Word for the Week

Week beginning: 20th October, 2013

By Mark Mullins | London

And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth. And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.

1 Kings 17:22-24 (KJV)

Can you imagine the joy that the widow of Zarepheth must have experienced when her son, so suddenly taken from her by illness, should be restored to her alive? She acknowledged by this miracle that Elijah was a man of God, that he spoke the Lord's Wo