Pastor Corey’s Home Study Notes 

EHS J2 – KEM Message #34 Sunday – 2/24/2013

(Hebrews 13:8)

“We Can’t See What We Don’t Expect” 

(1Kings 18:41-46) 

41 And 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 to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down upon the earth and put his face between his knees

43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up and looked and said, There is nothing. Elijah said, Go again seven times.

44 And at the seventh time the servant said, A cloud as small as a man’s hand is arising out of the sea. And Elijah said, Go up, say to Ahab, Hitch your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.

45 In a little while, the heavens were black with wind-swept clouds, and there was a great rain. And Ahab went to Jezreel.

46 The hand of the Lord was on Elijah. He girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel [nearly twenty miles].

People have described Revival in the Church in the following ways:

? God at work restoring his Church back to health.

? Never losing the wonder of it all.

? Returning to that first Love.

Why revival is necessary:

? Drought that Israel went through is symbolic of the church and its present day drought…

? Water is a symbol of life and refreshment…

? (Psalm 42:1) 

1 As the hart pants and longs for the water brooks, so I pantand long for You, O God. 

2 My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? 

? (Psalm 63:1-2) 

1 O God, You are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my inner self thirsts for You, my flesh longs and is faint for You, in a dry and weary land where no water is. 

2 So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary to see Your power and Your glory. 

? (Ezekiel 34:24-26) 

24 And I the Lord will be their God and My Servant David a Prince among them; I the Lord have spoken it. 

25 And I will confirm with them a covenant of peace and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land, and [My people] shall dwell safely in the wilderness, desert, or pastureland and sleep [confidently] in the woods.