1 Kings 19:1-4, 9 (NIV)
1 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, "May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them." 3 Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4 while he himself went a day's journey into the desert. He came to a broom tree, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, Lord," he said. "Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors." 9 There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

Elijah started a war, he started a drought and prayed it in. He was a man of courage. He was a man of the Spirit of God. He would roll fire balls down a mountain. This was a man among men. He went down and he built an altar and he taunted the prophets of Baal with God and God answered by fire. He then took them down and he killed every one of them.

Then Jezebel finds out what Elijah had done and she threatens him. He took off and started to run like a scared rabbit because it was a spirit of discouragement. That spirit robbed him of his identity in God. That spirit bought him back to his humanity and then bought him down and stole any courage he had in the natural to the point that he didn't believe he could do anything. Whenever you're moving hard and you're in the empowerment of almighty God there is another spirit going to meet you to try and steel what God has imparted into you. It's a spirit of discouragement. God says to him, "What are you doing here"? Where was Elijah? It was a place of discouragement. He started listening and submitting to the wrong spirit.

The Holy Spirit is the encourager. He'll convince you that you can walk on water. He'll convince you that you can feed the multitude with a few fish and a few loaves of bread. He'll convince you that you're the best builder in town. He'll convince you that you can become the best dress maker, the best golfer the best tennis player. When the Holy Ghost is there you are free to prosper. He will put courage where there was no courage. Courage is the ability to attack your enemy and to forget about yourself, to forget about the consequences and move in with great force where one becomes a majority.
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