{"id":935,"date":"2011-11-26T12:32:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T18:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:10","slug":"the-widows-empty-meal-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"The Widows Empty Meal Barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kings 1 17:7-24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: &#8220;The Brook dried up.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. God had another place for him.<br \/>\n2. When the supply gives out, God steps in.<br \/>\n3. &#8220;Arise get thee to Zarapath, dwell there. I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.&#8221;<!--more--><br \/>\n4. &#8220;So he arose and went&#8221; not fuss, no hesitation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: Faith grows like a Mustardseed.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Boarding with crows took the fear out of the dwindling meal supply. Sing the Dovoligy.<br \/>\n2. Most Preachers would have turned pale.<br \/>\n3. Most of us would have prayed to have been excused and some scared out of service.<br \/>\n4. Elijah found it safe to trust the Lord with the bread question.<br \/>\n5. God always has someone preparing food for the faithful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: God chose a busy woman.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. God never goes to the loafers bench for workers.<br \/>\n2. Her hospitality was paid for.<br \/>\n3. Elijah didn&#8217;t waste time talking about the drought, but planted her feet on the Rock of Ages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: She was not too poor to serve God.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Though this was her last meal.<br \/>\n2. Her fear of the poor house was less than her love for God.<br \/>\n3. In her hour of need God was there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He was poor as Jobs turkey, but he brought life to that home.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A little with God is enough!!!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>God + 2 = Christian Home.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings 1 17:7-24 I: &#8220;The Brook dried up.&#8221; 1. God had another place for him. 2. When the supply gives out, God steps in. 3. &#8220;Arise get thee to Zarapath, dwell there. I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.&#8221;<\/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-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935"}],"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=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}