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  SUFFICIENT FOR EACH DAY
  by Theodore Epp
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Summary: We need to trust God for daily provision and accept His grace
freely, rather than trying to hoard it for future use.

Topics: "Faith in God", "Daily Provision"
Scripture References: 1 Kings 17:8

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Theodore Epp emphasizes the importance of relying on God's daily
provision, as illustrated by Elijah's experience and the widow of
Zarephath. Despite the dire circumstances, both demonstrated faith in
God's ability to meet their needs one day at a time. Epp draws parallels
to the necessity of daily grace, highlighting that we cannot stockpile
God's grace for future use but must seek it anew each day. Just as the
widow and Elijah received sustenance daily, believers are encouraged to
approach God each morning for their spiritual nourishment. The sermon
reminds us that God's grace is sufficient for each day, reinforcing the
prayer for our daily bread.

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1 Kings 17:8-16

Because Elijah was a man like us, he undoubtedly wondered what God had
in store for him when he saw the brook beginning to dry up.

Since he was trusting in God, however, he believed and help arrived. God
did not send a sudden squall of rain for that immediate neighborhood,
nor did he provide some supernatural source of water in that place.
Instead, Elijah was to arise, go to Zarephath and dwell there. Only at
Zarephath would a widow provide food for him.

Few of us have faced the extremity this widow experienced. It seemed as
though each day she might face starvation; yet each day by faith she
trusted God to meet her need. The result was that she and her house "did
eat many days" (1 Kings 17:15). God supplied not a year at a time but a
day at a time.

This is what we need with regard to God's grace. We do not need a great
stockpile of it for future use but a daily appropriation of it, which
God supplies freely. The manna was gathered daily, not in the evening
but in the morning, and each one gathered for himself. So must we accept
grace from God. We cannot hoard today's grace for tomorrow or call on
yesterday's grace for today. We cannot gather enough on a Sunday to last
a whole week. We need to have daily contact with God, particularly in
the morning.

"Give us this day our daily bread" (Matt. 6:11).

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