This sermon discusses God's providential care amid undesirable circumstances. It proposes that God sometimes uses despicable resources to bring about deliverance. The sermon will tell the story of Elijah being directed by God to the Brook Cherith for protection against King Ahab and Queen Jezebel's wrath. It will explain how the Brook Cherith represents a place of isolation, humiliation, but also enormous potential. The motivational objective is to maintain trust in God despite strange places God may require faithfulness.

1. SERMON FOUNDATIONS SERMON ELEMENTS
Text: Introduction:
I Kings 16:29-17:7 To take literally the phrase The Lord will make a
way somehow means that we will often have to come to terms
Subject: with some of the strange and even undesirable ways in which
God provides and delivers us in life.
This sermon is about God’s Providential Care amidst
undesirable circumstances. Move I:
Proposition: Tell story about the temper of the times (16:29-34).
Speak to the radical implications of Elijah’s
I propose that God’s Providential Care amidst presence in the midst of this context.
undesirable circumstances sometimes involves God using Explain Elijah’s oracle: (1) As the Lord the God of
despicable resources to bring about deliverance. lives; (2) before whom I stand, and (3) There shall
be no dew or rain these years except by the word of
Motivational Objective: the Lord.
To move persons to maintain their trust in God despite Move II:
the strange places and positions in which God may require us
to be faithful. God directs Elijah to the Brook Cherith for protection
against the backlash of Ahab and Jezebel’s wrath.
Title:
The Brook Cherith = The place of the cutting.
Life In the Cut Life in the cut is a place of isolation
Life in the cut is a place of humiliation
Life in the cut is a place of enormous potential