29/03/2020
God Used Elijah To Restore The Widow's Son
Text: 1Kings 17 : 17 - 23
This is a widow of Zarepheth, who fed Elijah as requested out of the little she had that she and her son would eat before they die during the famine. The zarephath woman saw the man of God and believed. There is a level that you will walk with God that when you call on Him, He will answer.
In everything you do in life, there will be temptations. When God says He will bless you, hold on to it but don't be carried away and neglect the fact that there are enemies working tooth and nail to oppose the blessings on the way.
There will be a point in your life that only the God-factor can save you and if you're not in good terms with Him, what confidence would you have to approach Him? The Zarepheth widow had the confidence to approach the man of God when the situation was critical because she had given out to him when he was in need. If she hadn't given a helping hand to him, what face would she have to go to him when her son died? She also believed in the God of Elijah, that was why she took the step of faith to go and meet him.
Our ability to know that God is the owner of the universe despite the happenings, will help our situation. People make it seem as if the Corona virus pandemic, is only contracted in the church, forgetting that it is in the same church that prayers are being offered for the betterment of the society and everyone. Everything people trusted in have failed them...Nothing takes God unawares. Nobody knows what is happening, no human being can say exactly what the problem is cause the more you look at this situation, the more you see the mysteries... God is aware!
This woman, the widow of zarepheth operated in that mystery. She saw the man of God and he said to her, give me food let me eat, after that you and your son would eat the remaining and she worked and tapped into the faith of the God of the man of God. And, who knows, that death that she was expecting for her and her son, the death still came to take her son. But because she held on to the God of Elijah, the God of Elijah kept her alive and kept her son alive for many more years. Don't give up, hold on to God like this widow did.
In times like this, do all you need to do humanly possible to stay safe and HOLD ON TO GOD. In the midst of the fear and panic in the world, who/what is your confidence? God should be your only hope cause money will fail you, knowledge will fail you, everything will fail you but GOD NEVER FAILS and He alone can save you and yours!
Excerpt of Sermon by Seer Bright Ndibunwa, on Sunday, 29 March, 2020.