Elijah: 1 Kings 17:1-16

Getting In Position to Get Our Needs Met

James 5:17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months

1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word."

 2 The word of the LORD came to him,

Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus

 3 Saying,"Go away from here

and turn eastward,

and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

 4 "It shall be that you will drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens buzzards to provide for you there."

 5 So he went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

 6 The ravens buzzards brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook.

 7 It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

 8 Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

 9 "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you."

 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, "Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink."

 11 As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand."

 12 But she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold look , I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and die."

 13 Then Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son.

 14 "For thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain on the face of the earth.'"

 15 So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and she and he and her household ate for many days.

 16 The bowl of flour was not exhausted nor did the jar of oil become empty, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah.

Philippians 4:19 My God will fully supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:1-2 Therefore if since you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.