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The Scripture expositor; or, District visitor's Scripture assistant (1856)
The Scripture expositor or District visitor's Scripture assistant - 1856 Author:Charles Holland Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GO AGAIN SEVEN TIMES. " 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... more » his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. "And it came to pass, at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. "And it came to pass, in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain." 1 Kings xvm. 42—45. We have here another instance of successful prayer on the part of Elijah. He prayed that it might rain. And when he cast himself on the earth, and howed down his head so that his face touched his knees, he was in the posture of prayer. And when he sent the servant to a higher part of the mountain, and told him to look if he could see anything, he was looking out for an answer to his prayer. He was sure it would come, and so, though the servant said he could see nothing like clouds bringing rain, he told r him to go seven times,—so certain was he it would come at last. And then, when on the seventh time of going, the servant had 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 in abundance. And so it did, for "meanwhile the heaven became black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain." We know that Elijah was praying for rain, because another part of God's Word tells us so. St. James says, "he prayed again and the heaven gav...« less