S. 2 Kings 4:2-5 (NIV) The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”
2 Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?”
“Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”
3 Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. 4 Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”
5 She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. 6 When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.”
But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
7 She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”
O. This widow needed to pay her bills. Elisha wanted to help, asking her what she had in her house. She only had a flask of oil. Yet that single flask of oil, when blessed by God, was abot keep providiong more than enough oil to later be sold and pay the bills.
If we just give to God the things that we have in our possession and trust Him do the rest - He is willing and able to pour out so much blessing to provide whatever our needs may be.
A. Rather than think I have limited resources and thereby limited in what I can accomplish, I will, by faith, give to God what He has put in my hands and trust him to use it for His ultimate glory and for me to accomplish the task He has set before me.
P. Thank you Lord for this word. Thank you that you do not leave us without resource - in fact, you are our greatest resource. Holy Spirit fillme and guide me to entrust to you what you have placed in my hands that you might expand it and use it for your glory and honor. In Jesus name.
