How can we have a God who is called Jehovah Jireh and we are in want?
God does not abandon his children who put their trust in him.
There is a story in the Bible that will catch our attention and leave us perplexed.
The book of 2 Kings 4 relates that there was a woman among the wives of the sons of the prophets who cried out to Elisha.
She gives us important information about her Christian life.
Her husband, who was a prophet, had died,
He feared the Lord, but the creditor came to take his two children and turn them into slaves.
Here was a Christian family who served God,
who loved God,
who went to church,
who read their Bibles but were still in want.
This family prayed for people and knew that gold and silver belong to the Lord, but they found themselves in debt.
They knew that debt is not from God but they ended up begging.
Do we think that this spiritual family did not know or did not apply the principles of prosperity?
Did this family have a problem with giving?
Did this family not have a covenant?
The questions come from everywhere because those who teach how to deal with God find themselves in a complicated situation.
We can imagine how this woman must have felt, we can think how this mother was the laughing stock of the church and the town,
we can understand why she ran for help.
Lack diminishes us,
Lack breaks us,
Lack takes away our sleep,
Lack robs us of our glory,
Lack brings a curse upon us,
Lack drains us of our pride and brings us back to reality…
This woman went to see Elisha, she couldn’t take it any more.
The creditors didn’t look at her spiritual position,
they took everything from her, even her children.
Everything she had,
everything she had left.
Then the prophet had to open his heaven.
What a humiliation for the body of Christ!
The prophet asked her what she could do to help and what she had at home.
This woman first wanted to seal the lack in her life before she pulled herself together and confirmed that she had a jar of oil.
And at the word of the man of God, that jar of oil became several jars of oil that enabled her to sell, pay off her debts and get out of want.
Beloved, want is a disgrace before our Lord.
For Jehovah Jireh to come into play
we must have a little, a point of contact on which it will bounce.
When we have nothing, even if God is God, he won’t be able to do anything.
So let’s pray. Lack makes us slaves.
Let us pray that lack will not be our portion,
let us pray that provision will always be a grace,
Pray that the manna will keep falling whenever we want to get depressed.
Pray that you don’t miss anything.
Matthew 13:12 – For to him who has will be given, and he will have plenty, but to him who has not will be taken away even that which he has.
He who has something knows how to multiply it,
he does not walk by sight,
he works with the spirit, but he who has not already has a defeatist mentality,
he’s lazy,
he doesn’t undertake,
He’s content and complains all the time.
So let’s be careful not to find the lack attached to us.
Let’s pray to be constantly at the Lord’s feet so that satisfaction is in our hearts.
Good day to you all
Good day to you all
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