ministry of John the Baptist. We need a preparation plan that has been tailored by the same God who would send his Son in a visitation that would revive the church so that it could see the transformation of the town, region, city or nation for which we have been given missionary responsibility. And we know from the angel’s announcement to Zechariah (Luke 1) that the preparation ministry was fashioned on that of a previous prophet: Elijah.


The outline above and the notes below reference the spirit of this ministry. The best way to define what the “spirit of Elijah” means is from the text of 1 Kings 17and the chapters following. When we reference the events described there we will not be looking to do a detailed exegesis. We will be looking to answer the question: “What was the spirit in Elijah that enabled him to take bold initiatives and to respond to challenging situations?” “How did the experience of God shape and develop him as a person?” In other words we want to know what is the “spirit of Elijah” in order to allow God to shape us and shape our lifestyle so that we may prepare for the coming of the Lord to our spheres.



ONE: THE SPIRIT OF SOVEREIGN DESTINY Luke 1:17
God’s promise is always a door that no man can shut

“And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah”

When the angel told Zechariah what God was going to do Zechariah’s response was to object on the grounds of previous non-experience and human reason. For that little tantrum he was prevented from speaking for a bit over nine months. What the angel was saying was: “God has set before you an open door which no man can shut. It is a door to parenthood prepared by the Lord.” Zechariah only saw a door that had been closed a long time ago.
If we are going to actively prepare for a visitation of Jesus, we better curb our appetite for unbelief based on similar non-experience and reason. God’s promise is a sovereign open door. We must never call shut what God has sovereignly opened. We must treat the promises of God as they are and take the opportunity that our lack of experience cannot foreshadow and that our reason cannot understand.



TWO: THE SPIRIT OF SUPERNATURAL CALLING 1 Kings 17:1
The atmosphere created by a CV written in heaven

“Now Elijah the Tishbite from Tishbe in Gilead said to Ahab….”

How often have we felt unqualified to attempt kingdom ministry. How often has the world thought that servants of God were unqualified to do what they did. Gladys Aylwood was a fine example. She was rejected by a missions board that simply saw her lack of human qualifications. They couldn’t see what God saw. They missed what her heart was saying, like Samuel was prone to do. We must obey the Word of the Lord. Whether it is a word imparted to us personally by the Spirit or a word from the pages of the Bible all of them represent qualifications for a believer. In reality my CV includes a testimonial made up of sixty six books. Add to that the anointed leading of the Holy Spirit and you are qualified for absolutely everything.
Elijah stood in the court of one of Israel’s most wicked and yet powerful kings. Ahab and his wife Jezebel were responsible for driving the people of God into the arms of the Canaanite god, Baal. They had a palace, an army and plenty of advisors. Elijah came and stood before them without one single qualification that would have meant anything. The call of God makes them unnecessary and irrelevant. What is the call of God on your life and what does it qualify you for?





THREE: THE SPIRIT OF SERVANT AUTHORITY 1 Kings 17:1
The measure of the authority is the measure to which you serve God

“As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, whom I serve,
there will neither be dew nor rain in the next few years except by my word.”

Think of something that you currently have authority over. I have authority to drive my car. When I look at the controls nothing there creates fear or insecurity. I have been driving for nearly fifty years (starting in the paddocks of our farm when I was very young). That experience has given me an authority. The other thing that gives me authority is the fact that I own the car. The other day I was talking to someone on my mobile phone while walking back to my car and for some reason the key wouldn’t open the door. Then I realized to my embarrassment that it wasn’t my car I was trying to open. I didn’t have authority over that car. When I saw my own car right next to the one I was trying to enter and put my key in the lock of my door, my authority was everywhere. The door opened, the engine started. All kinds of things happened that could not have happened with the first vehicle, even though it looked very similar to mine.
Elijah had authority to speak to Ahab and he had a key to the weather pattern around Israel for the next few years. He didn’t have that authority when he was a little boy climbing rocks around Tishbe in Gilead. It can following an encounter with the living God where God had commissioned him to become a servant of His purpose. He had no experience in meteorology, nor did he have diplomatic experience. He had authority to serve the purposes of the God of weather and the King of kings.

What do you have supernatural authority over? It will be to the extent that you know how you are meant to serve the purposes of the same God that Elijah served.



FOUR: THE SPIRIT OF CONFIDENCE IN GOD’S PROVISION 1 Kings 17:2-16
Faith for the method not just the fact is an integral part of the learning experience

Elijah is required to trust God for two separate forms of provision. One is food and water in a time of drought and the other is protection from the wrath of Ahab. No doubt his warning of drought went unacknowledged by Ahab at the time it was given. But as the drought took hold and the economy took a serious downturn, Ahab’s disregard quickly turned to anger. The faithful prophet Obadiah is an amazing object lesson in the kind of people God raises up and places in strategic spots. He tells of Ahab’s plight and attitude. Replace food and water with money, buildings, people, time equipment and you have the same principle for every form of kingdom ministry.
God’s provision for Elijah came first in the form of a directive word. There was a spot somewhere east of the Jordan called the Cherith Ravine. He had to go to that spot to get the provision. There was no provision in Jerusalem even thought the temple was there, nor in any other spot that might have been more comfortable and easier to access. This was where the command of God connected with the earth. Elijah went there and found that water continued to run in a time of drought and the “ravens home delivery” service provided food twice a day. Then a strange thing happened. The brook dried up and the ravens stopped coming. Cherith ceased as the place where provision had been commanded from heaven. That provision was now located right across the other side of the country. It would be like moving from Bateman’s Bay to Ceduna (SA).
Sometimes we are perplexed as we serve the will of God, that provision ceases from a certain source. We can often feel let down and frustrated. We need to learn that faith for provision has less to do than some overall confidence that God will provide. Faith for provision is the confidence to know HOW God will provide. When people quote “Jehovah Jireh” (the Lord who provides) to me, I generally respond by quoting “Jehovah Qum Halach” (from 1 Kings 17:8,9; The Lord said, “rise up and go..”). We are far less ready to hear God say, “Get up off your backside and go..” than we are to hear a word like “Just stay doing nothing and the Lord will send…”
The spirit of Elijah is the spirit that doesn’t simply lie on the ground in the Cherith Ravine and complain about how God had let him down. First the current source of provision stopped. Then he sought the Lord and then the Lord spoke to him about a widow in Sidon. Different sources of provision is one of the strategic principles of God’s purpose and preparation for a visitation of God needs not just provision but the right source of that provision.

What are the sources of provision that God has commanded for what he wants you to do? Maybe you are struggling in Cherith when you should be in Sidon?




FIVE: The spirit of reciprocation I Kings 17:17-24
Blessing from heaven must always be a two way stream

22 The LORD heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived. …
…He gave him to his mother and said, “Look, your son is alive!”
24 Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God
and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is the truth.”


Ministry is always a two way street. In the kingdom of God there are not just givers and receivers there are only people who do both. It is part of the raising up of the spirit of Elijah to see the need for those in some front line of ministry ready to bless those who enable them to be there. It’s not a matter of keeping the supporters happy. It is nothing to do with good public relations. It is not a business arrangement. It is a spiritual relationship where there are mutual obligations. Obviously there will be all kinds of circumstances where we will receive provision through the good grace of people who we may never get to know. But where we are involved in a relationship with those whose grace enables the broader purpose of God to unfold there needs to be a mutual sense of responsibility. So often good people are abused because people in “full time ministry” somehow think their ministry alone owes them a living. God uses people and people are relationships.
Elijah was confronted with a deep crisis in the life of the woman whom God had commanded to provide him with food and lodgings. When that need arose, Elijah took personal responsibility for the woman, her son and her circumstances. He stood in the gap for her and blessing from heaven flowed back to her for her willingness to put God’s purposes before her own comfort and safety. These “widows” are precious jewels in the temple of God and deserve to be honoured as such. To think of reciprocal ministry as public relations or in terms of a free “supporters dinner” is an insult. Through the spirit of Elijah, the woman’s home, family and future was acknowledged as worthy.

Whose provision of time, insight, mentoring, money, ability and the like has contributed to the call of God on your life being enabled. Have you looked for the opportunity to sow into their circumstances and future by being an agent of the blessing of God upon them?




SIX: THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM 1 Kings 18:1-15
God’s way of getting God’s work done

1 After a long time, in the third year, the word of the LORD came to Elijah:
“Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land.”
2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. …..
7 As Obadiah was walking along, Elijah met him.
Obadiah recognized him, bowed down to the ground, and said,
“Is it really you, my lord Elijah?” 8
“Yes,” he replied. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here.’ ”

One of the binary principles of Christian ministry is the important marriage of the truth of God with the wisdom of God. I couldn’t count the number of instances I have known over the years where something that was genuinely a word of eternal truth has been sacrificed on the altar of human foolishness. Elijah had been given a word from the Lord that the rain was about to cease. He was told to present himself to Ahab with that news. This part of the ministry epitomizes the way God embeds intention with strategy. It was his intention to address Ahab with the news that rain was coming, but it wasn’t just a weather report. It was a further and almost final gracious warning about the broken covenantal relationship between God and his people. The strategy involved a faithful prophet called Obadiah who was positioned inside the king’s palace. Imagine being part of the entourage of a disobedient king whose organization included four hundred representatives of demonic power.
Wisdom could be defined as God’s way of getting God’s work done. In the case of Elijah he could have done it the way he did it before. He could have fronted Ahab and delivered the message recorded in the further section of Chapter 18. For reasons we are not told, God set up a meeting between a wandering Obadiah and a focused Elijah. It was a bit reminiscent of Moses meeting Aaron in the desert on his way back to Egypt. This is strategy and in kingdom ministry strategy is divine wisdom. The strategy is as important as the intention. Both are from God. Both need to be from God. Jesus echoed this principle in the following words: “The Father tells me what to say (intention) and how to say it (strategy).” (John 12:49, bracketed words mine).

Do you have a clear sense of how to fulfill the command of God based on something that God has said, or do you just do what someone else does, or how you have done it before?




SEVEN: THE SPIRIT OF CONFRONTATION 1 Kings 18:16-40
The freedom to say what needs to be said to the people who need to hear it

16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?” 18 “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the LORD'S commands and have followed the Baals. 19 Now summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

Elijah meets with Ahab and the first words are full of accusation and blame. The reasonings of rebellion are always curiously pastiche and seriously flawed. He is challenged right there to modify his word simply because if he doesn’t he will incite the already inflamed king even more. If Elijah thought for a moment that he was going to sweet-talk Ahab into taking a short holiday trip to Mt Carmel along with 400 of his Baalist associates it was just not going to happen.
The character of all confrontation will need to be customized according to what it is that is being confronted. When brothers and sisters confront it should needs be in a spirit of gentleness. When it is a representative of entrenched demonization it must not be so. The cost of God’s grace to Israel is three years of suffering and deprivation on the part of relatively innocent ‘little people.’ His purpose was to create a calling card to Ahab and his idolatrous controlling wife. Elijah needed to speak without regard to himself, his feelings or his fears. He was representing the sober warning of a God of grace. This confrontation came in the form of a series of commands. Rain would come, but there would need to be a meeting on Mount Carmel before it was going to happen. Ahab could do little but comply.
Confrontation is always hard and we tend to avoid it as if it were harmful by definition. What is more harmful when things are wrong is not to confront. Leaving damaging issues alone is not only unloving it is irresponsible. This is not to say that every example of wrongdoing must be fronted. If that were the case we would do noting else. We are talking here about matters that were threatening the future wellbeing of a nation and all of its people. Indeed in 721 BC the whole northern kingdom of Israel was dispersed throughout the Assyrian kingdom because of what didn’t happen in response to this gracious warning from heaven.
Christians ought to be skilled confronters. We carry the most powerful redemptive message on the face of the earth. We represent the God of heaven and earth who is the essence of grace and mercy. We ought to gain his heart so that we can confidently confront. Only when we have divine love can we effectively deliver divine truth.

How free are you to confront when the circumstances demand it? Why don’t you ask God for the spirit of Elijah to come upon you so that you will be qualified to say what God wants said to the people he wants to say it to.



EIGHT: THE SPIRIT OF PREVAILING PRAYER 1 Kings 18:41-46
Being an active participant not just a keen observer of God’s purpose

41 And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.” 42 So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.


What happened on Mt Carmel after the people left was as full of excitement as what happened when the fire fell as far as having the opportunity to participate in the unfolding purposes of God is concerned. The declared word of God was that rain was coming. That was the message from the Lord that Elijah presented to the king. That message came with conditions like all messages from God do. Rain involved a prior meeting at Mt. Carmel where God demonstrated his power against the best that Canaanite priests could muster. They managed come cuts and abrasions done on themselves by themselves and no doubt them got some aerobic value from many hours of pleading and begging. Fire was, after all, Baal’s specialty. Elijah precipitated a contest ending in fire falling from heaven consuming some water, a bullock and the credibility of Canaanite fervor. Then he re-iterated the message about rain coming.
There wasn’t a cloud in the sky as far as the eye could see when Ahab rode off down the track that had accumulated through three years of drought. The timing of the rain was also revealed. It was going to come before Ahab could get his chariot onto some decent roads. In fact Elijah said that he’d better get going or he would get bogged on the way.
What happened next is critical in our understanding of the spirit of Elijah. While Ahab was getting take away at the Mt. Carmel Burger King Elijah was climbing back up to the top of the mountain. His purpose was to participate in bringing rain. Those people who bring a particular well known theological system to this verse will have difficulty with my next comment. The question I want to answer is: Would rain have come if Elijah had not gone up to the mountain to pray and watch (times seven)? If he had gone to Burger King and had a whopper with cheese and a cup of coffee would the sky have darkened and rain begin to fall? I am convinced that it would not. Prevailing prayer is not an optional extra to the sovereign plan of God but a key to it. Things happen because people pray and things don’t happen if they don’t. It’s as simple as that in my view.
Purpose and prayer go together. There is no such thing as praying for no reason and there is no such thing as a purpose that doesn’t need praying. Prevailing prayer happens when someone realizes that the God of heaven and earth wants something to happen on the earth and also realized that prayer is the one of the keys involved in that strategy. What I like about this example is the fact that this example highlights a great example of what Jesus referred to in the instruction: “watch and pray.” (Matt. 26:41; Mark 14:38; Luke 21:46). He prayed, then the servant went to look. He prayed again and the servant had another look. This happened seven times in all before some sign appeared that rain was coming. It may not have been a sign to a meteorologist, but it was to a servant of God. Notice please when Elijah stopped praying: when the rain started to appear. That is the spirit of Elijah and the power of prevailing prayer.

I wonder what prayer assignments belong to your sphere of ministry responsibility - family, neighbourhood, workplace, community, nation, nations. Are there things that you should pick up on the basis of what God has promised that hasn’t happened. Just think what it would be like if rain was promised but didn’t come because you chose to sit in Burger King rather than the kneel on the mountain top.



NINE: THE SPIRIT OF PERSONAL RENEWAL 1 Kings 19:1-18
Renewal is part of normal operations for Christian ministry

1 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” 3 Elijah was afraid and ran for his life.

Here is yet another factor critical to the success of all Christian ministry and evidenced here as part of the spirit of Elijah. John the Baptist was certainly evidencing this when he sent some of his associates from his prison cell to ask Jesus whether he really was the one or whether they should look for someone else.(Luke 7:19). There’s a lot to say about this, but suffice to point out that Jesus’ reply is much the same as God’s response to Elijah when they met on Mt. Horeb in Sinai. Elijah was not prepared for Jezebel’s obduracy. He had seen fire fall, people repent and false religion overruled. He had seen the drought break. He was expecting the nation to turn to God and for Ahab and Jezebel to join the penitents. The idea of Jezebel putting out a contract on his life signified that all the grace that flowed from heaven was for nothing, new priests would be installed at the palace and what looked like repentance would quickly manifest as useless remorse. He was tired of carrying the can for a rebellious nation. He was tired of being isolated by his commitment to serve God. He was tired of the fight for God’s honour. No one rushed to console him, Crowds didn’t appear volunteering to sign a petition. It seemed that no one cared.
This form of isolation is well known to good hearted servants of God. Obedience to God’s purpose quickly draws lines and there are plenty of times when you seem to be the only person standing on your side of the line. The drop out rate from “full time” Christian ministry (as if there is any other way of living for any servant of God) in Australia is epidemic in proportion. Unfortunately not enough of those thousands who once put their hand to the plough end up at Mt. Horeb. Too many complain to everyone else except the one place where it is healthy to complain, viz. in the presence of God. Other people can be wonderfully supportive at times like this but none can provide what a person in need of renewal requires. They need something from God. Too often we pander and cajole people in a state of what ought to be called for what it is: self pity. God alone knows how useless that is. What is needed is renewal leading to re-commissioning. If you take the still small voice as a token of intimacy, then intimacy with God is the most under-developed quality of the lives of so many servants of God. Ministry can beguile us away from the very thing that gives us strength. Elijah had to survive a long walk, hardly any food, a whole lot of whiz-bang stuff going on that wasn’t God and he had to suffer the indignity of God’s twice mentioned reaction to his complaint: “What are you doing here?” God never gets involved in Elijah’s emotions. Plenty of people would want to fill Elijah’s ears with every kind of accolade and tribute in the hope of bouncing him out of his depression. The Great Counselor must have missed that class at university. Instead he re-commissioned Elijah to do greater works than those he had already done. This re-commissioning was the prescription and getting focused on it was the medicine that broke the cycle. God also added a corrective clause in his reply. “You are wrong about the numbers. The church that you think has only one member really has seven thousand still on the roll.”

Personal renewal is a critical success factor in ministry. Doing the job isn’t too hard. Making sure you do your primary dealings in the presence of God is much more difficult but so much more important. The next time the work starts to get you down, why don’t you write out your full complaint and take it to the Lord and wait for his answer BEFORE you talk to anyone else. Talking to other people is fine, but not as a substitute for seeking intimacy with the Lord.





TEN: THE SPIRIT OF FATHERHOOD 1 Kings 19:19-21; 2 Kings 1,2
Making room for the next generation of God’s purpose[1]

“…and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet”.

This part of the command of God was most likely going to shape the remainder of Elijah’s ministry more than any other thing he did. In ministry terms it was like the marriage of God’s purpose and Elijah’s commitment to it was about to bear a son. Not only a son but sons. One of the things we notice about this period of time in the history of Israel is the development of the “company of the prophets.” It was a phenomenon that appeared first of all when Samuel was judging Israel.
Something important happens when ministries beget sons. It hasn’t been done well. We have had the same thing happen in the church as has been the case in the wider Australian society. We have had to suffer irresponsible and absent fathers in many “households.” There have been fathers in the house, but they have done everything but raise sons. The other problem has been the way fathers have raised sons. Once again like the sons of any household, it has often been the goal of the father to straightjacket their sons to perpetuate their own ego under the guise of creating succession for the ministry. I come from a rural background and succession has always been a big subject for farmers. Unlike their city counterparts there is a thing called “the property” that has often been in the family for generations. Succession has not always been successful but it is always on the high priority list. Apprenticeship of sons is easy nor is it always natural. Hand over is also a very sensitive area for fathers and sons. Because we have largely adopted an institutional approach to ministry the issue of fathers and sons has been illegitimately commandeered by a committed or individuals in a system. There is rarely anything about the process that is within a country mile of “father and son” and very little to do with the real advancement of the ministry. Until very recently there have been almost no books on the subject of succession in ministry and there have been more bad models than good from my observation point.
Even if “sons” don’t end up taking over the ministry represented by a “father” the call to raise sons and daughters is a valid and important part of Scriptural warrant and needs our attention. It is an issue for everyone involved in a ministry and ministry in the broad sense. Too many demons have had too much impact around the matter of succession. I may be making too much of it, but in my view it could well be the most serious challenge for any ministry if the ministry is going to have life beyond its incumbent leader.
In the case of Elijah he had no thought of raising sons. God did. I sometimes wonder what Elijah’s reaction was the moment he heard God say that he was to raise someone to “succeed you as prophet.” If we take the recorded experience as any kind of guideline (and we should), that process was certainly not the warm and fuzzy frenzy we may prefer. If you look at the interactions between Elijah and Elisha we won’t find too much that is comfy and cuddly. Others will have to guess just what kind of relationship it was. The following are some that seem obvious to me: the offer was given my the father before it was requested by the son, the responsibility on the part of the son was to go after what he saw in the father, not to have it all laid out for him, the part of the son was to serve the father, not for the father to serve the son, the measure to which fathering would happen was going to be determined by what the son was prepared to go after rather than what the father was going to offer,

There is not the space here to apply this to everyone’s area of ministry, but I would urge all who have attested experience in ministry to consider where your sons are? I would likewise ask all who would seek to grow and develop in ministry where your fathers are? There is no individual onus of responsibility here. The onus rests with both potential sons and potential fathers to get up off their individualistic backsides and make sure their ministry involves both functions at the appropriate times.



[1] Rob Holmes (Storm Harvest Ministries, Cootamundra) has a really good book about this and other aspects of the same subject as I have raised in these studies. It is called “The Spirit of Elijah” and contains profound wisdom relative to this issue.