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Journaling the Journey: Part CXXX
Author
Timothy Laughlin
Published
Feb 16, 2024
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Now it happened after these things that the son of the widow who owned the house became sick, and the sickness was so serious that there was no breath left in him. I Kings 17:17
Now it happened after these things that the son of the widow who owned the house became sick, and the sickness was so serious that there was no breath left in him. I Kings 17:17
This is the widow who gave her last flour and oil to Elijah and God not only multiplied her food supply He raised her son from the dead. In essence she gave her tithe to Elijah which holds a curse if you don't give it and a blessing if you do.
When her son died, she called for Elijah, and he raised the boy by stretching himself across the boy three times and called on the name of the Lord and the boy's soul came backinto him. Malachi 3:8,9 Says when we don't tithe, we are robbing God and we are cursed with a curse, but when we obey God, He rebukes our enemies from robbing us.
Years ago, I had a similar experience with a family in our church who put their son into our drug program for heroin addiction. The family were tithers and great givers but one night the boy had his drug dealer drop off a lethal dose of heroin and cocaine and when everyone went to bed, he shot it up, aspirated and died! When I went down to wake him up, I found him sitting on the couch fully dressed and looked to have been dead for about three or four hours!
We called for an ambulance and began to pray and cry out to God and when the EMT'S arrived he was breathing. He was taken to the hospital still unconscious and they put him on a respirator and we took our whole church down to the hospital for a prayer service and on the way to the chapel God told me to go to his room and blow the breath of life into him. I obeyed and went to the service when the doctor called and told us to come to his room, they were going to remove the respirator and when they did his eyes opened and in three days, he was back at our home healed and restored! PRAISE GOD!
Then the woman said to Ellijah, "Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is the truth." I Kings 17:24
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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