Do you hear it? That still, small voice, the tugging on your heart? You know that God has a plan and a purpose for your life. You feel it in your heart. But you feel so overwhelmed. Life is hard. It pulls as us in every direction, fighting for our attention, our affection, and our energy. Our minds can become so distracted. We can get so overcome with worry and fear. And this is exactly where the enemy wants you. Here you are ineffective, and you are distracted.
I can feel so alone at times. I look at the world, and the current state of things around me. My heart becomes burdened. I know there is a purpose and a plan, but who am I? What can I do about it? There seem to be so many against the things of the Spirit.
Elijah felt the same way. God had moved in miraculous ways through him. He saw firsthand the power of the living God. He saw fire rain down from heaven (1 Kings 18). But when Jezebel threatened to take his life, he ran. he was overcome with fear. He went into the wilderness alone. The Lord spoke to him and said, “Why are you here, Elijah?” He said, ” I have been very zealous for the Lord, Lord of Hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, thrown down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek to take my life,” So Elijah stood before the Lord. The Lord wasn’t in the wind, or the earthquake, or the fire, but Elijah heard a still, small voice (1 Kings 19:12). Again, the Lord asks, “Why are you here, Elijah?”
God sees everything going on around us. He knows the army that is against the daughters of God all too well. He has defeated this army many times. But the question he is asking us is, “Why are you here? Why are you scared to speak? Why are you quiet? Why do you let the spirit of the age silence you?”
The Lord tells Elijah to go back. And he gives him a job to do. Elijah was to go anoint two kings and also a prophet to take his place. He was called to go equip others to step into their destiny. It is usually in the low and impossible places that God calls up to step out in faith. In these low points and difficult times He is stretching us. He is calling you to fulfill an assignment.
The wilderness felt very lonely to Elijah. But the Lord sustained him. He was not alone. The wilderness is a lonely place. It seems like everyone is actively against you, against what you stand for. It is easier to be quiet. It is easy to stay in the cave. Jezebel represents the spirit of the age. This spirit tries to silence us, to quiet us, to belittle us, to mock us, to distort the truth. It challenges us to speak out against it. It dares us to disagree. We question ourselves. Who am I to fight this?
God tells Elijah in 1 Kings 19:18…”I have preserved seven thousand men in Israel for myself, all of whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.” Elijah was not alone. There is a remnant of women, daughters of the King, that He has preserved for Himself. They have not compromised their faith. They have not sold their birthright or their talents for fame or recognition. These women have not bowed to the spirit of the age. They have rejected this feminist movement that has even began to infiltrate the church. They have recognized that God alone is in control, and that He alone is God.
They see what is happening in the world around them. They feel surrounded, but they know that the army behind them is greater than the army they are up against. They wear the armor of God, they have been training, and they are waiting for the spirit of Elijah to pass by and place the cloak, the anointing onto them, to set them on their course. They are ready to be world changers and fulfill their purpose.
It is time to awake remnant, daughters of the Most High God! It is time to equip others, to come out of the caves, and to empower others to do the same.
We will not bow. We will not compromise. We will remain UNSHAKEN.
Unshaken Women 