Step Out And Let God Step Up!

God was about to get the attention of King Ahab and all of Israel. They had turned their hearts to worship the gods that Ahab’s wife Jezebel had introduced them to. God would get their attention with a famine! Elijah Steps Up and declares a word from God to King Ahab, “It won’t rain again but at my word.” Now what?

God leads Elijah just east of the Jordon River to the Brook of Cherith. Where God leads us is paramount to His plan and will for our lives. Then God commands the ravens each morning and evening to bring him bread and meat. God knows how to take care of His kids in the worst nightmare of our lives. Getting to your Cherith is necessary for many reasons. It was there that Elijah would have Peace, Protection, Provision, and Power to sustain him.

But what do you do when the brook dries up? ! Kings 17:7 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 a place called Zarephath.

God saw a widow at the point of death but had other plans in mind for her and her son. The prophet was sent to show God's love and mercy and greatness in a famine to this widow and her son. We are all still here to offer HOPE in people’s worst dilemma.

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 we're going to die." He says; "Don't be afraid, just do what I say." She followed the words of the prophet and 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.

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 that you mete it shall be the measured to you again."(Luke 6:38) Had the widow ignored the word of the Lord, she and her boy would have missed abundant blessings God gave.

She listened and obeyed 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 and 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.

Are you willing to Step Out “at His word” and Let God Step up for you? Have you Stepped Out in tithing and watched God open the Heavens? Have you Stepped out in the ministry He’s placed in your heart? God has a Cherith for each of us. It’s the OPEN DOOR that He has cut out for your life. The job, the marriage, the ministry, the business, the dream, the college, the relationship, the friendship, the place you worship and live. Run to Him, He has a Cherith that only He can create. When you Step out at His Word, watch Him Step Up!