Widow of Zarephath - dangerous faith
The final meal for a woman and her son was about to be made and suddenly a man of God gives a word that she make for him first and then themselves. What will you advise?
The final meal for a woman and her son was about to be made and suddenly a man of God gives a word that she make for him first and then themselves. What will you advise?
The woman believed God and thus secured her family through the famine. Beloved, giving to God and his servant does not reduce you, it actually increases you and prospers you.
As she was going to get it, he called, "And bring me, please, a piece of bread." "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug.
.. I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my son and I will die." But Elijah said to her "Don't be afraid! Go ahead and do just what you've said, but make a little bread for me first. Then use what's left to prepare a meal for yourself and your son.
For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the land.'" She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman..
and her family. For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah.
So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said..
So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said..
.. "Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper."
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