NOT A FEW!
Hello there dear gist partner.
How are you doing this fine day? It is my hope that the Lord is continually with you and that you are constantly aware of His presence.
Welcome to today’s gist.
I was reading Lori Wick’s ‘The Rescue’, just finished it in fact, and I read a conversation that really shed new light to 2 Kings 4:1-7 and I thought to share.
One day, a widow of one of the prophets came to Elisha, crying in distress: her husband had owed someone money while he was alive, now the creditor wanted to take away her children in service of the debt. The prophet asked her what she had in her house and she replied that she only had a jar of oil. Elisha gave her instructions to go and get empty jars, lock herself and her sons in the house and turn oil from her jar into those jars. Very instructive is what Elisha said about the quantity of the jars she should borrow: “Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.” (2 Kings 4:3 KJV)
What was Elisha’s instruction? Do not borrow a small number of jars, get plenty!!! Why could Elisha say this? If you check am, she said she had only one jar and he was asking her to go and borrow many others to turn oil from her one jar into. You see, what made Elisha able to give those instructions to the woman was the understanding he had of God which had made his faith so great that he could have high expectations of God and trust God to deliver.
Let’s look quickly at the man’s experiences: he watched his mentor part the River Jordan, he watched this his mentor leave the earth upon chariots of fire, he himself parted the River Jordan by calling upon the God of his mentor, he had watched God avenge him by killing the sons of the prophets who made fun of him, he had caused an axe head to float in water… and these are only a few of the experiences he had had with and of God. Of course! The God who could stop the current of the River and make its flow stop could definitely multiply the contents of an oil jar.
You see, Elisha did not come to God with small expectations, he had big hopes and what did God do? He delivered! The oil did not run out while there were still jars waiting to be filled. That one jar, and my mind always pictures it as not being a very large jar, was able to fill so many jars with oil such that when the woman sold the oil, she had enough to pay the creditor and still had remainder for she and her sons to live on, all these because Elisha chose not to limit what God could do!
As I thought about this, I found myself praying for forgiveness because I realized that I had limited God in my heart. Currently, I am in a season that seems very intent on ensuring that I, unintentionally, belittle God in my heart; I find myself worrying over things, I find myself wondering if God will do this one too. But God reminded me yesterday not to have little expectations of Him, I will never be able to have more expectations of God than He will be able to deliver! Always, His abilities are more than my mind can conceive, so there is no cry too outlandish for Him, no request to heavy for Him to handle, nothing is too big for Him, everything, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, is under His control, so when I come to Him, my jars of expectations should be “not a few”!
And that’s my encouragement to you dear gist partner, don’t belittle God by expecting little from Him, there’s no deliverance too great for Him to wrought for you, there’s no help He can’t give to you, your case is not too critical that your cries for His mercy and intervention will not be attended to, so when you bring your jars of expectations to God, bring not a few!
May God enlarge our understanding of Him, that our faith may grow!
TUNES AND THOUGHTS: our song recommendation for this week is “How great is our God” by Chris Tomlin. This song is a declaration of the awesome power that our God possesses, nothing escapes His notice or His control, He is always in charge. Let this knowledge settle in your heart, never forget how great our God is!! May your heart be blessed, may your faith be strengthened.
Audiomack: https://audiomack.com/klappahi3333/song/how-great-is-our-god-live-1?share-user-id=140072136
YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4TmC4VTb8Y&si=yZ6OM8yMPrVTkvpd
Well, that is that about that as far as that is concerned, see you next week!
Love,
Achenyo.
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