Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few.

They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. 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. 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.”

2 Kings 4:3, 5-7

Have you ever come to the reality that you are totally helpless before God? That apart from Him you cannot do anything? Do you understand that it’s His provision that is sustaining you just now? Well, sometimes we say, “Of course! I’m a Christian! I get it! “Not by works..yadda, yadda, yadda.. So, why is it when we are up against a wall we start to wonder? We wonder if God is truly the “God of the valley” as well as “God of the mountain.” There are many stories in the Bible to remind us that God will supply all we need, just like the story about the widow’s oil. The widow was about to become destitute. Her husband is dead. Sons about to be taken off as slaves to fulfill a debt. Things were looking dire. This widow was not too proud to go to Elisha, the man of God, for help. She reminded him that her husband had been a God fearing man and his family needed help. Elisha asked her a very important question before the miracle of oil flowed. He asked, “What do you have?” It always amazes me that God loves to come alongside us and work with us. It boggles my mind that a perfect God doesn’t need us or anything that we could offer but He wants us just the same.

The widow had a little oil. The story begs to ask us, what do you have? The Lord asked Moses, “What is that in your hand?” He replied, “A shepherd’s staff.” With that shepherd’s staff he lead his people into the freedom God wanted to give them. He wants to do that for us as well. He’s enough, we just have to be willing. Willing to hold up the staff. Willing to pour out the oil. We can do more than we think. Right now…right now we are belting out the new popular worship song from Elevation Worship called “Jirah” but do we understand what this name means? Where it originated? Jirah means provides or sees. So when Abraham declared, “In the mount of the LORD it will be provided.” He was saying The Lord sees what I need and He provides. Reminds me of what David said in Psalm 23; “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want,” or Jesus teaching his disciples how to pray, “ Give is this day our daily bread.” We have all we need dear one. We’re covered. It’s finished. It’s been finished for 2,000 years and forever ago. God SEES to it. He provides for it. It’s paid in full!! Praise The Lord!

We sometimes question if God will really provide. We start to doubt. We get to the end of ourselves and then we pull out the big guns!! When things start going south and there’s plenty of room for doubt we go on a week long fast, pray for a solid hour, go to any services in church we wouldn’t normally go to because we think it’s all riding on us. Don’t get me wrong, all of these disciplines are great to do, especially if you are burdened in your spirit, but not because you think that if you don’t God won’t provide. God provided that day on a wooden cross with His only son. IT IS FINISHED, AND HE IS ENOUGH!

Small Beginnings Post #10

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