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1 GOD’S RAVENS & 49’ERS Pastor Timothy Hinkle February 3, 2012

2 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the L ORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.”

3 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 2 Then the word of the L ORD came to him, saying, 3 “Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. 4 And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

4 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 5 So he went and did according to the word of the L ORD, for he went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

5 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 7 And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. 8 Then the word of the L ORD came to him, saying,

6 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks.

7 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) And he called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may drink.” 11 And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

8 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 12 So she said, “As the L ORD your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

9 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 13 And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the L ORD God of Israel: ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the L ORD sends rain on the earth.’”

10 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 15 So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. 16 The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the L ORD which He spoke by Elijah.

11 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 17 Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. And his sickness was so serious that there was no breath left in him. 18 So she said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?”

12 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 19 And he said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him out of her arms and carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed. 20 Then he cried out to the L ORD and said, “O L ORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge, by killing her son?”

13 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 21 And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to the L ORD and said, “O L ORD my God, I pray, let this child’s soul come back to him.” 22 Then the L ORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came back to him, and he revived.

14 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 23 And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives!”

15 1 KINGS 17 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 24 Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the L ORD in your mouth is the truth.”

16 TAKE A CLOSER LOOK  God always has a plan—and most of the time, we would NEVER think of it. Isaiah 55:8 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the L ORD.

17 TAKE A CLOSER LOOK  We must be obedient when the LORD speaks to us. Romans 1:5 5 Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for His name,

18 TAKE A CLOSER LOOK  God REQUIRES that we put HIM first and focus on HIS kingdom. Matthew 8:22 22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

19 TAKE A CLOSER LOOK  People are stubborn and we can not trust ourselves or the opinions of others!  We need God to interrupt out lives! Proverbs 14:12 12 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

20 LEVITICUS 25 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) The Year of Jubilee 8 ‘And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. 9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.

21 LEVITICUS 25 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) 10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.

22 LIFE APPLICATION  God is our provider, but we MUST put HIS kingdom FIRST in our lives!  God is our healer, but we must ALLOW Him to interrupt our plans and our lives  God is our deliverer and our strong tower to bring Jubilee in our lives!


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