What is my reputation?
What do people think when they hear my name?
Do I declare with my mouth that God reigns?
Does the way I live my life say the same thing as my mouth?
I just watched the first video lesson for Priscilla Shirer’s Bible study Elijah: Faith and Fire and wow! After a full page of notes, I can tell it will be a good study.
First Kings 17:1 (NIV) says, “Now Elijah the Tishmite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, ‘As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.'”
Elijah immediately and boldly made it clear who he served and who reigned. Not only did he say it out loud, his name literally translates as “Yahweh is God” (Shirer, 2022). When Elijah walked into King Ahab’s presence, Ahab knew just by his name who Elijah represented. Elijah was like an ambassador for the Kingdom of God.
If we are following God’s plan for our lives, we are also ambassadors for His Kingdom. Whether you are in a factory, an office, a school, a university, a family, a social gathering, or any other setting which allows you the opportunity to interact with other people, as a child of God, you are an ambassador. What do people think when they hear your name? How does your ambassadorship represent God?
Shirer, P. (2022). Elijah: faith and fire. LifeWay Press.
https://bible.com/bible/111/1ki.17.1.NIV
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