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Has this ever happened to you?

On By Judy GlasserIn June, Uncategorized4 Comments

A widow comes to Elisha in 2 Kings 4 and tells him that her husband who served as a prophet with him is dead.  Now a creditor was threatening to take her two sons as slaves.  (Good thing people can’t do that anymore if you’re not paying all of your bills!)

Elisha asks her what she has in her house.

What does she already have that she can use to help her get out of this situation?

I hear this message over and over in the Bible.  What do we already have that he can use to bless us?

All the widow has is a flask of olive oil.  So Elisha asks her to borrow as many empty jars as as she can.  Then she was supposed to pour her oil into the jars…. and just keep pouring.  When she did what she was told, the widow totally filled up all of the jars.  Now she had enough to sell to pay off her creditor with extra to live on!

God used what she had to take care of her situation and then he gave her extra.

I wonder how many times God wants to help us deal with our situation by using something we already have and then he is ready to kick in extra when we are obedient.

Has this ever happened to you?

Keep on Asking,Keep On Seeking, Keep on Knocking

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 That’s what we’re doing this year as we read God’s Word.
We’re asking –
to know God
to hear God
to grow in wisdom.
We’re seeking –
to understand
to hear his voice as he guides us
to grow in loving the things he loves.

And we’re knocking.
Everytime we open the pages of his word, we are knocking – we’re making ourselves available for God to speak to us, to transform us, to bring us joy.

What does God promise us in return? We will receive, we will find and doors will be opened. Amen, Hallelujah!

Eating the Bitter Fruit

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Oh, yes, I’ve been there. I have eaten the bitter fruit of living life my own way. I have made some bad decisions in my life and paying the consequences for those has been both painful and embarrassing at times. I am still paying consequences for foolish things I chose to do when I was making decisions on my own without caring about what God said was right or wrong.

The fruit of those bad decisions may be bitter but we don’t want to become bitter as a result. God lets us pay the consequences so that we learn, we remember, we don’t do those things again. He doesn’t do this to punish us, he does it to help grow us into the people he planned for us to be.

The sweet outweighs the bitter as we grow closer in our walk with him.

Walking Closely with God

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Noah walked closely with God.
God could talk with Noah because he knew he was listening.
God could guide Noah in a plan to save his family because he knew Noah would obey.
God could give Noah something to do that would change the world because he knew Noah would trust him and take a step of faith even when it was something that Noah knew nothing about.
I have found it very interesting to read in the Bible how many of the great people of faith are described as walking closely with God.
In Genesis 5 we’ll be reading about Enoch who walked closely with God. And he disappeared…God took him up to heaven.
What would it feel like to walk so closely with God that he would just take you up?

January 1

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In Genesis 1:6, God separates the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth. He called this space ‘sky’.
What was the shape of the earth if there was no sky? How could the waters of the earth be attached to the waters of the heavens?
Questions like these used to make me have doubts about God. When I couldn’t understand something, I would think it wasn’t true.
Now I realize that the fact that I don’t understand everything in the Bible actually adds to God’s credibility as the Master of Universe. I only have a 3 1/2 pound brain – why should I be able to understand everything about God when his intelligence is limitless?