“YOU HAVE MORE THAN YOU KNOW”, says the Lord. (Selah)

The Lord has led me to read 1 Kings 17 this morning because of something that was said by Ranger Juno yesterday while we were at the Mammoth State Park in Waco, TX. She said, “What looks like a walking path, is actually a dry creek bed that is over 56,000 years old.” As we stood in that dig site, we saw the creek bed, it was obvious to the site, but it looked like a walking path made by the palentologist and her team. The park ranger was very clear this was a dry creek bed, which explained why the mammoths died at this location.

This is what led me to read 1 Kings 17, but what I didn’t see coming in this story I have read so many times is what the Lord showed me this morning. Elijah experienced a dry brook east of the Jordan river, for he called for a drought. That dry creek bed led him to Zarephath where he met a widow at the gate collecting sticks. Elijah asked her for water and bread, the two things they didn’t have because of the drought.

Listen to her reply to Elijah, “As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

As I read this the Lord boomed in my spirit, “YOU HAVE MORE THAN YOU KNOW.” She thought she only had flour and oil, but she also had sticks, fire, a son and access to the voice of Elijah, the prophet. And so do we. We look at our finances and say this is all I have. We look at our job and say this is all I have. We look at our house and say this is all I have. But the Lord says, “YOU HAVE MORE THAN YOU KNOW.”

Friends, we have access to the voice of God. We have access to the Word of God. We have access to the power of God. We have more than we know. It may look like we only have a little left, but God says to us today, look again, “YOU HAVE MORE THAN YOU KNOW.” I declare over you, the drought is over, the rain is falling, the windows of heaven are open and you have access to abundance. Rejoice, these are praise days.