Elijah is on a mission to announcing to everyone a coming
drought unless God provides rain.
Elijah’s miracle lunch break begins when the Lord tells him to go camp at the Cherith canyon, where the ravens feed him twice daily.
Eventually the canyon's waters evaporate producing a
drought.
Go to Zarephath, the Lord tells Elijah, where a woman will
feed you.
He goes, meets a woman gathering sticks, and asks her for a
bite to eat and a drink of water.
She reacts sarcastically saying, “I have a handful of flour and a little
oil; you found me scratching together enough firewood for a last meal for my
son and me!”
Elijah answers, “Don’t worry about it. First make me a small
biscuit and bring it back. Then make a meal from what’s left for you and your
son.”
Elijah declares, “This is the word of the Lord: ‘The jar of
flour won’t run out and the bottle of oil won’t empty before God sends
rain on the land ending this drought.’”
She did as Elijah asked and it turned out as Elijah said, the
jar of meal didn’t run out and the bottle of oil didn’t become empty: God’s
promise fulfilled to the letter, exactly as Elijah had delivered it!
The miracle here relies on our capacity for understanding the potential of the miraculous in the stresses of the past few months.
Then, when we recognize a revelation from God in the ordinary stuff of life, doing what we can to build God's Kingdom.
It may be through coffee and donuts rather than flour and oil, but we can trust in a revelation from God.
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