Key scripture- “I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die” (1 Kings 17:12).

Imagine you have a need for provision and God tells you to go to the most desperate person in the land to get your provision from them. Now imagine that this person is a widow who was about to eat her last meal with her son. That would seem like a cruel and unusually selfish thing to do.

God led Elijah to a poor widow who was on her last meal of flour in order to perform yet another miracle and show His faithfulness to those who needed it most. After the widow told Elijah that she was gathering “a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die”, Elijah proceeded to tell the widow: “But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land'” (1 Kings 17:13-14).

Stop and think about what you would have done in that situation where you are being told to give someone your last meal and not to worry because God will provide what you need. Would you have questioned such logic in the face of a life-threatening situation? The widow demonstrates her faith in God and Elijah by giving him her last meal. This act of faith insured that her provision would be there day after day, because God multiplied her flour and her jug of oil. Provision followed obedience. “For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah” (1 Kings 17:16).

God often multiplies what we already have in our hand in a miraculous way when we yield it to Him. God took the widow’s only resource just like He took the five small loaves of bread and two fish when Jesus needed to feed five thousand plus people, and multiplied it for those who were in need. “We have exactly five small loaves of bread and two fish!” “Bring them here,” he said. Then he told the people to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and two fish, looked up into the sky, and asked God’s blessing on the meal, then broke the loaves apart and gave them to the disciples to place before the people. And everyone ate until full! And when the scraps were picked up afterwards, there were twelve basketfuls left over! About five thousand men were in the crowd that day, besides all the women and children” (Matthew 14:17-21).

Like the widow, God has placed skills and resources in your hand already, and what you need to do is apply faith to that which He has placed in your hand in order to see His provision manifested through them. We all need to remember what Jesus told us. “For if you give, you will get! Your gift will return to you in full and overflowing measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use to give—large or small—will be used to measure what is given back to you” (Luke 6:38).

Do you trust God enough to give all of yourself and everything you own to Him like the widow, and do whatever He tells you to do with it? If you want to please God you must walk by faith and not by sight, which means you must be ready to give whatever God asks for, and believe that God will do for you what He has said that He will do. You must believe what the outcome will be, before you see the outcome.

Pray this – Our Precious Heavenly Father, I give all that I am and all that I own to You. Whatever You tell me to do, I will do it. Jesus told us that if I give, then You will give it back to me like this: I have a big sack in my lap and You pour a good measure of Grace in my sack like someone pours grain. After You have poured it, You press it down and shake the sack so that it settles down in the sack. You then start pouring more Grace in, and when the sack cannot hold any more Grace, You keep pouring and it over flows into my lap. You give back to me what I have given, by giving me Your excellence, goodness, favor, blessings, and kindness in abundance when I am gracious and I give to others. You are so good and generous. I know that I can not out give You. I know that as I give a good measure of love, money, time, talent, goodness, kindness, patience, forgiveness, understanding and blessings to others, You will respond to that with more Grace. Thank You Father for being so generous to all of us when You gave Your Son, Jesus, to die on the cross for our sins. Thank You for being so generous and kind to me. I will walk in faith and not by sight. In Jesus’ Name, I pray, Amen.

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