Did God forsake Elijah in his hour of trial? Oh, no! He loved His servant no less when Elijah felt himself forsaken of God and man than when, in answer to his prayer, fire flashed from heaven and illuminated the mountaintop. And now, as Elijah slept, a soft touch and a pleasant voice awoke him. He started up in terror, as if to flee, fearing that the enemy had discovered him. But the pitying face bending over him was not the face of an enemy, but of a friend. God had sent an angel from heaven with food for His servant. “Arise and eat,”(1 Kings 19:7) the angel said. “And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head.” 1 Kings 19:6. (PK 166.1) MC VC

After Elijah had partaken of the refreshment prepared for him, he slept again. A second time the angel came. Touching the exhausted man, he said with pitying tenderness, “Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.” “And he arose, and did eat and drink;”(1 Kings 19:7) and in the strength of that food he was able to journey “forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God,”(1 Kings 19:8) where he found refuge in a cave. (PK 166.2) MC VC