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Abide Sleep Meditation Christian Meditation + Bible Stories Hope for the Hopeless - Abide Meditation App · Abide Meditation App

• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Abide Meditation has everything you need for a peaceful night's sleep.
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: Download Abide from the app Store today.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to this sleep story from Abide. I'm Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me tonight for hope for the hopeless.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight you will hear the story of the prophet Elijah
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  Speaker 1: and a widow who had nothing. As you hear how
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  Speaker 1: God provided for this poor widow and her son, you
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  Speaker 1: will remember that God is your provider. Verse King seventeen,
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: Verse fourteen tells us the words Elijah spoke to the
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  Speaker 1: widow when she told him she had nothing to share
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  Speaker 1: with him. She was only going to make a small
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  Speaker 1: cake of bread for her and her son before they died.
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  Speaker 1: Elijah said, For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: the jar of flower shall not be spent, and the
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  Speaker 1: jug of oil shall not be empty until the day
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord sends rain upon the earth. God turned
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  Speaker 1: her lack into plenty. He transformed her anxiety into peace.
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  Speaker 1: Faith in God can turn your worries into peace too.
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  Speaker 1: As you fall asleep, may your heart be renewed with
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  Speaker 1: love for your true source of peace, your Father in Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Now leave behind today's tasks and worries. Soak in God's
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  Speaker 1: presence and get comfortable. Close your eyes and relax. Take
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  Speaker 1: a long, deep breath. Breathe in God's peace. Now exhale slowly,
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  Speaker 1: breathing out your troubles. Release all the tension in your
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  Speaker 1: neck and shoulders that has built up during your day.
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  Speaker 1: Stretch your arms as far as you can over your head,
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  Speaker 1: feeling the stretch through your whole body. Is there any
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  Speaker 1: place that you're feeling pain, Let the tension in that
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  Speaker 1: place ease as you continue to breathe. Pull up your covers,
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  Speaker 1: adjust your pillow, make sure you are completely comfortable. Let
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  Speaker 1: yourself begin to get drowsy. Feel the comfort of God's
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  Speaker 1: arms holding you tonight. If you fall asleep before I finish,
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  Speaker 1: all the better. May God be present in your dreams tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Listen as I begin your time your voyage into sleep.
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  Speaker 1: You're drifting into the arms of Christ in prayer. Dear God,
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  Speaker 1: fill the heart and mind of this precious listener fresh
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  Speaker 1: tonight with your presence and peace as they sleep. May
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  Speaker 1: your Holy Spirit guide their dreams. Give them faith, just
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  Speaker 1: like you gave faith to Elijah and the widow. You
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  Speaker 1: were faithful to them, and you will be faithful to
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  Speaker 1: them as well. Now renew them as they rest in you.
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  Speaker 1: Fill them with trust, Lord, and increase their faith like
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  Speaker 1: you did with this widow. Make them strong for tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Amen. Now imagine a camp site long
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  Speaker 1: ago on the distant edge of Israel, far away from
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  Speaker 1: busy cities. It's far from the palace and from the
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  Speaker 1: foul king Ahab. Elijah the prophet is hiding by a
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  Speaker 1: small brook, all alone. He is just told the king
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  Speaker 1: that as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: lives the God I serve, there will be no dew
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  Speaker 1: or rain during the next few years until I give
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  Speaker 1: the word. So Elijah is not too popular right now.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: He's away from his home and his friends, hiding for
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: days that turned into months. The drought is beginning. See
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: the hillside as it turns from lush green to parched yellow,
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  Speaker 1: and from parched yellow to dusty ashen white. Each morning,
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: birds with deep black feathers fill the bright blue sky,
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: cloudless sky. The flock of ravens brings Elijah breakfast commanded
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: by God. They come with bread and meat. They return
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: in the evening with bread and meat for dinner. Let
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: This picture of the ravens remind you.
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: Not to worry.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: Considered these words from Jesus. Look at the ravens. They
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: don't plant, or harvest or store food and barns, for
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: God feeds them, and you are far more valuable to
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: Him than any birds. God used ravens to bring meals
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: to Elijah. God will provide for you two. Soon the
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: blue creek at Elijah's camp stops babbling and becomes puddles
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: of mud. The puddles dry up too, leaving only cracked
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: pockets of dirt as the drought takes hold of the land.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: All this is happening because some of God's people were
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: making poor choices. King Ahab and Queen Jezebel had rejected
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel to serve foreign gods. They built
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: temples for these foreign gods, and when they made God angry,
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: they continue to fight God's people and killed some of
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: us prophets. By God's command, Elijah gave Ahab the bad
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: news about the famine and drought. Now Elijah's brook is dry,
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: but God still doesn't want to send rain. Rather, he
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: tells Elijah go and live in the village of Saraphath
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: there to feed you. So now Elijah begins to pack
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: up his camp and leave Israel for a foreign land.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: In faith, he hopes that a widow with a young
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: son will feed him. A poor woman with no husband
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: and no food, that is God's plan to provide for Elijah.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: Breathe in that same spirit of faith that God gave Elijah.
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: Breathe out and release your fears about tomorrow. Rest now
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: in God's faithful arms. Elijah goes down to the coast
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: to Zaraphath by the Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry and herding
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: people live in villages along the path. Elijah knows that
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: the rains will come at God's word, but it isn't
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: time yet. The sky still shines cloudless over the shimmering
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: blue sea. Elijah arrives at the gates of the village.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: He sees a woman gathering sticks. Her faces worn, worry
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: lines are etched into her eyes, her cheeks, and her hands.
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  Speaker 1: But you please bring me a little water in a cup,
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: Elijah asks. He hesitates a moment, would you also bring
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: me a bite of bread? The woman turns a mournful
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  Speaker 1: face to Elijah. I swear by the Lord your God.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: But I don't have a single piece of bread in
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: the house, She says, I only have a handful of
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: flour left and a little cooking oil. I was just
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: then my son and I will die. But Elijah knows
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: that he has been directed by God to this place,
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: to this particular woman, and so he says, don't be afraid.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and make a little bread for me first.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: Then use what's left for yourself and your son. But
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: There will be flower and oil left in your containers
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: until God sends rain and the crops grow again. So
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: she does as Elijah says, Breathe in that same spirit
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: of faith that God gave this poor widow.
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  Speaker 2: Breathe out.
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  Speaker 1: And cast your cares to Jesus. Rest now in his arms, Elijah.
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  Speaker 1: The widow and her son ate their phil for many days.
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  Speaker 1: There is always enough flower in olive oil left in
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: the containers, just as the Lord promised. What an amazing
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: miracle from God. As the widow stands inside her house,
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: she thinks, how crazy this is? Years with no rain,
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: A strange Israelite staying in her house, claiming to be
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: from God. And there on the shelf food waits to
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: slack their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot, oil tops out,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: the jar. Water fills the picture. Imagine what her home
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: smeled like as she baked fresh bread every day. See
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: the joy on her son's face as they ate together.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: Weeks pass every day, the pot of flower stasts full,
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: the jar of oil and pitcher of water overflow. Elijah
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: eats and then the mother eats with her son. Her
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: son's thin body slowly becomes strong and the color returns
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: to his face. Then one day, the color drains from
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: the boy's face again. Something is wrong. She bakes bread,
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: but he can't eat it. The single mom grabs her
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: son's hand. It feels cold and clammy. She squeezes his fingers.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: Then she paniccks. She turns to Elijah, Man of God,
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  Speaker 1: what have you done to me? Have you come here
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  Speaker 1: to point out my sins and kill my son? Elijah
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: and God hear her tears and miraculously restore her only
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: son to life. Look, Elijah says to her, your son
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  Speaker 1: is alive. The mother cries tears of joy. It's natural
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  Speaker 1: to cry when you witness something truly miraculous take place.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know she says that you are a man
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  Speaker 1: of God and that the word of the Lord from
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  Speaker 1: your mouth is the truth. As you rest, may you
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: be blessed by the Living God who redeems. May the
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit guide your dreams. Let me pray for you
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  Speaker 1: now as you fall asleep, Oh peaceful and Loving Father,
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  Speaker 1: Be merciful to this one, Oh God, because of your
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  Speaker 1: constant love, because of your great mercy, wipe away their sins,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: wash away all evil, and make them clean from their sin. Tonight,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: let them hear the sounds of joy and gladness. Create
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: in them tonight a pure heart, O God, and give
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: them again the joy that comes from your salvation. Grant
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: this one piece so they can sleep soundly and awaken
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  Speaker 1: with a renewed spirit, ready to face the day ahead.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Amen, Pace, you're breathing now. As you
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: continue to rest in the presence of God, breathe, Imagine
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: and dream. Let's listen again to this sleep story about
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Elijah and the poor widow who found hope when she
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: was hopeless. Imagine a campsite long ago on the distant
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: edge of Israel, far away from busy cities. It's far
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: from the palace and from the foul king Ahab. Elijah,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the prophet is hiding by a small brook all alone.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Is just told the king that as surely as the Lord,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, lives the God I serve, there
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: will be no dew or rain during the next few
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: years until I give the word. So Elijah is not
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: too popular right now. He's away from his home and
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: his friends, hiding for days that turned into months. The
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: drought is beginning. See the hillside as it turns from
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: lush green to parched yellow, and from parched yellow to
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: dusty ashen white. Each morning, birds with deep black feathers
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: fill the bright blue sky, cloudless sky. The flock of
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: ravens brings Elijah breakfast commanded by God. They come with
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: bread and meat. They return in the evening with bread
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: and meat for dinner. Let this picture of the ravens
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: remind you.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Not to worry.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Considered these words from Jesus. Look at the ravens. They
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: don't plant or harvest or store food and barns, for
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: God feeds them, and you are far more valuable to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Him than any birds. God used ravens to bring meals
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: to Elijah. God will provide for you too. Soon the
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: blue creek at Elijah's camp stops babbling and becomes puddles
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: of mud. The puddles dry up too, leaving only cracked
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: pockets of dirt as the drought takes hold of the land.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: All this is happening because some of God's people were
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: making poor choices. King Ahab and Queen Jezebel had rejected
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel to serve foreign gods. They built
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: temples for these foreign gods, and when they made God angry,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: they continue to fight God's people and killed some of
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: us prophets. By God's command, Elijah gave Ahab the bad
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: news about the famine and drought. Now Elijah's brook is dry,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: but God still doesn't want to send rain. Rather, he
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: tells Elijah go and live in the village of Saraphath,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: there to feed you. So now Elijah begins to pack
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: up his camp and leave Israel for a foreign land.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: In faith, he hopes that a widow with a young
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: son will feed him. A poor woman with no husband
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: and no food that is God's plan to provide for Elijah.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Breathe in that same spirit of faith that God gave Elijah.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Breathe out and release your fears about tomorrow. Rest now
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: in God's faithful arms. Elijah goes down to the coast
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to Zaraphath by the Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry and hurting
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: people live in villages along the path. Elijah knows that
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the rains will come at God's word, but it isn't
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: time yet. The sky still shines cloudless over the shimmering
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: blue sea. Elijah arrives at the gates of the village.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: He sees a woman gathering sticks. Her face is worn,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: worry lines are etched into her eyes, her cheeks, and
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: her hands. Would you please bring me a little water
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: in a cup, Elijah asks, He hesitates a moment. Would
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you also bring me a bite of bread? The woman
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: turns a mournful face to Elijah. I swear by the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Lord your God that I don't have a single piece
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: of bread in the house, says, I only have a
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: handful of flour left and a little cooking oil. I
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and then my son and I will die But Elijah
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: knows that he has been directed by God to this place,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: to this particular woman, and so he says, don't be afraid.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Go ahead and make a little bread for me first.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Then use what's left for yourself and your son. But
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: There will be flour and oil left in your containers
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: until God sends rain and the crops grow again. So
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: she does as Elijah says, Breathe in that same spirit
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: of faith that God gave this poor Breathe out and
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: cast your cares to Jesus. Rest now in his arms Elijah.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: The widow and her son ate their phil for many days.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: There is always enough flower and olive oil left in
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the containers, just as the Lord promised. What an amazing
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: miracle from God. As the widow stands inside her house,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: she thinks, how crazy this is. Years with no rain,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: a strange Israelite staying in her house, claiming to be
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: from God. And there on the shelf food waits to
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: slack their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot, oil tops
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: out the jar. Water fills the picture. Imagine what her
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: home smelled like as she baked fresh bread every day,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: see the joy on her son's face as they ate together.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Weeks pass, every day, the pot of flour stass full,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the jar of oil and pitcher of water overflow. Elijah
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: eats and then the mother eats with her son. Her
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: son's thin body slowly becomes strong and the color returns
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: to his face. Then one day the color drains from
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the boy's face again. Something is wrong. She bakes, but
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: he can't eat it. The single mom grabs her son's hand.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: It feels cold and clammy. She squeezes his fingers and
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: she panicks. She turns to Elijah, Man of God, What
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: have you done to me? Have you come here to
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: point out my sins and kill my son? Elijah and
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: God hear her tears and miraculously restore her only son
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: to life. Look, Elijah says to her, your son is alive.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: The mother cries tears of joy. It's natural to cry
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: when you witness something truly miraculous take place. Now I know,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: She says, that you are a man of God and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: that the word of the Lord from your mouth is
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the truth. As you rest, may you be blessed by
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the Living God who redeems. May the Holy Spirit guide
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: your dreams. Let me pray for you now as you
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: fall asleep, Oh peaceful and loving Father, Be merciful to
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: this one, Oh God, because of your constant love, because
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: of your great mercy, Wipe away their sins, wash away
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: all evil, and make them clean from their sin. Tonight,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: let them hear the sounds of joy and gladness. Create
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: in them tonight a pure heart, O God, and give
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: them again the joy that comes from your salvation. Grant
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: this one piece so they can sleep soundly and awaken
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: with a renewed spirit, ready to face the day ahead.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Amen, Pace, you're breathing now, as you
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: continue to rest in the presence of God, Breathe, imagine
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: and dream. Let's listen again to this sleep story about
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Elijah and the poor widow who found hope when she
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: was hopeless. Imagine a camp site long ago on the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: distant edge of Israel, far away from busy cities. It's
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: far from the palace and from the foul king Ahab. Elijah,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the prophet is hiding by a small brook all alone.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Is just told the king that as surely as the Lord,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, lives, the God I serve there
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: will be no dew or rain during the next few
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: years until I give the word. So Elijah is not
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: too popular right now. He's away from his home and
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: his friends, hiding for days that turned into months. The
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: drought is beginning. See the hillside as it turns from
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: lush green to parched yellow, and from parched yellow to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: dusty ashen white. Each morning, birds with deep black feathers
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: fill the bright blue sky cloudless sky. The flock of
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: ravens brings Elijah breakfast commanded by God. They come with
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: bread and meat. They return in the evening with bread
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: and meat for dinner. Let this picture of the ravens
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: remind you not to worry. Considered these words from Jesus.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Look at the ravens. They don't plant or harvest or
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: store food and barns, for God feeds them. And you
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: are far more valuable to him him than any birds.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: God used ravens to bring meals to Elijah. God will
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: provide for you two Soon the blue creek at Elijah's
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: camp stops babbling and becomes puddles of mud. The puddles
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: dry up to leaving only cracked pockets of dirt. As
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the drought takes hold of the land. All this is
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: happening because some of God's people were making poor choices.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: King Ahab and Queen Jezebel had rejected the God of
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Israel to serve foreign gods. They built temples for these
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: foreign gods, and when they made God angry, they continue
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to fight God's people and killed some of us prophets.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: By God's command, Elijah gave Ahab the bad news about
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the famine and drought. Now Elijah's brook is dry, but
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: God still doesn't want to send rain. Rather, he tells Elijah,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: go and live in the village of Saraphath, near the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow there to
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: feed you. So now Elijah begins to pack up his
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: camp and leave Israel for a foreign land. In faith,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: he hopes that a widow with a young son will
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: feed him. A poor woman with no husband and no food,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: that is God's plan to provide for Elijah. Breathe in
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: that same spirit of faith that God gave Elijah. Breathe
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: out and release your fears about tomorrow. Rest now in
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: God's faithful arms. Elijah goes down to the coast to Zaraphath,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: by the Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry and herding people live
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: in villages along the path. Elijah knows that the rains
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: will come at God's word, but it isn't time yet.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: The sky still shines cloudless over the shimmering blue sea.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Elijah arrives at the gates of the village. He sees
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: a woman gathering sticks. Her faces worn, worry lines are
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: etched into her eyes, her cheeks, and her hands. Yes,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: would you please bring me a little water in a cup,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Elijah asks. He hesitates a moment, would you also bring
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: me a bite of bread? The woman turns a mournful
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: face to Elijah. I swear by the Lord your God,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: that I don't have a single piece of bread in
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the house. She says, I only have a handful of
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: flour left and a little cooking oil. I was just
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: then my son and I will die. But Elijah knows
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: that he has been directed by God to this place,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: to this particular woman, and so he says, don't be afraid.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Go ahead and make a little bread for me first.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Then use what's left for yourself and your son. But
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: this is what the Lord the God of Israel says,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: there will be flower and oil left in your containers
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: until God sends rain and the crops grow again. So
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: she does as Elijah says, Breathe in that same spirit
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: of faith that God gave this poor widow.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Breathe out.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: And cast your cares to Jesus. Rest now in his arms, Elijah.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: The widow and her son ate their phil for many days.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: There is always enough flower and olive oil left in
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: the containers, just as the Lord promised. What an amazing
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: miracle from God. As the widow stands inside her house,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: she thinks, how crazy this is? Years with no rain,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: a strange Israelite staying in her house, claiming to be
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: from God. And there on the shelf food waits to
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: slack their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot, oil tops
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: out the jar. Water fills the picture. Imagine what her
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: home smelled like as she baked fresh bread every day.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: See the joy on her son's face as they ate together.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Weeks pass every day, the pot of flower stastes full,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the jar of oil and picture of water overflow. Elijah
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: eats and then the mother eats with her son. Her
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: son's thin body slowly becomes strong and the color returns
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: to his face. Then one day the color drains from
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the boy's face again. Something is wrong. She bakes bread,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: but he can't eat it. The single mom grabs her
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: son's hand. It feels cold and clammy. She squeezes his fingers.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Then she panics. She turns to Elijah, Man of God,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: What have you done to me? Have you come here
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: to point out my sins and kill my son? Elijah
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and God hear her tears and miraculously restore her only
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: son to life. Look, Elijah says to her, your son
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: is alive. The mother cries tears of joy. It's natural
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: to cry when you witness something truly miraculous take place.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Now I know, She says that you are a man
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: of God, and that the word of the Lord from
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: your mouth is the truth. As you rest, may you
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: be blessed by the Living God who redeems. May the
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit guide your dreams. Let me pray for you
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: now as you fall asleep, Oh peaceful and loving Father,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: be merciful to this one, Oh God, because of your
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: constant love, because of your great mercy, wipe away their sins,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: wash away all evil, and make them clean. From their sin. Tonight,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: let them hear the sounds of joy and gladness. Create
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: in them tonight a pure heart, Oh God, and give
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: them again the joy that comes from your salvation. Grant
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: this one piece so they can sleep soundly and awaken
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: with a renewed spirit, ready to face the day ahead.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Amen, Pace, you're breathing now as you
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: continue to rest in the presence of God, Breathe, Imagine
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: and dream. Let's listen again to this sleep story about
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Elijah and the poor widow who found hope when she
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: was hopeless. Imagine a camp site long ago on the
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: distant edge of Israel, far away from busy cities. It's
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: far from the palace and from the foul king Ahab. Elijah,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: the prophet is hiding by a small brook all alone.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Is just told the king that as surely as the Lord,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, lives, the God I serve, there
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: will be no do or rain during the next few
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: years until I give the word. So Elijah is not
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: too popular right now. He's away from his home and
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: his friends, hiding for days that turned into months. The
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: drought is beginning. See the hillside as it turns from
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: lush green to parched yellow, and from parched yellow to
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: dusty ashen white. Each morning, birds with deep black feathers
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: fill the bright blue sky cloudless sky. The flock of
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: ravens brings Elijah breakfast commanded by God. They come with
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: bread and meat. They return in the evening with bread
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: and meat for dinner. Let this picture of the ravens
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: remind you not to worry. Considered these words from Jesus.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Look at the ravens. They don't plant, or harvest or
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: store food and barns, for God feeds them. And you
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: are far more valuable to Him than any birds. God
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: used ravens to bring meals to Elijah. God will provide
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: for you. Two Soon the blue creek at Elijah's camp
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: stops babbling and becomes puddles of mud. The puddles dry up, too,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: leaving only cracked pockets of dirt as the trout takes
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: hold of the land. All this is happening because some
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: of God's people were making poor choices. King Ahab and
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Queen Jezebel had rejected the God of Israel to serve
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: foreign gods. They built temples for these foreign gods. And
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: when they made God angry. They continue to fight God's
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: people and killed some of us prophets. By God's command,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Elijah gave Ahab the bad news about the famine and drought.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Now Elijah's brook is dry, but God still doesn't want
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: to send rain. Rather, he tells Elijah, go and live
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: in the village of Saraphath, near the city of Sidon.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I have instructed a widow there to feed you. So
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: now Elijah begins to pack up his camp leave Israel
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: for a foreign land. In faith, he hopes that a
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: widow with a young son will feed him. A poor
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: woman with no husband and no food, that is God's
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: plan to provide for Elijah. Breathe in that same spirit
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: of faith that God gave Elijah. Breathe out and release
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: your fears about tomorrow. Rest now in God's faithful arms.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Elijah goes down to the coast to Zaraphath by the
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry and hurting people live in villages
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: along the path. Elijah knows that the rains will come
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: at God's word, but it isn't time yet. The sky
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: still shines cloudless over the shimmering blue sea. Elijah arrives
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: at the gates of the village, he sees a woman
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: gathering sticks. Her face is worn, worry lines are etched
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: into her eyes, her cheeks, and her hands. Would you
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: please bring me a little water in a cup, Elijah asks.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: He hesitates a moment, Would you also bring me a
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: bite of bread? The woman turns a mournful face to Elijah.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I swear by the Lord your God that I don't
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: have a single piece of bread in the house. She says,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I only have a handful of flower left, little cooking oil.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: last meal, and then my son and I will die.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: But Elijah knows that he has been directed by God
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: to this place, to this particular woman, and so he says,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: don't be afraid. Go ahead and make a little bread
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: for me first. Then use what's left for yourself and
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: your son. But this is what the Lord, the God
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: of Israel, says. There will be flour and oil left
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: in your containers until God sends rain and the crops
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: grow again. So she does as Elijah says, breathe in
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: that same spirit of faith that God gave this poor
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: widow out and cast your cares to Jesus rest now
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: in his arms. Elijah, the widow and her son ate
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: their fill for many days. There is always enough flower
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: and olive oil left in the containers, just as the
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Lord promised. What an amazing miracle from God. As the
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: widow stands inside her house, she thinks, how crazy this is?
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Years with no rain, a strange Israelite staying in her house,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: claiming to be from God. And there on the shelf
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: food waits to slack their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: oil tops out, the jar, water fills the pitcher. Imagine
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: what her home smelled like as she baked fresh bread
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: every day. See the joy on her son's face as
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: they ate together. Weeks pass. Every day the pot of
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: flour stases full, the jar of oil and pitcher of
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: water overflow. Elijah eats and then the mother eats with
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: her son. Her son's thin body slowly becomes strong and
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: the color returns to his face. Then one day the
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: color drains from the boy's face again. Something is wrong.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: She bakes bread, but he can't eat it. The single
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: mom grabs her son's hand. It feels cold and clammy.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: She squeezes his fingers and she panics. She turns to Elijah,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: man of God, What have you done to me? Have
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: you come here to point out my sins and kill
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: my son? Elijah and God hear her tears and miraculously
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: restore her only son to life. Look, Elijah says to her,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: your son is alive. The mother cries tears of joy.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: It's natural to cry when you witness something truly miraculous
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: take place.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Now I know.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: She says that you are a man of God, and
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: that the word of the Lord from your mouth is
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: the truth. As you rest, may you be blessed by
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: the Living God who redeems. May the Holy Spirit guide
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: your dreams. Let me pray for you now as you
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: fall asleep, Oh peaceful and loving Father, Be merciful to
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: this one, Oh God, because of your constant love, because
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: of your great mercy, wipe away their sins, wash away
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: all evil, and make them clean from their sin. Tonight,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: let them hear the sounds of joy and gladness. Create
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: in them to a pure heart, O God, and give
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: them again the joy that comes from your salvation. Grant
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: this one piece so they can sleep soundly and awaken
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: with a renewed spirit, ready to face the day ahead.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Amen, Pace, you're breathing now as you
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: continue to rest in the presence of God. Breathe, Imagine
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: and dream. Let's listen again to this sleep story about
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Elijah and the poor widow who found hope when she
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: was hopeless. Imagine a campsite long ago, on the distant
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: edge of Israel, far away from busy cities. It's far
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: from the palace and from the foul king Ahab. Elijah,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: the prophet is hiding by a small brook all alone.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Is just told the king that as surely as the Lord,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, lives, the God I serve, there
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: will be no dew or rain during the next few
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: years until I give the word. So Elijah is not
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: too popular right now. He's away from his home and
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: his friends, hiding for days that turned into months. The
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: drought is beginning. See the hillside as it turns from
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: lush green to parched yellow, and from parched yellow to
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: dusty ashen white. Each morning, birds with deep black feathers
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: fill the bright blue sky, cloudless sky. The flock of
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: ravens brings Elijah breakfast commanded by God. They come with
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: bread and meat. They return in the evening with bread
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: and meat for dinner. Let this picture of the ravens
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: remind you not to worry. Considered these words from Jesus.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Look at the ravens. They don't plant, or harvest or
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: store food and barns, for God feeds them, and you
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: are far more valuable to Him than any birds. God
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: used ravens to bring meals to Elijah. God will provide
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: for you two. Soon the blue creek at Elijah's camp
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: stops babbling and becomes puddles of mud. The puddles dry
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: up too, leaving only cracked pockets of dirt as the
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: drought takes hold of the land. All this is happening
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: because some of God's people were making poor choices. King
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Ahab and Queen Jezebel had rejected the God of Israel
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: to serve foreign gods. They built temples for these foreign gods,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: and when they made God angry, they continue to fight
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: God's people and killed some of us prophets. By God's command,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: Elijah gave Ahab the bad news about the famine and drought.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Now Elijah's brook is dry, but God still doesn't want
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: to send rain. Rather, he tells Elijah go and live
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: in the village of Saraphath, near the city of Sidon.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: I have instructed a widow there to feed you. So
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: now Elijah begins to pack up his camp and leave
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Israel for a foreign land. In faith, he hopes that
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: a widow with a young son will feed him. A
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: poor woman with no husband and no food, that is
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: God's plan to provide for Elijah. Breathe in that same
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: spirit of faith that God gave Elijah. Breathe out. Leash
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: your fears about tomorrow. Rest now in God's faithful arms.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: Elijah goes down to the coast to Zaraphath by the
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry and herting people live in villages
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: along the path. Elijah knows that the rains will come
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: at God's word, but it isn't time yet. The sky
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: still shines cloudless over the shimmering blue sea. Elijah arrives
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: at the gates of the village. He sees a woman
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: gathering sticks. Her face is worn, worry lines are etched
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: into her eyes, her cheeks, and her hands. But you
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: please bring me a little water in a cup, Elijah asks.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: He hesitates a moment, would you also bring me a
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: bite of bread? The woman turns a mournful face to Elijah.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: I swear by the Lord your God that I don't
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: have a single piece of bread in the house. She says,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: I only have a handful of flour left and a
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: little cooking oil. I was just gathering a few sticks
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: to cook this last meal, and then my son and
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: I will die. But Elijah knows that he has been
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: directed by God to this place, to this particular woman,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: and so he says, don't be afraid. Go ahead and
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: make a little bread for me first. Then use what's
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: left for yourself and your son. But this is what
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: the Lord, the God of Israel, says. There will be
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: flower and oil left in your containers until God sends
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: rain and the crops grow again. So she does as
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Elijah says, Breathe in that same spirit of faith that
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: God gave this poor widow.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: Breathe out.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: And cast your cares to Jesus. Rest now in his arms, Elijah.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: The widow and her son ate their phil for many days.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: There is always enough flower and olive oil left in
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: the containers, just as the Lord promised. What an amazing
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: miracle from God. As the widow stands inside her house,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: she thinks, how crazy this is? Years with no rain,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: a strange Israelite staying in her house, claiming to be
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: from God. And there on the shelf, food waits to
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: slack their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot, oil tops out,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: the jar. Water fills the picture. Imagine what her home
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: smelled like as she baked fresh bread every day. See
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: the joy on her son's face as they ate together.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Weeks pass, every day, the pot of flower stasts full,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: the jar of oil and pitcher of water overflow. Eijah
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: eats and then the mother eats with her son. Her
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: son's thin body slowly becomes strong and the color returns
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: to his face. Then one day, the color drains from
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: the boy's face again. Something is wrong. She bakes bread,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: but he can't eat it. The single mom grabs her
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: son's hand. It feels cold and clammy. She squeezes his fingers.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Then she panics. She turns to Elijah, Man of God,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: What have you done to me? Have you come here
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: to point out my sins and kill my son? Elijah
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: and God hear her tears and miraculously restore her only
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: son to life. Look, Elijah says to her, your son
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: is alive. The mother cries tears of joy. It's natural
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: to cry when you witness something truly miraculous take place.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Now I know she says that you are a man
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: of God and that the word of the Lord from
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: your mouth is the truth. As you rest, may you
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: be blessed by the living God who redeems. May the
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit guide your dreams. Let me pray for you
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: now as you fall asleep, Oh, peaceful and Loving, be
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: merciful to this one, Oh God, because of your constant love,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: because of your great mercy, wipe away their sins, wash
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: away all evil, and make them clean from their sin. Tonight,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: let them hear the sounds of joy and gladness. Create
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: in them tonight a pure heart, O God, and give
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: them again the joy that comes from your salvation. Grant
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: this one piece so they can sleep soundly and awaken
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: with a renewed spirit, ready to face the day ahead.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Amen, Pace, you're breathing now. As you
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: continue to rest in the presence of God, breathe, imagine,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: and dream. Let's listen again to this sleep story about
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: Elijah and the poor widow who found hope when she
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: was hopeless. Imagine a campsite long ago on the distant
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: edge of Israel, far away from busy cities. It's far
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: from the palace and from the foul king Ahab. Elijah,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: the prophet is hiding by a small brook all alone.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: Is just told the king that as surely as the Lord,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, lives, the God I serve, there
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: will be no do or reign during the next few
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: years until I give the word. So Elijah is not
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: too popular right now. He's away from his home and
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: his friends, hiding for days that turned into months. The
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: drought is beginning. See the hillside as it turns from
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: lush green to parched yellow, and from parched yellow to
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: dusty ashen white. Each morning, birds with deep black feathers
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: fill the bright blue sky, cloudless sky. The flock of
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: ravens brings Elijah breakfast commanded by God. They come with
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: bread and meat. They return in the evening with bread
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: and meat for dinner. Let this picture of the ravens
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: remind you not to worry. Considered these words from Jesus.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Look at the ravens. They don't plant or harvest or
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: store food and barns, for God feeds them. And you
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: are far more valuable to him than any birds. God
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: used ravens to bring meals to Elijah. God will provide
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: for you too. Soon the blue creek at Elijah's camp
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: stops babbling and becomes puddles of mud. The puddles dry
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: up to leaving only cracked pockets of dirt as the
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: drought takes hold of the land. All this is happening
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: because some of God's people were making poor choices. King
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: Ahab and Queen Jezebel had rejected the God of Israel
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: to serve foreign gods. They built temples for these foreign gods,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: and when they made God angry, they continue to fight
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: God's people and killed some of us prophets. By God's command,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Elijah gave Ahab the bad news about the famine and drought.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: Now Elijah's brook is dry, but God still doesn't want
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: to send rain. Rather, he tells Elijah go and live
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: in the village of Saraphath, near the city of Sidon.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: I have instructed a widow there to feed you. So
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: now Elijah begins to pack up his camp and leave
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: Israel for a foreign land. In faith, he hopes that
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: a widow with a young son will feed him a
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: poor woman with no husband and no food. That is
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: God's plan to provide for Elijah. Breathe in that same
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: spirit of faith that God gave Elijah. Breathe out and
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: release your fears about tomorrow. Rest now in God's faithful arms.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: Elijah goes down to the coast to Zaraphath by the
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry and hurting people live in villages
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: along the path. Elijah knows that the rains will come
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: at God's word, but it isn't time yet. The sky
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: still shines cloudless over the shimmering blue sea. Elijah arrives
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: at the gates of the village. He sees a woman
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: gathering sticks. Her face is worn, worry lines are etched
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: into her eyes, her cheeks, and her hands. Would you
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: please bring me a little water in a cup, Elijah asks.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: He hesitates a moment. Would you also bring me a
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: bite of bread? The woman turns a mournful face to Elijah.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: I swear by the Lord your God that I don't
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: have a single piece of bread in the house, she says,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: I only have a handful of flour left and a
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: little cooking oil. I was just gathering a few sticks
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: to cook this last meal, and then my son.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: And I will die.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: But Elijah knows that he has been directed by God
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: to this place, to this particular woman, and so he says,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: don't be afraid. Go ahead and make a little bread
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: for me first. Then use what's left for yourself and
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: your son. But this is what the Lord, the God
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: of Israel, says. There will be flour and oil left
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: in your containers until God sends rain and the crops
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: grow again. So she does as Elijah says, Breathe in
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: that same spirit of faith that God gave this poor widow.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: Breathe out and cast your cares to Jesus. Rest now
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: in his arms, Elijah. The widow and her son ate
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: their fill for many days. There is always enough flower
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: and olive oil left in the containers, just as the
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: Lord promised. What an amazing miracle from God. As the
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: widow stands inside her house, she thinks, how crazy this is?
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Years with no rain, a strange Israelite staying in her house,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: claiming to be from God. And there on the shelf
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: food waits to slack their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: oil tops out the jar. Water fills the pitcher. Imagine
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: what her home smiled like as she baked fresh bread
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: every day. See the joy on her son's face as
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: they ate together. Weeks pass every day, the pot of
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: flour stasts full, the jar of oil and pitcher of
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: water overflow. Elijah eats, and then the mother eats with
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: her son. Her son's thin body slowly becomes strong and
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: the color returns to his face. Then one day, the
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: color drains from the boy's face again. Something is wrong.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: She bakes bread, but he can't eat it. The single
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: mom grabs her son's hand. It feels cold and clammy.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: She squeezes his fingers and she panics. She turns to Elijah,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: Man of God, What have you done to me? Have
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: you come here to point out my sins and kill
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: my son? Elijah and God hear her tears and miraculously
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: restore her only son to life. Look, Elijah says to her,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: your son is alive. The mother cries tears of joy.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: It's natural to cry when you witness something truly miraculous
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: take place. Now I know, She says that you are
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: a man of God and that the word of the
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: Lord from your mouth is the truth. As you rest
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: may you be blessed by the living God who redeems.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: May the Holy Spirit guide your dreams. Let me pray
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: for you now as you fall asleep, Oh peaceful and
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: loving Father, Be merciful to this one, Oh God, because
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: of your constant love, because of your great mercy, Wipe
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: away their sins, wash away all evil, and make them
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: clean from their sin. Tonight, let them hear the sounds
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: of joy and gladness. Create in them tonight a pure heart,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: O God, and give them a again the joy that
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: comes from your salvation. Grant this one piece so they
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: can sleep soundly and awaken with a renewed spirit, ready
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: to face the day ahead. In Jesus' name. Amen, pace,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: you're breathing now, as you continue to rest in the
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: presence of God, breathe, Imagine and dream. Let's listen again
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: to this sleep story about Elijah and the poor widow
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: who found hope when she was hopeless. Imagine a campsite
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: long ago, on the distant edge of Israel, far away
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: from busy cities. It's far from the palace and from
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: the foul king Ahab. Elijah the prophet is hiding by
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: a small brook, all alone. Is just told the king
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: that as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: lives the God I serve, there will be no dew
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: or rain during the next few years until I give
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: the word. So Elijah is not too popular right now.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: He's away from his home and his friends, hiding for
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: days that turned into months. The drought is beginning. See
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: the hillside as it turns from lush green to parched yellow,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: and from parched yellow to dusty ashen white. Each morning,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: birds with deep black feathers fill the bright blue sky,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: cloudless sky. The flock of ravens brings Elijah breakfast commanded
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: by God. They come with bread and meat. They return
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: in the evening with bread and meat for dinner. Let
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: this picture of the ravens remind you not to worry.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: Considered these words from Jesus. Look at the ravens. They
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: don't plant or harvest or store food and barns, for
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: God feeds them. And you are far more valuable to
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: Him than any birds. God used ravens to bring meals
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: to Elijah. God will provide.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: For you two.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: Soon. The blue creek at Elijah's camp stops babbling and
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: becomes puddles of mud. The puddles dry up too, leaving
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: only cracked pockets of dirt as the drought takes hold
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: of the land. All this is happening because some of
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: God's people were making poor choices. King Ahab and Queen
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: Jezebel had rejected the God of Israel to serve foreign gods.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: They built temples for these foreign gods, and when they
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: made God angry, they continue to fight God's people and
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: killed some of us prophets. By God's command, Elijah gave
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: Ahab the bad news about the famine and drought. Now
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: Elijah's brook is dry, but God still doesn't want to
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: send rain. Rather, he tells Elijah, go and live in
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: the village of Saraphath, near the city of Sidon. I
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: have instructed a widow there to feed you. So now
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: Elijah begins to pack up his camp and leave Israel
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: for a foreign land. In faith, he hopes that a
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: widow with a young son will feed him. A poor
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: woman with no husband and no food, that is God's
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: plan to provide for Elijah. Breathe in that same spirit
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: of faith that God gave Elijah. Breathe out and release
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: your fears about tomorrow. Now in God's faithful arms. Elijah
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: goes down to the coast to Zaraphath by the Mediterranean Sea.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: Many hungry and herding people live in villages along the path.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: Elijah knows that the rains will come at God's word,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: but it isn't time yet. The sky still shines cloudless
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: over the shimmering blue sea. Elijah arrives at the gates
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: of the village. He sees a woman gathering sticks. Her
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: faces worn, worry lines are etched into her eyes, her cheeks,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: and her hands. But you please bring me a little
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: water in a cup, Elijah asks. He hesitates a moment,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: would you also bring me a bite of bread? The
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: woman turns a mournful face to Elijah. I swear by
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: the Lord your God, that I don't have a single
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: piece of bread in the house. She says, I only
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: have a handful of flour left and a little cooking oil.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: last meal, and then my son and I will die.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: But Elijah knows that he has been directed by God
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: to this place, to this particular woman, and so he says,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: don't be afraid, go ahead and make a little bread
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: for me first. Then use what's left for yourself and
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: your son. But this is what the Lord, the God
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: of Israel, says. There will be flower and oil left
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: in your containers until God sends rain and the crops
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: grow again. So she does as Elijah says, Breathe in
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: that same spirit of faith that God gave this poor widow.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: Breathe out.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: And cast your cares to Jesus. Rest now in his arms, Elijah.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: The widow and her son ate their phil for many days.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: There is always enough flower and olive oil left in
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: the containers, just as the Lord promised. What an amazing
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: miracle from God. As the widow stands inside her house,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: she thinks, how crazy this is? Years with no rain,
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: a strange Israelite staying in her house, claiming to be
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: from God. And there on the shelf food waits to
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: slack their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot, oil tops
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: out the jar, water fills the pitcher. Imagine what her
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: home smelled like as she baked fresh bread every day.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: See the joy on her son's face as they ate together.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: Weeks pass every day, the pot of flower stays full,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: the jar of oil and pitcher of water overflow. Elijah eats,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: and then the mother eats with her son. Her son's
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: thin body slowly becomes strong and the color returns to
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: his face. Then one day, the color drains from the
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: boy's face again. Something is wrong. She bakes bread, but
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: he can't eat it. The single mom grabs her son's hand.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: It feels cold and clammy. She squeezes his fingers. Then
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: she panics. She turns to Elijah, Man of God, What
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: have you done to me? Have you come here to
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: point out my sins and kill my son? Elijah and
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: God hear her tears and miraculously restore her only son
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: to life. Look, Elijah says to her, your son is alive.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: The mother cries tears of joy. It's natural to cry
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: when you witness something truly miraculous take place. Now I know.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: She says that you are a man of God and
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: that the word of the Lord from your mouth is
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: the truth. As you rest, may you be blessed by
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: the Living God who redeems. May the Holy Spirit guide
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: your dreams. Let me pray for you now as you
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: fall asleep, Oh peaceful and Loving Father, be merciful to
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: this one, Oh God, because of your constant love, because
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: of your great mercy, wipe away their sins, wash away
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: all evil, and make them clean from their sin. Tonight,
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: let them hear the sounds of joy and gladness. Create
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: in them tonight a pure heart, O God, and give
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: them again the joy that comes from your salvation. Grant
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: this one piece so they can sleep soundly and awaken
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: with a renewed spirit, ready to face the day ahead.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Amen, Pace, you're breathing now. As you
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: continue to rest in the presence of God, breathe, imagine
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: and dream to night, you will hear the story of
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: the prophet Elijah and a widow who had nothing. As
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: you hear how God provided for this poor widow and
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: her son, you will remember that God is your provider.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: Verse King seventeen. Verse fourteen tells us the words Elijah
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: spoke to the widow when she told him she had
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: nothing to share with him. She was only going to
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: make a small cake of bread for her and her
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: son before they died. Elijah said, For thus says the Lord,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel. The jar of flower shall not
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: empty until the day that the Lord sends rain upon
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: the earth. God turned her lack into plenty. He transformed
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: her anxiety into peace. Faith in God can turn your
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: worries into peace too. As you fall asleep, May your
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: heart be renewed with love for your true source of peace,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: your Father in Heaven. Now leave behind today's tasks and worries.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: Soak in God's presence and get comfortable. Close your eyes
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: and relax. Take a long, deep breath. Breathe in God's peace.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: Now exhale slowly, breathing out your troubles. Release all the
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: tension in your neck and shoulders that has built up
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: during your day. Stretch your arms as far as you
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: can over your head, feeling the stretch through your whole body.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: Is there any place that you're feeling pain, Let the
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: tension in that place ease as you continue to breathe,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: Pull up your covers, adjust your pillow, make sure you're
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: completely comfortable. Let yourself begin to get drowsy. Feel the
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: comfort of God's arms holding you tonight. If you fall
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: asleep before I finish, all the better. May God be
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: present in your dreams tonight. Listen as I begin your
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: time your voyage into sleep. You're drifting into the arms
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: of Christ in prayer. Dear God, fill the heart and
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: mind of this precious listener fresh tonight with your presence
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: in peace as they sleep. May your Holy Spirit guide
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: their dreams. Give them faith, just like you gave faith
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: to Elijah and the widow. You were faithful to them,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: and you will be faithful to them as well. Now
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: renew them as they rest in you. Fill them with trust, Lord,
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: and increase their faith like you did with this widow.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: Make them strong for tomorrow in Jesus's name. Amen. Now
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: imagine a camp site long ago on the distant edge
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: of Israel, far away from busy cities. It's far from
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: the palace and from the foul king Ahab. Elijah, the
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: prophet is hiding by a small brook all alone. Is
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: just told the king that as surely as the Lord,
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, lives the God I serve, there
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: will be no de or rain during the next few
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: years until I give the word. So Elijah is not
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: too popular right now. He's away from his home and
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: his friends, hiding for days that turned into months. The
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: drought is beginning. See the hillside as it turns from
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: lush green to parched yellow, and from parched yellow to
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: dusty ashen white. Each morning, birds with deep black feathers
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: fill the bright blue sky cloudless sky. The flock of
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: ravens brings Elijah breakfast commanded by God. They come with
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: bread and meat. They return in the evening with bread
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: and meat for dinner. Let this picture of the ravens remind.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: You not to worry.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: Considered these words from Jesus. Look at the ravens. They
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: don't plant, or harvest or store food and barns, for
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: God feeds them, and you are far more valuable to
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: Him than any birds. God used ravens to bring meals
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: to Elijah. God will provide for you too. Soon the
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: blue creek at Elijah's camp stops babbling and becomes puddles
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: of mud. The puddles dry up, too, leaving only cracked
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: pockets of dirt as the trout takes hold of the land.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: All this is happening because some of God's people were
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: making poor choices. King Ahab and Queen Jezebel had rejected
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel to serve foreign gods. They built
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: temples for these foreign gods, and when they made God angry,
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: they continue to fight God's people and killed some of
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: us prophets. By God's command, Elijah gave Ahab the bad
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: news about the famine and drought. Now Elijah's brook is dry,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: but God still doesn't want to send rain. Rather, he
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: tells Elijah, go and live in the village of Saraphath,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: there to feed you. So now Elijah begins to pack
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: up his camp and leave Israel for a foreign land.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: In faith, he hopes that a widow with a young
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: son will feed him. A poor woman with no husband
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: and no food, that is God's plan to provide for Elijah.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: Breathe in that same spirit of faith that God gave Elijah.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: Breathe out and release your fears about tomorrow. Rest now
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: in God's faithful arms. Elijah goes down to the coast
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: to Zaraphath by the Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry and hurting
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: people live in villages along the path. Elijah knows that
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: the rains will come at God God's word, but it
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: isn't time yet. The sky still shines cloudless over the
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: shimmering blue sea. Elijah arrives at the gates of the village.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: He sees a woman gathering sticks. Her face is worn,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: worry lines are etched into her eyes, her cheeks, and
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: her hands. But you please bring me a little water
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: in a cup, Elijah asks. He hesitates a moment, would
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: you also bring me a bite of bread? The woman
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: turns a mournful face to Elijah. I swear by the
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: Lord your God that I don't have a single piece
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: of bread in the house. She says, I only have
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: a handful of flower left and a little cooking oil.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: last meal, and then my son and I will die.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: But Elijah knows that he has been directed by God
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: to this place, to this particular woman, and so he says,
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: don't be afraid. Go ahead and make a little bread
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: for me first. Then use what's left for yourself and
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: your son. But this is what the Lord, the God
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: of Israel, says. There will be flour and oil left
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: in your containers until God sends rain and the crops
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: grow again. So she does as Elijah says, Breathe in
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: that same spirit of faith that God gave this poor widow.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: Breathe out and cast your cares to Jesus. Rest now
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: in his arms. Elijah. The widow and her son ate
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: their fill for many days. There is always enough flower
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: in olive oil left in the containers, just as the
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: Lord promised. What an amazing miracle from God. As the
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: widow stands inside her house, she thinks, how crazy this is?
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: Years with no rain, a strange Israelite staying in her house,
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: claiming to be from God. And there on the shelf
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: food waits to slack their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot,
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: oil tops out the jar, water fills the pitcher. Imagine
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: what her home smelled like as she baked fresh bread
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: every day. See the joy on her son's face as
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: they ate together. Weeks pass. Every day the pot of
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: flour stastes full, the jar of oil and pitcher of
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: water overflow. Elijah eats and then the mother eats with
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: her son. Her son's thin body slowly becomes strong and
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: the color returns to his face. Then one day the
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: color drains from the boy's face again. Something is wrong.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: She bakes bread, but he can't eat it. The single
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: mom grabs her son's hand. It feels cold and clammy.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: She squeezes his fingers and she panicks. She turns to Elijah,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: Man of God, What have you done to me? Have
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: you come here to point out my sins and kill
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: my son? Elijah? And God hear her tears and miraculously
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: restore her only son to life. Look, Elijah says to her,
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: your son is alive. The mother cries tears of joy.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: It's natural to cry when you witness something truly miraculous
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: take place.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: Now I know.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: She says that you are a man of God, and
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: that the word of the Lord from your mouth.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: Is the truth.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: As you rest, may you be blessed by the living
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: God who redeems. May the Holy Spirit guide your dreams.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: Let me pray for you now as you fall asleep,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: Oh peaceful and loving Father, Be merciful to this one,
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: Oh God, because of your constant love, because of your
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: great mercy, wipe away their sins, wash away all evil,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: and make them clean from their sin. Tonight, let them
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: hear the sounds of joy and gladness. Wey eate in
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: them tonight a pure heart, O God, and give them
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: again the joy that comes from your salvation. Grant this
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: one piece so they can sleep soundly and awaken with
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: a renewed spirit, ready to face the day. Ahead in
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: Jesus' name. Amen, Pace, you're breathing now as you continue
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: to rest in the presence of God. Breathe, Imagine and dream.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: Let's listen again to this sleep story about Elijah and
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: the poor widow who found hope when she was hopeless.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: Imagine a campsite long ago, on the distant edge of Israel,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: far away from busy cities. It's far from the palace
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: and from the foul king Ahab. Elijah, the prophet is
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: hiding by a small brook all alone. Is just told
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: the king that as surely as the Lord, the God
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: of Israel, lives, the God I serve, there will be
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: no dew or rain during the next few years until
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: I give the word. So Elijah is not too popular
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: right now. He's away from his home and his friends,
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: hiding for days that turned into months. The drought is beginning.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: See the hillside as it turns from lush green to
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: parched yellow, and from parched yellow to dusty ashen white.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: Each morning, birds with deep black feathers fill the bright
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: blue sky, cloudless sky. The flock of ravens brings Elijah
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: breakfast commanded by God. They come with bread and meat.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: They return in the evening with bread and meat for dinner.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: Let this picture of the ravens remind you not to worry.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: Considered these words from Jesus. Look at the ravens. They
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: don't plant, or harvest or store food and barns, for
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: God feeds them, and you are far more valuable to
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: Him than any birds. God used ravens to bring meals
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: to Elijah. God will provide for you two. Soon the
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: blue creek at Elijah's camp stops babbling and becomes puddles
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: of mud. The puddles dry up to leaving only cracked
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: pockets of dirt as the drought takes hold of the land.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: All this is happening because some of God's people were
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: making poor choices. King Ahab and Queen Jezebel had rejected
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel to serve foreign gods. They built
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: temples for these foreign gods, and when they made God angry,
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: they continue to fight God's people and killed some of
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: us prophets. By God's command, Elijah gave ah Have the
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: bad news about the famine and drought. Now Elijah's brook
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: is dry, but God still doesn't want to send rain. Rather,
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: he tells Elijah go and live in the village of Saraphath,
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: there to feed you. So now Elijah begins to pack
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: up his camp and leave Israel for a foreign land.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: In faith, he hopes that a widow with a young
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: son will feed him. A poor woman with no husband
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: and no food, that is God's plan to provide for Elijah.
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: Breathe in that same spirit of faith that God gave Elijah.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: Breathe out and release your fears about tomorrow. Rest now
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: in God's faithful arms. Elijah goes down to the coast
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: to Zaraphath by the Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry and herding
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: people live in villages along the path. Elijah knows that
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: the rains will come at God's word, but it isn't
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: time yet. The sky still shines cloudless over the shimmering
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: blue sea. Elijah arrives at the gates of the village.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: He sees a woman gathering sticks. Her face is worn,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: worry lines are etched into her eyes, her cheeks, and
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: her hands. But you please bring me a little water
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: in a cup, Elijah asks. He hesitates a moment, Would
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: you also bring me a bite of bread? The woman
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: turns a mournful face to Elijah. I swear by the
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: Lord your God, that I don't have a single piece
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: of bread in the house. She says, I only have
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: a handful of flour left and a little cooking oil.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: last meal, and then my son.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 2: And I will die.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: But Elijah knows that he has been directed by God
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: to this place, to this particular woman, and so he says,
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: don't be afraid. Go ahead and make a little bread
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: for me first. Then use what's left for yourself and
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: your son. But this is what the Lord, the God
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: of Israel, says. There will be flower and oil left
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: in your containers until God sends rain and the crops
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: grow again. So she does as Elijah says, Breathe in
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: that same spirit of faith that God gave this poor widow.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 2: Breathe out.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: And cast your cares to Jesus. Rest now in his arms, Elijah.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: The widow and her son ate their phil for many days.
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: There is always enough flower and olive oil left in
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: the containers, just as the Lord promised. What an amazing
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: miracle from God. As the widow stands inside her house,
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: she thinks, how crazy this is? Years with no rain,
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: a strange Israelite staying in her house, claiming to be
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: from God. And there on the shelf, food waits to
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: slack their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot, oil tops
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: out the jar, water fills the pitcher. Imagine what her
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: home smelled like as she baked fresh bread every day.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: See the joy on her son's face as they ate together.
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: Weeks pass every day, the pot of flower stays full,
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: the jar of oil and pitcher of water overflow. Elijah
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: eats and then the mother eats with her son. Her
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: son's thin body slowly becomes strong and the color returns
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: to his face. Then one day, the color drains from
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: the boy's face again. Something is wrong. She bakes bread,
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: but he can't eat it. The single mom grabs her
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: son's hand. It feels cold and clammy. She squeezes his fingers.
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: Then she panics. She turns to Elijah, Man of God,
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: what have you done to me? Have you come here
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: to point out my sins and kill my son? Elijah
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: and God hear her tears and miraculously restore her only
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: son to life. Look, Elijah says to her, your son
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: is alive. The mother cries tears of joy. It's natural
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: to cry when you witness something truly miraculous take place.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: Now I know she says that you are a man
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: of God and that the word of the Lord from
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: your mouth is the truth. As you rest, may you
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: be blessed by the living God who redeems. May the
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit guide your dreams. Let me pray for you
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: now as you fall Asleepful and loving Father, be merciful
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: to this one, Oh God, because of your constant love,
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: because of your great mercy, wipe away their sins, wash
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: away all evil, and make them clean from their sin. Tonight,
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: let them hear the sounds of joy and gladness. Create
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: in them tonight a pure heart, O God, and give
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: them again the joy that comes from your salvation. Grant
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: this one piece so they can sleep soundly and awaken
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: with a renewed spirit, ready to face the day ahead.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Amen, Pace, you're breathing now to continue
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: to rest in the presence of God. Breathe, Imagine and dream.
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: Let's listen again to this sleep story about Elijah and
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: the poor widow who found hope when she was hopeless.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: Imagine a camp site long ago on the distant edge
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: of Israel, far away from busy cities. It's far from
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: the palace and from the foul king Ahab. Elijah, the
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: prophet is hiding by a small brook all alone. Is
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: just told the king that as surely as the Lord,
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, lives, the God I serve, there
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: will be no do or reign during the next few
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: years and till I give the word. So Elijah is
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: not too popular right now. He's away from his home
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: and his friends, hiding for days that turned into months.
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: The drought is beginning. See the hillside as it turns
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: from lush green to parched yellow, and from parched yellow
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: to dusty ashen white. Each morning, birds with deep black
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: feathers fill the bright blue sky, cloudless sky. The flock
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: of ravens brings Elijah breakfast commanded by God. They come
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: with bread and meat. They return in the evening with
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: bread and meat for dinner. Let this picture of the
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: ravens remind you not to worry. Considered these words from Jesus.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: Look at the ravens. They don't plant or harvest or
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: store food and barns, for God feeds them and You
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: are far more valuable to him than any birds. God
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: used ravens to bring meals to Elijah. God will provide
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: for you too. Soon the blue creek at Elijah's camp
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: stops babbling and becomes puddles of mud. The puddles dry
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: up to leaving only cracked pockets of dirt as the
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: trout takes hold of the land. All this is happening
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: because some of God's people were making poor choices. King
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: Ahab and Queen Jezebel had rejected the God of Israel
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: to serve foreign gods. They built temples for these foreign gods,
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: and when they made God angry, they continued to fight
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: God's people and killed some of us prophets. By God's command,
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: Elijah gave Ahab the bad news about the famine and drought.
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: Now Elijah's brook is dry, but God still doesn't want
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: to send rain. Rather, he tells Elijah go and live
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: in the village of Seraphath, near the city of Sidon.
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: I have instructed a widow there to feed you. So
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: now Elijah begins to pack up his camp and leave
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: Israel for a foreign land. In faith, he hopes that
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: a widow with a young son will feed him a
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: poor woman with no husband and no food. That is
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: God's plan to provide for Elijah. Breathe in that same
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: spirit of faith that God gave Elijah. Breathe out and
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: release your fears about tomorrow. Rest now in God's faithful arms.
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: Elijah goes down to the coast to Zaraphath by the
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry and hurting people live in villages
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: along the path. Elijah knows that the rains will come
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: at God's word, but it isn't time yet. The sky
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: still shines cloudless over the shimmering blue sea. Elijah arrives
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: at the gates of the village. He sees a woman
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: gathering sticks. Her face is worn, worry lines are etched
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: into her eyes, her cheeks, and her hands. Would you
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: please bring me a little water in a cup, Elijah asks.
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: He hesitates a moment. Would you also bring me a
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: bite of bread? The woman turns a mournful face to Elijah.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: I swear by the Lord your God, that I don't
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: have a single piece of bread in the house. She says,
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: I only have a handful of flour left and a
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: little cooking oil. Just gathering a few sticks to cook
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: this last meal, and then my son and I will die.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: But Elijah knows that he has been directed by God
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: to this place, to this particular woman, and so he says,
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: don't be afraid. Go ahead and make a little bread
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: for me first. Then use what's left for yourself and
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: your son. But this is what the Lord, the God
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: of Israel, says. There will be flour and oil left
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: in your containers until God sends rain and the crops
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: grow again. So she does as Elijah says, Breathe in
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: that same spirit of faith that God gave this poor widow.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: Breathe out past your cares to Jesus. Rest now in
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: his arms, Elijah. The widow and her son ate their
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: fill for many days. There is always enough flower and
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: olive oil left in the containers, just as the Lord promised.
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: What an amazing miracle from God. As the widow stands
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: inside her house, she thinks, how crazy this is? Years
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: with no rain, a strange Israelite staying in her house,
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: claiming to be from God. And there on the shelf
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: food waits to slack their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot,
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: oil tops out the jar, the water fills the pitcher
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: Imagine what her home smeled like as she baked fresh
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: bread every day. See the joy on her son's face
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: as they ate together. Weeks pass every day, the pot
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: of flour stasts full, the jar of oil and pitcher
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: of water overflow. Elijah eats, and then the mother eats
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: with her son. Her son's thin body slowly becomes strong
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: and the color returns to his face. Then one day,
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: the color drains from the boy's face again. Something is wrong.
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: She bakes bread, but he can't eat it. The single
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: mom grabs her son hand. It feels cold and clammy.
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: She squeezes his fingers and she panics. She turns to Elijah,
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: Man of God, What have you done to me? Have
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: you come here to point out my sins and kill
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: my son? Elijah and God hear her tears and miraculously
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: restore her only son to life. Look, Elijah says to her,
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: your son is alive. The mother cries tears of joy.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: It's natural to cry when you witness something truly miraculous
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: take place. Now I know, She says, that you are
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: a man of God and that the word of the
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: Lord from your mouth is the truth. As you rest,
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: may you be blessed by the living God who redeems.
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: May the Holy Spirit guide your dreams. Let me pray
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: for you now as you fall asleep, Oh peaceful and
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: loving Father, Be merciful to this one, Oh God, because
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: of your constant love, because of your great mercy, wipe
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 1: away their sins, wash away all evil, and make them
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: clean from their sin. Tonight, let them hear the sounds
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: of joy and gladness. Create in them tonight a pure heart,
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: O God, and give them again the joy that comes
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: from your salvation. Grant this one piece so they can
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: sleep soundly and awaken with a renewed spirit, ready to
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: face the day ahead. In Jesus' name. Amen, Pace, you're
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: breathing now. As you continue to rest in the presence
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: of God, breathe, Imagine and dream. Let's listen again to
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: this sleep story about Elijah and the poor widow who
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: found hope when she was hopeless. Imagine a campsite long ago,
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: on the distant edge of Israel, away from busy cities.
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: It's far from the palace and from the foul king Ahab. Elijah,
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: the prophet is hiding by a small brook all alone.
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: Is just told the king that as surely as the Lord,
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, lives the God I serve, there
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: will be no dew or rain during the next few
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: years until I give the word. So Elijah is not
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: too popular right now. He's away from his home and
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: his friends, hiding for days that turned into months. The
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: drought is beginning. See the hillside as it turns from
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: lush green to parched yellow, and from parched yellow to
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: dust ashen white. Each morning, birds with deep black feathers
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: fill the bright blue sky, cloudless sky. The flock of
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: ravens brings Elijah breakfast commanded by God. They come with
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: bread and meat. They return in the evening with bread
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: and meat for dinner. Let this picture of the ravens
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: remind you not to worry. Considered these words from Jesus.
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: Look at the ravens. They don't plant or harvest or
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: store food and barns, for God feeds them. And you
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: are far more valuable to Him than any birds. God
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: used ravens to bring meals to Elijah. God will provide
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: for you two soon. The blue creek at Elijah's camp
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: stops babbling and becomes puddles of mud. The puddles dry
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: up too, leaving only cracked pockets of dirt as the
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: drought takes hold of the land. All this is happening
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: because some of God's people were making poor choices. King
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: Ahab and Queen Jezebel had rejected the God of Israel
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: to serve foreign gods. They built temples for these foreign gods,
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: and when they made God angry, they continue to fight
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: God's people and killed some of us prophets. By God's command,
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: Elijah gave Ahab the bad news about the famine and drought.
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: Now Elijah's brook is dry, but God still doesn't want
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: to send rain. Rather, he tells Elijah, go and live
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: in the village of Saraphath, near the city of Sidon.
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: I have instructed a widow there to feed you. So
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: now Elijah begins to pack up his camp and leave
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: Israel for a foreign land. In faith, he hopes that
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: a widow with a young son will feed him. A
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: poor woman with no husband and no food, that is
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: God's plan to provide for Elijah. Breathe in that same
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: spirit of faith that God gave Elijah. Breathe out and
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: release your fears about tomorrow. Rest now in God's faithful arms.
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: Elijah goes down to the coast to Zaraphath by the
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry and herding people live in villages
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: along the path. Elijah knows that the rains will come
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: at God's word, but it isn't time yet. The sky
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: still shines cloudless over the shimmering blue sea. Elijah arrives
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: at the gates of the village. He sees a woman
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: gathering sticks. Her faces worn, worry lines are etched into
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: her eyes, her cheeks, and her hands. Would you please
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: bring me a little water in a cup, Elijah asks.
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: He hesitates a moment, Would you also bring me a
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: bite of bread? The woman turns a mournful face to Elijah.
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: I swear by the Lord your God, that I don't
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: have a single piece of bread in the house. She says,
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: I only have a handful of flour left and a
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: little cooking oil. I was just gathering a few sticks
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: to cook this last meal, and then my son and
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: I will die. But Elijah knows that he has been
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: directed by God to this place, to this particular woman,
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: and so he says, don't be afraid. Go ahead and
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: make a little bread for me first, then use what's
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: left for yourself and your son. But this is what
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: the Lord, the God of Israel, says. There will be
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: flower and oil left in your containers until God sends
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: rain and the crops grow again. So she does as
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: Elijah says, Breathe in that same spirit of faith that
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: God gave this poor widow. Breathe out and cast your
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: cares to Jesus. Rest now in his arms, Elijah. The
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: widow and her son ate their phil for many days.
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: There is always enough flower and olive oil left in
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: the containers, just as the Lord promised. What an amazing
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: miracle from God. As the widow stands inside her she thinks,
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: how crazy this is? Years with no rain, a strange
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: Israelite staying in her house claiming to be from God.
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: And there on the shelf food waits to slack their hunger.
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: Flower fills the clay pot, oil tops out, the jar,
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: water fills the pitcher. Imagine what her home smelled like
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: as she baked fresh bread every day. See the joy
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: on her son's face as they ate together. Weeks pass,
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: every day, the pot of flower stases full, the jar
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: of oil and pitcher of water overflow. Elijah eats, and
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 1: then the mother eats with her son. Her son's thin
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: body slowly becomes strong and the color returns to his face.
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: Then one day, the color drains from the boy's face again.
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: Something is wrong. She bakes bread, but he can't eat it.
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: The single mom grabs her son's hand. It feels cold
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: and clammy. She squeezes his fingers and she panicks. She
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: turns to Elijah, Man of God, what have you done
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: to me? Have you come here to point out my
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: sins and kill my son? Elijah and God hear her
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: tears and miraculously restore her only son life. Look, Elijah
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: says to her, your son is alive. The mother cries
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: tears of joy. It's natural to cry when you witness
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: something truly miraculous take place. Now I know. She says
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 1: that you are a man of God, and that the
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: As you rest, may you be blessed by the Living
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 1: God who redeems. May the Holy Spirit guide your dreams.
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: Let me pray for you now as you fall asleep,
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: Oh peaceful and loving Father to this one, Oh God,
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: because of your constant love, because of your great mercy,
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: wipe away their sins, wash away all evil and make
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 1: them clean from their sin. Tonight. Let them hear the
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: sounds of joy and gladness. Create in them tonight a
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: pure heart, O God, and give them again the joy
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: that comes from your salvation. Grant this one piece so
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: they can sleep soundly and awaken with a renewed spirit,
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: ready to face the day ahead. In Jesus' name. Amen, Pace,
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: you're breathing now as you continue to rest in the
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 1: presence of God, Breathe, Imagine and dream. Let's listen again
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: to this sleep story about Elijah and the poor widow
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: who found hope when she was hopeless. Imagine a camp
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: site long ago on the distant edge of Israel, far
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 1: away from busy cities. It's far from the palace and
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: from the foul king Ahab. Elijah, the prophet is hiding
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: by a small brook all alone. Is just told the
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: king that as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives,
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: the God I serve, there will be no do or
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 1: reign during the next few years until I give the word.
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 1: So Elijah is not too popular right now. He's away
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: from his home and his friends, hiding for days that
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: turned into months. The drought is beginning. See the hillside
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: as it turns from lush green to parched yellow, and
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: from parched yellow to dusty ashen white. Each morning, birds
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: with deep black feathers fill the bright blue sky cloudless sky.
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: The flock of ravens brings Elijah breakfast commanded by God.
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: They come with bread and meat. They return in the
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: evening with bread and meat for dinner. Let this picture
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: of the ravens remind you not to worry. Considered these
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 1: words from Jesus. Look at the ravens. They don't plant,
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: or harvest or store food and barns, for God feeds them.
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: And you are far more valuable to Him than any birds.
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 1: God used ravens to bring meals to Elijah. God will
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 1: provide for you too. Soon the blue creek at Elijah's
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: camp stops babbling and becomes puddles of mud. The puddles
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 1: dry up to leaving only cracked pockets of dirt as
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: the trout takes hold of the land. All this is
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 1: happening because some of God's people were making poor choices.
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 1: King Ahab and Queen Jezebel had rejected the God of
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: Israel to serve foreign gods. They built temples for these
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: foreign gods, and when they made God angry, they continue
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 1: to fight God's people and killed some of us prophets.
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: By God's command, Elijah gave Ahab the bad news about
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: the famine and drought. Now Elijah's brook is dry, but
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: God still doesn't want to send rain. Rather, he tells Elijah,
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: go and live in the village of Saraphath, near the
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow there to
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: feed you. So now Elijah begins to pack up his
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: camp and leave Israel for a foreign land. In faith,
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 1: he hopes that a widow oh with a young son
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 1: will feed him. A poor woman with no husband and
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: no food, that is God's plan to provide for Elijah.
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: Breathe in that same spirit of faith that God gave Elijah.
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 1: Breathe out and release your fears about tomorrow. Rest now
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: in God's faithful arms. Elijah goes down to the coast
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: to Zaraphath by the Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry and hurting
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: people live in villages along the path. Elijah knows that
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 1: the rains will come at God's word, but it isn't
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 1: time yet. The sky still shines cloudless over the shimmering
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: blue sea. Elijah arrives at the gates of the village.
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: He sees a woman gathering sticks. Her face is worn,
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: worry lines are etched into her eyes, her cheeks, and
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: her hands. But you please bring me a little water
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: in a cup, Elijah asks. He hesitates a moment. Would
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: you also bring me a bite of bread? The woman
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: turns a mournful face to Elijah. I swear by the
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 1: Lord your God, but I don't have a single piece
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: of bread in the house. She says, I only have
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: a handful of flour left in a little cooking oil.
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: last meal, and then my son and I will die.
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: But Elijah knows that he has been directed by God
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 1: to this place, to this particular woman, and so he says,
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 1: don't be afraid. Go ahead and make a little bread
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 1: for me first. Then use what's left for yourself and
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 1: your son. But this is what the Lord, the God
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: of Israel, says. There will be flower and oil left
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: in your containers until God sends rain and the crops
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: grow again. So she does as Elijah says, breathe in
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: that same spirit of faith that God gave this poor widow.
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 2: Breathe out.
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: And cast your cares to Jesus. Rest now in his arms. Elijah.
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: The widow and her son ate their fill for many days.
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: There is always enough flower and olive oil left in
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: the containers, just as the Lord promised. What an amazing
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 1: miracle from God. As the widow stands inside her house,
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: she thinks, how crazy this is. Years with no rain,
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: a strange Israelite staying in her house, claiming to be
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: from God. And there on the shelf food waits to
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: slack their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot, oil tops out,
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 1: the jar. Water fills the picture. Imagine what her home
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: smiled like as she baked fresh bread every day. See
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 1: the joy on her son's face as they ate together.
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: Weeks pass every day, the pot of flour stastes full,
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: the jar of oil and pitcher of water overflow. Elijah eats,
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: and then the mother eats with her son. Her son's
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 1: thin body slowly becomes strong and the color returns to
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: his face. Then one day the color drains from the
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: boy's face again. Something is wrong. She bakes bread, but
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: he can't eat it. The single mom grabs her son's hand.
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 1: It feels cold and clammy. She squeezes his fingers and
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: she panics. She turns to Elijah, Man of God, What
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: have you done to me? Have you come here to
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 1: point out my sins and kill my son? Elijah and
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 1: God hear her tears and miraculously restore her only son
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: to life. Look, Elijah says to her, your son is alive.
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 1: The mother cries tears of joy. It's natural to cry
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: when you witness something truly miraculous take place. Now I know.
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: She says that you are a man of God, and
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 1: that the word of the Lord from your mouth is
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 1: the truth. As you rest, may you be blessed by
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: the Living God who redeems. May the Holy Spirit guide
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: your dreams. Let me pray for you now as you
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: fall asleep, Oh peaceful and loving Father, be merciful to
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 1: this one, Oh God, because of your constant love, because
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 1: of your great mercy, wipe away their sins, wash away
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: all evil, and make them clean from their sin. Tonight.
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: Let them hear the sounds of joy and gladness. Create
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: in them tonight a pure heart, Oh God, and give
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: them again the joy that comes from yourself. Grant this
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: one piece so they can sleep soundly and awaken with
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 1: a renewed spirit, ready to face the day ahead. In
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: Jesus' name. Amen, Pace, you're breathing now as you continue
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: to rest in the presence of God, Breathe, Imagine and dream.
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: Let's listen again to this sleep story about Elijah and
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 1: the poor widow who found hope when she was hopeless.
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: Imagine a campsite long ago, on the distant edge of Israel,
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 1: far away from busy cities. It's far from the palace
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: and from the foul king Ahab. Elijah, the prophet is
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: hiding by a small brook all alone. Is just told
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 1: the king that as surely as the Lord, the God
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: of Israel, lives the God I serve, there will be
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: no dew or rain during the next few years until
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: I give the word. So Elijah is not too popular
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 1: right now. He's away from his home and his friends,
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: hiding for days that turned into months. The drought is beginning.
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: See the hillside as it turns from lush green to
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: parched yellow, and from parched yellow to dusty ashen white.
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 1: Each morning, birds with deep black feathers fill the bright
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: blue sky, cloudless sky. The flock of ravens brings Elijah
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: breakfast commanded by God. They come with bread and meat.
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: They return in the evening with bread and meat for dinner.
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 1: Let this picture of the ravens remind you.
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 2: Not to worry.
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 1: Considered these words from Jesus. Look at the ravens. They
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: don't plant or harvest or store food and barns, for
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: God feeds them. And you are far more valuable to
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 1: Him than any birds. God used ravens to bring meals
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: to Elijah. God will provide for you two. Soon the
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 1: blue creek at Elijah's camp stops babbling and becomes puddles
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 1: of mud. The puddles dry up to leaving only cracked
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 1: pockets of dirt as the drought takes hold of the land.
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 1: All this is happening because some of God's people were
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 1: making poor choices. King Ahab and Queen Jezebel had rejected
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: the God of Israel to serve foreign gods. They built
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: temples for these foreign gods, and when they made God angry,
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 1: they continue to fight God's people and killed some of
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: us prophets. By God's command, Elijah gave Ahab the bad
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 1: news about the famine and drought. Now Elijah's brook is try,
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 1: but God still doesn't want to send rain. Rather, he
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 1: tells Elijah, go and live in the village of Saraphath,
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 1: near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 1: there to feed you. So now Elijah begins to pack
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: up his camp and leave Israel for a foreign land.
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: In faith, he hopes that a widow with a young
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 1: son will feed him. A poor woman with no husband
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: and no food, that is God's plan to provide for Elijah.
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 1: Breathe in that same spirit of faith that God gave Elijah.
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: Breathe out and release your fears about tomorrow. Rest now
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 1: and God's faithful arms. Elijah goes down to the coast
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 1: to Zaraphath by the Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry and herding
• 2:31:13
  Speaker 1: people live in villages along the path. Elijah knows that
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 1: the rains will come at God's word, but it isn't
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 1: time yet. The sky still shines cloudless over the shimmering
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: blue sea. Elijah arrives at the gates of the village.
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: He sees a woman gathering sticks. Her faces worn, worry
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 1: lines are etched into her eyes, her cheeks, and her hands.
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 1: But you please bring me a little water in a cup.
• 2:31:56
  Speaker 1: Elijah asks, he hesitates, an would you also bring me
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: a bite of bread? The woman turns a mournful face
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 1: to Elijah. I swear by the Lord your God, but
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 1: I don't have a single piece of bread in the house.
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 1: She says, I only have a handful of flour left
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: and a little cooking oil. I was just gathering a
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 1: few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 1: son and I will die. But Elijah knows that he
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 1: has been directed by God to this place, to this
• 2:32:39
  Speaker 1: particular woman, and so he says, don't be afraid. Go
• 2:32:46
  Speaker 1: ahead and make a little bread for me first. Then
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: use what's left for yourself and your son. But this
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says. There
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 1: will be flour and oil left in your content until
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 1: God sends rain and the crops grow again. So she
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: does as Elijah says, Breathe in that same spirit of
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 1: faith that God gave this poor widow.
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 2: Breathe out.
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: And cast your cares to Jesus. Rest now in his arms, Elijah.
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: The widow and her son ate their phil for many days.
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  Speaker 1: There is always enough flower and olive oil left in
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 1: the containers, just as the Lord promised. What an amazing
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: miracle from God. As the widow stands inside her house,
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 1: she thinks, how crazy this is? Years with no rain,
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 1: a strange Israelite staying in her house, claiming to be
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 1: from God. And there on the shelf food waits to
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: slack their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot, oil tops
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 1: out the jar, water fills the pitcher. Imagine what her
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 1: home smelled like as she baked fresh bread every day.
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  Speaker 1: See the joy on her son's face as they ate together.
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  Speaker 1: Weeks pass, every day, the pot of flour stastes full,
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  Speaker 1: the jar of oil and pitcher of water overflow. Elijah
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  Speaker 1: eats and then the mother eats with her son. Her
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 1: son's thin body slowly becomes strong and the color returns
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: to his face. Then one day the color drains from
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 1: the boy's face again. Something is wrong. She bakes bread,
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 1: but he can't eat it. The single mom grabs her
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  Speaker 1: son's hand. It feels cold and clammy. She squeezes his
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: fingers and she panics. She turns to Elijah, Man of God,
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: what have you done to me? Have you come here
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 1: to point out my sins and kill my son? Elijah
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  Speaker 1: and God hear her tears and miraculously restore her only
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 1: son to life. Look, Elijah says to her, your son
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  Speaker 1: is alive. The mother cries tears of joy. It's natural
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 1: to cry when you witness something truly miraculous take place.
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  Speaker 2: Now I know.
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  Speaker 1: She says that you are a man of God, and
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 1: that the word of the Lord from your mouth is
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 1: the truth. As you rest, may you be blessed by
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: the living God who redeems. May the Holy Spirit guide
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 1: your dreams. Let me pray for you now as you
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: fall asleep, Oh peaceful and loving Father, be merciful to
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 1: this one, Oh God, because of your constant love, because
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 1: of your great mercy, wipe away their sins, wash away
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: all evil, and make them clean from their sin. Tonight,
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: let them hear the sounds of joy and gladness. Create
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 1: in them tonight a pure heart, O God, and give
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 1: them again the joy that comes from your salvation. Grant
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 1: this one piece so they can sleep soundly and awaken
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 1: with a renewed spirit, ready to face the day ahead.
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, Amen, pace your breathing now as you
• 2:37:53
  Speaker 1: continue to rest in the presence of God, breathe, imagine.
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 2: And dream.
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 1: Let's listen again to this sleep story about Elijah and
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: the poor widow who found hope when she was hopeless.
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 1: Imagine a campsite long ago on the distant edge of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: far away from busy cities. It's far from the palace
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  Speaker 1: and from the foul king Ahab. Elijah, the prophet is
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: hiding by a small brook all alone. Is just told
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  Speaker 1: the king that as surely as the Lord, the God
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, lives, the God I serve, there will be
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  Speaker 1: no do or reign during the next few years until
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 1: I give the word. So Elijah is not too popular now.
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 1: He's away from his home and his friends, hiding for
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 1: days that turned into months. The drought is beginning. See
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: the hillside as it turns from lush green to parched yellow,
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  Speaker 1: and from parched yellow to dusty ashen white. Each morning,
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 1: birds with deep black feathers fill the bright blue sky,
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  Speaker 1: cloudless sky. The flock of ravens brings Elijah breakfast commanded
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  Speaker 1: by God. They come with bread and meat. They return
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 1: in the evening with bread and meat for dinner. Let
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 1: this picture of the ravens remind you not to worry.
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 1: Considered these words from Jesus. Look at the ravens they
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 1: don't plant or harvest or store food and barns, for
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  Speaker 1: God feeds them, and you are far more valuable to
• 2:40:18
  Speaker 1: him than any birds. God used ravens to bring meals
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  Speaker 1: to Elijah. God will provide for you too. Soon the
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 1: blue creek at Elijah's camp stops babbling and becomes puddles
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 1: of mud. The puddles dry up too, leaving only cracked
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: pockets of dirt as the trout takes hold of the land.
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  Speaker 1: All this is happening because some of God's people were
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: making poor choices. King Ahab and Queen Jezebel had reject
• 2:41:00
  Speaker 1: did the God of Israel to serve foreign gods. They
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: built temples for these foreign gods, and when they made
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 1: God angry, they continue to fight God's people and killed
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 1: some of us prophets. By God's command, Elijah gave Ahab
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: the bad news about the famine and drought. Now Elijah's
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 1: brook is dry, but God still doesn't want to send rain. Rather,
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 1: he tells Elijah go and live in the village of Saraphath,
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow
• 2:41:44
  Speaker 1: there to feed you. So now Elijah begins to pack
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: up his camp and leave Israel for a foreign land.
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 1: In faith, he hopes that a widow with a young
• 2:41:57
  Speaker 1: son will feed him. A poor woman with no husband
• 2:42:02
  Speaker 1: and no food, that is God's plan to provide for Elijah.
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  Speaker 1: Breathe in that same spirit of faith that God gave Elijah.
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 1: Breathe out and release your fears about tomorrow. Rest now
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: in God's faithful arms. Elijah goes down to the coast
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 1: to Zaraphath by the Mediterranean Sea. Many hungry in herding
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 1: people live in villages along the path. Elijah knows that
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 1: the rains will come at God's word, but it isn't
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 1: time yet. The sky still shines cloudless over the shimmering
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 1: blue sea. Elijah arrives at the gates of the village.
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: He sees a woman gathering sticks. Her face is worn,
• 2:43:12
  Speaker 1: worry lines are etched into her eyes, her cheeks, and
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 1: her hands. Would you please bring me a little water
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 1: in a cup, Elijah asks. He hesitates a moment, Would
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: you also bring me a bite of bread? The woman
• 2:43:36
  Speaker 1: turns a mournful face to Elijah. I swear by the
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 1: Lord your God, that I don't have a single piece
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 1: of bread in the house. She says, I only have
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 1: a handful of flour left and a little cooking oil.
• 2:43:52
  Speaker 1: I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this
• 2:43:54
  Speaker 1: last meal, and then my son and I will die.
• 2:44:02
  Speaker 1: But Elijah knows that he has been directed by God
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 1: to this place, to this particular woman, and so he says,
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: don't be afraid. Go ahead and make a little bread
• 2:44:16
  Speaker 1: for me first. Then use what's left for yourself and
• 2:44:20
  Speaker 1: your son. But this is what the Lord, the God
• 2:44:23
  Speaker 1: of Israel, says. There will be flower and oil left
• 2:44:27
  Speaker 1: in your containers until God sends rain and the crops
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 1: grow again. So she does as Elijah says, Breathe in
• 2:44:43
  Speaker 1: that same spirit of faith that God gave this poor widow.
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 1: Breathe out and cast your cares to Jesus. Rest now
• 2:44:58
  Speaker 1: in his arms, Elijah. The widow and her son ate
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 1: their fill for many days. There is always enough flower
• 2:45:11
  Speaker 1: and olive oil left in the containers, just as the
• 2:45:15
  Speaker 1: Lord promised. What an amazing miracle from God. As the
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 1: widow stands inside her house, she thinks, how crazy this is?
• 2:45:28
  Speaker 1: Years with no rain, a strange Israelite staying in her house,
• 2:45:34
  Speaker 1: claiming to be from God. And there on the shelf
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 1: food waits to slack. Their hunger. Flower fills the clay pot,
• 2:45:49
  Speaker 1: oil tops out, the jar, water fills the picture. Imagine
• 2:45:58
  Speaker 1: what her home smelled like as shed fresh bread every day.
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 1: See the joy on her son's face as they ate together.
• 2:46:09
  Speaker 1: Weeks pass every day, the pot of flour stasts full,
• 2:46:16
  Speaker 1: the jar of oil and pitcher of water overflow. Elijah
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 1: eats and then the mother eats with her son. Her
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 1: son's thin body slowly becomes strong and the color returns
• 2:46:31
  Speaker 1: to his face. Then one day, the color drains from
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 1: the boy's face again. Something is wrong. She bakes bread,
• 2:46:47
  Speaker 1: but he can't eat it. The single mom grabs her
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 1: son's hand. It feels cold and clammy. She squeezes his
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 1: fingers and she panicks. She turns to Elijah, Man of God,
• 2:47:09
  Speaker 1: What have you done to me? Have you come here
• 2:47:12
  Speaker 1: to point out my sins and kill my son? Elijah
• 2:47:17
  Speaker 1: and God hear her tears and miraculously restore her only
• 2:47:23
  Speaker 1: son to life. Look, Elijah says to her, your son
• 2:47:33
  Speaker 1: is alive. The mother cries tears of joy. It's natural
• 2:47:41
  Speaker 1: to cry when you witness something truly miraculous take place.
• 2:47:47
  Speaker 1: Now I know, she says, that you are a man
• 2:47:51
  Speaker 1: of God and that the word of the Lord from
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 1: your mouth is the truth. As you rest, may you
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 1: be blessed by the Living God who redeems. May the
• 2:48:08
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit guide your dreams. Let me pray for you
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 1: now as you fall asleep, Oh peaceful and Loving Father,
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 1: Be merciful to this one, Oh God, because of your
• 2:48:28
  Speaker 1: constant love, because of your great mercy, wipe away their sins,
• 2:48:37
  Speaker 1: wash away all evil, and make them clean from their sin. Tonight,
• 2:48:44
  Speaker 1: let them hear the sounds of joy and gladness. Create
• 2:48:50
  Speaker 1: in them tonight a pure heart, O God, and give
• 2:48:53
  Speaker 1: them again the joy that comes from your salvation. Grant
• 2:48:59
  Speaker 1: this one piece so they can sleep soundly and awaken
• 2:49:05
  Speaker 1: with a renewed spirit, ready to face the day ahead.
• 2:49:10
  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Amen, Pace, you're breathing now. As you
• 2:49:21
  Speaker 1: continue to rest in the presence of God, breathe, imagine,
• 2:49:30
  Speaker 1: and dream.