Replenishment can be defined as the act of filling something up again by replacing what has been used. It can also mean the act or process of resupplying, refilling, or renewing. It can mean the restoration of a stock or supply to a former level or condition. It can also be defined as the process by which something is made full or complete again.
Replenishment is one of the special blessings of God upon mankind since He created the earth. God pronounced the blessing of replenishment upon all vegetation (Gen. 1:11-22); upon all animals (Gen. 1:20-25); and upon the human race (Gen. 1:26-28).
The blessing of replenishment ensures that the earth is and will never be empty. It ensures that there will be life and living things always on the planet. The main significance of the blessing of replenishment therefore is that it ensures existential continuity of species. While certain creatures will wither and die off, fresh creatures of the same species must be simultaneously given birth to. Such that the minus elements are compensated for immediately by the plus elements.
In I Kings 17:8-16, the bible tells us about a woman who enjoyed Divine assistance for replenishment. There was a terrible famine in the Canaan region at the time, which was brought about by a drought decreed by Prophet Elijah, as a consequence for the children of Israel abandoning Yahweh and worshipping the idol – Baal (I Kings 17:1).
The famine was so severe in the land that people’s provisions got finished and they were dying for lack of food. There was this widow in a village called Zarephath of the region of Sidon, whom by Divine providence became a candidate for Divinely assisted replenishment, even though she was a stranger to the Abrahamic covenant of miraculous supplies (Ex. 23:25; Luke 4:24-26).
This widow only had a last meal left to prepare for she and her son to eat and then die as there was no hope of where another meal would come from. It was at this traumatic moment of her life that God sent Prophet Elijah to her from quite a distance, passing several families on the way who were hungry and had to die. The widow’s food containers were then replenished continuously miraculously.
At the obedience to the word of God from the mouth of Prophet Elijah, every member of the widow’s household had unending meals all through the famine period, including Elijah himself.
The Lord has permitted famine to come upon the earth, possibly because of the widespread of idol worship on our planet today, the same God has however promised that Everlasting Father’s Assembly shall be called “Bethlehem” – a house of ‘bread’.
We will continue to enjoy daily ‘bread’.
Our ‘flour, corn, oil, meat, water and wine’ shall not run out.
Our provisions will not run dry.
God will guarantee our daily supplies.
Our power to get wealth will not be threatened.
Current, impending and subsequent droughts upon the earth will not have a resultant negative effect upon us.
The earth might be in dire situations, but God will make our own situation very dare to His heart, for His supernatural attention.
Our stores will not be empty.
Our resources will not be exhausted.
Our strengths will not fail.
The zeal of The Lord God who is called Jehovah Jireh will make these and many other replenishments possible unto us in Jesus mighty name.
