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Perhaps no story in the Old Testament demonstrates better the idea of giving in  faith and receiving back abundantly the one we find in 1 Kings Chapter 17.  

8 Then the word of the Lord came to him:

9 “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.” 

10 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?”

11 As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”

12 “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.”

13 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.

14 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.’”

15 She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.

16 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.

Her resources were good for one more meal but as she gave what little she had to Elijah God opened up the windows of heaven to her and multiplied the resource she had to sustain her in her time of need.

She gave little but received much. She had only enough grain and oil to make one last meal for her and her son but she did as the prophet said and made him a meal. She allowed what she had to flow out to others – in this case to Elijah – and she was blessed beyond measure. Anybody reading this need provision today?

Let that river of life flow out of you to others. Let what God has given you be given to others. Maybe it seems so small. Maybe it seems so insignificant to you but give it to others in His name and watch what God does with it for them and for you!