Good morning and here is another Friday fry up.
Faith Takes you Beyond the Limitations of what is Presently in Your Life.
1 Kings 17: 12-14 (NIV)
As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die." 13 Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. 14 For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.' "
Reading this account is eye opening. Imagine if a prophet or evangelist today treated a widow in distress like this. It would be all over the papers the next morning with headlines like, “Greedy Evangelist Eats Widows Last Morsel of Food”.
The brief overview of this account is this:
The prophet goes to this woman to get food because God sends him there specifically.
When he gets there he finds this widow getting ready to make one last meal for her and her boy then she had resolved to starve to death through lack – thank God He had a better plan than that.
She tells Elijah of her “seemingly little bit” and he says to cook it up and release it from her hand into his life and it would supernaturally multiply for her now in her great need and long after he had gone”. She had to make the choice to place her faith in the words of the prophet of God and not in the very real evidence of her present experience.
When she released her “seemingly small bit” the miracle happened. The lesson here is that with both her and the disciples with their miracle of the bread and fish we have been reading about, they saw the miracle- increase come when they were willing to let go of something that did not seem enough.
When exactly did the miracle happen in the hands of the disciples in Luke 19? It was not when they held the bread because that would have crushed them under a mountain of bread and fish, but it was when they let it go and released it in faith!
Don’t see things as small. See them as seed for mighty miracles when God is on the case.
Faith to you today, He is the same today as He has always been let go of something that does not seem big enough and watch what happens.
Andy
A devotional by Pastor Andy Elmes to inspire you with a godly thought to start your day well. God’s word is indeed the breakfast of champions.
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