The Growths of Cherith

Kings 1 17:1-7 a 3.5 yr. drought.

I: “Get thee hence.” Gods command.
1. “The steps of a righteous are orded of the Lord.”
2. No salary was mentioned, not even the kind of a parsonage.
3. But God promised food by crows.
Birds that their nature makes them selfish.
4. Eliah packed without delay.
5. He didn’t ask about weather, reliability of the crows, nor their number.
“The steps of a righteous man are ordered of the Lord.”

II: “By the Brook Cherith.” Gods water supply.
1. He was willing to drink from the brook God placed him by.
2. Like Paul, he learned to be content in God’s will.
3. The lakes and rivers were closed to him.
4. He didn’t get ulcers over the water supply.
5. He didn’t wear himself out digging a well. (Mother and father need sleep and baby dies).
6. No one died of thirst by the brook of Gods command.

III: Brooks from which We Drink:
1. The family Altar.
2. The private prayer and meditation.
3. Sundays services morning and night.
4. Sunday School, Training Union, W.M.U., & Brotherhood.
5. Religious literature.

IV: “So He went.”
1. No committee to meet him.
2. No deacon to instruct him.
3. No busybody with all the news.
4. No caution as to how to reach Brother so and so.

“The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the Brook.”