1. THE LORD WILL PROVIDE
I Kings 17:1-16

2. The Context of Elijah’s Appearance
God’s people were in a state of spiritual decline
King Ahab led Israel into idolatry
Israel’s idolatry made God angry
Elijah tells Ahab that it would not rain for 3½ years

3. Application for Today
If there are idols in your life, God will attack them
If you are looking to something other than God to provide for your needs, don’t be surprised when He shuts it down

4. God Provides for Elijah
God promises to provide for Elijah
In order for him to experience God’s provision, he had to go where God told him to go
God took care of him in 2 ways:
Naturally
Supernaturally

5. What Does This Mean for Us?
If you’re living outside of God’s will, you’re going to miss the ravens
Don’t miss out on God’s supernatural provision because you don’t want to go where he tells you to go
If God is calling you to an isolated place, it’s because that’s where His provision is

6. Elijah’s Provision Dries Up
Elijah pronounced God’s judgment on the land, and now that judgment is affecting him
Even when you’re living according to God’s will, sometimes things dry up
When God allows things in your life to dry up, it’s because He’s moving you to a different place of provision

7. God Sends Elijah to Zarephath
Zarephath was the center of Baal worship
This widow had even less than Elijah
God will sometimes test your faith by sending you to places you would prefer not to go

8. Elijah Gives the Widow a Challenge
He was challenging her to put God first
His job was to get her to act in faith for her own benefit
Until you act in faith, you will not see the supernatural open up

9. Luke 6:38
“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

10. Luke 4:24-26
“I tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.”