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There are a lot of stories in the Old Testament that I really like , but one of my favorites comes from 2 Kings , chapter 4 . It's the story of the widow and her oil . Let me just read it to you . This morning the wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha , your servant .
My husband is dead and you know he revered the Lord , but now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves . 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 little oil . Elisha said Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars .
Don't ask for just a few . Then go inside and shut the door . Elisha said I really like this story because it talks about two things . It talks about the widow believing that she had nothing , that she was completely at the end of her rope , and yet the prophet said to her what do you have ? It was ? Then she said nothing except a little oil .
The prophet then told her to go and use what she had . The other reason I like this story is that the prophet told her to go and get jars and don't get just a few , but get as many as you can find and bring them into your home and start pouring the oil that you have into those jars .
And the oil flowed from her jar into all of those other jars until all of the other jars were now full . I've often wondered what would have happened if she'd had more jars . Would the oil have kept flowing ? I believe it would have . I want to bring you some encouragement today on those two areas . Sometimes we think we have nothing left to give .
We have nothing left that we can do in the situation that we're in and I don't know where you are this morning . I don't know what struggles you're going through , I don't know what problems you're facing , I don't know what financial needs you've got or health needs or any of those other things .
But I do know this If you go to God and say , god , I've got nothing more that I can do , that's a time when God can start to do His work the most when we've stopped striving on our own , when we get to the place where we don't want to try to do it anymore our way , but we're willing to do it His way .
That's when he can really start to work in us and he can start to do miraculous things in our lives . What do you have ? Give Him what little you have and what little you can do , and let him start to work in it .
But then know too that when God directs you , he's going to bless you and strengthen you , he's going to give you direction and he's going to give you hope and the blessing that came to this widow with her oil , the blessing continued as long as she had something to be able to receive it . Know that God loves you .
Know that God meets you right where you are at and his blessings are there to give you everything that you need . Let his love flow in you and be in you and let it flow out of you into other people around you . Be blessed , my friends . We'll talk tomorrow .
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