Elijah The Tishbite 1

God sent Elijah to a widow of Zarephath. Why Zarephath, a town In Zidon? Jezebel was from Zidon, and her father was the king. Her father, Ethbaal, was also the priest of Baal, the major cause of the apostasy on Israel.
Having started a walk with God, Elijah had to be trained and equipped for greater work and what was ahead, he had to be refined. Zarephath means refinement!
every serious Christian must be refined and purged.