[2 Kings 4:1] One day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to Elisha and cried out, “My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the Lord. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”
When you don't have what you really ______________, God is what you really ______________.
[2 Kings 4:2] “What can I do to help you?” Elisha asked. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” “Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil,” she replied.
Stop waiting for what you ______________ and start working with what you ______________.
We serve a God who specializes in doing a __________ with a ______________.
God loves to take our ______________ and make it into ______________.
Offer God what we ______________ and trust him to give you what you ______________.
[2 Kings 4:3-6] And Elisha said, “Borrow as many empty jars as you can from your friends and neighbors. [4] Then go into your house with your sons and shut the door behind you. Pour olive oil from your flask into the jars, setting each one aside when it is filled.” [5] So she did as she was told. Her sons kept bringing jars to her, and she filled one after another. [6] Soon every container was full to the brim! “Bring me another jar,” she said to one of her sons. “There aren’t any more!” he told her. And then the olive oil stopped flowing.
God can turn ______________ things into __________ blessings.
[2 Kings 4:7] When she told the man of God what had happened, he said to her, “Now sell the olive oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on what is left over.”
When we show God our ______________ we get to see His ___________________.
[2 Corinthians 4:7 CSB] Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.
