What happens when a good king listens too much to a bad one? He almost gets killed. But that\'s not as bad as Ahab, who tries to manipulate the truth of God.

Ahab ended up doing some extreme things to get something his flesh wanted. Learn what happens to us when we let the flesh get its way in our lives

Ahab was not serving God. He was only going along to get what he wanted. Yet God performed miracles for him, to show his need of a relationship.

When things didn\'t go like Elijah thought, he ran away from ministry. God came to him and gently corrected and restored the prophet. Learn how he works in our lives when we rely on the miracles instead of the miracle maker.

Elijah goes up against hundreds of priests of Ba\'al and shows by his perseverance in prayer and obedience to God how to overcome evil.

Just when things get to being the darkest, when the kings are running away from God to Ba\'al, in comes Elijah, a man who got scared and confused just like us, but who had to audacity to trust God.

We all have needs, we all have influences. We all make choices based on our influences on how to fulfill those needs. We learn from four kings about what influences and solutions are good, and which are not.

Jeroboam isn\'t interested in hearing God, so the Lord provides a prophet who loses his life to send a message.

Rehoboam and Jeroboam are not exactly model kings - both do harm in different ways and we can learn a lot by contrast of how not to lead the people of God.

Solomon had everything going for him, but he neglected to do some very crucial things and let himself be influenced by others. Learn how we as Christians can fall the same way and how to avoid it.

Solomon had all the success life could offer, power, wealth, women - but God warned Solomon that he needed to walk with Him - advice Solomon didn\'t end up taking. How can that hurt us as Christians?

Solomon builds and dedicates the temple. It represents God\'s presence on earth and the way for man to approach God, just as Jesus is God\'s presence on earth and the way to reestablish fellowship with the Father.

Though God gave Solomon a huge task in building the temple, he focused on some important fundamentals that can guide us when God calls us into ministry of any size or kind.

We begin to learn not about Solomon\'s actions but about his character and his relationship to God. We also see the seeds of disobedience that will cause great problems for Solomon and the nation later on.

Enemies of God try to overthrow his promises as soon as Solomon is king and David dies.

David appears weak physically, but thanks to some quick action by a godly man, he acts strong spiritually and wins the day. We can learn lessons about what to do when circumstances appear to go against the Lord