June 28, 2006
The Word June 28, 2006
The Widow and The Pot of Oil
Lesson Two:
We need to spend one on one, personal time with God.
2 Kings 4: 1-7 (King James Version)
“Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen. And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full. So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out. And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed. Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.”
-In this story, Elisha tells the widow to shut the door on her and her sons. She could not start the process until she closed herself off from the world. Think about it, she was about to take a little bit of oil and pour it into many empty vessels. If there were outside people around, they would have been asking to many questions about what she was doing. They would have told her that what she was doing did not make any sense. This could have caused her to doubt what she was told to do.
-God wants us to take some time out and shut to door so that we can allow Him fill our empty vessels. If we allow to many people in during this time, we might be subjecting ourselves to haters. People who don’t want to see us come out on top.
-God wants us to shut the door so we can develop a personal relationship with Him. Regardless of all of the wonderful works that we may do for God, at the end of it all I believe that he wants a personal relationship with each and everyone of us. Which is why, in Luke 13:27, Jesus said, “But he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.” He was talking to people who claimed to do works in the name of the Lord. They may have done the works, however, they never had a personal relationship with him; “I know not whence ye are.” However, we don’t want to isolate our self from the rest of the world, totally. We still need to fellowship with other like-minded Christians.
“Lord, please establish a personal relationship between us and bless me with the wisdom to maintain my part.”
The Widow and The Pot of Oil
Lesson Two:
We need to spend one on one, personal time with God.
2 Kings 4: 1-7 (King James Version)
“Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen. And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full. So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out. And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed. Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.”
-In this story, Elisha tells the widow to shut the door on her and her sons. She could not start the process until she closed herself off from the world. Think about it, she was about to take a little bit of oil and pour it into many empty vessels. If there were outside people around, they would have been asking to many questions about what she was doing. They would have told her that what she was doing did not make any sense. This could have caused her to doubt what she was told to do.
-God wants us to take some time out and shut to door so that we can allow Him fill our empty vessels. If we allow to many people in during this time, we might be subjecting ourselves to haters. People who don’t want to see us come out on top.
-God wants us to shut the door so we can develop a personal relationship with Him. Regardless of all of the wonderful works that we may do for God, at the end of it all I believe that he wants a personal relationship with each and everyone of us. Which is why, in Luke 13:27, Jesus said, “But he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.” He was talking to people who claimed to do works in the name of the Lord. They may have done the works, however, they never had a personal relationship with him; “I know not whence ye are.” However, we don’t want to isolate our self from the rest of the world, totally. We still need to fellowship with other like-minded Christians.
“Lord, please establish a personal relationship between us and bless me with the wisdom to maintain my part.”
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