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Wind Who Makes All Winds That Blow


Thomas H. Troeger, professor of preaching at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, was inspired by the Pentecost story in Acts 2 to write this hymn text to celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit. But he also credits his Native American seminary students “who have helped me to appreciate in fresh ways how the Ruach (Hebrew for “wind” and “Spirit”) is such a vital part of the materiality of our existence, breathing life into us, energizing our cells and very being. My intention is to help renew our sense of the primal origins of the sense of the Spirit which the ancient Hebrews and Native Americans knew through wind and fire.”

Those two vibrant images for the Holy Spirit, wind and fire, dominate this hymn text: the Spirit is the wind who stirs up the church (st. 1), the fire whose light leads and empowers the church (st. 2), and whose breath and flame inspire us to Christian mission and ministry (st 3).



1 Kings 18



³⁸ Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.






³⁹ When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, "The LORD -he is God! The LORD -he is God!"




⁴⁰ Then Elijah commanded them, "Seize the prophets of Baal. Don't let anyone get away!" They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there.




⁴¹ And Elijah said to Ahab, "Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain."

⁴² So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.




⁴³ "Go and look toward the sea," he told his servant. And he went up and looked.
"There is nothing there," he said.
Seven times Elijah said, "Go back."




⁴⁴ The seventh time the servant reported, "A cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea."
So Elijah said, "Go and tell Ahab, 'Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.' "


⁴⁵ Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain came on and Ahab rode off to Jezreel. ⁴⁶ The power of the LORD came upon Elijah and, tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

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1 Kings 19


1And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.


2Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.


3And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.


4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.


5And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.


6And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.


7And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.


8And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.


9And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?

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1 Kings 19



9And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?


10And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.


11And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:


12And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.


13And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?


14And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.


15And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:


16And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.


17And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.


18Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

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1 Kings 19



19So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.


20And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?


21And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

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Nov 17 2009, 10:15 AM
~like A Man's Hand~ [re] Elijah Prays For The Drought, 24 Tammuz = "Decision Day" (code 3 1/2 years)
http://www.christian...s...=33150&st=0