Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months And he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit

And blessed is she that believed for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ Grace unto you and peace be multiplied

And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren and his mother called his name Jabez saying Because I bare him with sorrow And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed and enlarge my coast and that thine hand might be with me and that thou wouldest keep me from evil that it may not grieve me And God granted him that which he requested

I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no more until he come whose right it is and I will give it him

I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old I will meditate also of all thy work and talk of thy doings Thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God Thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people

We then as workers together with him beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

But without faith it is impossible to please him for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him

So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that is before Jordan And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening and he drank of the brook And it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land And the word of the Lord came unto him saying Arise get thee to Zarephath which belongeth to Zidon and dwell there behold I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee So he arose and went to Zarephath And when he came to the gate of the city behold the widow woman was there gathering of sticks and he called to her and said Fetch me I pray thee a little water in a vessel that I may drink And as she was going to fetch it he called to her and said Bring me I pray thee a morsel of bread in thine hand