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Title: Faith -- Shaky or Solid?
by David George

Kids can sometimes get things mixed up. One child sang God Bless America this way: "God bless America, thru the night with a light from a bulb." Sing it fast, and it sounds OK.

1 Kings 18 gives us the record of Elijah and the water soaked altar where he asks God to send fire from Heaven. Think of it -- the situation is impossible from a human standpoint, because as drenched as the altar was, no human effort was going to be effective in starting the fire. If it was going to burn, it had to be by Divine intervention, and that's exactly what happened.

Given the impossibility of the situation, wouldn't you have expected Elijah to give a long and agonizing pleading to God? Elijah knew something that we can learn. State your case to God and leave it with Him. It seems to me that when we pray to God, sometimes we pray on and on sort of hoping that somehow we will get through to God and He will finally hear us -- the more words we use, the better, right? We are probably trying to psych ourselves into having faith. If we really have faith in God, we will state our case succinctly and then leave it in His capable hands. It's probably a case of "the shakier the faith, the more abundant are the words."

Here is the second part of Elijah's brief prayer from 1 Kings 16:37 -- "O Lord, answer me! Answer me so that these people will know that you, O Lord, are God and that you have brought them back to yourself." Shouldn't that be the end result of all our prayers, that God would get the glory? Think about it.

E-Cheer is provided by David George a stroke victim layman and meant to be a source of encouragement and uplift by providing a jump-start for your day.

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In 1997 I had a stroke that crippled my left side. Upon release from therapy I started a ministry of daily e-mail devotions called E-Cheer to encourage others. I am a layman, having spent my career as service manager for the Allen Organ Co.