God Empowers Our Mission | Elijah - Facing Our Fears | Jeff Griffin (Full Service)

During Week 2, God sent Elijah to partner with an unlikely helper-a poor widow. We learn how God uses the most unexpected people and calls us to trust Him, choose significance over survival, and see the bigger picture of His plan. Our small acts of obedience can lead to big impacts!
Life can be terrifying. Storms can press in from every direction. Anxiety will rob us of peace and joy. There once was a man overwhelmed by life, and yet he discovered how to face his fear. Where can we find this courage? Join us as we learn from Elijah.
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1 Kings 17:7-16 (NIV)
Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him: “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.” 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?” 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. 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.”
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. 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, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah.
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