1 Kings 17:1-8
1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word."
2 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:
3 "Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan.
4 You will drink from the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there."
5 So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.
6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
7 Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
8 Then the word of the LORD came to him:

Ahab, the Judean king was a wicked king, more wicked than any other king who reigned before him. God opposed him through Elijah. Elijah calls out ..”Jehovah is the king of Israel.. (17:1, 18:37)” We see John, Joshua and Paul calling out the same thing (1 John 4:15, Joshua 24:15, Acts 27:23).

When we believe that Jehovah is the only God and Jesus is the only Savior and when we obey faithfully our Lord, God works miracles, even when the situations are similar to a drought. When Elijah did that, there was a severe famine throughout the land. God had intended this to save Elijah from the hands of the wicked king Ahab.

We don’t see crows handle food neatly, yet when it come to Elijah, they brought for him bread and meat - may be from the palace of Ahab!

Again we see that the ravine of Kerith was dried out also. It happened to him so that his trust would be in the living Lord not on raven or ravine. Sometimes God bring those times of drought in our lives, only to get us focussed on God. When God called Elijah to go to Zeraphet and Carmel, Elijah obeyed and his obedience brought him to witness God’s amazing glory.

When Paul stood strong for the Lord and his call, though he was caught up in a shipwreak, he was saved - also those who were with him. His call was to go to Rome so that he could appear before Caesar and testify his faith in Jesus to the king. When he decided to heed the call, not olnly he was saved from a life threatening shipwreak, but also he could testify his faith to Caesar. A double blessing, indeed.

Prayer idea

What make you grumble against God in the past? What can shatter your faith? How would you overcome it, if it occurs again.