All God needs is all you have.

In the book of 2 Kings chapter 4 we see the story of a widow who comes to Elisha asking for help. Just a little background into the story, the widows husband had taken out a loan to help support his ministry. Now the husband had passed and the creditors had to collect and had vowed to take the widow's sons as slaves if she didn't pay the debt. So she came to Elisha seeking help and the crazy part about the situation is you would expect this great prophet to do something miraculous or offer some encouraging words but instead we find him asking her an off the wall question.


Now that question has everything to do with something I believe God is asking us and something he wants to teach us as well. See the question he asked was what all do you have in you house? Now for many of us we find ourselves needing or wanting God to do something in our lives but we feel like the widow does and that is that we don't have what we need to get done what we need done and we feel we need someone else to help us. But just like the widow found out that day all God needed was what she already had and the willingness to do the things he told her to do.

The next part I believe is key to the whole deal and that was the widow response. She answered Elisha question with your servant has nothing more then a little jar of oil not knowing that's all God would need. Next comes the obedience part which is where I believe many of us including myself may fall short. See after we ask God for help usually He tells us something we need to do, how we respond to that is the key. Elisha told the widow to borrow jars from all her neighbors and then go home and shut the door behind her and then have her sons and herself pour the oil into all these jars and when one was full set it aside. It wasn't until she did what she was told to do that she got unexpected results and saw God do the amazing that day. You see that one little jar of oil filled up all the empty jars and in that same story it says that the oil didn't stop flowing until there were no more jars. The best part of the story is the widow was able to sale all the extra oil to pay her debts and even had extra for her sons and her to live off of.

The thing that God showed me this morning that I want to share with you is that we already have all he needs to accomplish all that we need in our lives. Now the question he is asking is are we willing to do what he is asking us to do? Are you will to collect empty jars and take very last thing you have and put it in God's hand? Are you willing to take him at his word even if you don't understand what He is asking you to do? or if it doesn't make sense? I believe when we can get to the point where will do what God is asking us to do we will see the overflow of oil in our lives that we have been longing to see. So I pray today that you take confidence in knowing that all God needs for your life you already have. I pray your encouraged to do the things that God has called you to do and know that once all the pieces are in place you will see the impossible done in your life just like the widow. Let the oil flow.

Lance