{"id":4550,"date":"2024-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/april-16\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:16:55","slug":"april-16","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/reading-plan\/april-16\/","title":{"rendered":"April 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from Kings<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In light of the flow of the story and the content of key speeches, I offer a main idea and exegetical outline for the episode [of 1 Kings 17]:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Main Idea: Because God has proved his willingness and ability to provide for even unlikely believers by raising a non-Israelite widow\u2019s son from the dead, we should affirm that God\u2019s word through his prophets is true and authoritative.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Setting to Affirm the Truth and Authority of God\u2019s Word: Lack of Rain at God\u2019s Word (v. 1)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Affirmation of the Truth and Authority of God\u2019s word for an Israelite Prophet (vv. 2\u20137)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Affirmation of the Truth and Authority of God\u2019s word for a Foreign Widow (vv. 8\u201324)<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The experience of the truth and authority of God\u2019s word (vv. 8\u201316)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The validation of the truth and authority of God\u2019s word: God\u2019s willingness and ability to raise the widow\u2019s son from the dead (vv. 17\u201324)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4550","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}