Dear Fellow Believer,
The Bible suggests that Elijah is a model for our praying.
It says that Elijah prayed that it might not rain [for Israel's conversion] adding
"that he which converts a the sinner...shall save a soul..." James 5:17-20
Ellen White offers this view--
"As
Elijah saw Israel going deeper and deeper into idolatry, his soul was
distressed and his indignation aroused. God had done great things for
His people. He had delivered them
from bondage and given them "the lands of the heathen, . . . that they
might observe His statutes, and keep His laws." Psalm 105:44, 45. But
the beneficent designs of Jehovah were now well-nigh forgotten. Unbelief
was fast separating the chosen nation from the Source of their
strength.
"Elijah
was overwhelmed with sorrow. In anguish of soul he besought God to
arrest the once-favored people in their wicked course, to visit them
with judgments, if need be, that they might be led to see in its true
light their departure from Heaven. He longed to see them brought to
repentance before they should go to such lengths in evil-doing as to
provoke the Lord to destroy them utterly." Prophets & Kings, pg 120.
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