Take The Lid Off A Little

Just make sure you're standing. I want to read to you from One King seventeen. There's something that the Lord was showing me today that I think is really going to speak to your situation. Please take a moment and share. If you're just joining us, make sure to let us know in the chat where you're watching from. It was so cool last week that after the sermon was posted, everybody who watched the sermon went and said, here's where I'm watching from, and they said, I'm here for it.

And it was so cool to see all the places. And our team then gets to go through and they get to pray for you by name that God would speak to you. So put it in the chat. But also, don't just be blessed today, be a blessing. Be a blessing. What if you took a moment right now to share this experience with someone and it lifted them out of depression. What if you took a moment to share this with someone right now and it helped them to breathe deeply

and not have a panic attack later this week. What if you shared this message with someone right now and God spoke a word that kept them from doing something stupid that was going to mess up their life. I'm telling you the Word of God is powerful and you're going to see that in the text. But by faith, right now, share it. Hit the share button or text somebody. You know how to do it, and you know who God puts on your heart. And let's move into the

Word of God together. We've already had an awesome time of worship. We've already praised God, We've already been singing to Him. We spent this week serving and now let's go to the Word and see what God will give us to sustain us for these crazy days we live in One Kings chapter seventeen. Now Elijah the tishbite from Tishby in Gilead said to ahab As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives whom I serve, there will be neither do nor reign in the next few years except

at my word. Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah. Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Careth Ravine east of the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there. We talked last week about unschedulable blessings. Unschedulable blessings. It's a word I made of It's a thing you can't put on your calendar. But God is going to come through for you. He's going to come

through for you sometimes after you've given up. But this is an unusual way for God to provide for his servant. It's an unusual source. So he did what the Lord had told him verse five, and he went to the Karath Ravine east of the Jordan and stayed there. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. Sometime later, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word

of the Lord came to him. Go at once to Zerapath in the region of Sidon, and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food, and I watch this. So he went to Zarapath, and when he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, would you bring me a little water in a jar? Just slow water? Uh uh uh uh oh, hang on, let's see if we can get that fixed, little water. Isn't it weird? Come on out, tech support, How many out

real quick? Because I know we can get this fixed. Isn't it weird? Come check this out? I'm broadcasting right now. Can you can you fix it? Isn't it weird? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, no, no no, yeah. See if we get fixed, you can't fix it. No, fix it in the back and bring it back in the weird. Look, look, we're broadcasting to the whole world. Why can't you don't leave me hanging in We're broadcasting to the whole world. Isn't it weird? How something so little, I mean, we're broadcasting all over

the world. Isn't it weird? How something so little can control something so big. Bring that back to me on stone. We see if we can fix it. He said, bring me a little water? How much water? A little? So let me have a dream. And as she was going to get it, he called, and bring me, please a piece of bread. As surely as the Lord, your god lives. She replies, I don't have any bread, only a handful of flour in a jar, and a little how much

a little olive oil in a jug. A little flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die. Now here's the word of the Lord. Elijah said to her. Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said, But first to make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have, and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what

the Lord, the God of Israel, says. The jar of flower will not be used up, and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the lands. So she went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah, and for the woman and her family, For the jar of flour was not used up, and the jug of oil did not run dry. In keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah, a little olive oil in a jug, A little olive oil.

Here's what the Lord sent me to tell you today. Take the lid off a little, you ready, Father, We stand under an open heaven, thanking you for your blessings. We thank you for rain in due season. We thank you that you speak what we need when we need it. And when you speak, there's nothing the enemy can do to snatch what has sown. Our hearts are good soil.

We are open to your word. We are open to the possibility that in this season you are leading us like never before into a place that you prepared for us before the world began. We give you praise for it in Jesus' name. Everybody who receives this word, clap your hands. Amen, you may be seated. Take the lid off a little. That's crazy, Zach, how a little thing you'll be seated. How a little thing, something so little

can affect something so big. I mean, this word I just told you is going all over the world, and one little wire wires. We were in a church one time and the sound guy said, quit on hooking my wires. We had our little sound system we were setting up that he said, quit messing with my wires, my wires. Isn't it weird? One little, one little thing? And in the text I was reading, they're gonna think we worked this out ahead of time, but we did it. Isn't

it crazy? In the text we read, the Bible says it didn't rain for three years because of the word that came from Elijah's mouth. How can the word from one man's mouth control the weather? How can something so little affect something so big? What happens all the time in your life, I mean, the littlest thing in your day can set you in a direction that you don't even realize until it is so depressing. I mean, my die and didn't even realize something so little. That's why

I have to be so very careful. What the first thing I look on my phone for when I get up in the morning. Because it doesn't take much. It doesn't take much. And I don't care who you follow on Instagram, they find a way into your feed. The people you unfollowed, they find a way back in. The algorithm will attack you. Somebody said. The devil is a Lauren Ryan Lyon. So is the Instagram algorithm. It is looking for someone to devour. That's why they call it

a feed. I figured this out. He's looking to eat you alive. Ah, something so little. It said that the word from Elijah's mouth controlled the weather system. How could something so small? How could how could a wet market on the other side of the world have you shut down and grounded from traveling. There's never been a better time for me to p this message that I want to appreciate today because everybody has to agree in this moment.

If you've never agreed before that the littlest thing in your life or the littlest thing in someone else's life can affect you in a way, I'm telling you right now that the littlest things in your life right now, if you can receive this word from the Lord today, are controlling the things. And maybe we can help make this connection through studying Elijah little bit controlling the things that you have no control over, And I'll do my

best to break it down as we move. I've always read Romans eight twenty eight with a very specific categorization. Romans eight twenty eight is my favorite Bible verse because it gets me through anything. It says that all things work together for the good of those that love God and are called according to His purpose. How could I have quoted it for so long and only seen it

through the lens of good things and bad things. I always read Romans eight twenty eight that all things, whether good or bad, work together for the good for those who are called according to God's purpose. Now I realize that Romans eight twenty eight doesn't just apply to good things and bad things. It applies also to big things and little things. Turn the lights on and wake them up. I can't get I can't get any help out here. It said all things turn the lights on and wake

them up. Do something, pull the lights up because it's sleep Yeah, yeah, yeah, yah, that's better. I need to see y'all sleeping. Y'all are sleeping on me. I'm about to clear out the whole room. It doesn't just mean good things and bad things. It means that the big things and the little things. And that's why you cannot despise the day of small beginnings, because everything little leads to something big. That's how you got here. I'm gonna give y'all a minute for the for the YouTube delay.

That's how you got That's how everything you see got here. It started with somebody's thought, an impulse in the brain that you cannot even see with the human eye. A virus has shot down the world. Show me a coronavirus. You can't show me the effects of it. You can't get away from it. How can something so little affect something so big? How can something that happened to you when you were twelve still be haunting you when you're forty two? How can something so little control something so big?

And that's the lens at which I was looking at the prophet Elijah's life. I was say he controlled the weather with his word, And I thought about how our words control the weather. How when we speak things, when we say things, when we say them, not even out loud, but to ourselves, it affects the weather of our heart. Yeah, how can a little thing like a thought lead you down the track? I mean, it's such a little thing. By little things lead the big things. Little things lead

the big things. So the prophet Elijah prophesies at drought, and it's a wonderful story, and we could elaborate on it for days, but we just want to talk about this little instruction that God gave them in verse to Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah, leave here, turn eastward and hide in the care of Ravine east of the Jordan. Okay, that verse right there. It kind of sounds on the surface like like God will tell you everything that you need to do in your life.

But I want to show you something very interesting about how God spoke to Elijah. One time someone asked me, what do you mean when you say God spoke to me? And he asked it very innocently. He said, I hear you preaching and say God spoke to me. I'm not sure God ever spoke to me. What do you mean when you say God spoke to me? And the challenging thing about it was he was hearing that as a voice, but really I meant it as a thought. I don't

experience God through my ears. I experienced him through my thoughts, and then I call it God spoke to me, but I didn't hear a voice. And here's what's interesting about how how God was leading Elijah. Because you got to you got to pay attention to the small things in the text, because the little things matter. It said he told him leave here, turn eastward and hide into care of Thravinis to the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with

food there. Whoe? Can we stop for a minute and talk about how ridiculous? How's this gonna work? We just read it, right, we just skip right past it. Yeah, yeah, you go down there in the birds, bring him the birds. Get ready for God to explode your box of how you think He's going to provide for you. Huh. We have all these limitations on ways that we think God can take care of us. We have all these limitations on ways that we think that God can take care

of our family. We have all these limitations on ways that we think God can use us. We have all these limitations on ways that we think that God can order our life and ways that we think. But God said, get ready for me to take the lid off and start blessing you through birds. And not just birds, not just any kind of birds. But I'm gonna use ravens, unclean birds, dirty birds. Have you ever had God bless you through a dirty bird. I need you to put

a dirty bird bless it in the chat. If you ever had God use something just ridiculous, didn't make sense, didn't see it coming, didn't even like it. God has used people I didn't even like to bless me before dirty birds. The ravens were dirty birds. God said, I'm gonna I'm gonna use a dirty bird to feed you by the charath ravine. And he does this for a while.

He does this for a while. If I could tell you the whole story, I would, because Ahab Now he needs to see that God controls the rain, not bail. He needs to see that God controls the rain, not bail. He needs to know that that God is in control, that God is not only in control of the big things in our life, but the small things in our life. Follow me, I promise you. This is a powerful, profound word for those who can receive it. And so he takes Elijah to a place where he feeds him what

he needs in that season. Now, E've been in a season lately where God hasn't been feeding you the same way he used to feed you. And the word is so relevant right now because up until now you had a certain way of how you thought it had to be. I had a certain way I thought church was supposed to be. I thought in order to have church, you had to let people in the building. But God took

the lid off of that. Come on, God is trying to take the lid off of that just to show me that church is not just going to be contained to a physical location. And now I'm setting you up. God is trying to show you the same thing. In your life. You've had some people leave you because God wanted to show you that you don't need them to make it less. Claps, y'all were clapping when I talked about closing the church. That was weird. You just left

me because what's what the Bible says. It says that every day the birds brought him bread in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. But in verse seven, verse seven, it says that sometime later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Let's talk about cause and effect. The brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Why had there been no rain in the land, Because Elijah spoke, there will be no rain in the land. So now he is

the victim of the consequence of his own obedience. It's causing effect. And every day he goes out to get some water from the brook, there's a little bit less. And every day he goes out to get water from the brook, it's a little bit less. And every day he goes out to get water from the brook is a little bit less. And you gotta be wondering right about now, when is God gonna stop it from going down? Have you been wondering that lately? Like when is God

gonna stop it from decreasing? And this is not a message for everybody. If you're living in a time of overflow, it's wonderful. I'll see it next week. I'll preach next week, I'll live it in the overflow. But this message is about the little bit every time he came to the brook. This did happen all at once. It's just a little bit less, a little bit less, a little bit less, a little bit less until the point where one day it comes to the brook and there's nothing there and

he has to move to the next mealracle. So how does God move you to your next miracle? Let me ask you a question. It's a conversation. Now, do you want God to lead you? How did God lead Elijah from the brook to the widow's house. How does God get us from where we are to where he's taking us? How does he get us from the good work he began to the good work he wants to finish. It may not be the way that you think, because the Bible says that God led Elijah to his next assignment

through a limitation, give him a teaching stool. We often say things like, where God guides, he provides, and he does. He'll put a dirty bird to feed you by a brook. He'll show you a secret stash that nobody else in the neighborhood even knows about. How many know I'm right about it. God will encourage you in ways that are specific to you. But just as sure as that is true, this is also true. Sometimes God will lead you through what you lose. And this is the more painful thing

to talk about, but I think it's very important. Is God trying to lead you by limitations? And is God trying to lead you just as much by the doors that he closes as the doors that he opens. If the brook had kept flowing, miraculously, Elijah never would have left that spot. If Elijah never would have left that spot, he never would have met that widow. If he never would have met that widow, that widow and her family

would have died of starvation. If he never would have gone to Zaraphath, which was right in the heart of Bail territory, he never would have got to Mount Carmel, where he called down fire and the whole nation repented. Isn't it crazy how a little thing can lead to a big thing. Isn't it weird how something can go all over the world but start with one little connection.

Isn't it crazy how God can can use something in your life that you thought it was bad, but later you look back and say, no, it wasn't a bad thing. It was just a thing that led to a thing. It's just a thing that leads to a thing. So all things work together for the good. So if the brook doesn't dry up, Elijah doesn't move on. If they didn't break your heart, you wouldn't have learned the lesson that you learned. If you didn't go through Goliath, you

wouldn't have been ready to be a king. If you hadn't been thrown in a pit, you wouldn't have been positioned in eg to feeds the aerations. You met it for evil, but God used it for good. Put it in the chat. Take the lid off. Take the lid off. You know we have all of these lids, or I could call it all of these limitations on the ways that we think God can move. And if it feels good, we think it's God. And if it feels bad, we think it's the devil. But God is calling us to

recategorize in this season of our life. I prove it to you. David came to Goliath and saw him as a meal ticket. The rest of the nation saw him as an enemy. The king said, if you kill Goliath, you never pay taxes again, and you can marry my heart daughter, the hot one. David said, what now, let me do the math on this. Okay, how big is he? It doesn't matter. What's this because a little thing I'm waiting on. I'm to catch up. You look like you look like you know the power of a little thing.

A little thing. Saul said, you're only a boy. You can't fight him. He's nine feet tall. You think somebody as little as you can kill somebody as big as him, and David said, no, no, no, I only look little. See the reason I look little is because I have to be hidden. I'm a secret weapon. A secret weapon can't be real. Big. God had to sneak me to the battle line. And how did he get there? How did he get there through bringing a lunch to his brother? That's a little thing. What did he see when he

got there? A nine foot tall giant? That's a big thing. Isn't it crazy how a little thing can lead to a big thing? How you coming through Monk's Corner South Carolina could lead to lead me to Christ? Isn't that crazy that I went to North Greenville and met my wife because you came through Monk's Corner, because you signed up for the ministry and you obedience, little thing, Take the lid off a little, because I found out that what you call little might be the thing that God

leads you to. What is exceeding abundantly above or beyond what you could ask her imagine? So he gets there, Let's look at this a little deeper, y'all want to keep going? Man, the Lord has been speaking to me. It says that when he got there, he saw a widow who was working on her last meal. She was made the final arrangements for her and her son to eat. And I think the reason Lord led me to this text is because so many of us are worried about

our families these days, you know, on every level. And I'm hearing it from people who have young children, I'm hearing it from people who have elderly parents. We're worried. It's it's hard for us right now to trust God with the things that we can't control. And as some of the parents here in Charlotte are getting ready to try to figure out how am I going to homeschool my kids another year? You know, when I barely got out of high school myself, and and we're all in

this thing together. In a sense, the whole nation was going through a drop. But now, notice Elijah was not led to somebody that was likely, and he was not led to somebody who was rich or wealthy. He was led to somebody that, in the world's eyes, was little. Be careful what you labeled little. When you label it little, it becomes a lid. And some of us have so compartmentalized how God works in some of us have even belittle ourselves. Now you're going to see the woman coming

to Elijah and she needs a big miracle. How many would agree that for God to provide for you in a time of famine, that's a big miracle. And I'm just going to take it one step further, if you don't mind being honest. How many of you need God in a big way in this season of your life, whether it's direction or comfort or energy or any of that. Raise your hand. I need God in a big way in this season of my life. So I was surprised when God led me to preach on little in a pandemic.

It felt obscene to preach about a little when some of us need a lot right now. And the prophet comes up to the woman and asks her for a little everybody say little, say it in falsetto a little little water. And as she was going to get it, he called and a piece of bread, and that triggered her because she has a little. When you feel limited, you operate in fear. This took me a while to

realize because I thought people sometimes were being selfish. Beneath what appeared as selfish behavior was really that they were scared. And it's easy to mistake. Scared for selfish. The woman sounds selfish on the surface because instead of giving hospitality to the man of God, she says, I don't have any bread verse twelve, only a handful of flour and a jar and a little olive oil. So watch this, she says, I don't have any bread. I only have a little bit. And notice what the prophet tells her

to do. He says, take the little that you have, and if you'll make something out of what you have, God will make sure that you have enough. Okay, this is the word of the Lord. Take the lid off, a little little bit of oil, all right, take the lid off a little because you say this a little. But the thing about God is God likes little. He does. How did he send his son to the earth as a what you mean, not as a superhero, but as a baby? Say it? God likes little? Wait, joy, this

is your word. God likes little. Come on, God likes little. I'll prove it to you. I'll prove it to you. Who does God choose to start a nation with one man? Yell and believe me, yell, don't believe me. God likes little. Okay, how about this? He wants to deliver the nation from Midianite oppression. Who does he come to Gideon? Look it up in Judges chapter six in the Holy Bible. In Judges chapter six, he comes to Gideon. And who is Gideon the smallest in the least? Why God likes little?

Oh no, I'm just I'm sorry. I'm just I'm sorry. I'm just over here. God likes little. I'll prove it to you. When get and got ready to fight, he had a big army. God took him from twenty two thousand to ten thousand. Why did God do that? God likes little? Then God sets something really crazy. You still got too much. You still will take credit if I do it with ten thousand, you'll think it was you. So God had to take Giddy in all the way down. Get ready to shout to three hundred. This message is

for somebody who has been reduced. You don't have what you used to have. You don't feel strong and sure. You used to know so much. Now you don't know as much. But God likes it when you come to him with a little bit. It gives him something to fill, It gives him something to prove, It gives him something to work with. It gives him a canvas to pain on. God said, I want to get you down to the

point he must become greater, I must become less. Take your little get, your little get, your little get, your little I feel God on this. Get your little get, your little get, your little get, your little praise, and give it to God right now. Yeah, that's a little praise. That's a little praise exactly because some people right now you can't give God a big praise. Give him a little praise, Give him a little praise, Give him a

little under your breath. Uh you give a little thank you, Jesus, Give me a little thank you, Jesus with the attitude, because God likes little despise. Not the day of small beginnings. Because I'm telling you what's gonna happen. If you start getting grateful, if you start magnifying what God means to you, if you start giving God a little praise, watch out, it's about the snowball. It's about to get Come on

and try it. Some of you have not praised God all week, So right now, give him a little praise in your little apartment watching me preache on your little iPhone. God likes little give sim something to expend, give him something to grow, get zim something to get glory. F take the lid off a little. Come on, come on, just a little, just a little, just a little, just a little, just a little, take the lid off just a little. Come on. You don't have to run around

the house or anything like that, just a little. Just take the lid off a little. Just look up a little. Just give God a little praise. Just lift your hands right here, just to right here. Just lift your fingers, lift your thumb, lift your pinky, give God a pinky praise. I promise you God likes little. God likes when you take your little bit and take the lid off and start pouring out praises and dry places. God said, I'm gonna visit you, but you gotta take the lid off

a little. Will you give them a little? Will you give God a little faith? You have to have a great, big faith. You don't have to. You know, we get so caught up on big things. God doesn't need you to have such a big faith. He said, if you have faith like a like a little seed, like a little seed. You see how high my voice is. That's how little of a seed is. No no, no, no, no, He said, don't be afraid take the little that you have.

I'm not saying this a little, but I'm saying take the lid off a little, take the lid off a little, and take the lid off a little. Why do we belittle what God gave us? Why do we do that? What? Why do we see ourselves as grasshoppers when God has given us a promised land called Canaan. You ever thought about the reason that the nation didn't go into Canaan was because they made themselves small. We're too little, We're too little. Okay, all right, let's sit down. Let me

tell you a story. I got in a fight with Holly yesterday. My fault wasn't a huge fight, but we don't even fight that much. I mean, it's been it's been a minute. But she was trying to encourage me yesterday and I couldn't receive it. That's the bottom line, you want to know the bottom line. This is what I had to go back and tell her an hour later because the Holy Spirit, you know how the Holy Spirit will speak to you in that little voice. He's

not real loud, just a little voice told me. Now you know that she was trying to help you, and you know that the reason that you really got angry is because you were really afraid. I'm gonna tell you the story behind it. This will be my marriage therapy for the I've been writing for a few months. I've been working on a book, but I won't call it a book. I haven't called it a book. All I'll say is I'm writing, and I've been writing and revising

and writing and revising. And it's been about five years since I've put a book out. The reason it's been five years since I put a book out is because something got in my head and say, you're not an author, you know, And isn't it crazy how a little thought can get in your head? And then something little little and five years later then I hadn't put a book out. And turning forty this year got me thinking, Like we were talking about this the other day, I felt some urgency.

And when we were creating songs for our last album, they just kept coming, they kept flowing, kept flowing just right till the last minute, and I decided I was going to try to write a book this year. And yesterday I took the book through its second revision and with my finger shaking. I put it, put the mouse over sind on an email and sent it to the editor,

and Holly was trying to tell me congratulations. I didn't want to hear it because if I acknowledged that it's a big deal, then it means that it could fail. I shouldn't be telling you all lot all this. Yeah, y'all, y'all, really y'all, really, y'all really don't deserve to know all this about my marriage and all this is this is ridiculous. And I got mad angry because really I was afraid, and in the process of analyzing why, I was basically

telling her, don't try to encourage me. She said, she said, congratulations on sending your book off. I said, it's not a book yet, It's just a document. You see what I'm doing. Belittle it because the moment I call it a book, the moment I call it a book, that means others are going to read it. If others read it, that means they can judge it. So as long as I keep it little, it's a fear move. It's just a little oil, right, what she was trying to get me to do, and she was right, you hear that

you were. You're right, she said. At some point you have got to start speaking what you want to see. She said, it's a whole chapter in your book. Speak what you want to see. I'm not even doing the chapter I wrote because if I speak it, that makes it real. But if I make it little, I can hide it. Now, do you see why you put yourself down? Because if you, if you, if you ever come out and say you know God can do this. I'm walking on the water, say the word Jesus and I'll come.

But if I come, that means I can slip. So I'd rather know. It's more than a good word, this power of God coming through right now. This is a great word, because this word is helping you to see sometimes why you talk to yourself the way you talk to yourself only got a little oil. Take the lid off a little. God likes little. God. God likes little so much that when he wanted Naming to be healed of leprosy, he used a little servant girl in his house to send him to the prophet. God likes little.

And I'm gonna tell you something, if you take the lid off the little bit that you have, it won't be little for long. Baby praises grow into big, groom big, just wopping praises. I dare you to say it, by faith, it won't be little long. It won't be little long. I see a cloud the size of a man's I see a cloud the size of a man's hand. Now see At first, Elijah heard the sound of rain. Right, this is first King's chapter eighteen. I moved on from

chapter seventeen. I'm moving to chapter eighteen. He said, I hear the sound of the abundance of rain, but I can't see it yet. I can't see it yet. And then when the servant went to look for it, he said, I see it now, but it's little. But Elijah knows. God likes little. God likes little. God likes it when you're untrained. God likes it when you're the when you feel like you're the only one. God likes it when you need him. God likes it when you're not arrogant.

God likes it when you humble yourself under his mighty hand. Would you take the lid off a little, just go look again, and say, God, you know, I know I don't have much strength right now, but you have given me some strength. God, I know I don't have every game, but you have given me some gift. It's only little if you look at it next to something bigger. By the way I found this out flying on airplanes, everything looks little if you get up above it, high enough everything.

If you get up high enough above it, everything looks little. Some of the things that look so big to you today that you don't see how you're going to overcome them when you get the altitude, when you begin to worship God, when you begin to trust Him in this moment, and take the lid off. Come on, put it in the chat. Take the lid off, Take the lid off, take the little If you get up high enough, that's what worship does. That's what coming too, the word of

God does. It takes the lid off. And if you get up high enough, I promise you you're the problems are not going to look as big as they look right now. And I'm speaking by the spirit of the Lord to somebody who is about to run out. I mean, you're about to run out of ideas to save your business, You're about to run out of ways to get through to your kid, You're about to run out of patience, desire,

passion you're about to run out. Here's the miracle. It does not say that when the woman did what Elijah told her to do, that she got more flower and more oil. It says that what she had didn't run out. So here's what God showed me. It'll always look little, but it will never run out. As I close this message, I want to know, are you willing to take the lid off of your little and stop putting limitations on what God can do through you? Right now? I know

it looks little. I know the little bit that you have to offer seems so insignificant in the face of the challenge that you're up against. But God likes little. In fact, the scripture says that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed. What God is going to do through your life in this season is going to lead to something that will outweigh everything you've been through to get through. Stand on your feet in the room

as I close. The Lord sent me here today to get your altitude up higher so that you can see things like he seesed. And what that woman had wasn't much, but it was enough and This is the tension that we live in. It's not much, but it's still enough. And if you can hold those two tensions, then you can live by truth and not by sight. Father, your word is powerful. Your word controls the weather. And not only that, but your word commands birds to feed us

in places along the way. We stand before you right now as a global community in the middle of a situation that we have no frame of reference for. Not only is that true of our nations, that's true of our households, that's true of our plans. And as we stand before you in this place, God, what we have seems so little in comparison to what we need. But I hear you say and take the lid off, and I think that means you want to exceed our expectations in this season. And I want you to know the

Lord that I'm open to it. And for everybody who will come into agreement with this word, I join my faith with them that it may look little, but it'll always be enough. It will always be enough. The miracle is not that it overflowed all at once. The miracle is that it never ran out. And I speak over your life, and I speak over your family and I

speak over your finances. It will always be enough. I know it doesn't look like much, feel like much, and seem like much, But come on up here and get abuffet for a minute, Come on get up here above it for a minute where we are seated in heavenly places with Jesus. God always uses little things to lead us. And I'm going to stay in this moment, Father, because I feel you telling me too. For somebody who has just a a little bit of faith, a little bit of strength, a little bit of hope, I got a

little bit left. The woman said. Elijah said, all right, take the lid off of your little and watch God keep supplying. And that's exactly what God did. God has been using our problems to position us for his purpose. We are not here by accident, and we are not in sufficient Thank you Lord for the little. As I go through my week this week, I want to see the little miracles You're doing. How am I going to around and wait when something be When these little miracles

just keep happening all around me, even right now? What a wonder that I could reach around the globe and speak a word that could reach somebody right in the middle of what they're going through. Somebody right now is hearing this word in the darkest season of their life. Somebody in the midst of their confusion. Somebody just needed in encouragement to keep going today. And your word controls the weather. Thank you, Jesus, Your word controls the weather. Help us to help us to speak and see like

you speak, and like you see. We might feel like Moses sometimes I just got a little staff in my hand. What am I against so many? But Lord, I believe you like little things. I really believe you little things. I think you like it when we do the little things with excellence. I believe you are pleased with the people who are doing the little things. You who could be faithful with little will be faithful and much. We thank you for it. Right now, in this moment, God,

I believe you're drawing somebody to yourself. God. I pray for those who have felt far away from You during the season. I pray for those who have felt dislocated and maybe even in their spirit, they have felt like giving up on themselves. They still believe in You, but they don't believe in them. They feel little, be little. The voice inside of them is telling them so much they've started to believe it. But now, God of all Grace, we invite you to come into those places and fill

those spaces that are empty with your glory. You can do that as we lift our hands in your presence today. Go ahead and get them up. We're taking the lid off. We're taking the lid off. You can come through the ceiling, you can come through the internet, you can come through YouTube. We're taking the lid off. You can bless us through a bird, you can bless us through a widow. You can bless us in zero fat. You can do anything. You can do all things. The only thing you can't

do is fail. So God, we have faith to believe that the flower won't run out and the oil won't run dry until the day you sin rain. God, you control the weather. We obey the word. Where you speak will go. I thank you, Lord. This is a turning point for somebody. This is a turning point for someone's heart. And we worship you in this moment. We worship you for who you are. We thank you that according to your word, it will be done in Jesus' name. Come on and give God the praise wherever you are. Wow,

take the lid off a little. I might need to do a part two on that. I pray you received it. It's so important right now that we open ourselves to all the ways that God wants to bless us and all the ways that God wants to use us. And I just pray, like He provided for Elijah with the birds, like he provided for the lady in's air fat through Elijah, that He would just meet every need in your life right now. I don't know whether that's emotional or physical, but I know that God is the one who can

control the weather. And I just pray this week that you would see God's provision all around you in unusual ways, coming from unusual sources. Maybe God's going to speak a word of encouragement through you this week to somebody, but whatever it is, just know that we love you. Thank you for doing the little things. You know, those of you who give, that's no little thing. We're able to continue to preach the gospel. Man. The world is dark

and times are uncertain, but Jesus Christ never changes. And I want to thank you for those of you who tied regularly and give to this ministry. You're the reason that the Word is going for thank you, we love you. I'll see you next time. Take the lid off.