The past month and a half I have been spreading news about my choice to make a journey literally around the world. I’ve told family friends and acquaintances. When asked how I will fund this trip I am quick to say that I know the Lord will be faithful to provide. However somewhere there is an element of distrust. That can be seen in my weariness of beginning the fundraising process.
This week I opened up the curriculum for my Kids Church class and found that it was titled: Trust God. The story was a familiar one to me, about a woman who’s unable to provide for her family and is about to lose everything, including her sons. In the story (see below) God provides for this woman in a miraculous way. She only has one jar of oil, as she begins to pour it out many vessels are filled. When she is finished she has enough oil to sell to pay off her debts and to take care of her family.
God is challenging me through this simple story. It is really easy to say that I trust God, but with that declaration should come action, right? If the woman did not gather many vessels to pour the oil into she would have missed out on the blessing that the Lord was will to give to her.
With that I simply humble myself, and ask would you be willing to help with my fundraising goals?
My next goal is $3,500.
Even that is really staggering to me right now, but I am making a declaration to believe God. If you would like to talk me personally about this please feel free to contact me. I would love to give you a call or sit down with you and share my heart about this next step in my life.
Thank you in advance.
2 Kings 4
New King James Version (NKJV)
Elisha and the Widow’s Oil
4 A certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord. And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves.”
2 So 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 but a jar of oil.”
3 Then he said, “Go, borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbors—empty vessels; do not gather just a few. 4 And when you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons; then pour it into all those vessels, and set aside the full ones.”
5 So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured it out. 6 Now it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.”
And he said to her, “There is not another vessel.” So the oil ceased. 7 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 live on the rest.”
