How humbling! Intime, Elijah will pray and God will answer with fire from the heavens.
But first, this great servant of God must learn the life-changing lessonsof humility. He must learn that God‘s timing and ways are often dif-ferent from ours. - P90
When we have a scarcity mindset, we assume that we cannot be a blessing toothers. However, like the widow of Zarepath, the amount that we would havespent on a meal can be used by God to encourage a servant like Elijah. Considerfasting a meal today, and seek to offer a small gift to someone in ministry thatGod prompts you to encourage. - P91
[NIV] 17 Some time later the son of the woman whoowned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse,
and finally stopped breathing. - P92
20 Then he cried out to the LORD, "LORD my God, haveyou brought tragedy even on this widow I am stayingwith, by causing her son to die?" - P92
22 The LORD heard Elijah‘s cry, and the boy‘s life re-turned to him, and he lived.
23 Elijah picked up the child and carried him downfrom the room into the house. He gave him to hismother and said, "Look, your son is alive!" - P93
24 Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know thatyou are a man of God and that the word of the LORDfrom mouth is the truth." - P93
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