Faith, Obedience and Widows Oil | Neil Hoffman | June 22 & 23, 2024
Part of Message Notes
June 22, 2024
2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
2 Kings 4:2-7
Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.” Then he said, “Go, borrow vessels at large for yourself from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; do not get a few. And you shall go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out into all these vessels, and you shall set aside what is full.” So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing the vessels to her and she poured. When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There is not one vessel more.” And the oil stopped. Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”
What if all we need is already in the house?
When you take something small and give it to God it can become something big.
Philippians 4:19
And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
What if the size of your miracle is tied to the intensity of your faith?
Mark 11:22-24
And Jesus *answered saying to them, “Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him. Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you.
2 Kings 4:3
Then he said, “Go, borrow vessels at large for yourself from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; do not get a few.
What if the size of our reward was tied to the level of our obedience?
Psalm 37: 4-6
Delight yourself in the LORD;
And He will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the LORD,
Trust also in Him, and He will do it.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light
And your judgment as the noonday.
Matthew 7:24
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
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