1 Kings 19:7

" Arise and eat ." Though this was supernatural food, so far as we can see miraculously provided, and in any case of preternatural efficacy, yet it must be taken and eaten in the ordinary way. Elijah might have been endued with strength for his desert journey without the aid of any material elements. The angel's touch or even the word of the Lord would surely have sufficed ( 6:21 ; Ezekiel 2:2 ; Ezekiel 3:24 ; Luke 7:7 ). Instead of which a cake is baken on the coals, and he must rise and eat thereof, eat thereof twice . God works by means, and it is for man to use them. It is presumption to expect God to dispense with them because He can do so.