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Grace, mercy, and
peace be to you from

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God our Father and
from our Lord Jesus

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Christ.

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Amen.

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What an awful place
to be where we find

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the woman in this
morning's reading from

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1 Kings

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17, picking up
sticks, getting ready to

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die, totally and
utterly spent.

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What an awful place.

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What an awful
way for her to be.

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And we can look
at it from several

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different angles.

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First of all, most
basically just the

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physical place
where she is, in

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Zarephath, in Sidon.

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This is Gentile territory.

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Not only that, it's
kind of like Baal's

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home turf right there.

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And so geographically,
it's not all that

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far from Jerusalem,
but theologically,

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she couldn't

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be further from
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And she hints at it
even with her words

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when she speaks to
Elijah, your God, as

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your God

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lives, as your God lives.

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She's a Gentile.

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So she already has
this mark against her.

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As Paul will say
many years later, she is

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without hope and
without God in the

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world.

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But even more
acutely for her in that

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particular place, in
that moment there in

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Sidon, in Zarephath,

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it's in the midst
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So the word of the
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his servant Elijah
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rains.

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Now there's no rain, no water.

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Her water is more
scarce in Sidon than,

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well, than at a
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week, perhaps.

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Thank you again for
all those who worked

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so hard to make that happen.

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We won't take
water for granted ever

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again for a little while.

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But suffice it to
say, there she is in

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the midst of this drought.

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So no water and
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Life is hard.

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She's feeling totally
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but that's not all.

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She's a Gentile.

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She's got no water.

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She's got no food
in the midst of this

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drought.

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But then finally, the
coup de gras, we're

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told that she's a widow.

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She didn't have a
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alongside her to
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family.

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She's lost that
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last safety net.

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It's just her.

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And so we hear
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confession.

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I'm going to go out,
gather some sticks,

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make some bread for
my son and me, and

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then

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die.

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This is a woman
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spent at the end of
her rope, and what an

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awful place to be.

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I believe that many
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can relate.

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They can relate to
that sense of being

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totally and utterly
spent, and not just

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financially,

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although that's
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emotionally,
physically, mentally,

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spiritually spent in

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so many different ways.

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I mean, it strikes
me that this hopeless

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admission from the
woman, as she says,

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yep,

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I'm just going out
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try to feed my kids,
and then we're going

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to roll

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over and die, that
this is almost like a

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compressed confession
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people in our

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world today could
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Now, the more
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you will, version of
this is, yeah, we're

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just

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going to eat and
drink for tomorrow, we

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die.

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But what you hear
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people is, what
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Well, I'm just going
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little while, got
some mouths to feed,

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feed

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my kids, and then
someday they're going

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to put me six feet under.

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I'm going to gather
sticks so I can stick

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around until they
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It's like a compressed
confession of what

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so many people in
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Thoreau famously
called it, he said that

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the mass of men
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desperation.

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Quiet desperation.

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That sense of being
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spent.

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You see it in the world.

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But truth to tell,
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immune from it either.

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You and I, we can
also have that feeling,

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that feeling of being
spent, that feeling

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of not having
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especially at this
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I think you can
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I mean, academically,
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academically, you
are just trying to wrap

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your arms around

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that 800-pound
gorilla that we call

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classes and assignments
and everything

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else.

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And you get to those
moments where you

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think, oh, maybe
I've got it, like I'm

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just holding

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it together.

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And then you get
that late-night email

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from the professor
that says, hey, just a

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heads

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up, just to remind
you of that really

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important and valuable
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due tomorrow.

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Don't forget.

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And you're like, I forgot.

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Spent.

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For others of you,
it is financial, where

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you're like trying
to patch your budget

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together

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with duct tape and
it's wiggling and it's

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wobbling and maybe
it's holding together

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that's exactly when
the car decides to

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break down.

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And for others of you,
maybe money's okay

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and the grades are
holding up, but it's

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just,

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it's physical or it's mental.

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It's your body,
issues with your body,

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and you're like, I
could care less in

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that moment.

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I couldn't care less
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about my grades, but
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retaliating and
rebelling against me in

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body and in soul,
my spirit, the mental

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health

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starts to struggle.

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And in those moments,
you can't help but

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feel totally and
utterly spent, like you

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are at

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the end of your rope
and what an awful

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place to be.

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But here's the deal.

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At the end of the
rope is where our Lord

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sets up His office.

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At the end of the
rope is where God gets

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busy.

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See, He does His
best work where there is

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the greatest need.

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Oh, come on, y'all.

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If you don't believe
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end of the sermon.

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I hope you'll believe it.

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So it is for this
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So Elijah comes
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request of her and
asks of her, hey, can

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you go ahead

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and bake me some bread?

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I know you're broke
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food.

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We're in the midst
of a drought, but why

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don't you go ahead
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for me, huh?

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And then wonder of
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She goes along with it.

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I'm not told exactly.

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There's different
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It could just be fear, right?

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This strange holy
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and he's asking
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I better do it, but
where that guy?

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It could be faith,
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faith that she's
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She's close to being
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that your God shall be my God.

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It could be that.

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Or maybe it's simply
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spirit and she's
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What can it hurt
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Whatever it might
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word.

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She does what he says.

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And lo and behold,
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spent.

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The jar of flour is not spent.

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And at the end of
her rope, she meets a

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kind and faithful
Lord, the one who sets

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up right there in
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that moment and
to show that all is not

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lost, that

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it isn't hopeless,
that she need not

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fear, and that even
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the people

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of God that she too
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that she too can be
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that

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she too can receive
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and the promises
of our Lord who is

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unfailing

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and faithful and
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when you are at
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So it was for her
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and me because you
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faithful

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Lord too, the one
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the poor in spirit
blessed, the one who

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came healing

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Gentiles' daughters
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sons, Christ Jesus,
our greater Elijah,

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the one

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who expended
Himself fully for you and

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me, who spent
Himself but was not left

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spent but

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that the Father
filled Him up with the

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breath of life,
brought Him back from

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death and the

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grave.

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And because of
that, you and I can be

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sure that the Father
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your

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Father too, that He
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and faithful Lord
who daily and richly

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provides

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you with all that you
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and life.

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Might not look like miracles.

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Miracles are just
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creation in a
moment in time but

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miraculously, He provides

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for you from day to day.

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You know that that
Jesus, that that King

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and Lord that you
belong to Him too and

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because

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He is risen from the
dead, you need not

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fear and your faith
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with you and for
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moments when you
feel like you're at the

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end of your

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rope.

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And even, even
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you're doing is
gathering sticks and

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sticking around

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and this was brought
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powerful way
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I had a conversation
I'll never forget.

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I had the opportunity
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South Africa to serve
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our brothers

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and sisters and
sister Lutherans down

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there and at one
point I was having a

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conversation

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with a woman named
Toko which means joy

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and I was talking
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talking

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about some of the
just challenges to the

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faith and at one
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turned to

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the pandemic,
COVID-19 and I said, hey

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listen Toko, I remember
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in the news

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that you know South
Africa was especially

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hard hit by the pandemic.

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Can you just tell me
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And she says, oh yes,
COVID-19 was such a

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blessing.

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I was like, excuse
me, come again.

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It was such a
blessing you say?

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Yes.

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She said, the pandemic
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people very, very hard.

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Many people became
sick and hospitalized

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and as a church we
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together.

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We could not worship
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for the longest time
we could not gather

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together.

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Eventually even my
husband, my dear

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husband, he died
and at this point I'm

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like, okay,

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I for sure misunderstood
what you said.

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Forgive me Toko but
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me like a blessing.

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Please help me to understand.

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And she said, well
see, I learned that

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when everything is
gone, Jesus is still

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King.

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When everything
is gone, Jesus is still

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King.

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There's no question about it.

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To be at the end
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awful place to be.

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But also, it's an
awesome place to be

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because that's
where Jesus rules.

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Amen.

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May the peace of
God that surpasses all

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understanding keep
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in Christ Jesus.

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Amen.