Today's story is called "Food for One More"

It says, The God of all grace will Himself restore you and make you strong.

Today's message is 'Even though bad things happen to me, I know God loves me'

Karoff was hungry. His family was hungry too

They had not had any food for three days

Their father had gone to try to find something

But he came back with nothing

"I'm sorry," he said

"There is not rice left in our village!

It has not rained for many months

Without rain, things will not grow.

We may not have any food for a long, long time

Just when they thought they would die, God sent help

A truck with a sign that said ADRA

came to their village

"Rice! Rice!" the driver called

"Each family may have one bag of rice!"

Soon, each family in the village had enough rice to last for several days

More trucks came during the long months until the rain came

A long time ago, God took care of Elijah in a special way too

It hadn't rained in Israel in months!

The fields were brown and dead

Bare trees stood like skeletons against the hot sky

The rivers and streams had dried up

And finally,

even the Brook Cherith where Elijah had been hiding from King Ahab had went dry

But God was still caring for Elijah

"Go to Zarephath," God said

"I have told a widow there to take care of you"

So Elijah left Israel

and traveled more than a hundred miles

away to another country

There at the gate to Zarephath

a widow was gathering sticks

"Would you please bring me a little water and a jar?"

Elijah asked her

"And would you please bring me some bread too?"

The woman had turned to go get the water

But she stopped when Elijah asked for bread

"I don't have any bread," she said

"All I have are a handful of flour and a little oil

I'm gathering firewood so I can bake some bread for my son and myself.

And after we eat that, we will die"

"Don't be afraid," said Elijah

"Go home and make me a small piece of bread

Then make something for yourself and your son

For God says the oil and the flour will not be used up

Until he sends rain on the land"

This woman was not an Israelite

But she believed in God and placed her faith in Him

She decided to trust God to take care of her needs

It happened just as Elijah said it would

He went home with her and she made some bread for him

After that day,

Whenever she went to bake bread

There was just enough flour and oil

The flour and oil never ran out

The miracle God worked to save Elijah

also saved the lives of this woman and her son

Sometime later, this woman's son became sick and died

Her first thought was that God was punishing her

"What do you have against me?" She cried out in her sorrow

"Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?"

Of course, God had not caused the boy to die

God's grace brings the gift of life

God's grace had kept all three of them from dying during the famine

Elijah had been staying in an upstairs room at the widow's house

He took the boy to that room and cried to God

"Oh Lord, My God!

Let this boy's life return to him."

God quickly answered Elijah's prayer

At once, the boy came back to life

God cares about the problems in your life too

Even though bad things sometimes happen

God still loves you

He wants you to trust Him

He will take care of your needs

just as he cared for Elijah

and the widow of Zarephath

Closed Captioning by Natasha Ten