“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.” Then he said, “Go, borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbors—empty vessels; do not gather just a few. 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.” 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. 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. 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.”” II Kings 4:2-7
One of Elisha’s students passed away leaving his widow in so much debt that the creditors wanted to take her sons as slaves as a form of payment. When the widow came to him for help he asked two critical questions before giving an instruction to solve her problem. There’s a lot to learn from the interaction between Elisha and the widow about how God blesses the works of our hands.
We can ask God for blessings and He’s always willing to bless us, but what we may not realize is that in God’s system, supply is rarely the problem—capacity is.
Many times, we’re asking God for:
- more opportunities
- more visibility
- more influence
- more income
But heaven is asking:
- Where will you put it?
- Can your structure sustain what you’re praying for?
- Do you have the discipline, systems, mindset, and spiritual depth to carry it?
God’s system recognised that growth without structure leads to loss and increase without capacity leads to pressure. So sometimes the delay in the increase we seek isn’t because God doesn’t want to bless us because He sees our gaps and the issues giving us what we want will cause if we don’t make any adjustments. Remember He doesn’t add sorrow to His blessings (Prov 10:22)
We pray that the Lord will use this series to help us understand how to build:
- knowledge
- systems
- consistency
- spiritual alignment
So that we are truly prepared for all we’re praying for. Click here to download the study.