LOOK AGAIN

Revival Is Coming

1 Kings 18:1, 30–45 (NKJV)

I. THE DROUGHT

1 Kings 17:1; 18:1

• The drought was covenant judgment, not random weather (Deuteronomy 11:16–17; 28:23–24).

• Israel abandoned Yahweh, who delivered them from Egypt, and gave their allegiance to Baal, a storm and

fertility god.

• This was an open exchange of allegiance, not passive drift.

• The drought exposed the emptiness of that exchange.

• God withheld rain, but He had not abandoned His people. He was disciplining them, not discarding them.

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II. THE ALTAR

1 Kings 18:30–32

• The altar had to be rebuilt before rain could come, because it was where the covenant relationship between

God and His people was maintained.

• This altar had been torn down as Baal worship replaced the worship of Yahweh in public life.

• Elijah repairs the altar before he asks for rain.

• The twelve stones declared covenant unity with no visible evidence yet.

• For us, an altar is the place where we consistently surrender control back to God: prayer, worship, confession,

obedience.

• Rebuilding an altar means naming what fell down and returning to it before asking God for anything else.

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III. THE FIRE

1 Kings 18:20–29

1 Kings 18:38–39

• The prophets of Baal cry out and cut themselves all day with no answer.

• Fire falls on Baal's own claimed territory, at the hour of evening sacrifice.

• They failed because they tried to manufacture what only God can give.

• The fire's purpose was never entertainment. It revealed who God is.

Notes:IV. THE SOUND

1 Kings 18:41

Romans 10:17

• There is no visible rain yet, but Elijah has already heard it.

• His confidence traces back to God's promise in verse 1.

• Prophetic hearing is often just holding onto what God already said.

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V. LOOK AGAIN

1 Kings 18:43–44

Zechariah 4:10

• God does not dismiss small beginnings.

• When we honor the small thing, God increases it.

• Small evidence can carry enormous prophetic significance.

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VI. THE RAIN

1 Kings 18:45

Numbers 23:19

• The cloud becomes a storm. The drought breaks.

• The same God who kept His word about the curse kept His word about the rain.

• This weekend, we are asking God for restored altars, renewed hunger, fresh revelation of His glory, and fresh

fire.

Notes:

“Maybe you looked six times and saw nothing. But I'm telling you, look again.

Look again at your family. Look again at your church. Look again at your prayer life. Look again atthis generation. Look again at this city.

Because the cloud may be small, but the rain is coming.”