SUNDAY MANNA
Eze 47:12
Fruit trees of all kinds will grow along both sides of the river. The leaves of these trees will never turn brown and fall, and there will always be fruit on their branches. There will be a new crop every month, for they are watered by the river flowing from the Temple. The fruit will be for food and the leaves for healing.” NLT
Walls to Doors of Opportunity and Purpose
Turning walls to doors of opportunity and purpose
2 Kings 6:24-33
24Some time later, however, King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army and besieged Samaria.
25As a result, there was a great famine in the city. The siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five pieces of silver.
26One day as the king of Israel was walking along the wall of the city, a woman called to him, “Please help me, my lord the king!”
30When the king heard this, he tore his clothes in despair.
31“May God strike me and even kill me if I don’t separate Elisha’s head from his shoulders this very day,” the king vowed.
33And the king said, “All this misery is from the Lord! Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?” NLT
Prov 19:3
A man’s own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against the Lord. NIV
God can turn walls to doors of opportunities.
Amidst dire situations, see God turning your walls into great doors of opportunities. As you step out with expectation of His favor, He multiplies the little you have, and cause you to step into your greatest purpose.
1. Don’t allow bitterness to eat into your life - refocus
2 Kings 7:1-2
1Elisha replied, “Listen to this message from the Lord! This is what the Lord says: By this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, six quarts of choice flour will cost only one piece of silver, and twelve quarts of barley grain will cost only one piece of silver.”
2The officer assisting the king said to the man of God, “That couldn’t happen even if the Lord opened the windows of heaven!”
But Elisha replied, “You will see it happen with your own eyes, but you won’t be able to eat any of it!” NLT
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2 Kings 7:19-20
19The king’s officer had replied, “That couldn’t happen even if the Lord opened the windows of heaven!” And the man of God had said, “You will see it happen with your own eyes, but you won’t be able to eat any of it!” 20And so it was, for the people trampled him to death at the gate! NLT
1 Cor 1:7
Now you have every grace and blessing; every spiritual gift and power for doing his will are yours during this time of waiting for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. LB
Refocus with your
Ps 68:11
The Lord gave the word; Great was the company of those who proclaimed it. NKJV
Prov 11:11
A city is built up by the blessing of the upright, but it is torn down by the mouth of the wicked. HCSB
Psa 112:2-3
2His seed shall be mighty on the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed; 3wealth and riches are in his house; and his righteousness is standing forever. LITV
2. Turn walls into doors
2 Kings 7:3-4
3Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates. “Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other. 4“We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.” NLT
Locked out but not locked in
Step out – God can see
Step out – God can
the little you have
2 Kings 7:5-8
5So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there! 6For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses and the sounds of a great army approaching. “The king of Israel has hired the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us!” they cried to one another. 7So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives.
8When the men with leprosy arrived at the edge of the camp, they went into one tent after another, eating and drinking wine; and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and hid it. NLT
3. Share and step into your
purpose
2 Kings 7:9-11
9Finally, they said to each other, “This is not right. This is a day of good news, and we aren’t sharing it with anyone! If we wait until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us. Come on, let’s go back and tell the people at the palace.”
10So they went back to the city and told the gatekeepers what had happened. “We went out to the Aramean camp,” they said, “and no one was there! The horses and donkeys were tethered and the tents were all in order, but there wasn’t a single person around!” 11Then the gatekeepers shouted the news to the people in the palace. NLT
Col 1:16
For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, … everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. Mess
Acts 20:24
I don’t care about my own life. The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me–to tell people the Good News about God’s grace. NCV
Share the good news and step into your highest purpose
Acts 13:36
For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep…
It is not about you.
The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, or even your happiness. It is far greater than your family, career, or your wildest dreams and ambition. Rick Warren
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