BEAUTIFUL ENCOURAGEMENT

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In 1Kings 17:9 the bible shows, God commanded the widow of Zarephath to provide for Elijah, an implication that there was some “communication” that took place between God and the widow of Zarephath.

We are not told what she prayed about but for God to command her to provide for Elijah is clear indication she had been talking to God previously! Maybe if we deduce with today’s time;

1. Maybe she was telling God about how she was facing difficulty raising her son as a single parent(owing to the fact she was a widow).

2. Maybe she was telling God about the drought that was going on in Sidon, and she had no source of income to cater for basic needs(owing to the fact she was gathering sticks for firewood, another indication she had ran out of basic house items like fuel).

3. Maybe she was telling God about her loneliness.

4. Maybe she was telling God about her bakery business that had seemingly collapsed (owing to the fact that God trusted her to cook for His prophet and owing to the fact that she kept oil in jars, and flour in bins, clear indication she used to cook cakes or bread or confectionery for selling. If she only lived with her son, storing flour in big containers and oil in big containers was not necessary.

4. Maybe she was telling God about her tenants who seemingly seemed not to be paying their rents to her since there was drought and there seemed to be no means of the tenants to find food leave alone rent. (If she had a spare room upstairs fully furnished with spare bed ready for Elijah, the widow was somehow into a business in the city that involved property. Also after the miracle of oil and flour having taken place, the bible says she and Elijah and her household had enough to eat for many days.

4. Maybe she was telling God about her relatives who apparently had rejected or abandoned her after her husband’s death.

5. Maybe she was telling God about her sickness, since we are not told what actually killed her husband, but at the time of Elijah’s arrival, the widow was hopeless to the point of death(maybe she was expecting the same sickness that killed her husband tragically to eventually kill her and her son as well). 6. Maybe she was under God’s judgment, for not obeying God’s counsel in her marriage.

7. Maybe her husband cheated on her with another woman, remember she lived in Zarephath and Zarephath is in Sidon, a city that King Ahab had influenced into sinning against God. So, when this woman found out about her husband’s affair she unwittingly decided to avenge it by her getting even with her husband by sleeping with another man. Unfortunately maybe her husband caught her in the real act (getting caught in the real act was usual in those days, they was little discreet).

However, maybe the two men engaged in a physical fight over the issue only for it to end tragically killing her matrimonial husband! And now she was left with a child born from an affair which may have made her to seek God’s mercies.

Beloved, whatever the reason this widow had to talk to God about we may not fully know, but we read she received a prophet of God sent by God meaning God answered her prayer!!!

You and I can do the same today and ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF HEAVEN by faith!! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

We communicate with God through prayer, through reading His Word etc..

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Always remember;

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“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you”

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