There was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.

First Kings chapter 17, verse 15.

Welcome to this daily encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

God provides was written by Katera Patton and read by Tony Collier.

First Kings, chapter 17, verses 7 through 16.

Sometime later, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah.

Go at once to Zarifath in the region of Saigon and stay there. I have directed a widow

there to supply you with food. 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 olive oil in a jug.'

Elijah said to her, don't be afraid. Go home and do as you

have said. But first, make a small loaf of bread for 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 sends rain on the land. 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.

God provides.

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