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... seen , " he prayed earnestly that it might not rain , and it rained not on the earth by the space of a year and six months . " This was one part of the means adopted to bring the people of Israel to repentance . He knew that “ when ...
... seen , " he prayed earnestly that it might not rain , and it rained not on the earth by the space of a year and six months . " This was one part of the means adopted to bring the people of Israel to repentance . He knew that “ when ...
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... seen a little cloud which only seemed as big as a man's hand , Elijah knew this was the beginning of an answer to his prayer . So he acted accordingly , and sent a message to Ahab the king to make haste down , for rain would soon come ...
... seen a little cloud which only seemed as big as a man's hand , Elijah knew this was the beginning of an answer to his prayer . So he acted accordingly , and sent a message to Ahab the king to make haste down , for rain would soon come ...
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... God can make the small- est and weakest instrument become big and weighty with blessings . At His bidding they will increase , or change their character . And that which seemed when seen in the distance as 38 GO AGAIN SEVEN TIMES .
... God can make the small- est and weakest instrument become big and weighty with blessings . At His bidding they will increase , or change their character . And that which seemed when seen in the distance as 38 GO AGAIN SEVEN TIMES .
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Charles Holland. And that which seemed when seen in the distance as the most unlikely to answer the right end , will quickly spread and grow , and do all that was wanted ; just as this little cloud did expand and spread , and cover the ...
Charles Holland. And that which seemed when seen in the distance as the most unlikely to answer the right end , will quickly spread and grow , and do all that was wanted ; just as this little cloud did expand and spread , and cover the ...
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... seen in the peculiar manner God appeared to His servant now . A beautiful description is given of it . While Elijah was standing in the mount , “ Behold the Lord passed by , and a great and strong wind rent the mountains , and brake in ...
... seen in the peculiar manner God appeared to His servant now . A beautiful description is given of it . While Elijah was standing in the mount , “ Behold the Lord passed by , and a great and strong wind rent the mountains , and brake in ...
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Page 149 - My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean?
Page 41 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time.
Page 229 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Page 156 - And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
Page 29 - And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel ; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant : " Go up now, look toward the sea.
Page 168 - For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host : and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Page 219 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses : of how much sorer punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace...
Page 285 - For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Page 13 - For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
Page 288 - Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?