Next stop….Zarephath
Happy Jesus Resurrection month everyone!! And what a perfect time to look a little further into where our faithful Elijah was headed!!
We left off with Elijah at “Camp Cherith”, refresher: Cherith means to be “cut off from others and the covenant blessings”…. forcing COMPLETE RELIANCE on God and God alone!! This is a hard test if you’ve ever experienced it! I know…. I have!! It can be very lonely and long until we shift our reliance from ourselves and others solely unto God! Now, we pick up in 1 Kings 17:8-9, “Then the word of the Lord came to him (Elijah), saying, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and STAY THERE; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” There’s a couple things we want to pull from this passage. First, remember we discussed in our last blog that names and numbers are extremely … Continue Reading