3.189 How Did You Prepare for Your Miracle?
Show Notes
Allen Roberds explores the story of Elisha and the widow's oil in 2 Kings 4:3, highlighting the powerful instruction to "borrow not a few." This episode prompts listeners to reflect on how they are actively preparing to receive the miracles they pray for, demonstrating faith and readiness for God's blessings. Discover insights into actively showing the Lord you are ready for His divine timing and will.
Key Points
- Elisha's miracles, including healing and raising the dead, are compared to the types of miracles Christ performed in the New Testament.
- The story of Elisha advising the impoverished widow in 2 Kings 4:3 illustrates the crucial principle of preparing for upcoming blessings.
- The instruction to "borrow not a few" empty vessels emphasizes the importance of making ample room and showing full readiness for God's forthcoming miracle.
- Listeners are invited to consider how they are actively preparing their lives to receive the specific miracles and blessings they are seeking.
- True faith involves not only asking for divine intervention but also demonstrating readiness and alignment with the Lord's will and timing.
How are you preparing for the miracle that you're asking for in your life? How are you showing the Lord that you're ready for it when his timing is right, that you have the faith and that you're seeking for his will to be done in your life?
Episode Resources
Full Transcript
In Matthew 5, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world, reminding us that our lives are meant to preserve, illuminate, and point others to Him. This season on Savory Salt, we'll walk through the Old Testament, one verse and one thought each day. Perhaps these moments will add greater savor and brighter light to our lives as we seek to truly live as Savory Salt.
Hello, my friends, it is a new day with new opportunities. Choose ye this day whom you will serve. Who's a fan of miracles?
Raise your hand. If you're driving, keep both hands on the steering wheel, but who's a fan of miracles? Raise your hand.
Raise your hand. My friends, we are reading 2 Kings chapters 2 through 7 this week. And inside of the reading here, I think it's fascinating how much of a shift we go from Elijah and Elisha, or at least it seems like a shift for me.
Elijah performs miracles that are very similar to Christ's miracles. And then Elisha comes and does the same thing. Now, don't get me wrong, the miracles of parting the Red Sea and those types of things—those just resonate with me.
They very much miracles. I'm not discounting them at all. They just seem to be like Old Testament miracles.
And Elijah and Elisha, for some reason, seem to be like New Testament miracles for me. Things that Christ would do: He heals people; He raises people from the dead, right? These are things that both Elijah and Elisha are doing.
And then there's this part of a tiny phrase for our verse for today here that really kind of resonates with me when it comes to us looking for the miracles in our lives. And that's what I wanted to share as we dive into 2 Kings chapter 4 here. Verse 3 is our verse for today.
Okay, this is Elisha and he is at the house of a woman here that is a widow. She's dealing with some serious debt from her husband's passing and it looks like she's going to lose everything. Okay, and we have the front end of the miracle here in verse 3.
It says, "Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels. Borrow not a few." Now this is before the miracle has occurred. We haven't seen that we're going to have this basically kind of unlimited amount of oil that she's going to be able to sell and get out of debt and take care of her family.
But that line there just resonates with me, and I wanted to share with you as well. It got me thinking, "Borrow not a few." And my friends, what would happen if the widow would have gone and gotten two or three pots ready for the oil? Would she got a miracle of two or three pots?
She would have, yes. I'm imagining her going to neighbors all around asking for anything that can hold oil and just stacking the room. That's kind of how my imagination goes for this miracle.
It got me thinking of the way that you and I prepare for miracles in our own lives. I'm not going to discount at all that I pray for miracles. Absolutely.
But what I want to ask myself, and the mirror moment for me that I want to share with you, is when we're praying for these miracles in our lives, how are we preparing to receive the miracles? If you remember the moments back, I think it was with Moses. If you remember when they were praying for rain, and they come back and they're like, "You haven't even dug ditches here to be able to hold the rain!
Like if it were to rain, it would just be wasted. So you're not even ready for the miracle!" My friends, I hope that as you and I seek for miracles in our lives, which I do believe happen for the faithful and for those asking under the Lord's will. I believe they are real.
When we ask for them, are we also preparing ourselves to receive them? So the mirror moment for you and for me today, spend some time in the thoughts. How are you preparing for the miracle that you're asking for in your life?
How are you showing the Lord that you're ready for it when his timing is right, that you have the faith and that you're seeking for his will to be done in your life? That's worth spending some time thinking into. I know I will be.
I hope you do as well. That is all for today, my friends. You and I have come here for such a time as this.
Step forward in faith and let's be savory salt. We will be here tomorrow and we hope you are too.
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