Experiencing the Miracle in My House
From 2 Kings 4
📖 2 Kings 4:1 ESV Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
📖 2 Kings 4:2 ESV And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”
1. I have a God can use.
📖 1 John 2:20 ESV But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
📖 Matthew 5:3 ESV “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
📖 James 1:9 ESV Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation
📖 Psalm 113:7 ESV He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap,
📖 Psalm 145:14 ESV The LORD upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down.
📖 1 Peter 5:6 ESV Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you
📖 Matthew 17:20 ESV if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
2. I have around me that God can use.
📖 2 Kings 4:3 ESV Then he said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few.
produces
with God never cause people to in the same place.
📖 Mark 3:14 ESV And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with Him and He might send them out to preach
📖 Proverbs 24:16 ESV for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.
3. I have to make God can use.
📖 2 Kings 4:4 ESV Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all these vessels. And when one is full, set it aside.”
📖 John 15:5 ESV I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
📖 1 John 3:6 ESV No one who abides in Him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen Him or known Him.
📖 2 Kings 4:5 ESV So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons. And as she poured they brought the vessels to her.
Empty we should be filling:
A. Time in God’s produces for this world.
B. prayer produces answers.
C. investments produce families.
D. produces opportunities.
📖 2 Kings 4:7 ESV She came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”
4. I have a me that God can use.
📖 1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
📖 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 ESV Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
📖 1 Corinthians 12:7 ESV To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
