Key Thought: Compromising your faith doesn’t leave room for God’s hand.
Start talking. Find a conversation starter for your group.
• Discuss a time when you’ve seen a high-profile company, sports team or celebrity go through a dry season. What does it look like when God brings the rain?
•Can you identify the connection between a person’s or company’s dry season and a casual attitude?
Start thinking. Ask a thoughtful question.
• What does compromise in our walk with God look like? What forms can it take?
•Have you ever seen someone give up on their promise from God? What was that like from the outside looking in?
Start sharing. Choose questions that create openness.
• Is there an area where you are not believing-or worse, no longer believing-God’s promise for your life?
• Where do you truly believe God will rain blessings into your life?
•How will you prepare the fields of your life to receive the rain of God’s blessings?
Start praying. Be bold, and pray with power.
Father God, thank you for loving us. As Pastor Bil said, even though we forget sometimes, you’re always with us-when everything is going right and when it seems like nothing is. Thank you for staying faithful to each and every single one of us, Father. We know that when two or more are gathered in your name our prayers have supernatural power. Today we ask that you give us the faith to call out and defeat our Baal, our compromise, and renew our faith in Your promise for our life. We ask this in Your Son’s precious and holy name. Amen.
Start doing. Commit to a step and live it out this week.
• Tell the person to your right how you’re going to make room for God’s hand and ask them to hold you accountable.
•Identify an area where you’ve been casual with God’s blessings, then commit to the group your desire and promise to stop.
Scriptures
Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives—the God I serve—there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!” 1 Kings 17:1 NLT
“How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” 1 Kings 18:21 NRSV
Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go get something to eat and drink, for I hear a mighty rainstorm coming!” So Ahab went to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the top of Mount Carmel and bowed low to the ground and prayed with his face between his knees. Then he said to his servant, “Go and look out toward the sea.” The servant went and looked, then returned to Elijah and said, “I didn’t see anything.” Seven times Elijah told him to go and look. 1 Kings 18:41-43 NLT
Finally the seventh time, his servant told him, “I saw a little cloud about the size of a man’s hand rising from the sea.” Then Elijah shouted, “Hurry to Ahab and tell him, ‘Climb into your chariot and go back home. If you don’t hurry, the rain will stop you!’ ” 1 Kings 18:44 NLT
...declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel. And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. Ezekiel 40:4b-5 KJV
And soon the sky was black with clouds. A heavy wind brought a terrific rainstorm, and Ahab left quickly for Jezreel. Then the LORD gave special strength to Elijah. He tucked his cloak into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab’s chariot all the way to the entrance of Jezreel. 1 Kings 18:45-46 NLT