God assigns you a purpose before you know it. Using Elijah and the widow, the speakers show how God commands people to sustain others even in their own hardship. Your struggles don't disqualify you from being used by God.
God sees potential in your struggles. You are chosen to rise unbroken.
Essential body of Christ. Otherwise, suffering people can hear us saying God destroyed you because he needed to use you, and that is a lie. I don't believe that is what this text is teaching. I don't believe that. I don't believe that's what this text is teaching. Instead, what wounded you does not possess the authority to determine whether God can still work through you. Now look at God's wording again. I have commanded a widow woman there. Before Elijah sees her condition, he sees— before Elijah sees her condition, God sees her assignment. Amen. The beautiful thing about this, uh, Minister Tracy, is she doesn't even know her assignment. She doesn't even know that she has been commanded by God to be a sustainer. Elijah arrives and sees a woman collecting sticks. God has already called her a sustainer. Before she even knows it. That's right. So you're wondering what you're supposed to do when God has already placed the resources inside of you to be a sustainer for your family. Elijah sees insufficiency.
