Mbonisi Malaba
Mbonisi Malaba opened up the camp session with a dynamic word from 11 kings 4:1 – 7. He said:
This story was set 3000 years ago. A prophet had just died and he hadn’t paid all his creditors. What can we do to receive from God. God wants to bless us more than we can imagine. The lady has problems – financial problems weighing her down. Death has taken her husband and now debt is threatening to take her 2 children. Her family was being ripped apart. She went to Elisha the prophet.
We get to come before the King of Kings, the Great “I AM” who is bigger and stronger than Elisha. When God is about to move, He loves us to move with Him. We need to exercise our faith. If we are growing in faith, we are growing in God.
Elisha told the woman to get as many jars as she could from her neighbours and friends. Elisha knew God wanted to do something.
This story was set 3000 years ago. A prophet had just died and he hadn’t paid all his creditors. What can we do to receive from God. God wants to bless us more than we can imagine. The lady has problems – financial problems weighing her down. Death has taken her husband and now debt is threatening to take her 2 children. Her family was being ripped apart. She went to Elisha the prophet.
We get to come before the King of Kings, the Great “I AM” who is bigger and stronger than Elisha. When God is about to move, He loves us to move with Him. We need to exercise our faith. If we are growing in faith, we are growing in God.
Elisha told the woman to get as many jars as she could from her neighbours and friends. Elisha knew God wanted to do something.
Jars
There were two specific instructions
1. The jars needed to be empty. God cannot fill up a jar that is already full. “When heavens fullness meets earth’s emptiness, flow happens.” God gives grace to the humble and He opposes the proud. Come to God as a needy person. God wants to fill up things in my life that I didn’t know were missing. The widow does exactly what Elisha instructed.
2. The miracle takes place when the woman starts to pour the oil. The oil only stopped flowing when there were no more jars. Nothing in the entire universe could stop the flow only the lack of jars. Earth’s need ran out before heaven’s flow. “We are coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring.” Heaven looking for our emptiness and expectancy. When it comes to spiritual things we have a lot more say than we realize. Press in to Jesus. Look at Blind Bartemaes and The woman with the issue of blood. We need to change the way we view God. Need plus faith means God will meet our need. The woman pressed through with emptiness and expectancy and God will meet her need.
We are coming to Jesus at momentum 2010. We serve a God who does things, who is ALIVE and can do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine. There are 2 sides to expectancy:
1. General
2. Specific
When we come EXPECTANT, God will meet our need.
Summarised by Molly Manhanga
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