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What Do You Have???
"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.'" 2 Kings 4:2 (NIV)
This widow woman who comes to Elisha for help is in desperate need! Her husband has died leaving her with an unpaid debt, which she is unable to pay. The creditor is threatening to take her two sons in payment for the outstanding debt. The woman believes she has nothing except for a small jar of olive oil, but she has forgotten she has a Big God who is able to take the smallest things and turn them into something big! Through Elisha, God would work a might wonder, providing a way for this widow to save her sons, paying off her debt, using the small jar of olive oil she currently poses.
What is your need today? What has God already provided you with? From the most obscure things God is able to provide in the most sensational ways! God is able to take what He has already blessed us with and use that to meet our every need. Too often we overlook and discount what God has already given us. In good times and hard times we should continue to thank God for what He has already provided, and with that same grateful heart, expectantly look at Him to do something extraordinary for us through what He has already given us. Don't take for granted what God has blessed you with! Know that you serve a Great and Mighty God who is able to extravagantly provide for you through the most obscure things! Refuse to put limits on God! Stay grateful and expecting; and you will live a life full of the rich blessing of God!
"A faithful person will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished." Proverbs 28:20 (NIV)
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