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God Provides · The Bible Bit Podcast

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  Welcome back. This is Kimmy Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  bringing you another Bible bit for you to enjoy.
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  God provides.
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  Today, as we continue our journey through 1 Kings 19, we find ourselves focusing
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  on 1 Kings 19, 5 through 8.
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  Here we read, And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold,
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  then an angel touched him and said unto him, Arise and eat.
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  And he looked, and behold, there was a cake baking on the coals and a cruise of water at his head.
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  And he did eat and drink and laid him down again. And the angel of the Lord
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  came again the second time and touched him and said, Arise and eat,
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  because the journey is too great for thee.
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  And he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat 40
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  days and 40 nights unto Horeb, the mount of God.
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  In this account of Elijah's life, we see that the angel of the Lord touches
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  Elijah while he lies there under the juniper tree.
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  Elijah is downtrodden, frustrated, and completely depleted.
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  The angel touches him, and when Elijah awakens, he awakens to a wonderful meal
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  of baked bread and water.
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  He's instructed to eat, drink, and go back to sleep.
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  After Elijah rests and his body recovers, the angel of the Lord touches Elijah
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  again and gives him another round of food and water.
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  This time he tells him that he is going to need the nourishment because Elijah
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  is being instructed to travel 40 days and 40 nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
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  It is important to note that Elijah is completely exhausted.
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  From the battle, he has fought and won through the power of the Lord.
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  Clearly, he was weary and physically depleted as the angel of the Lord fed him
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  and instructed him to sleep.
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  Notice that God cared for Elijah's physical needs before addressing his spiritual crisis.
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  God knows that our soul and spirit live in earthly bodies, that our earthly
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  bodies, the temple of God, must be adequately and properly cared for.
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  God meets Elijah right where he is, even though Elijah is operating from the
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  flesh, as is evidenced by his hopelessness in his declaration in 1 Kings 19,
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  9, that he is all alone and no one else believes in God.
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  A statement that God gently corrects as he reminds Elijah that there are 7,000
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  additional men who have not bowed to Baal.
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  1 Kings 19.18 Even though Elijah has come to the wrong conclusions,
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  God does not condemn him or chastise him.
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  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,
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  who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.
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  Romans 8.1 Although Elijah is operating from a depleted fleshly state,
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  his heart loves God and wants to please him as is demonstrated by Elijah's perfect
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  compliance to everything the angel of the Lord says.
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  God's care is complete, compassionate, and practical.
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  He does not try to correct Elijah's spiritual state before restoring his physical state.
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  God does not condemn his weary servants. He strengthens them.
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  You can do all things to Christ who strengthens you, Philippians 4.13.
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  The angel of the Lord stays with Elijah and he stays with us.
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  God will never leave us nor forsake us, Hebrews 13.5, even when our understanding is way off the mark.
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  God understood that Elijah's feelings were very real, even if his conclusions were not accurate.
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  God also understood that until Elijah's body was replenished and his mind refreshed,
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  he wasn't going to be able to recover spiritually.
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  So the angel of the Lord gave Elijah what his body needed and then led him to the presence of God.
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  There we find the path of life and joy and pleasures forevermore. Psalm 1611.
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  God provides all we need. Sometimes it's physical. Sometimes it is emotional.
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  Sometimes it is spiritual. But always it is what we need, when we need it, and how we need it.
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  In the presence of God, we cannot be defeated, and our strength will never fail.
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  Remember, you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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  Join us tomorrow as we continue through 1 Kings 19, where Scripture reveals
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  that Elijah is invited to be perfectly honest with God.
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