{"id":2303,"date":"2024-09-11T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2024-09-10T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T13:55:00","slug":"seek-first-the-kingdom-of-god-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/2024\/09\/11\/seek-first-the-kingdom-of-god-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Seek First the Kingdom of God &#8212; Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>September 11, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Recordings\/2024\/Trinity_20240911.mp3\">Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>                Seek First the Kingdom of God -- Part 3\n                           1 Kings 17:12-14\n                              09\/11\/2024\n\n\n        12   And she said, ``As the LORD your God lives, I have\n             nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar\n             and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering\n             a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it\n             for myself and my son, that we may eat it and\n             die.''\n        13   And Elijah said to her, ``Do not fear; go and do\n             as you have said. But first make me a little cake\n             of it and bring it to me, and afterward make\n             something for yourself and your son.\n        14   For thus says the LORD the God of Israel, `The jar\n             of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil\n             shall not be empty, until the day that the LORD\n             sends rain upon the earth.'''  (ESV)\n\n        The prophet Elijah, trusting in God's promise to care for\n   his needs through the hands of the widow in Zarephath, asked the\n   woman to bring him water and a morsel of bread.\n        And she said, ``As the LORD your God lives, I have\n        nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a\n        little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of\n        sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and\n        my son, that we may eat it and die.''  And Elijah said\n        to her, ``Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But\n        first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me,\n        and afterward make something for yourself and your son.\n        For thus says the LORD the God of Israel, `The jar of\n        flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not\n        be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon\n        the earth.'''\n\n\n        The widow was at the end of her resources.  Due to the\n   drought, due to the death of her husband, she had no ability to\n   continue to feed her son or herself.  As a last act of\n   desperation, she would bake a final loaf of bread, share it with\n   her household, and quietly prepare to starve to death.\n\n        Elijah called the widow to act in faith, to seek first the\n   kingdom of God, to love the Lord and trust in Him above all\n   things.  He told her of God's plan to preserve her and her\n   family.\n\n        May our Lord grant us faith to trust in His promises,\n   especially as we are in times of trouble and distress.  Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 11, 2024 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}