Through the prayer of faith, “women received their dead raised to life again” (Heb. 11:35). This miracle was performed at an hour of crisis in the history of Israel and of the world. Faith in God was at a low ebb. Men looked to the forces of nature as the source of life and healing. They needed to have their attention directed to God, and to learn that it is He who gives life, and that it was in His power not only to heal the sick but to raise the dead. News of such a miracle could not be kept silent. Here was something that Baal could never do. As men learned that, through the power of God, the son of the widow had been raised from the dead, the power of Baal began to be broken.