God cares for you and he will make sure your needs are met. Elijah was in need, he prayed to God about it and God provided for him in an amazing way. It was not a rich woman who fed him, but a poor desperate woman. When we are looking for help, we must allow God to show us how he will meet those needs.
You have enough to sustain you for life. The widow thought what she has was too little even for herself and her son. But the power of God through her obedience multiplied that meal and she was sustained for two years on that meal.
The food that is supposed to be a meal of death became a life sustaining meal. You will not die for food. Jesus told us not worry about the things of life, food, clothing and shelter. God will constantly supply you with all that.
The Role of Prayer
• Prayer defeats the devil. Matt 18:18 says whatever you bind on earth should be bound in heaven.
• Prayer empowers you to do greater things for God. If you don’t pray, obeying God will be very difficult for you. Jude 20
• Prayer makes the impossible possible. But prayer is not twisting the hand of God. What men say is impossible become possible through prayer. The prayer of Elijah turned a handful of flour to a two year meal.
• Prayer causes God to intervene in the natural order of things. James 5: 17 – 18 says Elijah was a man like you and I, but he prayed that it should not rain and it was so. He prayed again that it should rain and it did.
• Prayer guards against temptation. When we are in need, we are mostly tempted to do things that we should not do. But with prayer we will be able to resist.
• Prayer causes the answer of God to be revealed. Sometimes God answers our prayers immediately, but Satan prevents them from getting to us. Prayer opens the way for us to receive from God. Daniel 10: 12 - 13
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