First McKinney Baptist Church

What is a brook?
— -A temporal means of provision
— -The means can be a person, place or thing
— -Remember, brooks are temporal

What Are some common Brooks?
— -Relationship ‘brooks’
— -Employment ‘brooks’
— -Business ‘brooks’
— -Financial ‘brooks’
— -Ministry ‘brooks’

What to Do When Your Brook Dries Up
-Let Go of the Dried Up Brook
-hands open to release the brook
-implicit in the text by what Elijah did not do

What to Do When Your Brook Dries Up

Look Up to the Brook Supplier
-eyes up to refocus on God
-Why Do Brooks Dry Up?
--The personality of brooks = temporary
--The practice of the believer
--The providential plan of God

What to Do When Your Brook Dries Up


Listen In for God’s Direction on the Next Brook
-ears open to receive from God
- 2 Then the Lord said to Elijah. 3 “Go to the east and hide by Kerith Brook, near where it enters the Jordan River. 4 Drink from the brook and eat what the ravens bring you, for I have commanded them to bring you food.” 1 Kings 17:2-4 (NLT)
- 8 Then the Lord said to Elijah, 9 “Go and live in the village of Zarephath, near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow there to feed you.” 1 Kings 17:8-9 (NLT)
-- ... The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. 17 Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years! 18 Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops. James 5:16-18 (NLT)
- Feet following in obedience
- 5 So Elijah did as the Lord told him and camped beside Kerith Brook, east of the Jordan. 10 So he went to Zarephath. 1 Kings 17:5, 10 (NLT)

Principles of Provision from 1 Kings 17

o God uses ‘natural’ means = brook
o God uses ‘supernatural’ means = ravens
o God uses ‘unusual’ means = widow
o God uses ‘illogical’ means = feed the man of God first