“I Double Dog Dare You…To TRUST ME!”
Double Dog Dare—Part 1
1 Kings 17:7-24
August 10, 2014

1. THE REQUEST FOR TRUST.
   “Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain
    in the land.  Then the word of the Lord came to him: ‘Go at once to
    Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a
    widow there to supply you with food.’ So he went to Zarephath.
    When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering
     sticks. He called to her and asked, ‘Would you bring me a little
    water in a jar so I may have a drink?’ As she was going to get it, he
    called, ‘And bring me, please, a piece of bread.’ ‘As surely as the
    Lord your God lives,’ she replied, ‘I don’t have any bread—only a
    handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am
    gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and
    my son, that we may eat it—and die.’” v 7-12

2. THE REASSURANCE TO TRUST.
   “Elijah said to her, ‘Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have
    said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you
    have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and
    your son. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The
    jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry
    until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.’” v 13-14

3. THE RESPONSE FROM TRUST.
   “She went away and did as Elijah had told her…” v 15a

4. THE RESULT OF TRUST.
   “…So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and
    her family.  For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil
    did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by
    Elijah.” v 15b-16

   “Then the woman said to Elijah, ‘Now I know that you are a man of
    God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.’”
    v 24