When Your Brook Is Drying Up

Pastor Paul Norcross

February 2008

I often wonder what it was like to be Elijah at the brook called Cherith. From seemingly nowhere, Elijah’s first appearance in the Scriptures occurs when he boldly proclaimed to King Ahab that there will be neither dew nor rain in the years coming except as Elijah gave the word.

1 Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel
liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

We know nothing of Elijah personally, except that he was from the region of Gilead. But we know nearly everything, certainly everything that we need to know, about his relationship with the Lord in just the first verse about him!