Summary: Titus 1:2 "... God, who cannot lie..." Job 12:13 HCSB "Wisdom and strength belong to God..." Colossians 1:18 ISV "He is also the head of the body, which is the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself might have first place in everything." God cannot be second! 1 Kings 17:1-4 KJV 1 And Elijah the Tishbite said unto Ahab, "The Lord God of Israel lives, before Whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years but according to my word." 2 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying 3 "Get thee hence by the brook Cherith that is before Jordan. 4 And it shall be that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there. 1 Kings 17:7 KJV And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. God uses channels but He's always greater than the channel! 1 Kings 17:8-12 KJV 8 And the word of the Lord came unto him saying, 9 "Arise, get thee to Zarephath and dwell there; behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain you." 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, the widow woman was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, "Fetch me, I pray you, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink." 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, "Bring me, I pray you, a morsel of bread in your hand." 12 And she said, "As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a cruse; I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die." You will often lack all you need but you will never be without a seed! 1 Kings 17:13-14 KJV 13 And Elijah said to her, "Fear not; go and do as you said but make me a little cake first and bring it to me, and after make for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the Lord God of Israel, "The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth." Mark 4:26 KJV So is the Kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground... Matthew 16:24-25 KJV 24 If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life will lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it. All crosses are temporary! Every death in Christ is followed by a glorious resurrection!
