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Welcome to our Wednesday's broadcast of the Gospel Truth.

Today I'm continuing to share about Elijah from First Kings chapter 17.

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So I've been teaching from First Kings chapter 17, where now where Elijah went to the city of Zeropath, and let me just read these verses in First Kings 17-8,

and the word of the Lord came unto him saying, arise, get thee to Zeropath, which belongedeth to Zyden, and dwell there, be a hold I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

That's an important piece of information.

This isn't a random widow woman, it's not just any lady, it's somebody who already had a word from God that she was going to sustain somebody through this drought, talking about sustaining them with food and things like that.

And in verse 10 it says, so he arose and went to Zeropath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks, and he called her and said, fetch me, I pray thee a little water in a vessel that I may drink.

And this widow woman, on the day that it looked like she was going to die in the natural, she still went and just served somebody without any complaint.

I think that that says something about her, that's an indication that this woman was a giver, and there's reasons why certain people tend to see the blessing and the prosperity of God come.

If you're a giver, it says in 2 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 10 that God gives seed to the sower, not talking really about physical seed, but he gives money to those who will use it to give and to bless others.

He was going to multiply this woman's meal because she was a giver. And then in verse 11 it says, and as she was going to fetch it, he called her and said, bring me, I pray thee a morsel of bread in thy hand.

And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruise and behold, I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it for me and for my son that we may eat it and die.

That could be looked at as a totally negative statement, but I really believe because God had already commanded this woman that she was going to sustain somebody.

I think it was more just like a statement of fact and saying that here's the fact in the natural, are you the one that I am going to sustain or you the one that God is connecting me with.

I believe that you could just as easily interpret it that way.

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