1Kings 17:1-16
Elijah Announces a Great Drought
17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab,
“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be
neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
Elijah Fed by Ravens
2 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3 “Leave here, turn
eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4 You
will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply
you with food there.”
5 So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith
Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6 The ravens brought
him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the
evening, and he drank from the brook.
Elijah and the Widow at Zarephath
7 Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no
rain in the land. 8 Then the word of the Lord came to him: 9 “Go at
once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have
directed a widow there to supply you with food.” 10 So he went to
Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there
gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me
a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” 11 As she was going to
get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”
12 “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 am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal
for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”
13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you
have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you
have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and
your son. 14 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.’”
15 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. 16 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.
Trust and Act - 1) Even if the instructions do not make
Isaiah 55:8-9
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.