Elijah – “Game Experience”
August 5, 2007
Bob See
Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the
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Kings 17:2-4 NIV
Some time later the brook dried up
because there had been no rain in the land.
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Kings 17:7 NIV
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and
lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he
will make your paths straight.
Proverbs
3:5-6 NIV
Then the word of the LORD came to him:
“Go at once to Zarephath of
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Kings 17:8-9 NIV
So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was
there gathering sticks. He called to her
and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread. “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.
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Kings 17:10-12 NIV
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. 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.’ ”
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Kings 17:13-14 NIV
She went away and did as Elijah had
told her. So there was food every day
for Elijah and for the woman and her family.
For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of
oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah.
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Kings 17:15-16 NIV
Some time later the son of the woman
who owned the house became ill. He grew
worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.
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Kings 17:17 NIV
She said to Elijah, “What do you have
against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?”
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Kings 17:18 NIV
“Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He
took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and
laid him on his bed. Then he cried out
to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have you brought tragedy also upon this widow I am
staying with, by causing her son to die?”
Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried to the LORD, “O
LORD my God, let this boy’s life return to him!”
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Kings 17:19-21 NIV
The LORD heard Elijah’s cry, and the
boy’s life returned to him, and he lived. Elijah picked up the child and
carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and
said, “Look, your son is alive!”
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Kings 17:22-23 NIV
Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I
know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is
the truth.”
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Kings 17:24 NIV
Consider it pure joy, my brothers,
whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of
your faith develops perseverance.
James
1:2-3 NIV
And we know that in all things God
works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his
purpose.
Romans
8:28 NIV