What do you do when the brook dries up? What do you do when you lose your job, you can't keep the lights on, you can't pay the water bill, you can't get out of bed because your so distraught and discouraged in your quagmire of disappointment? Elijah had obeyed God in the famine in going to Cherith, but now God moves him to anther place called Zarephath.
God saw a widow that was at the point of death, but had other plans in mind for her and her boy. The prophet was sent to show God's love and mercy and greatness in a famine to this widow and her son.
As he arrives he instructs her; "Bake for me a cake first." She responds; "All I have is enough flour and oil for me and my boy then were going to die." He says; "Don't be afraid, just do what I say." She followed the prophets words, she brought to him a meal first, sure enough the flour nor the oil ran out.
Why do we doubt the word of the Lord? Why do we place more confidence in our own system, in our own knowledge, in our own abilities to make things happen? Had the widow ignored the prophet's words, she and her boy would have died. Many will die with their doubts in God's word, and choose to do it their own way.
Put your trust today in the blueprint that God has drawn out for you. "Give and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over. With the same measure ye meet it shall be measure to you again."(Luke 6:38) Had the widow ignored the word of the Lord, she and her boy would have died in the famine.
Instead she listened and obeyed to what Elijah had said and there was feasting around the table for her and her boy and the prophet of God. I know it's an oxymoron to give to God an expect to end up with more in the end. The only place in the bible that God says; "Test me if I will not open to you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing." (Malachi 3:8-12) This widow tested the word of God, and He proved himself to her.
In this famine, the widow was tested again when her son dies. God steps in again with his prophet and raises this son from the dead. Had she not been confident in what God's hand could do, she would have missed everything that God had in mind for her and her boy. Choose today to believe in HIs word and many miracles and blessings and feasting will come in your famine. "Without faith it is impossible to please God, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." (Hebrews 11:6)
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