2 Kings 4:6When all the jars were full…the oil stopped flowing.
This is the account of God’s mercies to the widow who was in
financial distress. Her debtors were coming to take her children to be sold
into slavery and she came to look for help from the prophet Elisha.
He asked her to borrow all the jars that she can get from her
neighbours and then he instructed her to take the small bottle of oil that she
had and asked her to begin filling up all the jars. When all the jars were
full, then the oil from her own bottle stopped flowing.
What we learn from today’s scripture is that God is our
provider. He is Jehovah Jireh who provides for all our needs. Today we continue
to see such miracles, God is not a God of yesterday but He is the same today
and forever.
We have been into mission fields where we have actually seen
and experienced God’s provision. There was an instance where we were travelling
from the city to another smaller town far away. The journey was over three
hours and there were no villages or shops all along the way, it was either
jungle of farms.
All along the way I saw that the fuel tank needle was sitting
at empty, I was sitting beside the driver but I did not mention this to the
driver. We literally drove on an empty tank for well over one hundred miles and
the driver was travelling at high speed. When we finally reached the small town
where we were going to minister to the villagers, only then I asked the drive
about the empty tank.
Then the vehicle stopped. Truly God is our provider and He
allowed us to travel on supernatural fuel. There are also other instances which
we have witnessed.
On other occasions, God had multiplied the food for the
feeding of larger group of people with just one cup of rice.
A group had been up on the prayer mountain for a month and it
was the last day when they were preparing to come down. The cook prepared the
last meal to eat before they start their trek down the mountain. Just then
another group of prayer warriors arrived from downhill and they were invited to
join the meal by the leader who did not know that there was just some rice
cooked from the last cup.
The final result was that two groups of hungry people ate and
were full from the small meal that was cooked from one cup of rice. In all
there were around 40 people who ate. This was a real miracle of providence from
God.
Indeed our God is still a miracle working God and all that we
need s to continue to believe in Him and to pit our trust in Him. He is the one
and only true God of the whole world.
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