In a gentle whisper

1 Kings
This is one of my favourite passages in the bible.
1 Kings 9:9-14 -

The Lord Appears to Elijah

And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”

The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”

Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.  After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.  When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.

Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” 

In this passage, Elijah is at his wits' end because of the persecution in Israel.  God comes to him, but not in power or violence, rather, in a gentle whisper.  I think that helps us stop and think, reflect, and really pay attention to what God has to say.  It's easy to get caught up in a windstorm, and afterwards to forget about God when it gets quiet.  But when we start out quiet, and hear God then, maybe then it's easier to hear him in the noise?

God is powerful

1 Kings
Where is God's power in your life?  1 Kings 18 shows that even when society seems to be going downhill and people give themselves to false gods, God will still come through and show himself in powerful ways to those who follow him.
Elijah taunted the prophets of Baal and had them try and get their god to set fire to their sacrifice to him.  No matter what they did, Baal did not respond.  He couldn't; he wasn't real.  These prophets were the ruling priests of the day, endorsed by the king, but they still couldn't make anything happen.  Elijah was one of the king's major enemies, he was on the run and living in the wilderness.  When he doused his sacrifice in litres of water, an onlooker may have assumed he was committing "spiritual suicide" as it were, ensuring that his sacrifice would not be burnt up.  However, God sent his fire down and burned down the sacrifice, the altar of stones, the soil around it, and all the water!  That's power!
We have access to that power on a daily basis because Christ opened up the way for us to talk with God whenever we want.  Let's not waste this access, but like Elijah, live in constant communion with God, and when we need him to, God will come through for us.