MONDAY- 10TH MARCH, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHEN THE BROOK DRIES - Taken From Your Head Series 004
I Kings 17:8-9, KJV
"8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee."
This teaching is a continuity on where I stopped yesterday. God comforted Elijah when the declaration that causes famine went effective. We saw how He did through yesterday's teaching. Today, I'll push further.
Do you remember that the brook did dry up. When it does, what did God who sees and knows say? Hear the Bible, "and the Word of the Lord came unto him, saying, arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongs to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee."
Did you see God's next move in seeing that Elijah wasn't left comfortless (needy)? He moved him by His precious voiced Word to where he could be provided for again.
I love the usage of language in that verse. A part of that verse says, "I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee." Mark the word, "sustain!" It means to keep you alive. From sustain, we have sustainance. Sustainance is what you take a living by. What helps you continue as a living soul. Something like food you know. That's why the Bible says in Matthew 4:4, "man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from God's mouth."
If that verse is correctly interpreted, it means humanity or man takes a living through feeding of himself. What he feeds or eats is therefore what he's sustained with.
So, when God says, "I have ordained a widow woman there to sustain you", it means one who'll feed you to just keep you alive. It means there'll be food for your body. It doesn't necessarily mean there'll be food enough for Elijah to say he wants to gather riches by selling food items.
God has plans for any of his sons and daughters irrespective of where they are. It's not His intention to leave you comfortless (needy) after losing a job. No! He wants to equate you to become better and continue. He doesn't want you to say, "how I wished I was in my good old days?" No! God rather wants to cause a new season over you that'll make you know continuity.
Today, has one source of livelihood fail in your life? Another shall answer you now! God moves people on. They don't remain static when things are static. They rather progressed. Elijah progressed when things were static and so will you. If God had not met the needs of Elijah, he would have been left comfortless. Someone who was able to feed himself would now become handicapped. However, God disallowed that. Elijah rather knows continuity and several shifts. You too, irrespective of what you have lost in this life, that is not your end. God will move you on. You'll continue and in moving you on, you'll be comforted and have no reason to lament you ever lost one source of income or whatsoever.
PRAYER: Thank You Lord for being the Lord that continues with me. I see day after day with You.
BIBLE IN A YEAR
Mark 14:27-52 & Numbers 27-28
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