The Seed of the Widow

Saturday 5 August
READ: 1 Kings 17: 8 – 16
MORE LESSON: Psa. 126: 5 - 6

The Word of the Lord came to Elijah to go to Zarephath for there a widow had been commanded to feed him. The widow on the other hand didn't know she had been commanded to feed anybody; she was not even able to feed herself and her son. At the time Elijah arrived, she was actually trying to cook the last meal she had so that she and her son could eat and thereafter wait for death by starvation. The meal was her last and she was undoubtedly very hungry as she would have stayed off the last meal in order to save it for as long as she could.
When Elijah arrived, he asked her for water. Bearing in mind that it was a time of famine and drought where it had not rained for years, even the instruction to give water was not as easy as it sounds; but she obeyed. Elijah didn't stop at asking for water, he asked her for food. She replied that she didn't have food except little flour and a cruise of oil which she was going to prepare for her and her son to eat as their last meal. That was a very touching statement but the prophet seemed unperturbed; he just told her to go and prepare the last she had for him to eat.
The instruction sounds unfair and cruel. Here is a widow with her last morsel of food and a prophet walks to her demanding for food. She explained to the prophet that she was willing to give him food but she couldn't because all she had was a morsel of food for herself and her son after which they had no hope of any other meal. The prophet replied that he understood their predicament but they should handover their last meal to him to eat. One would have expected that a prophet should provide for the poor widow but here was a prophet placing a demand on the widow to sow her last as seed. Everything about the seed looked wrong; the amount, the timing, and the person of whom it was demanded. However, the widow obeyed and the blessing of the Lord came upon her house. The food continued to multiply and the oil never ceased flowing.
One thing that can be learnt from the widow of Zarephath is that one should sow one’s seed first before he eats his bread. Psa 126: 6 makes us to understand that those that sow in tears will reap in joy. So even though it is your last, you must plant your seed, plant generously because the size of your seed determines the size of your harvest, plant on good ground and plant continually at every opportunity you have, And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah: 1 Kgs. 17: 15-16.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God to turn your little into a miracle of harvest, in Jesus’ name.
* Pray that as Heaven makes demand on your seed you shall not withhold and you shall not lose your harvest, in Jesus’ name.
* Ask for accurate prophetic instruction today that will change your life forever.

TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER
My destiny divorce secret and public bitter pains of life, in the mighty name of Jesus.