If I give you the recipe to the best cake that you’ve ever tasted in your life, and I tell you step by step how to follow the recipe, I even tell you in details about all the ingredients that you will need, but you decide to do it a different way or go to someone else to ask a different way, who’s fault is it if it comes out wrong? Yours and who you listened to. 

This was the case of the people of Israel during the times of Elijah. God told them what He wanted. He gave them the recipe to success. He taught them step by step what He wanted and required from them. But they began to trust in other gods. They refused to do it His way and as a consequence they were suffering. 

Even on Mt Carmel when Elijah called the challenge, he told the false prophets to go first. He was giving them a chance to prove if their way was the right way. And look what happened:

So they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, “O Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice; no one answered. 1Kings 18:26

No one answered! No one answered because they were doing their way. The first step to life change is real sacrifice. But the first sacrifice has to be to sacrifice of your will. You have to stop doing things your way and do God’s way. Even when you make a financial sacrifice, it has no power if you do it your way. You have to give what God is telling you to give. 

We are in the midst of the Campaign of Israel where God is asking those who believe in Him to show their faith through sacrifice. Make sure that if you are going to go to the altar, that you do it God’s way and not your own. That’s the only way to call down the Fire of God. 

May the God of the Bible Bless You

Bishop Bira Fonseca