prophets received no response to their prayers. Then, Elijah prayed a simple and direct prayer, and God immediately struck the altar (which had been saturated with water) with His fire. Hundreds of years later, the apostle James wrote about Elijah and how his prayers produced remarkable displays of God’s power. “Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the