Victory in the valleys of life

INTRO: I want to talk to us this morning about those times of life when we go through the valley. I suppose it is with you like it is with me, that every once in a while you go through a low time, a time in one of the valleys of life. It is for several weeks now I thought I would like to do a message to encourage us, as we, as strangers and pilgrims on this earth make our way through some of the more difficult times of life. As I was thinking about that some time ago the words of the song writer Lynda Randle kept coming back to my mind. I understand she wrote the song, "The God of The Mountains." And I expect she got the idea of her song from 1 Kings 20, an account that takes place in the history of the kings of Israel.