Text: 2 Kings 4:1-7
This is the story of the widow with two sons. Creditors were coming to enslave the young men in payment for their late father's debts. The prophet, Elisha, asks her what she has in the house. She tells him she has some oil.
Elisha instructs her to borrow a great many vessels. The woman was motivated. She did what he told her to do, and the oil poured until she had nothing else to put it in. With her debts paid, she and her sons lived on the leftover.
A lot of our problems involve motivation. We're not being motivated to use what we have. Steven Covey, who wrote Habits of Successful People, said taking care of situations before they become urgent is a trait of those who are successful.
God asked Moses, "What is in your hand?" He may have had a lot of cool stuff back at the house, but at that moment all he had was a rod. God uses what we don't even think has any value.
Just because you've prayed doesn't mean you're done. God will ask what you have. God likes it when what you have is totally inadequate. We have a lot of stuff, but it lacks value because we haven't asked God what to do with it.
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