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500 | He Is More Than Enough · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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God is in control.
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She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman
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at the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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Living her life for Christ She's a happy girl.
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Music.
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She's a happy girl.
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God places people where he wants them and instructs them to do what he wants them to do.
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Our obedience is for our good and his glory.
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Join us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim takes us on a
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journey through the scriptures, revealing that God is always more than enough.
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Submit to Him and His ways and know the immeasurable blessings of living in the center of His will.
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Hello, and thank you for joining us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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We're going to be reading a lengthy passage of Scripture today.
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It's in 1 Kings 17, beginning in verse 1 and concluding in verse 16.
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So let's pray while you are finding your Bible to be able to follow along.
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Our kind and most gracious to heavenly Father, Lord, I thank you for your word.
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I thank you for the blessings that it gives us. I thank you for your instruction and your teaching.
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Lord, I thank you that you love us and that in you we are completely protected.
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I pray, Lord, that you would help each of us to find full satisfaction living
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in the center of your will i pray lord that you would open our heart and our minds to understand,
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that you are more than enough. Lord, we love you, we praise you,
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and we invite you into this message.
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We pray that you would remove me, and that the words that are spoken would be
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those that you have given directly.
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And in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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1 Kings 17, beginning in verse 1, reads like this,
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And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead,
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said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth before whom I stand,
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there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
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And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Get thee hence,
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and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook of Cherith,
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that it is before Jordan.
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And it shall be that thou shalt drink of the brook, and I have commanded the
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ravens to feed thee there.
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So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and dwelt
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by the brook of Cherus that is before Jordan.
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And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh
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in the evening, and he drank of the brook.
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And it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
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And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Arise, get to the Zarephath,
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which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there.
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Behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
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So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city,
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behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks.
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And he called to her and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel
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that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her and said,
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Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
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And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake,
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but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise.
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And behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me
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and my son, that we may eat it and die.
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And Elijah said unto her, Fear not, go and do as thou hast said,
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but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me,
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and after make for thee and for thy son.
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For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste,
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neither shall the cruise of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
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And she went and did according to
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the saying of Elijah and she and he
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and her house did eat many days and the
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barrel of meal wasted not neither did the cruise of oil fail according to the
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word of the Lord which he spake by Elijah this my friend is an account of God's providential care Hmm.
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Man's obedience to follow the direction of God and the miracles that happen
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when you walk in the center of God's will.
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You've got to find yourself where God wants you to be.
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Psalms 37, 23 says, the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord,
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and he, God, delights in his way.
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The Lord establishes and directs and delights in the ways of those who follow him.
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Now, let's look for just a minute of what I'm talking about.
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Elijah was told to go sit by a brook, and there he would be fed by ravens.
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And the scripture says that he did exactly what God said.
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Now, I don't know about you, but hanging out by a brook and getting my water
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and getting my food doesn't seem to me to be top on my list.
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But nowhere in this account of Elijah do we see Elijah pushing back on what God's asking him to do.
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That couldn't have been his first assignment he wanted.
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That couldn't have been his first choice.
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But all it says is that he talks to him. And so in verse 5, he says,
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so he went and did according to the word of the Lord.
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He dwelt by the brook, and the raven fed him.
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What kind of faith does that take?
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For the god to say, go, and you go, and he's even told you that where you're
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going and what you're going to do isn't going to be gone.
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Exactly perhaps what you would want there's something
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about elijah in this passage that we
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as children of god have got to begin to understand elijah
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was not depending upon the comforts of this world to make what god said do correct
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elijah wasn't weighing what god said as to whether or not he wanted to do it
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as to whether or not he would obey.
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The fact that God said do it was what led Elijah to do it.
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And deep within Elijah was a solid faith that understood God will provide all that you need.
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So when he asked him to get up and go, Elijah was willing to get up and go because
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he understood that when he got up and went,
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whatever he needed would be there elijah was living a life that you and i should
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live and elijah wasn't reading philippians 4 19 which says but god shall supply
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all of my needs according to his riches in glory.
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Elijah wasn't reading Philippians 13, chapter 4, that said, I can do all things
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through Christ, which strengthens me.
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Elijah was living his life based on a relationship that Elijah had with God.
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And it didn't happen the moment that Elijah was told to go by the brook of Cherus
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and be fed by the ravens and drink of the river.
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Elijah's relationship with God was a day in and day out, moment by moment,
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full on faith that God was more than enough.
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Elijah understood that he was serving God, not himself.
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He understood that what he needed was to be where God would have him to be because
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God will provide all you need.
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In Exodus chapter 16, we see that the Israelites have been fed manna for 40
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years until they reached the land of Canaan.
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They were starving in the desert, and God provided bread from heaven.
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This was a promise he made to the people of Israel.
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And this substance that came from the heavens and appeared on the ground was
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called manna, which is a Hebrew word that means, what is it?
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Now, many of us will look at our food, and if it's not pleasing to look at, we don't eat it.
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Because we have a lot of choices, usually.
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And we don't have to eat the things we don't want. And we seem to think that's how it is with God.
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God gives us gifts that are specifically for us, and God asks us to use them
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specifically for what he wants them to be used for.
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But we pick and choose what we're going to do with those gifts.
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We don't like that calling, but we want this calling.
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And so we go in a land that is not meant for us to be in.
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We try to work in a realm of blessing that isn't ours.
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And we don't bring honor to the Lord or work those things out for our good.
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Manna was the chosen meal for the Israelites.
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And God instructed Moses and the people to gather enough manna for each day
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with a special collection on the sixth day that would get them through sixth and seventh.
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God was giving them what they needed, when they needed, how they needed it.
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And he was doing what was best for the Israelites.
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Now, you can be sure that they complained and they murmured and they griped.
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There was no other food in the desert for which they were wondering.
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But they didn't like what God had chosen for them.
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Unlike Elijah, who could not have been stoked to hear that God was going to feed him with ravens.
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The germ factor alone would have freaked me out.
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But there's no account of him resisting or pushing back.
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And if you know anything about Elijah, you know that he was a powerful man of God.
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And his power rested in his ability to follow and be obedient to the Lord without question.
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See, Ephesians 3.20 tells us, Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly
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above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.
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Elijah was a powerful man. and he could do amazing things.
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Part of this account in 1 Kings 17 that we most likely are not going to get to today,
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follows upon this amazing miracle we are going to get to, how God provides for
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the widow and for Elijah for an extended period of time.
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But the one we're not going to get to that follows that is that her son falls sick and is dead.
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And Elijah lays his body upon this son three times and brings him back to life
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according to the power that works in him.
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And again, that didn't happen on the day it was called for.
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His power flowed through him all the time because he was instant in season and out of season.
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He was constant and he was consistent. Elijah loved the Lord,
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and he believed him to be who he said he was,
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and he understood that God would provide all of his needs, and he fully grasped
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the understanding of 2 Corinthians 12, 9,
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which said that his grace is sufficient for thee.
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In 2 Corinthians 12, 9, we read, And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient
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in thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
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Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities that the power
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of Christ may rest upon me.
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This had to be Elijah's mantra as well.
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The power of God was resting upon Elijah because Elijah was not concerned with himself.
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He was absolutely focused, and he was steadfast, and he was unmovable on doing
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what God told him to do. And when he told him to get up and move, Elijah moved.
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God is continually and habitually providing all that we need.
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We see it all throughout Scripture.
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We as children of God have got to understand who God is.
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He is the bread of life. He fed Elijah by the brook.
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He fed the Israelites.
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As they wandered in the wilderness. And my friend in John 6, 35,
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it reads, And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life, and he that cometh
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to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
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He will satisfy your deepest longings.
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He will satisfy your most primitive needs.
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He will satisfy you from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet if
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you will only allow him to do so.
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He's the bread of life.
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Bread is the sustaining substance. When he is what we ingest and what we allow to fortify us,
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to allow to strengthen us when that
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is jesus christ we will then have life
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and have it more abundantly as he has promised in
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john 10 10 we will know that he provides all
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of our needs and if you're wondering if he's providing your
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need let me remind you that the bread of life has provided for you eternal salvation
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to those who believe before you were even born he had already secured a way
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for you to spend eternity in heaven with him.
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And he did it by breaking his own body, sacrificing his complete self for you.
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Jesus is in the business of providing all you need.
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He's always going to be there.
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As we begin to look at what God says in this passage of Scripture in 1 Kings
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17, let's look at the players.
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Let's look at the main characters that we see.
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We see Elijah. He's the first one that's mentioned.
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Elijah has spoken that there's coming a drought.
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So he's telling the people problems are coming.
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He no doubt was trying to get the people to do what they needed to do,
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which was trust and believe in the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings.
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He had prophesied there was coming a drought. And sure enough, there was.
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And so God moved him eastward to the brook. where he fed him with ravens.
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And then when that brook dries up, he tells Elijah, look, go to Zarephath.
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I've commanded a widow woman there to sustain.
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Now look, it takes faith to eat from a raven, but at least you're seeing it.
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You know he's doing it. But after moving to this brook, he's now being asked not to depend upon...
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Something that had to do what God said, the raven.
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But now he's got to depend on a woman with a free will that God says,
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go, I have commanded her.
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So the first thing we see about Elijah is he has the ability to hear God's voice.
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He has a strong history of obedience, and he's willing to follow directions.
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And beyond that, he has a boldness to execute God's plan.
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As you look at those characteristics of Elijah, is there a hint of conviction in your life?
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I know there is mine.
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I'm as human as the next.
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His call on my life doesn't always lead me to my first choice.
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It rarely makes any sense to me, and it always requires complete faith.
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But when I look at Elijah and I see the power of God that is in him and on him
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because of his obedience and his ability to hear God's voice,
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I'm strongly reminded that the reward is far greater than the cost.
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Without faith it is impossible.
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To please him and you must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them
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that diligently seek him you gotta believe in who god is you've gotta believe
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in what god can do you have to believe.
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You've got to be courageous in this walk with the Lord.
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You've got to be willing to do what he asks. That's Elijah.
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Let's get to know the widow woman a little better.
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In verse 9, we're told that God God has commanded her to sustain Elijah.
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So this leads us to believe God has spoken to her, and God knows she has heard
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him and that she's prepared to obey.
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This brings up another question for each of us.
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Are you prepared to obey?
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He tells us that daily we are to
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pick up our cross and deny ourselves and follow
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him clearly this is what elijah
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has done clearly in
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this account of scripture this is what the woman has done because she has no
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flour she has no oil enough to feed the three of them in fact She doesn't have
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anything to feed him right then.
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She says, I don't have that. I am going to fetch two sticks so that I can prepare
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something for my son and myself, and then we are going to die.
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But God had spoken to her. So in verse 13, well, excuse me, in verse 12,
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she said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I don't have that cake. I don't have anything.
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In verse 13, Elijah says to her, fear not. Fear not.
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She's in dire straits.
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She's clearly heard from God because the Lord says he commanded her.
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Now, we don't know when he commanded her, but he said it in past tense,
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so he had already commanded her when he sent Elijah.
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But we see the strength of her faith right here.
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We see how filled with faith she is and how she's able to deny herself and follow him.
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Because what we see from this
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widow is that when
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elijah says to her fear not go and
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do as thou has said but make me thereof a
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little cake first and bring it in unto me and after make for thee and for thy
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son for thus saith the lord god of israel the barrel of meal shall not waste
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neither shall the cruise of oil fail until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
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And verse 15 is key.
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It says, and she went and did, according to the saying of Elijah.
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None of this could have made sense to her.
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The law between a mother and their child is one like none other.
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She's looking at the bottom of the barrel.
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She's at the end of the rope. And here comes this hot shot from God saying, look, feed me first.
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Have you ever wondered why he asked her to feed him first?
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Because God is a jealous God. And he says, you'll not have many other gods in front of me.
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The sun couldn't be more important than God was to the woman.
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It's out of our first fruits we are to serve the Lord, our top of our energy, the first of our tithes.
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To serve him above all else and put him above all else.
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He has to be first in our life, and to feed the man of God before feeding her
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son or herself meant that God and his promise that he had commanded her was
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more important than the reality she was looking at in front of her.
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This is where faith, the substance of things unseated and the things hoped for,
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this is where faith becomes power because faith unlocks all of heaven's door,
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faith is the key that releases
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the power of god in your life it's what enables you to do exceeding abundantly
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above all that you could think according to his power that works in you it's
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when we go with reckless abandon in the name of the Lord and allow him to fight
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our battles just as David did.
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It is then that we begin to live in the center of his will, know the fullness of God.
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The joy of His presence. So she was filled with faith, and her faith caused
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her to act according to God's commandments.
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It's an interesting thing. People will tell you they love the Lord.
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They'll even speak good words, but their actions in their lives never show any
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fruit of the Spirit or any prioritization of God.
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True faith causes you to obey God because you truly believe His ways are higher
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than your ways. His thoughts are higher than your ways.
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His plans are better than yours. And because He is God and He is here in the
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present, He's there in the future, and he's still in the past.
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That same God who has all the information collected, who all things are under
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his feet, is the same God who is directing your paths.
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So when you have real faith, you can't imagine doing anything else except what God commands.
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Because you know that you know that you know nothing compares to the power of
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God, the love of God, the grace of God, and the knowledge of God.
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Faith is what caused the widow to obey.
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And faith is what caused Elijah to obey.
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And the real character in this story, the hero of the story, is God.
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God knew there was a famine coming He knew that because He knew that it wasn't
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going to rain except to the word,
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He knew how long Elijah was going to need to stay at the brook of Cherith,
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He had provided a way where there seemed to be no way just like He did for the
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Israelites for Elijah to go to a widow's house,
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and be sustained.
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And he knew the heart of the widow.
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Perhaps more importantly, the widow knew him.
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He is faithful. He's provided for both of these obedient servants and given them more than enough.
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He's all knowing of your needs before you even have them. He's the bread of
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life who provided salvation before you were born.
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And he has a plan for you.
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Will you be like Elijah and the widow woman?
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Without hesitation, without pushback,
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fully embracing the plan and will of God for your life, you got to wonder,
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what was so compelling that allowed them to live by faith?
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The answer is their relationship with God.
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I believe, because it doesn't say that he filled the barrel with flour and that
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he filled the cruise with oil.
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It says, and the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruise of oil fail,
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according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.
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I believed every day the widow lived in faith that God is more than enough,
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that God would surely provide, that God was taking care of them,
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that God was in control.
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The widow woman and Elijah and her son lived every day by faith,
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and I believe it was the faith in Jesus Christ, the God of the universe,
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and the Holy Spirit that gave them the oil in their crews and the flour in their barrel,
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day by day by day.
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Why do I believe it was that way? Because he says, without faith,
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it is impossible to please him.
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And you must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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And that is a day-by-day commitment. That is a day-by-day purposeful living
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that is a day-by-day determination to choose Jesus and to put him first.
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Do you do that? You're not saved every day, but I do believe he said,
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deny yourself and take up your cross and follow me daily.
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This experience of the widow woman and her son and Elijah of daily,
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depending on God for their sustenance, for their substance,
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for their existence, for their life, put them in the center of God's will and
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allowed them to live the abundant life.
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Believe me, think about the Israelites. They could only collect what they could
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eat that day except on the sixth day, and they could only collect what they
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could eat on the sixth and the seventh, because the seventh day was to be kept
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holy, and they went into work.
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It was a time to exalt the King of kings and the Lord of lords,
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and if they gathered more than they needed,
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It rotted and was not available because God says, I am what you need. I am more than enough.
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I am the Alpha. I am the Omega.
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I am the bread of life. I am what sustains you. I am God and there is none else.
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And he wants you to acknowledge that day by day by day.
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Do you know him? It is clear to me in the reading of God's word, oh, how Elijah knew him.
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The widow woman knew him. We don't have an account of whether or not the son knew him,
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but the son had to know of him and had to know what he could do,
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because I am sure that Elijah and the widow woman were constantly and consistently
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explaining God was providing.
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I don't know where he's telling you to go. I don't know what he's asking you to do.
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I don't know whether he's asking you to go.
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I don't know what your Zarephath is, but I'm certain he's asking us to serve him on full dependence.
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He's asking us to allow him to be the fuel that fires our engine.
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He's asking us to have him be our all in all and to daily commit and to daily
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purpose in our heart and to daily walk after him to be obedient to his commandments.
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This message is God is more than enough. It doesn't just mean that he'll give
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you everything you need.
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We know that. We see that in this account.
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We've spoken about it over the last few minutes.
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But what I want you to see is when you know him. And scripture says in John
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10, 14, I am the good shepherd and know my sheep.
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You're not a stranger to him. He knows your name. He knows the number of hairs on your head.
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And he's an unknown of mine. Those who serve him, those who love him,
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find his commandments to not be grievous or hard.
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If you know him, you will believe in him and you will trust him.
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And your life will demonstrate that.
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Your dependence won't be on self and your dependence won't be on the world,
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but your dependence will be rooted and grounded in Jesus Christ,
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the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end,
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the lover of our souls, the Savior of our hearts, and our lives and our being,
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our eternal God and King.
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Can you hear him? In John 10, 27 through 28, he says this, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them.
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And they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish.
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Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
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Can you hear him? Does he walk and talk with you? Do you spend time with him?
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Psalms 46.10 says, Be still and know that I am God. Do you know his voice?
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Are you willing to follow him all the way?
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You've got to hear him. And if you know him, you will hear him.
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Because he says, my sheep hear my voice.
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And I know them and they follow me. And I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish.
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Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
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Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.
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The biggest question we have to answer today is do you trust that he is enough in every situation?
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Jeremiah 29, 11 says, For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
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saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
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Do you trust him?
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Elijah trusted him enough to go to the brook at Cherith, where he knew he was
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going to drink from a brook and be fed by a raven.
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When his needs changed, he trusted him enough to go to a widow woman that God
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had commanded for his sustenance and boldly proclaim what God had said.
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He looked to a woman who was there to sustain him and said, Give me what you have first.
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For many, you may think that's a bold, rude statement. But it's the best truth
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he had given her. Put him first.
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He commanded you. Don't do what your friends say you should be doing.
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Don't serve what your friends say you should serve.
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Don't do what feels good. Don't do what even is logically.
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Right, you do what God says, how he says it, and when he says it.
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God will direct you, but you gotta be where God says be.
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Elijah had to go to where God said to the woman, the widow, in order for God
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to get the glory and the two of them and the son to be sustained.
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Taking care of the widow some other way, I have to believe, yes.
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But Elijah wouldn't have gotten the blessing.
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And the widow couldn't have done what God commanded her if Elijah wasn't doing his part.
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We are a body of Christ, a body of believers put together in unity and unified
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to do the work God has called us to do for our communities, for our circle, for our reach.
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And if you're missing, if you're MIA, something isn't working as smoothly as
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the plan God had for you and for those around you.
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We don't live on an island to ourselves.
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Every decision, every action,
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every thought acted upon has ramifications for the strategically selected people
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God has placed in your life.
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You might think, well, I don't even like that person. I don't think that's an
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acceptable emotion in the kingdom of God.
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He loves you, and you're an imperfect person in an imperfect world doing imperfect things.
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He's enough. Do you trust him?
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Enough to do what he says.
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Elijah and the widower, they did. And what was their reward?
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And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the crews of oil fail,
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according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.
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But without faith, it is impossible to please him.
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And you must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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Scripture tells us in Proverbs 3, 5, 6, and 7, the exact model we just saw in 1 Kings 17, 1 through 16.
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He says this, Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine
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own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
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Be not wise in thine own eyes. fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
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He's got a plan. It's a good plan.
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His ways are higher than our ways. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
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And he requires complete and utter obedience.
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Friend, he's more than enough. Trust him today.
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Remember, you are loved, Jesus.
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