1Kings 19:19-21 Embrace your Calling and your Companions in ministry
Sermon Outline
- We all need partners in the work of God
- Men need wives and vice versa (Gen 2:18)
- Elders need other elders (Acts 14:23)
- Servants need fellow servants…
- Jesus sent people out 2×2 (Luke 10:1)
- We all need partnership in the word of ministry!
- Why do we need partners?
- None of us is superman/woman with every gift set (1Cor 12:27-29)
- Elijah’s needs display a common set of needs to which all of us can relate
- Successor (1Ki 19:14, 16)
- More important: Needed someone to share the burden, keep him sane, encourage him
- Needed one to help heal the wounds of judgment from his ministry
- God’s Provision of a partner for the ministry
- Elisha (1Ki 19:19)
- A Wealthy Hard Worker (1Ki 19:19)
- An assistant (1Ki 19:21e, Gen 39:4, Ex 24:13, Josh 1:1)
- Serves
- A Humble Learner
- Competent to further the ministry.
- Partnership comes in some of the most unlikely relationships/people
- My partners
- Elisha (1Ki 19:19)
- Elisha’s response to partnering in the ministry
- The Call (1Ki 19:19c)
- Immediate response (1Ki 19:20)
- Honor his parents (1Ki 19:20, Luke 9:62)
- Worship & Total Commitment to the future God has
- What is your ministry? Who are your partners and are you totally committed to God’s future for you?
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