Have you ever been in that position where what is in your hands doesn't seem enough?
When the little in your hands cannot make it work as you still feel like there is not enough in your life and nothing in your hands and yet you see some persons with little in their hands.
I will like you relax as I take you through the little in your hands you are not seeing save you utilizing.
2 Kings 4:1-7
4 The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to
Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the
Lord. But now his creditor is
coming to take my two boys as his slaves."
2 Elisha replied to her, "How can I help
you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?"
"Your servant has nothing there at all," she said,
"except a little oil."
3 Elisha said, "Go around and ask all your
neighbors for empty jars. Don't ask for just a few. 4 Then go inside and shut the door behind you
and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one
side."
5 She left him and afterward shut the door
behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. 6 When all the jars were full, she said to her
son, "Bring me another one."
But he replied, "There is not a jar left." Then the oil
stopped flowing.
7 She went and told the man of God, and he said,
"Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what
is left." [New International Version]
I
want to strategically break down the scriptures above relating it with the
older post where we shared Samson’s view of nothing in my hands.
The
widow had something little in the house, the house here represents her life but
the creditor is coming to take her boys away as slave, thereby making the
little in her hands seem like nothing. That was the reason she replied Elisha
in verse 2 when he asked how can I help you? What do you have in your house (life)?
He was asking her – How can I help you bring down the spirit of God upon what
is in your Life (house) mightily as in the case of Samson.
This
is revealing that we grow from nothing in our hands through reconciliation of the little in our house(life).
You attract divine helpers who give or help deliver what
is in your destiny package through reconciliation.
Remaining in the state of nothing in my hands is a state that needs
the divine intervention of God – i.e. the spirit of God coming mightily upon
you by force or even without your permission.
The
widow in verse 2 replied: ‘Your servant has nothing at home at all’, except a
little oil – this revealed the definition of little. The little oil cannot
solve what’s on ground, it can’t bring the creditors fee to redeem her boys of a truth but it can be multiplied!
HOW TO USE THE LITTLE IN MY HANDS.
Go
and ask all your neighbours for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few, then go
inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars.
Few instructions there:
- Attract help: The little in your hands is placed there to attract help – to
attract destiny help and helpers. Your
neighbours (since house = our life, then neighbours = helpers)
- Don’t ask for just a few: the little in your hands will be multiplied according to what
you ask because they are your helpers (neighbours) they will give as much as is
in your destiny package.
- Shut the door behind you: i.e. put behind you the ideology of little in my hands. Its a
process of Solitude where the spirit of God comes upon you mightily to turn the little into what you alone cannot handle.
.
- Pour oil into all jars: make use of every opportunity destiny has to offer you. All the
jars are what your life is dependent on! If you refuse to use a jar, it leaves
your life ajar.
Followed
those procedures, she went and told the Man of God and he said Go, sell the oil
and pay your debts. You and your Sons can live on what is left.
In whatever way you use your little, you live on what’s left.
If you refuse to use a jar, it leaves your life ajar!
I pray you the grace to make use of the little in your life till abundance be found in your life.
Get prepared dear reader, the kick-off edition of our tri-monthly event in the South-western part of Nigeria with the central theme; There is a God! will be coming up on the 26th of November, 2016. It promises to be great. Details are coming soon!
Oluwatobi Oshunbiyi
Lead Partner,
Covenant of Life Blogs, Initiative & Academy.
Covenant of Life Blogs, Initiative & Academy.