A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                             ONLY A LITTLE FLOUR AND OIL PART VIII

"I, Elijah, the prophet of God, heard the widow at the town gate of Zarephath in Sidon tell me she and her son are about to die.... I now understand why my God has sent me to this widow.... For He does not want her and her son to die.... He wants them to live.... She may not know this God... But this God knows her and her son and loves them.... He has a plan to save her and her son's life.... It will mean, though, that she needs to follow my instructions very carefully... Hopefully she will be willing to do so.... After all, what does she have to lose?".... Please read the typed out attachment when the prophet Elijah understands that God has sent him to this particular widow at Zarephath in Sidon to save her and her son's life....


            ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                       ONLY A LITTLE FLOUR AND OIL PART VIII

The prophet Elijah knows that he needs to make sure the widow at the town gate at Zarephath in Sidon is not afraid to do what he has asked of her as you can read in I Kings 17:13

"Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son."

Elijah looks at the face of the widow at the town gate of Zarephath in Sidon to see her expression after he has told her to make a cake for him first.