Daily Devotion: You will drink from the brook

1 Kings 17:4 NIV
You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”

During Elijah's prophetic ministry, he learned to trust God to meet his daily needs.

Shortly after Elijah pronounced God’s judgment of a drought in Israel, God sent him to a deserted place, Kerith Ravine, where He used the ravens to bring Elijah his daily meals and refresh him with water from the brook (1 Kings 17:1–4).

But a drought occurred. The brook shrank to a tiny stream, and slowly became a mere trickle.

It was only when the brook had dried up that God said: “Go at once to Zarephath . . . . I have directed a widow there to supply you with food” (v. 9). Zarephath was in Phoenicia, whose inhabitants were enemies of the Israelites.

Would anyone offer Elijah shelter? And would a poor widow have food to share?

Most of us would rather God provided in abundance long before our resources were depleted rather than just enough for each day.

But our loving Father whispers, Trust Me. Just as He used ravens and a widow to provide for Elijah, nothing is impossible for Him.

We can count on His love and power to meet not just our material needs but all of our daily needs.

Be a young person who learns to trust God more and more each day.....