Elijah’s greatest lesson came not from fire on the mountain, but from a whisper in the dark. When pastors feel like quitting, God may be just getting started.
On my desk there’s a photo I usually keep facedown. It shows our church plant’s launch team in my living room, our hands joined in prayer and our faces bright with anticipation—27 people who believed God had called us to something extraordinary. Three years of preparation, planning meetings, financial sacrifice, and kingdom-sized dreams captured in a single frame.
The man in that photo believed he had ministry figured out. He believed faithfulness plus hard work plus prayer equaled predictable kingdom results. He hadn’t yet watched his calling crumble in real time. He hadn’t sat in a cave, wrapped his cloak around his face, and begged God to let him die (1 Kings 19:4, 13).
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