“If the Lord Be God, Follow Him”

Day 1 · The Kingdom Divides

1. Whose harsh answer — “my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions” — caused ten tribes to rebel?
2. Rehoboam rejected the counsel to speak kindly and serve the people. Whose counsel was that?
3. What did Jeroboam set up in Bethel and Dan so the people wouldn't return to Jerusalem to worship?
4. Who cried against Jeroboam's altar at Bethel and prophesied a future king — Josiah — by name?
5. What happened to Jeroboam's hand when he stretched it out to have the man of God seized?

Day 2 · Elijah and the Widow

1. Elijah declared there would be no dew or rain in Israel except according to what?
2. What brought Elijah bread and flesh, morning and evening, at the brook Cherith?
3. In which city did Elijah meet the widow gathering sticks?
4. What miracle sustained the widow, her son, and Elijah through the famine?
5. What did Elijah do when the widow's son later died?

Day 3 · Fire on Mount Carmel

1. Who was Ahab's God-fearing servant that hid a hundred prophets in caves and fed them?
2. What question did Elijah put to the people gathered on Mount Carmel?
3. How did Elijah mock the prophets of Baal when their god gave no answer?
4. What did Elijah pour over his sacrifice and altar three times before he prayed?
5. After the fire of the Lord fell and consumed everything, how did the people respond?

Day 4 · The Still Small Voice

1. Who threatened to kill Elijah, sending him fleeing into the wilderness?
2. Under what did a discouraged Elijah sit and ask the Lord to take his life?
3. Who strengthened Elijah with a cake and water so he could journey forty days to Horeb?
4. The Lord was not in the wind, the earthquake, or the fire. How did His voice come to Elijah?
5. Related material: this same Elijah returned in our day. In the Kirtland Temple (1836) he restored the keys to do what — fulfilling Malachi's promise to turn “the heart of the fathers to the children”?

Day 5 · Naboth and Micaiah

1. Why did Naboth refuse to sell his vineyard to King Ahab?
2. Who arranged false witnesses to have Naboth killed so the vineyard could be seized?
3. Which prophet did Ahab hate because “he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil”?
4. What did Micaiah see in vision concerning Israel's coming battle?
5. How did Ahab die in battle, fulfilling Elijah's earlier prophecy?

Day 6 · Hearing God's Quiet Voice

1. Elijah heard the Lord not in the wind, earthquake, or fire, but in a “still small voice.” What does this teach about recognizing God's guidance in our own lives?

Day 7 · “Hear Him”

1. In “Hear Him,” President Russell M. Nelson taught that messages from our Heavenly Father are strikingly different from the world's, because He communicates in what way?