The spirit of the Prophet Elijah
God’s almighty power is connected with obedience to the Word of God, as we can see it in the case of the prophet Elijah: I have done all these things at Your word. God sent him to the Brook Cherith, so he did go there; when God sent him to Zarephath, he did go to Zarephath; when God told him what to do on Mount Carmel, he said: Let this people know that I have done all these things at Your word! So the essence of the prophetic spirit is the obedience of faith and obedience to the Word of God. God wants us all to be prophets. He wants to speak through every one of us. We should learn, too, the obedience to God’s Word so that we may unite to the almighty power of God in a prayer of faith.
What does every nation need most? It needs the Spirit of prophecy, the Spirit of truth. It needs prophets. And who is to be a prophet? In chapter 14 of the Epistle to the Corinthians, we read clearly that we should earnestly pray for the gift of prophecy. All of us. And who is behind the gift of prophecy? The Holy Spirit. We confess in The Creed that the Holy Spirit worked through the prophets – through the prophet Elisha who followed the prophet Elijah and through other prophets of those times, but He worked most through John the Baptist who came before the first coming of Christ in the power of Elijah. The Holy Spirit works today as well, we only need to receive the spirit of prophecy. The prophet Malachi says that God will send the spirit of the prophet Elijah again in the last days before the second coming of Christ. In the Book of Revelation we read about two prophets who prophesied, and the tradition has it that this is the spirit of the prophet Elijah – the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit.
Today it is also necessary that the Holy Spirit descend on the representatives of the nation who bear the responsibility. Not only on them but on all of us, that God may open our eyes because we also are responsible for our nation, for the future generation – all of us without exception. So what can you do? Lift up your hands and ask the Lord for His word, for a living faith. What is happening in the nation is a spiritual battle. The root is that people have received the spirit of lies. The main responsibility rests with the religious leaders who have not received the spirit of prophecy and neglected to say the right word at the right time.
We do not want a curse but a blessing for our nation. Let us pray, through the intercession of the prophet Elijah, for the spirit of prophecy to descend on every one of us. May God grant to us if not a double or half so at least a small portion of the spirit of Elijah, that we may see and have the true wisdom and courage, the courage to defend the truth even at the cost of great sacrifices or even life. Let us pray for the courage of the prophets, and especially of the prophet Elijah who boldly told the truth to King Ahab though risking his life. Ahab blamed him for troubling Israel, and the prophet Elijah said to him: I have not troubled Israel, but you and your family have brought down a curse on all Israel (cf. 1Ki 18:18).
May the prophet Elijah intercede for the entire nation, that the Spirit of God may descend on all who are willing to make a step of repentance so that the nation may be saved and receive a blessing rather than a curse!
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