My child, this is a time for bold faith and unquestioning obedience.
In 2 Kings 4, the widow and sons, with only a flask of oil, obeyed Elisha’s instructions to collect many empty jars. This took faith and courage in their time of need. Elisha told her to borrow jars from her friends and neighbours and then to go inside her house and shut the door.
My beloved, shut the door on doubt! Stand on My Word until the miracle of provision is manifest in your life. Don’t allow the narrative of friends or family to undermine faith or the threat of circumstances to rob you of joy. Instead, choose to obey and believe.
As the widow presented each empty jar, pouring out from what little oil she had, it was filled to the brim! It was only as she ran out of jars that the oil stopped flowing. My child, keep presenting your ‘empty jars’ in faithful expectation to Me. Bring before Me your dreams, desires and areas of need. Do you need fresh oil in your family or healing in your physical frame? Do you long for a relationship to be restored? Do you need a miracle of provision, a new job or place to live?
I am the God of abundance and multiplication. The oil of My Spirit will flow wherever there is faith to believe that I will do far more than you can ask or imagine. You have only to posture yourself to receive.
Activation:
Bring your ‘empty jars’ before the Lord and ask for His rhema Word for each. Ask Holy Spirit to fill you with fresh faith and then declare God’s truths over each area of your life. Spend time thanking Him for the provision and breakthrough that is coming.
The Widow’s Oil
1 Now one of the wives of a man of the [a]sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha [for help], saying “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant [reverently] feared the LORD; but the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves [in payment for a loan].”
2 Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have [of value] in the house?” She said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a [small] jar of [olive] oil.”
3 Then he said, “Go, borrow containers from all your neighbors, empty containers—and not just a few.
4 Then you shall go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out [the oil you have] into all these containers, and you shall set aside each one when it is full.”
5 So she left him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing her the containers as she poured [the oil].
6 When the containers were all full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” And he said to her, “There is not a one left.” Then the oil stopped [multiplying].
7 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”
2 Kings 4:1-7 (AMP)
Footnotes
[a] 2 Kings 4:1 i.e. a group or association of prophets.
For this reason I am telling you, whatever things you ask for in prayer [in accordance with God’s will], believe [with confident trust] that you have received them, and they will be given to you.
Mark 11:24 (AMP)
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Unapologetically Marcia 