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Pastor Yared Dondo
Lead Pastor,City Harvest Church |
Opening
Scripture 1 King 17 : 8-16
“And the
word of the Lord came unto him, saying,
9 Arise, get thee
to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have
commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
10 So he arose and
went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow
woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me,
I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
11 And as she was
going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel
of bread in thine hand.
12 And she said, As
the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel,
and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may
go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
13 And Elijah said unto
her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake
first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
14 For thus saith
the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the
cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
15 And she went and
did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat
many days.
16 And the barrel
of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of
the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.”
When
Elijah request a help from a widow she replied that have nothing but a handful
meal in a barrel and little oil in a cruse.
May
be there is someone here who think he has little but I want to assure you God
has different plan, the little you have can be much in the Kingdom of God
If
God want to do something is doesn’t matter what you have, whether it is much or
little, educated or not,rich or poor, ministry accepted or rejected, he will
fulfill his word regardless of who is standing.
In
the above story the country was devastated , there are several things that we
can learn from this story;
1. Poverty
The
country was in Poverty.
Sometimes
we complained that we are poor but we are not fair because our condition is
better compared to others.
Some
they don’t have place to live, the whole family( father, mother, grandmother,
grandfather and kids) are working as servants to rich people
Elijah
was poor even the brook that he depended for water dried. He has nothing.
As
he was speaking to God, God told him to go to Zeraphat to meet a widow who will
feed him.
In
Verse 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell
there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
In
those days widows where poor than other people but still God commanded him to
go widow.
The
widow has nothing and she has given up with her life, she was waiting to die
She
believes in God but has no hope to live again.
To
believe in God is not sufficient we have to put into action what we Believe
2.
Promise