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Break my heart for what breaks yours
Everything I am for Your kingdom's cause
As I walk from earth into eternity.”
Won’t you contemplate the words of this song and make them your prayer today.

Sunday
1 Kings 17 v 7 – 24
Today I would like to wind up this devotional series on feeding the hungry to
remind you ofTHE BLESSING.
Wherever I see people responding to the command of Christ to feed the hungry, I
have to realise that there is an associated blessing to this obedience. The incredible
story of Elijah in 1 Kings 17 is just one illustration of this truth. In the story Elijah
made the most unusual request to the widow of Zarephath that she should give to
him her last loaf of bread. He promised her that if she were obedient to his request
she would see the supernatural power of God’s long-term provision. I have often
wondered how Elijah must have felt making that request, but for some reason this
woman recognised Elijah for who he was [a man of God] and she acquiesced to his
request, and as a result of her obedience under the most extreme circumstances,
God supernaturally showed His approval.
This supernatural blessing of God only comes as a result of extreme obedience.
There are many other examples in Scripture which would affirm God’s radical
approval to radical obedience.
The second blessing that comes as a result of our positive response to “…you feed
them…” comes by way of personal blessing. To know that what you have done as a
result of your obedience could, in God’s hand be something through which God can
change the world around you, has to motivate us in our pursuance in the purpose of
God for us to be agents of change in this sin-sick world around us. Your acts of
kindness can, if not change the world, change your world and in the process change
you.
When I think of kindness changing the world around us I think of the story I told
you on Sunday of the Russian woman who shared her sandwich with a German
prisoner of war; a child of probably 16 or 17. In the midst of all the hatred at the