{"id":927,"date":"2011-11-26T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:10","slug":"the-growths-of-cherith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"The Growths of Cherith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kings 1 17:1-7 a 3.5 yr. drought.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: &#8220;Get thee hence.&#8221; Gods command.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;The steps of a righteous are orded of the Lord.&#8221;<br \/>\n2. No salary was mentioned, not even the kind of a parsonage.<br \/>\n3. But God promised food by crows.<br \/>\nBirds that their nature makes them selfish.<!--more--><br \/>\n4. Eliah packed without delay.<br \/>\n5. He didn&#8217;t ask about weather, reliability of the crows, nor their number.<br \/>\n&#8220;The steps of a righteous man are ordered of the Lord.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: &#8220;By the Brook Cherith.&#8221; Gods water supply.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. He was willing to drink from the brook God placed him by.<br \/>\n2. Like Paul, he learned to be content in God&#8217;s will.<br \/>\n3. The lakes and rivers were closed to him.<br \/>\n4. He didn&#8217;t get ulcers over the water supply.<br \/>\n5. He didn&#8217;t wear himself out digging a well. (Mother and father need sleep and baby dies).<br \/>\n6. No one died of thirst by the brook of Gods command.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Brooks from which We Drink:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The family Altar.<br \/>\n2. The private prayer and meditation.<br \/>\n3. Sundays services morning and night.<br \/>\n4. Sunday School, Training Union, W.M.U., &amp; Brotherhood.<br \/>\n5. Religious literature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: &#8220;So He went.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. No committee to meet him.<br \/>\n2. No deacon to instruct him.<br \/>\n3. No busybody with all the news.<br \/>\n4. No caution as to how to reach Brother so and so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the Brook.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings 1 17:1-7 a 3.5 yr. drought. I: &#8220;Get thee hence.&#8221; Gods command. 1. &#8220;The steps of a righteous are orded of the Lord.&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}