1. Calling on God
Pastor Nathan Weller
August 20, 2017
Series: Face Time

3. 1 When Ahab got home, he told Jezebel everything Elijah had done, including the way he had killed all the prophets
of Baal. 2 So Jezebel sent this message to Elijah:
“May the gods strike me and even kill me if by this time
tomorrow I have not killed you just as you killed them.”
3 Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He went to Beersheba, a town in Judah, and he left his servant
there. 4 Then he went on alone into the wilderness, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have... (cont’d)
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4. 1st Kings 19.1-9 NLT ...had enough, Lord,” he said. (cont’d)
“Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors who have already died.”
5 Then he lay down and slept under the broom tree. But
as he was sleeping, an angel touched him and told him, “Get up and eat!” 6 He looked around and there beside
his head was some bread baked on hot stones and a jar of water! So he ate and drank and lay down again.
7 Then the angel of the Lord came again and touched him and said, “Get up and eat some more... (cont’d)
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5. ...or the journey ahead will be too much for you.”
8 So he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave
him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights
to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God. 9 There he came
to a cave, where he spent the night.
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7. The journey of faith is impossible without daily reliance upon God.

9. In all honesty,
cry out to God.

11. 1 When Ahab got home, he told Jezebel everything Elijah
had done, including the way he had killed all the prophets
of Baal. 2 So Jezebel sent this message to Elijah: “May the
gods strike me and even kill me if by this time tomorrow
I have not killed you just as you killed them.”
3 Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He went to Beersheba,
a town in Judah, and he left his servant there. 4 Then he went on alone into the wilderness, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die.
“I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors who have already died.”
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13. “I have been accustomed to call this book not
inappropriately, ‘An anatomy of all parts of the soul’ for
there is not an emotion of which anyone can be conscious that is not here represented as in a mirror. Or rather, the
Holy Spirit has brought to life all the grief, sorrows, fears, doubts, hopes, cares, perplexities, in short, all the
distracting emotions with which our minds are agitated….Here the prophets themselves, seeing they
are presented to us as speaking to God, and laying open
all their innermost thoughts and affections, call, or rather draw, each of us to the examination of ourselves.”
-John Calvin-

15. 5 Then he lay down and slept under the broom tree. But
as he was sleeping, an angel touched him and told him,
“Get up and eat!” 6 He looked around and there beside his head was some bread baked on hot stones and a jar of
water! So he ate and drank and lay down again.
7 Then the angel of the Lord came again and touched
him and said, “Get up and eat some more, or the journey ahead will be too much for you.”
8 So he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave
him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights
to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.
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17. Daily we must feast on God’s Word

19. Ezekiel 3.1-4 NLT 1 The voice said to me, “Son of man, eat what I am
giving you—eat this scroll! Then go and give its message to the people of Israel.” 2 So I opened my mouth, and
he fed me the scroll. 3 “Fill your stomach with this,”
he said. And when I ate it, it tasted as sweet as honey
in my mouth.
4 Then he said, “Son of man, go to the people of Israel
and give them my messages.
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21. Jeremiah 15.6 ESV Your words were found, and I ate them,
and your words became to me a joy
and the delight of my heart,
for I am called by your name,
O Lord, God of hosts.
Jeremiah 15.6 ESV

23. 9 So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll
9 So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, “Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.” 10 And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.
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25. Deuteronomy 8.3 ESV And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you
with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does
not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word
that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 8.3 ESV

27. "The story of the manna gathered and set aside by
the Hebrews is deeply significant. It so happened
that the manna rotted when it was kept. And perhaps
this means that all spiritual reading which is not consumed—by prayer and by works--ends by causing
a sort of rotting inside of us. You die with a heart full
of fine sayings and a perfectly empty heart."
-Julian Green-

29. Don’t forget to rest

31. 1st Kings 19.5, 9 NLT 5 Then he lay down and slept under the broom
tree. But as he was sleeping, an angel touched him
and told him, “Get up and eat!”
9 There he came to a cave, where he spent the night.
1st Kings 19.5, 9 NLT

33. When you get alone with God and begin to pray,
you learn your insignificance. You see how big and powerful God is, and suddenly, the whole of your
life becomes worship and praise.”
-C John Miller-

35. Current Relationship With God: __________________________

36. Current Relationship With God: Desired Relationship With God:
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Desired Relationship With God:
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38. Calling on God
Pastor Nathan Weller
August 20, 2017
Series: Face Time