Love acts. Love hears. Love does. Love steps out from one’s comfort zone. Our supernatural supply is where we are sent to access it. We are to step out in faith and stay in communion with THE LORD.
Father supplies us both in the supernatural AND natural. We must resist responding to circumstances but instead ask FATHER what to do.
FATHER has specifically directed my path since 1971, not to say that HE didn’t earlier. That is the year I received the baptism of The Holy Spirit and began to consciously hear HIS Voice. HE took a very imperfect vessel that was not qualified in the natural and prepared me for the future path I was to take. There is nothing unique about me I assure you.
After delivering me out of the Navy’s aviation program supernaturally, I received a degree in Economics and HE told me that there was a job in the tallest building located downtown. I had no idea what was in the building, it was a bank. They did have a job which met our needs while I was in the final year of college.
Why am I sharing this? It is to both encourage you that anyone can be directed by FATHER and HE will bless your path if you will simply respond and act. I was a wondering generality versus a meaningful specific until FATHER intervened.
In each professional position, I assumed I would stay there until I retired… wrong. HE moved me three more times to different disciplines so that I would be fully equipped to fulfill my calling. Each time, I responded and went to the next position even though I emotionally wanted to stay in the current job (my comfort zone).
It is written by The Holy Spirit in 1st Kings chapter 17:
1 And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.”
2 Then the Word of the LORD 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.”
Elijah responded to FATHER and went. As a result, he was blessed with food and water. The food was brought to him by supernatural means and the water was supplied by the natural.
5 So he went and did according to the Word of the LORD, 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. 7 And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
Elijah stayed there until FATHER directed his next move.
8 Then the Word of the LORD came to him, saying, 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. 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.”
FATHER had already commanded the widow to provide for Elijah even though she had a scarcity issue. She responded in faith.
12 So she said, “As the LORD 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.”
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 LORD God of Israel: ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the LORD sends rain on the earth.’ ”
Three people were blessed by Elijah’s faith as well as the widow’s faith. It started with the natural and then resulted in the supernatural.
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 LORD which He spoke by Elijah.
Jesus spoke in Luke 4:
25 “Isn’t it true that there were many widows in the land of Israel during the days of the prophet Elijah when he locked up the heavens for three and a half years and brought a devastating famine over all the land? 26 But he wasn’t sent to any of the widows living in that region. Instead, he was sent to a foreign place, to a widow in Zarephath (means place of refining) of Sidon (fishery).
Jesus referenced the supernatural event of Elijah. Are we willing to respond to FATHER’S Word? By faith, the widow gave and then received a supernatural blessing for a great period of time.