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Miracles are made from
what we offer to God.
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Naaman
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The
Boy with the Fish and Loaves
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The
Widow in 1 Kings 17
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Isaac
sowing seeds in the land of famine
While people are praying
for a move of God, most often God is waiting for a move of people!
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Go
and Do are the two cornerstones of the Gospel Message
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Miracles
begin to happen when we go and do what we can
A miracle is something
only God can do
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If
you can do it, it’s not a miracle
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Moses
parting the Red Sea … there was just no way
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God
makes a way where and when there is no way
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God
turns impossibilities into possibilities
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All
things are possible to him who believes
Everything God does is a
miracle!
2 Kings 4 NKJV
1 ¶ 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 …
* My brother once told
me that the hardest position to fill is one with someone in it. I think this
true as well with miracles. Perhaps many are not spiritually filled because
they have not yet emptied themselves of the world. I am not talking about stuff.
You
can have stuff and stuff not have you. This was the barrier to the young rich ruler in Matthew 19:21 and
Mark 10:21. The young rich ruler was just too full. The young rich ruler went away sad because his
stuff had him. If this man would have emptied himself he would have been filled
from heaven with true riches that would never fade, be stolen or corrupted. There is such potential in empty vessels.
* Full vessels are at
their greatest day. You have to pour out at least a little before more can be
poured in. Give and it will be given to you. Free up some unproductive and
wasteful time so it can be filled with better and more profitable adventures.
Life is the process of filling empty vessels.
* For more than three
decades this concept of seeking empty vessels and lifting them to God to fill
has been at the forefront of our church growth and kingdom expansion
philosophy. Each time we have filled our Church we have looked for another
empty vessel to fill. Full vessels get stagnate. Like Kendal Bevil, an elder in
our church, once shared with me, “Even chickens die off to the size of the coup” Pastor Kendal Bevil. When what we are pouring into is not filled
yet, there is a freedom to expect more to come from God. When all we have is
satisfied then there is no greater expectancy.
3 Then he said, “Go,
borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbors — empty
vessels; do not gather just a few.
* This is where many
people limit themselves and limit the hand of God. The prophet knew that he
should direct her to
get a big vision of supply.
A vision that would more than meet her immediate need. A vision that would
supply her and her family for many days to come so that she would not soon fall
prey to needing another miracle.
* If you are going to go
for a miracle anyway, what is the use of wasting all that God can and will do
on just barely meeting your desperate temporary need. He is able to do
exceedingly abundantly above all you could think or ask according to or limited
by whatever is working on the inside of you. (Ephesians 3:20)
* Don’t limit God.
> Psalms 78:41 … they
limited the Holy One of Israel
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.
