This was really stirred by a sermon our pastor gave this Sunday. It was regarding Elijah praying and waiting on the rain.. I saw where I had written also in my Bible from a previous reading of this passage that “God calls those things that are not as though they were.” In the darkest times of a deep valley I remembered this passage of scripture and daily I would go into my closet and position myself before the Lord and say..”Father I am coming as Elijah did..” and I would bury my head on my knees in prayer just as the scriptures had said Elijah did. I was struggling in faith and my words were few…in this place many times were mere groans as I would sit in silence awaiting my Father’s comfort.

Elijah was confident in the Lord. He was steadfast even when we would surely begin questioning whether we could have heard the Lord wrong? Yet Elijah showed unwavering faith….

I learned however in this place even the tiny bit of faith I had to go into my closet and bury my head He honored. He didn’t mind that I wasn’t all chatty..that I could no longer find words..but He was pleased I simply ran to Him…it was the faith all along that while it seemed to dissipate..it was still there…knowing on whom I could trust and rest. No, my praise wasn’t quite as outward in this place. I was unable to dance for sometime, or even sing. Praise in the valley was positioned a bit different. Maybe more humbly but still just as lavish and welcomed. I kept going back to this place in this very position believing even if it were a weak and tired faith that when God was finished He would bring me out on the other side. He heard my cry each time I came again..

Go look again
With faithful intent
Father doth hear thy cry.

Here comes the rain
Just listen and wait
For soon it shall roll this way.

Dare to believe
Upon bended knee
Low with faith not seen.

Go look again
With faithful intent
Father doth hear thy cry.

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1 Kings 18

⁴¹ Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.” ⁴² So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, ⁴³ and said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.”

So he went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” And seven times he said, “Go again.”

⁴⁴ Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, “There is a cloud, as small as a man’s hand, rising out of the sea!” So he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.’”

⁴⁵ Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel. ⁴⁶ Then the hand of the Lord came upon Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.