Confidence in God’s life giving word 1 Kings 17v1-24\r\n\r\n Confidence?\r\n\r\n God rules all things by the Power of his word\r\n\r\n- Famine\r\n- Famine of God’s word\r\n\r\n‘The days are coming,’ declares the Sovereign Lord, ‘when I will send a famine through the land - not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.\r\nPeople will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.’ Amos 8v11-12\r\n\r\n God preserves his servants by the Command of his word\r\n\r\n- God’s provision\r\n- God’s plan\r\n\r\n God reaches the lost by the Grace of his word\r\n\r\n- Grace offered\r\n\r\n‘…no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them but to a widow in Zerephath in the region of Sidon.’ Luke 4v24-26\r\n\r\n - Grace experienced\r\n\r\n God gives resurrection life by the Authority of his word\r\n\r\n- Death takes life\r\n- God gives life