OVERWHELMED: FORGED IN THE FIRE || DeLeon Bennett || King of Israel

What do we do when we know the lyrics and we know the Word — but we are so overwhelmed that the tears saturate our song? In this message from 1 Kings 17, guest preacher and WoodsEdge elder DeLeon Bennett walks through the story of Elijah and the widow of Zarephath — a woman who had accepted death as her outcome, obeyed God with her last, experienced miraculous provision, and then watched her son die anyway. Her journey from despair to obedience to dependence to confusion to accusation to revelation mirrors what many of us have lived. And what she did in her darkest moment is the same thing we are called to do: she took her pain to the man of God. Wounded faith is still faith. This message is for anyone who has walked with the Lord, seen him make a way, and is still struggling to rest in his peace. God is big enough to handle your questions. And he still shows up — even in the overwhelm, even in Baal's backyard, even on what felt like the wrong side of the miracle.