Greatness is never made on the stage. It might demonstrate itself at some point on the stage, but it’s forged in solitude. The prophet Elijah became who he was in the quiet place, when nobody was around, nobody was watching or listening, and he stretched his hands out toward heaven and said “God I want to know you, I want to hear your voice, I want you to speak to me. I want you to use me. I may not be good at this right now, but teach me how to hear you.”
 
We begin to elevate what’s important and take for granted when God speaks to us about things that may seem small and insignificant, things like our personal character development and essentials to our daily walk with Him. But it’s equally important to obey the voice of God to something that we deem as insignificant as it is something that we think is huge. Many times in our life we lose sight of the fact that it’s our simple obedience to God that matters most, and after big events we get weak.
 
We fast, believing for the big moment we’ve been praying for, and when the big event happens, we allow moments of weakness to lead us into doubt and temptation. These bigger platforms, these things you’re praying for, have the power to destroy you. 
 
In Matthew 4, after Jesus was baptized, He was led into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. He went into the wilderness to pray, to separate Himself, and every time the devil came at Him, He responded with scripture. Jesus knew the importance of drawing away to be with His Father so he could hear God’s voice and speak it out in the middle of the devil’s lies. Immediately after that big win He realized “I’ve got to get back to the roots of why I came here to begin with.” 
 
If we lose that, we’ll fall into this Elijah syndrome. Right after Elijah’s big win in 1 Kings 18, after all of Baal’s prophets had been slain, he was so desperate for God to move in the same way He had before that he almost missed it, but it was there in the wilderness that God spoke to Elijah and reminded him that God doesn’t always move the same way. Every day His mercies are made brand new. Allow God to prepare you in the quiet place and He will grow you and speak new things to you that you hadn’t known before.

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