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 WHO DREAMED UP THIS PLAN FOR SURVIVAL? by D. Wilkerson

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
WHO DREAMED UP THIS PLAN FOR SURVIVAL?

“And the word of the Lord came unto him [Elijah], saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan” (I Kings 17: 2–3).

As Elijah looked ahead to the coming crisis, things must have looked absolutely hopeless to him. But God had a specific survival plan in mind for his faithful servant. He instructed the prophet, “Go east to the Jordan River, and there you will find Cherith, a little tributary that runs off. You can get all the drinking water you need from that brook. In addition, I’ve arranged for food to be delivered to you daily, by my courier ravens!”

How could any person, in a million years, ever dream up this kind of a plan for survival? How could Elijah ever have imagined he’d be sent to a hidden brook to find water to drink, when there was nothing but drought everywhere else in the land? How could he ever have thought a daily supply of bread would be brought to him by ravenous birds that ate everything they sank their beaks into?

Later, times got hard for Elijah, because the brook finally dried up. But God stepped in again, giving the prophet another fresh word of direction. He said, “Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee” (v. 9). Again, I have to ask—how could anyone ever think a poor widow woman, in the midst of a depression, could feed a man for days, weeks, months on end? But the fact is, God uses the most despised, insignificant things of the world for his glory. And he told Elijah, “If you’ll go to her and do what I tell you, you’ll survive. Listen to me—heed my direction—and you’ll make it through!”

The evidence is overwhelming: God—our adviser, counselor and survival expert—has a detailed plan for every one of his children, to help us face the worst of times!

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 Re: WHO DREAMED UP THIS PLAN FOR SURVIVAL? by D. Wilkerson

Hi,
I believe God was telling us something prophetic by feeding Elijah the way he did with an unclean bird if I can remember correct.John the baptist(had the spirit of Elijah) eat locusts and wild honey.
Both prophets came from outside the religous system of the day and were sustained by God and not by mans means.Elijah being sustained by God is a type of John being sustained thats why the bible highlights what sustained John.It also has a future prophetic intrepretation;It shows how God will revive his people in the end,from outside the system,
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