Tuesday March 18th, 2025
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Read 1 Kings 17:8-16NLT
8 Then the Lord said to Elijah,
9 “Go and live in the village of Zarephath, near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow there to feed you.”
10 So he went to Zarephath. As he arrived at the gates of the village, he saw a widow gathering sticks, and he asked her, “Would you please bring me a little water in a cup?”
11 As she was going to get it, he called to her, “Bring me a bite of bread, too.”
12 But she said, “I swear by the Lord your God that I don’t have a single piece of bread in the house. And I have only a handful of flour left in the jar and a little cooking oil in the bottom of the jug. I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my son and I will die.”
13 But Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid! Go ahead and do just what you’ve said, but make a little bread for me first. Then use what’s left to prepare a meal for yourself and your son.
14 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: There will always be flour and olive oil left in your containers until the time when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow again!”
15 So she did as Elijah said, and she and Elijah and her family continued to eat for many days.
16 There was always enough flour and olive oil left in the containers, just as the Lord had promised through Elijah.
My God is not a man that He should owe anyone;
He is not a bank that ‘keeps’ your money but depletes it with charges.
- When you give God one thing, you can get a thousand in return.
I am a living testimony of this.
I surrendered my Ph.D., thriving career in academics and ambition to become the youngest Vice Chancellor in Africa to Him; in return, He raised me so high that many Vice Chancellors call me ‘Daddy’.
Whatever you surrender to God comes back to you in many folds.
The woman in the Bible reading for today surrendered her last meal to the prophet of God.
That one meal became enough to feed three people for the rest of the famine.
The boy in John 6:9-11 surrendered his lunch; five loaves of bread and two fishes.
These were multiplied to the extent that twelve baskets of fragments were gathered afterwards.
There is nothing you surrender to God that He does not multiply and return to you – absolutely nothing.
Many a time, God has something big He wants to give to you, but could ask you to surrender something dear to you first.
If you go ahead and surrender that thing, then you would get what He had already planned to give you, which is usually much bigger and better than what you gave Him.
God wanted to bless Abraham the more, so He asked the man to sacrifice his son to Him.
God didn’t need the boy; my Daddy does not eat children.
He just wanted Abraham to surrender totally to Him so as to open the door of blessings to himself irreversibly.
Abraham passed the test and today, in his seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed Genesis 22:16-18.
Don’t short-change yourself.
- Don’t hold on to crumbs, letting go of great treasures in the process.
If He specifically asked for that thing, you can be sure that He has something greater in mind to give you in return.
You can either reject His offer or accept it – it all depends on your willingness to surrender all to Him.
Application Whatever you surrender to God comes back to you in many folds.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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