Elijah had walked into a situation that was, from all human point of view, not possible.

But the excellent news is that he saw outside the difficulty. He handled the difficulty with religion, not fear.

Elijah was determined that those first first-impression blues were not going to get him down. The widow had her eyes on the impossibilities : a few flour, a little quantity of oil, some sticks. Elijah rolled up his sleeves and targeted only on the probabilities.

How could he do that? As he was a developing man of the Lord God. He had seen the proof of The Lord God’s faithfulness. He had obeyed God, and, without delay, he had walked to Zarephath. You can not talk the talk if you have never walked the walk. You can not inspire someone else to think the unlikely if you have not assumed the very unlikely. You can’t light another’s candle of hope if your own torch of religion isn’t burning. When Elijah saw the near-empty flour bin and oil jug, he claimed, about with a shrug, “That’s no problem for God. And fix some for you and your boy too.” Then he told her why. Listen to these assured words of religion : “The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil be empty, till the day that the LORD sends rain on the face of the earth.”. That lady must have looked at Elijah, this beat, dusty stranger, with wonder and distraction, as she heard words like she’d never heard before. These are the sort of awesome associations God uses to build up our religion.