Elijah The Prophet

     I love the story of Elijah the prophet.  I heard it many years ago, and I even named my fourth child after the Bible account.  But being in a situation like Elijah's isn't what I had wanted for myself.
     In 1 Kings 17, God sent Elijah to a widow woman's house.  This woman was getting ready to fix the last of her food for her son and herself, then they were going to prepare to die.  Elijah told her to make a cake of bread for him first.  She had faith and she did as he asked.  Elijah ate then the woman and the boy ate too. Now God didn't fill up the jar with flour or the jug with oil, but each day there was just enough to feed the three of them.  God wanted them to put their faith in Him, not in the jar and the jug. 
     I know how this feels.  My family has had to live by faith for the last 22 years.  There is never enough money to supply all our needs , but some how we make it each month.  At times this is very hard but there is a peace in knowing that I am not the one in charge.
     This scripture helps me when I start counting out how many days of food we have.  Jesus said in Matthew 6: 25-27, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.  Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air, they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they?  Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?