April 26, 2020

Psalm 130:5-6 (NIV)

5 I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. 6 I wait for the Lord

1 Kings 17:1-16 (NIV)

Elijah Announces a Great Drought

17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”

Elijah Fed by Ravens

2 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3 “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4 You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”

5 So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.

Elijah and the Widow at Zarephath

7 Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. 8 Then the word of the Lord came to him: 9 “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.” 10 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?” 11 As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”

12 “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. 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.”

13 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 from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. 14 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.’”

15 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. 16 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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WAITING (Part 1)
Most of us find ourselves in a place of waiting right now. Waiting for things to change, waiting for Covid to go away, waiting for test results, waiting for restrictions to be lessened, waiting for a stimulus check to come in, waiting for unemployment to start, waiting for the economy to get started again, waiting for a furlough to end, waiting for business to open up again, waiting for our kids to go back to school, waiting for public church services.

But waiting isn’t something relegated to the circumstances surrounding the corona virus pandemic. We are all too familiar with waiting – and we do not like it. Men and women throughout the scriptures were also familiar with waiting. And they didn’t like it either.
How good are you at waiting? Do we know how to wait? What processes are taking place while we are waiting? What does God want us to do while we are waiting?

For the next several weeks I want to share with you what I believe The Word of God has to say about waiting. We will look at various types of waiting, how we can wait with faith and expectation and what God may be doing through it all

WAITING FOR PROVISION – 1 Kings 17:1-16 (NIV)

1. God knows what we need before we need it
2. Provision doesn’t always look the same from day to day
3. It requires trust and obedience
4. Provision is dependent on God’s goodness not ours