Patricia's Principles for Living

Elijah issued a challenge to the people to serve God. Elijah told the people that if God was God they needed to serve God. However Elijah also told them if Baal was God then, serve him. He wanted them to stop having one foot in a false religion and one foot as it were in the truth. However the people answered him nothing. What do you do when you don’t get a response from the people to whom you’ve just told an important truth? It appears, if you are the leader you tell them what to do. Give the plan to the unresponsive. Help them move to the place of decision by giving them a job to do. This is what Elijah did. The prophets of Baal didn’t know how to set up the test. God told Elijah what to do. Elijah took the leadership and instructed the unbelievers how to do the test to prove the reality and power of God for themselves. The test was out in the open. The prophets of Baal constructed their altar in full view of the people. They could not use any sleight of hand in dousing a little fi...

When the altar of the Lord was in ruins in Elijah's day whose fault was it? Of course, it was the peoples fault. Why was the altar in ruins? Well Jezebel had destroyed Gods prophets. There was no one among the people who dared to build it back up. So there was Elijah having to restore the altar. The God of Elijah answered Elijah on God's restored altar. God's people need to restore God's altars in our land. First the restored altar must be in our own hearts. Each one of us must take the time to seek God on a daily basis, like Daniel. No one can stop a devoted heart from worshipping God except the individual. Who is stopping you from your altar? Secondly we need to restore the family altars in our homes. These altars are in ruins. I go into most peoples house and see huge altars. They are places of meditation and instruction. Everyone in the family worships at this altar spending countless hours around it. It's called the television. Its replaced the family altar tha...