SAMPLE -- A Still Small Voice -- I Kings 18 through I Kings 19:1-18
This takes place on Mount Horeb near a cave. This can be a suggestive set. Maybe two flats at an angle creating an indentation to suggest the cave. Maybe a ‘rock’ or ‘tree stump’ to sit upon. This is a conversation between Elijah and the Lord. The Lord can be someone off stage or a recording. I will be creating a recording this month with sound effects and music background for the piece.
Either lights can come on revealing Elijah or he can run in from off stage. He is exhausted and afraid. He constantly looks back the way he came expecting Jezebel’s troops to seek him out.
Cue Track #1 (if CD is purchased)
The Voice of the Lord -- What doest thou here, Elijah?
Elijah: -- It is enough; LORD, take my life! I am not better than my fathers! Jezebel and her army are behind me and she wants to kill me!
I can hear her now: “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”
One of them. The prophets of Baal is who she meant. I took them down to the brook Kishon and slew them there. That’s what Jezebel desires to do to me! I would rather that You took my life now, Lord, than to fall into her evil hands.
Is this punishment for my enjoyment of their defeat? Is my vanity being rebuked? (Chuckles softly) I must confess I delighted in the contest. And in Ahab’s fear! He is so much the captive of the wiles of Jezebel! Your people are also swayed by her! They fear her. … Now I fear her. … You she slew all of prophets!
Something had to be done to show them that You alone are God. Your people are weak. They claim that You are Lord, but they worship in the temples of Baal!
If not for Obadiah all of Your prophets would be slain. He saved one hundred men, hiding them in two caves. For three years Obadiah has fed them with bread and water.
You’d think that a famine … this drought … would bring people back to You. Hardship reveals our frailty. That’s when we admit You exist. Give me a good disaster and I’ll give You a good revival. As if You aren’t around when things are going well. If they worshipped You more during the good times, they may find that there are fewer bad times.
Obadiah was faithful, Lord, don’t forget him.
When Ahab met with me he accused me of troubling Israel?! He was the troubler. He and his father’s house. They forsook Your commandments. They followed Baal! The sun God. They have forgotten that it is You who created the sun, the moon, the stars. They see the sun as their god? They needed to see true fire from heaven! I demanded that Ahab gather all four hundred and fifty of Baal’s prophets, the four hundred prophets of the groves and all of the people of Israel to meet me at mount Carmel.
(Elijah acts as if he is addressing a large assembly) “How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.” They didn’t say a word. Had Jezebel frightened them so? Or had they been convinced that Baal was truly a god? They had to see, they had to feel Your might once again! You alone are God!
END SAMPLE
This takes place on Mount Horeb near a cave. This can be a suggestive set. Maybe two flats at an angle creating an indentation to suggest the cave. Maybe a ‘rock’ or ‘tree stump’ to sit upon. This is a conversation between Elijah and the Lord. The Lord can be someone off stage or a recording. I will be creating a recording this month with sound effects and music background for the piece.
Either lights can come on revealing Elijah or he can run in from off stage. He is exhausted and afraid. He constantly looks back the way he came expecting Jezebel’s troops to seek him out.
Cue Track #1 (if CD is purchased)
The Voice of the Lord -- What doest thou here, Elijah?
Elijah: -- It is enough; LORD, take my life! I am not better than my fathers! Jezebel and her army are behind me and she wants to kill me!
I can hear her now: “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”
One of them. The prophets of Baal is who she meant. I took them down to the brook Kishon and slew them there. That’s what Jezebel desires to do to me! I would rather that You took my life now, Lord, than to fall into her evil hands.
Is this punishment for my enjoyment of their defeat? Is my vanity being rebuked? (Chuckles softly) I must confess I delighted in the contest. And in Ahab’s fear! He is so much the captive of the wiles of Jezebel! Your people are also swayed by her! They fear her. … Now I fear her. … You she slew all of prophets!
Something had to be done to show them that You alone are God. Your people are weak. They claim that You are Lord, but they worship in the temples of Baal!
If not for Obadiah all of Your prophets would be slain. He saved one hundred men, hiding them in two caves. For three years Obadiah has fed them with bread and water.
You’d think that a famine … this drought … would bring people back to You. Hardship reveals our frailty. That’s when we admit You exist. Give me a good disaster and I’ll give You a good revival. As if You aren’t around when things are going well. If they worshipped You more during the good times, they may find that there are fewer bad times.
Obadiah was faithful, Lord, don’t forget him.
When Ahab met with me he accused me of troubling Israel?! He was the troubler. He and his father’s house. They forsook Your commandments. They followed Baal! The sun God. They have forgotten that it is You who created the sun, the moon, the stars. They see the sun as their god? They needed to see true fire from heaven! I demanded that Ahab gather all four hundred and fifty of Baal’s prophets, the four hundred prophets of the groves and all of the people of Israel to meet me at mount Carmel.
(Elijah acts as if he is addressing a large assembly) “How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.” They didn’t say a word. Had Jezebel frightened them so? Or had they been convinced that Baal was truly a god? They had to see, they had to feel Your might once again! You alone are God!
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Fitlyspoken Ministry
A Still Small Voice -- $3.00
by Terry Vik
by Terry Vik
The showdown of between the prophets of Baal and Elijah. A powerful presentation of this event.
There is a CD available which has five 'voice overs' and music cues, including the thunder at the moment of God consuming the sacrifice.
This is available for $10.00
Staging -- Empty Space, The script takes you from the Mountain to Ahab, to the sacrifice by Baal's Prophets and back to the Mountain, but all in story form.
Cast -- Male
Playing Time -- 10 minutes CD -- $10.00 (includes shipping)
There is a CD available which has five 'voice overs' and music cues, including the thunder at the moment of God consuming the sacrifice.
This is available for $10.00
Staging -- Empty Space, The script takes you from the Mountain to Ahab, to the sacrifice by Baal's Prophets and back to the Mountain, but all in story form.
Cast -- Male
Playing Time -- 10 minutes CD -- $10.00 (includes shipping)