Elijah And The Widow

1Kings 17:8-16

⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ⁹ “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” ¹⁰ So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may drink.” ¹¹ And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

¹² So she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

¹³ And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son. ¹⁴ For thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth.’”

¹⁵ So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. ¹⁶ The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by Elijah.

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The widow of Zarephath trusted God, that no matter what, He will provide. As I was struggling last week, being behind on my mortgage and having had no jobs for a long time, I tapped into my investment which allowed me to take $50.00 out. When I had the money in my account, God spoke to me to send it into our Building Fund for the Church. I was struggling to do it. I trusted God. I sent the money to our Church account.

The same day, my phone rang. I had a couple of jobs coming in. And the top of it was a call from a company to invite me for an interview. Last Friday I got the ok that I am going to work casual for that business from next Saturday on.

Praise the Lord!!! Trust Him even if it doesn’t make sense to us, but it ends up making sense.

Amen!