LET'S BE BETTER TEACHERS 2022, Week of October 3 to 9, 2022, Speech, Let's learn from the faith of a widow, Lesson 13, Prepared Assignment.

LET'S BE BETTER TEACHERS: October 3-9, 20222, Lecture, Lesson 13, Prepared Assignment.

Talk (5 mins.): w14 2/15 14-15. Title: Learn from a Widow's Faith (th lec. 13).

As human beings we must always make decisions, but as Christians those decisions take on extraordinary value, let's suppose that we should approach our boss at work who does not have a very good reputation for collaborating with anything other than just things within work. But we want to request that you allow us to change shifts, for an assembly or perhaps they ask us for additional work when it is the days and times of our meetings. It is not true that this decision has a double impact and to dare to speak and request this despite the risk of even losing our job, faith is needed, but a very, very strong faith, but some of us might think that to to make decisions like this, you must be someone extraordinary in terms of biblical knowledge in terms of decisions.

But let's see the story that we are going to deal with, it has to do with the prophet Elijah 3000 years ago. By order of Jehovah, a famine was decreed that would engulf a large region of the country and Jehovah, for Elijah's protection, took him from one place to another until he was sent to a town called Zarephath. There he was given the order to arrive and that a woman, a widow, was going to provide him with food. Elijah obeyed, when he arrived he actually found the woman and due to the long road he had traveled he made the following request that we find in 1 Kings chapter 17 verses 10 and 11, we find the following:

LET'S READ 1 KINGS 17:10-11.

10 So he went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the entrance to the city, he found a widow collecting firewood. He called her and said, “Please bring me a little glass of water to drink.”11 When he went to fetch it for him, he called her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread as well.”

So far everything, the water was fine, there were sources where it could be given to anyone who needed it, but now when he is asking for a piece of bread, the situation changes. If we see in verse 12 now he tells him:

LET'S READ NOW 1 KINGS 17:12.

She replied: “I swear to you that, as surely as the Lord your God lives, I have no bread. All I have is a handful of flour in the big jar and a little bit of oil in the small jar.+ Now I am gathering some wood to go in and prepare something for my son and myself. It will be our last meal and then we will die."

For Jehovah to have chosen this woman, he must have found something special. Because she lived in a city where there was Baal worship in enormous numbers, and even though she knew of Jehovah and she must have recognized Elijah by her dress as a servant of God. She said as surely as the Lord your God lives, my God did not say, but even so despite Elijah's request, he clearly tells her to prepare some food for him and then serve them, then in verse 14 Elijah tells him that Jehovah had indicated that the flour in the large jar would never run out and that the oil in the small jar would never run out.

So she did it, she obeyed without thinking twice, she was risking her food, but that indicated the faith that woman had, and that's how it happened, neither the flour nor the oil ran out until it rained again, this unknown woman showed a unwavering faith in Jehovah, he did as he was asked. Later apart from the food she received another miracle her son died but was resurrected by Elijah himself. 

The next time we have to make decisions in our life, let us seriously think, if we trust Jehovah enough to take the necessary step, to request either permission for an assembly, for our meetings or to show Jehovah how much we love him and another point It is possible that in the territory of our congregation there are many people like this widow who, although they do not have a deep knowledge of Jehovah or worshipers, it is possible that their faith is something that brings them to God and we are an instrument to find them .