Sometimes, God talks so soft that we can only hear it inside our hearts. We have to learn to listen for God in the big things and in the little things, when He talks loud and when He talks soft. But sometimes, God talks to us in little things. A lot of times, we think of God talking to us by doing big things like miracle. God’s voice didn’t come out of any of those big and powerful things, but out of a gentle breeze. “Then a voice said to him, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’”ĭid God’s voice come out of the loud wind or the earthquake or the fire? (No.) When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

“Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. “The Lord said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’ I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.’ The Israelites have rejected Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and put Your prophets to death with the sword. “He replied, ‘I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. “And the word of the Lord came to him: ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’ There he went into a cave and spent the night. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. “The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, ‘Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.’ So he got up and ate and drank. He ate and drank and then lay down again. “All at once an angel touched him and said, ‘Get up and eat.’ He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. “Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. (Read 1 Kings 19:5-13 with your students.) Life is a gift from God, and it’s special, so we should try to make the best of our lives and not want to die until the end of our life when it’s time for us to die. We shouldn’t want to die because God gave us life. Should Elijah have been afraid? (No, he should have trusted that God could protect him.)Įlijah says that he wants to die. Why did Elijah run away? (Because he was afraid that Queen Jezebel was going to kill him.) ‘Take my life I am no better than my ancestors.’ He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. (Read 1 Kings 19:3-4 with your students.) She didn’t care that God had proved He was real when He burned up Elijah’s bull. She believed in the fake gods, Baal and Asherah, and when she heard that Elijah had killed all of her prophets, she was so mad that she decided to kill Elijah. Queen Jezebel didn’t believe in the real God. King Ahab went home and told his wife, Queen Jezebel, about everything that had happened. Today, we’re going to learn about what happened to Elijah next. Then, Elijah took the prophets of the fake gods, Baal and Asherah, and killed them because they were teaching the people to worship fake gods instead of the real God. The god who sent fire down from Heaven to burn up the bull would be proven to be the real god.)Īnd which god sent fire down from Heaven to burn up the bull, the fake gods or the real God? (The real God.) Does anyone remember what the challenge was? (Elijah killed one bull and put it on the altar and the prophets of Baal and Asherah killed another bull and put it on their altar. Say, Last time, we learned about how the prophet Elijah challenged the prophets of the fake gods, Baal and Asherah, to prove if their God was real or not. Point out that God works in a lot of different ways. When the students are finished, have them each explain their drawing. It simply needs to be one way that God worked. It could be a story about how the Holy Spirit helped Jesus’ disciples after He went to Heaven. It could be a story about God from the Old Testament. Give students drawing supplies and ask them to draw their favorite way that God worked in the Bible. Needed: Bibles, blindfolds, drawing paper and crayons or colored pencils Intro Craft: How God Works Use this children’s Sunday School lesson about Elijah to teach students about the ways God speaks to us.

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