A Day's Journey Into the Wilderness — Carter Conlon

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Elijah in the Wilderness and the Discouraged Servant

1st Kings chapter 19, if you turn there with me, please. 1st Kings chapter 19. I feel today that God has brought specific people into this service. Both in this sanctuary and the education annex or wherever you happen to be watching this service on any of the jumbotron screens that are mounted in the different rooms and hallways.

I believe that there are specific people that God has ordained you to be here today to speak to your heart and to set you free. There is going to be a shout of freedom. He has promised me. I feel that there are some spiritual leaders that are here today that God has drawn you.

Some may be right at the end of your rope. You're discouraged. You feel like you've failed God. You don't understand why such a loneliness and depression and confusion has come upon your life. There are others that are living for the Lord.

You love God with all your heart and all of a sudden you find yourself in a place of terrible weakness. Tormenting thoughts beginning to come into your mind, wondering if you failed God. Thoughts about others, thoughts about people.

Seems that the enemy is pressing in on you on all sides. But today by the grace of God, we're going to open his word. We're going to unmask the powers and tactics of the enemy. We're going to see the goodness of God.

God is good. He'll never fail you. He'll never forsake you. He'll never leave you. Throughout this entire day, I have a witness in my spirit that God is by the power of the Holy Ghost is going to encourage this church body.

It's going to be a wonderful day of encouragement all day today, a day of worship, a day of rejoicing in the goodness of our God. 1st Kings chapter 19. Father, I just thank you for the anointing of your Holy Spirit.

Prayer for Strength, Liberty, and Kingdom Advancement

God, I thank you for your strength and your power. I thank you, Lord, that you have never asked me to stand in my own strength. You have never asked me to preach from my own knowledge. God, I thank you for that, Lord, for I don't have any strength.

I don't have any knowledge. Lord, I wouldn't even be able to know what direction to go in were it not for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. God, I thank you for your presence. I thank you for your power.

I thank you, Lord, where the Spirit of God is, there is liberty. I thank you for great, tremendous liberty today for those who have come into this house to hear your word. I cast down every contrary argument to sound doctrine.

I cast down the lies of the enemy. I cast down every weapon of the devil that's formed against the heart and mind of any of God's people. Father, I thank you today that your kingdom is going to advance with great power.

I thank you that prison doors are going to be opened. I thank you that blinded eyes will see. I thank you, Lord, that feeble hands will be lifted up and weakened knees will be given strength. God, I thank you that this day, this very day, that your kingdom will come into many hearts and there will be a shout of joy.

A shout that says, Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. We welcome you, Lord Jesus, and we ask you to move sovereignly and powerfully in every one of our lives in our hearts. We ask it in your precious name.

Amen and amen. A day's journey into the wilderness. A day's journey into the wilderness. I'm going to, some folks that are here today, I'm going to preach your life right now. They're going to say, Pastor, you have been in my house.

I don't know how you got there. You've been standing in a corner and you've been monitoring my very existence. But today, I know that God's going to set you free. First Kings chapter 19, beginning at verse 1.

Elijah's Flight from Jezebel

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and with all how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Now, these are the false prophets that were leading the people. Then Jezebel, this is the wife of Ahab the king, sent a messenger unto Elijah saying, so let the gods do to me and more also if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

Now, this is but like if basically she's saying let the gods do the same to me if I don't kill you as you killed the prophets of Baal. And when he saw that he arose and he went for his life and came to Beersheba which belongeth to Judah and left his servant there.

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness. Has anybody ever gone there? You ever taken a day's journey into the wilderness? You've come from a great victory in God. Sunday just couldn't have gotten any better.

If Sunday was any better, you would have gone right through the dome of the church. You'd be right in the presence of God. You walked out and you knew you had the victory. You came to the altar and God moved in power and you knew you had that triumph of God.

And maybe it was at the tail end of a wonderful week. You couldn't do anything wrong. Everything you set your hand to prospered. Every person you spoke to, their tears came into their eyes. It seemed that there was an anointing on your life that was unprecedented.

Just like Elijah had known just before this. And then all of a sudden you walk out of the house of God, not even knowing where you're going. And in a moment of time, you're in the wilderness. You're looking around.

Everything is gone. Where's the anointing? Where's all my friends? Where's the touch of God that was so evident upon my life just a few days ago? And you've walked a day's journey into the wilderness and not even knowing why you're there.

And he came and sat down under a juniper tree and he requested for himself that he might die. And said, it is enough now, oh Lord, take away my life. For I am not better than my father's. In chapter 18 of 1st Kings, a great, great victory had been won.

The false prophets of Baal had been leading the people into Baal worship. Elijah stood in the power of God and began to confront these contrary arguments to truth. He challenged the false prophets to build their altars and call upon God and see if God would answer them.

And he he made a declaration before the people. He said, okay, the God that answers by fire, he said, let him be God. And everybody said, this is a great idea. So the prophets of Baal built their altar and danced around it and cut themselves with stones and cried out unto Baal.

At the end of the day, there was no answer. And Elijah stood upon the top of Mount Carmel and rebuilt the altar of the Lord that had fallen down. And after he had rebuilt the altar of the Lord, he commanded the sacrifice to be placed on the altar and he commanded them to saturate it, not once, not twice, but three times at least.

He commanded them to saturate that altar with water so that there would be no chance that there'd be any kind of a spontaneous ignition or combustion on that altar apart from the power of God. And then he stood back to pray and we see a culmination, I suppose, of one of the most tremendous victories.

There are many in the Old Testament, but this is a powerful victory for truth. And God was using a man who was set apart for him and whose heart and affections were turned towards the honor and praise of Almighty God.

And my brethren, God always has used this type of person throughout history, in the recent past, and also today. This is the type of heart, this is the person that he is looking for. That man, that woman whose heart is towards him, who wants him, who loves him, who's not looking for power, not looking for prestige, not looking for personal wealth, not looking for personal honor, but whose sole purpose is for the honor and glory of God.

Elijah's Victory on Mount Carmel

There was something... Elijah was a man in touch with God and he was so concerned that the one true God that he knew be honored, that he was infuriated that these false prophets were allowed to lead the people into a type of worship that took their hearts away from truth and away from the God who really could protect them and give them his power and presence and set them free.

In 1 Kings 18 37, he stands back and says, Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and they said, The Lord, He is God, The Lord, He is God. When they saw the true fire of heaven come down, they said, The Lord, He is God. This is why we are gathering to pray as a church.

This is why it's so important to have our lives in order, in tune with the very heart of God, to offer our lives with our prayers. Elijah had taken a tremendous step, a step of faith, because he knew that he would be in a perilous position if he called out to God and there was no answering upon that altar.

But he had faith in his heart and a confidence in the God that he served. The people all around, the people of Israel, fell on their faces and said, The Lord, He is God, The Lord, He is God. Then Elijah said to them, to the people, Take the prophets of Baal.

Let not one of them escape. And they took them and brought them down to the Brook Kishon and slew them there. And then Elijah said to Ahab the king, Get up and drink. And there's a sound of an abundance of rain.

The next time we see Elijah, he's on the top of the Mount Carmel, casting himself down to the earth. He puts his face down between his knees and begins to pray and ask God now to send rain on the land.

As a sign that the people's that God's blessing was back on the people whose hearts had turned back to him again. He saw a hand coming over the servant of Elijah, just saw a hand coming over the horizon like a little cloud.

And then he sent word to Ahab. He said, Go. And he said, Run. There's going to be an awful thunderstorm here. There's going to be a rainstorm. And so we see Elijah witnessing the incredible power of God working through his life, a tremendous victory.

And right after, it's as if he's driven right into the wilderness, pursued by a fear that he himself is not even fully able to comprehend. In verse four, he feels so overwhelmed, perhaps ashamed at having so, this is in chapter 19, perhaps ashamed at having so little confidence in the God whom he knows has such power that he requests for himself that he might die.

Elijah says, and you and I, I suppose, could be in exactly the same position that he was in that day. He went a day's journey into the wilderness. And when we embark on that journey into the wilderness.

Despair, Exhaustion, and God's Provision

Now, this is a wilderness that he's driven into because of a fear that has found a place in his heart. And in that place, he requested for himself that he might die. So, God, this is enough. I am no better than my father's.

All of a sudden, Elijah is thinking, he's thinking about the children of Israel. He knows the history and the legacy having coming out of Egypt. He's thinking about all the signs and wonders that God did in the sight of the people and how through unbelief they grieved the heart of God.

And instead of going in and conquering their enemies, they ended up running from their enemies. And here's Elijah just having, I'm sure he was a man in his heart that he had determined that this is not going to happen to me.

I am never going to dishonor God like this. I'm never going to run from any of my enemies or the enemies of God. And all of a sudden, he's driven into the wilderness by an evil report and an absolute feeling of being overwhelmed by a sense of failure.

He said, I am no better than my father's. I am in the same boat that the children of Israel were in. They saw your signs. They saw your wonders. And then they ran and they from their enemies. And a man, those that are zealous for the things of God, there's a downside sometimes to a great zealousness for God.

Those that are really zealous for God, if a sense of failure comes into their life, sometimes it can lead to a tremendous despair beginning to overwhelm them. It seems now for a season, in verse five and six, he said he lay and slept under a juniper tree and an angel touched him and said, arise and eat.

He looked and behold, there was a cake making on the coals and a cruise of water at his head. And he did eat and drink and laid him down again. And it seemed for a season that all he could do was get up, eat what God had provided and go back and lay down again.

In spite of all that provision, he was still so tired. And there are some in this church today that you have come into this house of God today. And you say, Pastor, you are speaking my life right now.

I come into Times Square Church or I open my Bible every day and God feeds me and he talks to me about his power and he talks to me about his faithfulness. But it seems that I'm unable to lay hold of it in this season in my life for whatever reason.

I want to be able to live for God. I want to be able to serve him. I want to rise up in power. But it seems that all I can do, such a despair, such a loneliness has come into my life that it seems that all I can do is get up and eat a little bit every day and go back and sleep again.

A despair has begun to overwhelm my soul. We hear that cry in the heart of David, the king, the sweet psalmist in Psalm 6, when he says, O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak. O Lord, heal me, for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed. But thou, O Lord, how long? Return, O Lord, deliver my soul. O save me for thy mercy's sake.

For in death there's no remembrance of thee. In the grave, who shall give thee thanks? I'm weary with my groaning. All the night make I my bed to swim. I water my couch with my tears. As David once knew this, this time of this season of wilderness experience and despair, now Elijah is knowing it.

And in verse 8, it says he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat 40 days and 40 nights unto Horeb, the mount of God. In this place of despair, Elijah travels only in the strength of God.

I have come through times in my life where I have known that it is only God and God alone that has given me the strength to go one more day. There I have known times of great weakness. I remember one time in particular walking down a gravel road out in the country, so weak, so tired, having had a great zeal for God and having such a sense of having failed God come over me.

And I remember crying out to the Lord in that state of despair, really, which was threatening to just overwhelm my very soul. And I remember crying out to God. I said, God, whatever you do, however you move.

It's always been in my heart that that Jesus, you would be glorified, that you would move upon people's lives. God, that you would tear down all of this false and let the true worship of Christ be exalted in the nation.

And I said to God, if I'm not able to be used anymore of you, if for whatever reason I've displeased you, all I ask of you is you just let me live to see it. God, just let me live to see the day when you move in power upon a people.

Let me live to see your kingdom advance. Whether or not I'm even part of it, it doesn't matter anymore. I just ask that you let me live to see it. He's walking only in the strength of God and he knows it.

And there are some of you here today that you are simply walking in the strength of God. You have no assurance of the day after tomorrow. You know that you're here today. Some some are even wondering how you even made it to the house of God today.

There are others who are here and you say, God, if I don't hear from you today, it's all over for me. I have got to hear from you. You've got to speak to my life. You've got to tell me why I'm in this place.

If I've grieved you, tell me how I've grieved you. If I've failed you, Lord, and you're angry with me, Lord, you've got to take your hand of chastening off of my life and you've got to set me free from this place.

Wrong Judgments During Spiritual Discouragement

We need to be careful that in these wilderness times of discouragement. It is often during these times that we are prone to making wrong judgments, firstly, about other people and secondly, wrong judgments, even about the very motives of God.

In chapter 19, again, in verse 10. The Lord asks him, he says, what are you doing here, Elijah? He says, I've been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts and for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down nine alters and slain thy prophets with the sword.

And he says, and I, even I only am left in that place of despair. Sometimes we can begin to make false judgments about the spirituality of other people who are around us. We need to be careful of this.

This was a grave mistake in Elijah's life. He he had such a zeal for God that he thought, well, how come other people are not suffering like I am? How come they're not a day's journey in the wilderness?

And how come there? How come I had to stand on that hill all alone? And there are there no other Christians? And then all of a sudden he came to the conclusion that there are no other Christians. He was the only one that was standing for God.

I'm the only one left. But Jesus said in Matthew seven, clearly judge not that you be not judged. He's talking about an unrighteous judgment. He's talking about when we form in our hearts and an irreversible opinion that that we are righteous and others are not that we are living for God and they're not living for God.

We become judge, jury and executioner of somebody else's life and walk with God. He says, for with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged. And with what measure you meet, it shall be measured to you again.

I even I only am left. Now, God corrects him very gently a little later on and tells him in verse 18, he said, I have seven thousand, Elijah and Israel that have not bowed the knee unto Baal and every mouth which has not kissed him.

Seven thousand others. He had made a fateful mistake. God had a remnant. God had a people that were living for him, that he considered righteous, that had not bowed their knee. And so it's not for you and I to judge the condition of others around us.

We're best to focus on where we are with God, each and every one of us individually. And then the second thing he said in verse 10, he says, I even only I am left and they seek my life to take it away.

They seek my life. Be careful when you get into a time of depression, a time of loneliness, perhaps when it seems like everybody's there can come that lie of the devil into your life like everybody is after me.

They're all against me. You come into the house of the Lord and you're walking around as if you're on eggshells, looking at everybody with these strange eyes. Didn't say hi to me today. They're against me.

Look at that usher doesn't like me. The seat next to me is empty. I knew it. Nobody wants to sit next to me. They're all against me. They seek my life. Now, who are they? Who are they? Now, Elijah saying this, I'm the only one left.

And he's wrong. And then he says, and they seek my life. He's wrong about that, too. Who are they? Are they the people? The last that we heard of the people, they were shouting, the Lord is God, the Lord is God.

That's the last we heard about the people. The last we saw of the people, they were helping him slay the false prophets at the Brook Kishon, all of the people that had been gathered. They were with Elijah.

There was nobody among the people that I can see that that were seeking his life. Even the king Ahab, the last we heard of him, he was awaiting Elijah's instructions as he sought the face of God on the top of Mount Carmel.

So the king wasn't after him and the people that were gathered around Mount Carmel weren't after him. So who are they? Well, they are the devil, Jezebel and a messenger. That's who was after Elijah, the devil, a queen that he had access to her heart and a messenger that she sent.

Now, those are they. Yeah, it's true, there can be people after us. It's true that somebody can come in in a moment of weakness, can speak a word that puts a root of fear in your heart. But be careful in that state of depression or discouragement that you and I don't begin to tar everybody around us with the same brush.

Because one evil messenger has come to you from another evil messenger who is really motivated by the devil himself. That doesn't mean everybody's against you. Now, in verse 11 in chapter 19, God displays in the cave, he leads Elijah to a cave.

And in that cave, he displays his power to show Elijah how suddenly he could change any situation or circumstance or even nation for that matter. And he said after he had made this confession, I'm the only one left and they seek my life.

In verse 11, he said, Go forth and stand upon the Mount before the Lord. And behold, the Lord passed by and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and break in pieces the rocks before the Lord. And the Lord was not in the wind and after the wind and earthquake.

But the Lord was not in the earthquake and after the earthquake of fire. But the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, a still small voice. Elijah, he's telling Elijah, you've never been alone.

I've been with you every moment in all of my power, just as I was at the beginning. Not one ounce of my power has diminished in your life and on your behalf. I have not left you. I've not forsaken you.

I have been with you. There is a purpose in everything that is happening in your life right now. He sends firstly a wind, a great wind so strong that it breaks the mountains. Can you imagine that? I was on Mount Carmel one time and in that area that you look around Israel.

There are there are numerous mountains all over the place. And it's hard to imagine a wind so strong that it breaks mountains apart. And it says that it break in pieces the rocks before the Lord. And God is saying to Elijah, Elijah, what kingdom has ever been able to defy my might?

God's Power Over Every Opposing Force

In Zechariah chapter four, Zechariah, the prophet was writing to the governor Zerubbabel who had been sent back after the Babylonian captivity to encourage him to trust that no opposing force could withstand God's plan to reestablish his people and rebuild the temple.

The people were becoming discouraged. And God spoke to Zechariah and Zechariah wrote down and spoke to Zerubbabel and he said to these words, this is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel saying, not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

And then in verse seven, he says this. Who art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel, thou shalt become a plain. In other words, who can stand when God has a plan? Who can stand against it? Who can move his hand against what God wants to do in anyone's life?

If God has a plan for your life here today, who can stand against it? What power of hell can oppose it? This is what God is trying to get through to Elijah. He sends the wind and says, I have been with you just as I was on Mount Carmel.

Nothing is diminished. If I determine a plan for your life, nothing can stop it. Nothing, even though for a season you might be in the wilderness and you might not understand what it is that's happening in your life.

Nothing can stop what I have determined to do in your life because it's got nothing to do with you. It's not by your might. It's not by your power. It's by my spirit, saith the Lord. Who are you, O great mountain?

Who are you, O depression? Who are you, loneliness? Who are you, discouragement? To stand and think that you can stop a servant of God, that I have placed my hand on it. Before him, he says, you will become a plain.

In other words, you'll become a flat piece of land. There'll be no opposition whatsoever. And he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, grace, grace unto it. In other words, Zechariah was saying to Zerubbabel, the Lord was speaking through Zechariah to Zerubbabel.

You're going to finish. You're going to finish by the power of my spirit. What I have begun to do in your life and nobody is going to stop it. I am an all powerful God. And what I have determined to do in your life, I'm going to do it and I'm going to finish it.

You're going to run your race and finish your course. And when you get to the end, the capstone in this case is not the cornerstone. It's the finishing stone on the top, the very last stone to be placed in the temple.

And when you are finished, when the work that I have determined for you to do has come to completion, you're going to put the last stone in place and you're going to raise your hands and you're going to shout grace, grace, the goodness of God, the favor of God, the power of God, the faithfulness of God has brought me to where I am, has rebuilt my life and caused me to stand in the midst of all opposition.

God's goodness and grace has brought me through. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Brethren, this work in your life and mine began by grace. It will continue by grace and it will finish by grace. It's got nothing to do with you or I.

It's everything to do with a surrendered heart, inviting Christ in, in the power of the Holy Ghost and walking with him in that power. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We need to understand these truths. Elijah understood this truth.

There was a time in his life when he understood that I can stand in the power of God and nothing can oppose me. That's what gave him the courage to stand on Mount Carmel. But now he's a day's journey into the wilderness.

Next, says the Lord sent an earthquake after the wind, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. It's not that God wasn't doing it. It's that he, what he, what he was trying to get through to Elijah was not to be found in that earthquake.

When he sent the earthquake, he's speaking and saying, what plans of man can stand when I arise to shake them? The prophet Isaiah said in Isaiah chapter two, verses 17 and 19, speaking of a day that's coming soon.

He says, the loftiness of man shall be bowed down. The haughtiness of man shall be made low. And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty.

When he arises to shake terribly the earth. Hallelujah. The New Testament writer says once more, he will arise and shake everything that can be shaken that only that which cannot be shaken might remain.

What plans of man can stand when I arise to shake them? Jezebel hears from the devil, sends a messenger and sends the man of God into a wilderness. And God's saying to Elijah, what plans of the evil one have ever stood when I stand to shake them?

Hallelujah. Didn't the scripture say to us, no weapon formed against you will ever prosper. And every tongue that rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord.

Their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. Every tongue that has risen against you in your time of weakness. God says, open your mouth and declare that the righteousness you possess is not of yourself.

The righteousness you have is because Jesus Christ died on a cross and you have trusted him for your salvation. Therefore, open your mouth and condemn the accuser right to his face. Say unto him, I rebuke you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is my righteousness.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And lastly, says he sends a fire in first 12, but the Lord was not in the fire. Later on, we see after the death of Ahab in second Kings chapter one, please don't turn down.

I just shared with you. There was a new king as a riot who had been rebuked by Elijah. Elijah did get out of the wilderness, by the way, if you've never read the story. And this king was incensed that Elijah had rebuked him because he was seeking after another God.

Fire from Heaven and the Authority of God

And he sent a captain with 50 soldiers to take him and Elijah sitting on top of a mountain. And this man with his 50 soldiers came to take Elijah. And Elijah said, and he said, thou man of God, the king has said, come down.

Now here's an earthly king sending a soldier captain with 50 soldiers and Elijah sitting on a mountain all alone. He's rebuked the king. This is after this entire scenario that I'm reading about in first Kings 19 and Elijah says to him, well, if I be a man of God, let fire come down and from heaven and consume thee and I 50 and fire came down and consume the captain and his 50 right on the spot.

But back before this happened, God was speaking to Elijah and he was telling him. Who can stand before God? Who can resist the power of God who can resist the fury of God who can stand against the judgment of God.

Elijah, when I stand to do something, when I send a man to do something, who can resist him? Who can stop him? Who has the power? Who has the numerical resources? Who has the authority to stand against the king of the universe and ever prosper rather than that's why Paul says that the, your eyes would be enlightened.

That you would see who Jesus Christ is, where he sits at the right hand of all power and all authority. Every name that is named is in subjection to him. And he is the head of the church. This is the end of side one.

You may now turn the tape over to side two against what he has determined to do in your life. Who has the authority? Who has the power? That's why David the Psalmist could say though 10 ,000 come against me.

Avoiding the Worship of Past Victories

I'll not be afraid of them because God is with me and his commission is upon my life. Hallelujah. Elijah could, after the victory on Carmel, easily have been caught up in the victory parties. He had won a marvelous victory in Israel, at least in that momentary respite was turning back to God.

At least the people around the mountain were turning to God. The false prophets had all been slain. And no doubt there'd be a tendency when that kind of thing happens to have a victory party and celebrate and rejoice, which is an okay thing.

Elijah could have easily ended up traveling the circuit and retelling the story of what happened on Mount Carmel one day. You know, there are many, many preachers that have known great victories in their ministry and rather than pursue and go on into deeper things of God, they end up on the circuit and they just retell the story.

Aren't you thankful today? Aren't you thankful that pastor David doesn't stand here every Sunday telling stories about what happened in 1958 in New York City? Aren't you thankful? It was a great victory and that victory is known all over the world, but unless you press him for it, he'll never talk to you about it because he's not concerned about what happened in 58.

He'll tell you what happened this morning on his knees before coming into church. He'll tell you what happened yesterday or the day before, but he's not talking about what happened way back then. And there are many, many people who get caught and they have a victory and God uses them and they, the church wants to know about it.

And so they end up on a circuit. That's all they ever talk about is what happened way back then. And they build a tent around it. They, they, they, they, they eulogize it. Then before they know it, they're actually worshiping a past experience and forgetting about the God of today.

Elijah could have become the new head of the building committee. The reestablishing the altars the correct way committee throughout the land of Israel going and say, okay, it's 12 stones. This is the way it was done.