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GOD NEW LEVEL (Part 2)
Pastor Charles Omofomah In the previous article, we studied the story
bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am
last meal and die. It appeared that she could
of God’s provision for Elijah during the time
gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in
not sustain him.
of famine as recorded in 1 Kings 17:1-16,
and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
and came up with certain things we
13 And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and
You may have heard before now that you
discussed with respect to God moving us to
do as you have said, but make me a small
can’t get to your next level, but the good
a new level in every area of our lives.
cake from it Lirst, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son.”
Our Lirst thought was that God usually
1 Kings 17:10-13
precedes His lifting in our lives through an unusual instruction. However, it is our obedience to that instruction that will guarantee the experience of that lifting. Secondly, we saw that there is always an unusual provision waiting for us at every new level we attain. Continuing with that thought, we will look at two other thoughts associated with God’s agenda for taking us into a new level.
news is that the gates of hell shall not prevail against you. The gates of hell may be prowling around to devour you and may have said if you think you are the one who
God prepared the resources and the vessel for Elijah in the person of the widow. Maybe when God told Elijah He had kept a widow woman to sustain or provide for him, Elijah may have thought her husband must have been a wealthy man, who left great wealth for her son. He may have felt she didn’t even know what to do with her inheritance, so she can provide for him.
will get that job or education, forget it! Know that the gates of hell will not prevail because the counsel of the Lord shall stand. If you were listening to the counsel from the gates of hell, you would not have even been at the level that you are now. Thank God that you didn’t listen to the counsel from hell, and since you didn’t listen the Lirst time, don’t listen the second
Elijah met her at the gate of the city. One
time or at any time. The fact that you are
thing about gates in the Biblical times was
obeying God’s instructions doesn’t mean
that they were places where the elders sat
there will be no opposition. Elijah saw it
widow was there gathering sticks. And he
to make decisions and carry out verdicts.
and prevailed by the move of the Spirit of
called to her and said, “Please bring me a
Thus, when Jesus said the gate of hell will
God.
little water in a cup, that I may drink.”
not prevail against His church (Matthew
Unlikely Vessels 10 “So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a
11 And as she was going to get it, he called to
16:18), He meant the counsel of hell will
When you are about to go to the next level,
bread in your hand.”
not prevail against the church. Elijah got to
don’t ever forget that God uses unlikely
12 So she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I
the gate and the counsel was that the
vessels. There are a lot of people, they are just
do not have bread, only a handful of Llour in a
woman was picking sticks to prepare her
repulsed or repelled by what they show forth.
her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of
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