TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - June 6, 2025 - 2 Kings 4:1-7 - What Is In Your House?

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

In this powerful Faith Friday episode of Morning Manna, Rick and Doc explore the miraculous provision of God through the story of Elisha and the widow in 2 Kings 4:1-7. Faced with overwhelming debt and the threat of losing her sons to slavery, the widow cries out for help. Elisha asks her one pivotal question: What do you have in your house?This question unlocks a profound principle of faith — God works with what we already have. As the widow gathers vessels and obeys the prophet's instructions, God multiplies her small jar of oil into an abundant supply that not only pays her debt but sustains her family for life.The teaching emphasizes personal responsibility, obedience, preparation, and expectation in faith. It is a lesson in releasing faith through action, involving your family in miracles, and never underestimating what God can do with even the smallest resources in your hand.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 6/6/25Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting https://www.FaithandValues.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielf

Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna. It's Friday, and that means it's Faith Friday. And wow, I don't know about you, but I am loving Faith Fridays. My faith is being built, Doc. Every Friday, I'm leading Morning Manna pumped up and excited and full of faith in God and And realizing I'm missing things in the word Like like last Friday, you know that we we you spotted the nugget With Elijah and and the widow you saw the nugget. Hey, he said Elijah said to the widow I'd like to have that bread that's in your hand Elijah said to the widow, I'd like to have that bread that's in your hand. He didn't have any bread in her hand. She had sticks.

So I guess he was seeing breadsticks. It's like, I want to eat, I want to eat that. It was breadsticks you've got. And yeah, I never, never saw that before. Well, today, we're going to transition from Elijah to Elisha. It's easy to get these two guys confused because the names are similar. But Elisha was the protege of Elijah. So he learned his faith principles from Elijah.

And now we're going to see Elijah perform a miracle. Of course, the Lord is doing it, but he is emulating his teacher Elijah. And we have another we have another widow in the story. So I love this story. Also, it's in Second Kings, verse chapter second Kings chapter 4 verses 1 through 7 Let's pray now doc will read the word then we're gonna jump into this lesson. Almighty God our dear Heavenly Father Father we are here eager to receive knowledge of your word and That you would reveal to us these golden nuggets that are inside these scriptures that will increase our faith to believe you for more. Father, we love

you, we praise you, and we desire your Holy Spirit to conduct this class in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. welcome to morning man of course and we appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to be with us live if you're listening to us at a recorded time on one of our various social media platforms we welcome you as well later on in the lesson today at the end of our lesson we'll be honoring the Lord's table so make preparation for that as well. So if you're regular here on Fridays and you know to be prepared for that but if this is your first time with us or first time in a long time we do celebrate the Lord's table at the end of our lesson on Fridays. Let's jump

right into the word here we are in 2 Kings today, 2 Kings chapter 4. We're talking about the prophet Elisha, Elisha, S-H-A at the end there. And I'll read the first seven verses of chapter 4. 2 Kings chapter 4, verse 1. Now there cried a certain woman to the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, thy servant, my husband, is dead. And thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord,

and the creditor has come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen. And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, thy handmaid hath not anything in the house save a pot of oil. Then he said, go borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels, borrow not a few. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.' So she went from him and shut the door upon her and her sons, who brought the vessels to her, and she poured out.

And it came to pass when the vessels were full that she said unto her son, bring me yet another vessel. Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, there is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed. Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, go sell the oil and pay thy debt and live thou and thy children of the rest." God bless the reading of his word today. Oh wow, I think some of you have already seen it. You already know it, you're already ahead of me.

The prophet said to her, what do you got in your hand? I mean I can't wait to get to that part. What do you got in your hand? I mean, I can't wait to get to that part. What do you have in your hand, woman? So let's start at verse one. Now there cryeth a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elijah, saying, Thy servant, my husband is dead. And thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord, and a creditor has come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen." So we'll break it down into segments. It's a long sentence.

Now a certain woman of the wives, now there cryeth a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets under Elijah. So the scripture identifies this is a certain woman. This is not a parable. This is not a children's tale. This was not put in the Bible to have story time. There was a certain woman. She was as real as you are real. She lived. She was alive. She was flesh and blood with a name. Doesn't tell us a name, does it?

No. She's a certain woman. But a particular one. Yes. So the Holy Spirit desired us to know this was a real person. And like the story in 1 Kings 17 with Elijah, this woman is also a widow

And I think one thing that teaches us here doc is that God has a tender heart towards widows. Yes And he has a tender heart towards those who have a tender heart towards widows And he says so in his word. James said, you want to know the definition of true religion? To visit widows and orphans in their affliction. That's God's definition of religion. Didn't say anything about denominations, church buildings, church programs, religious TV networks, religious radio.

He didn't say anything. He said, my definition of religion is to visit widows and orphans in their affliction, meaning you are ministering unto them as they are afflicted. So God hears the cries of the afflicted, in particular widows and orphans. If you want to get on God's bad side, do something bad against a widow or an orphan. Right, because He's their defender. Yep, but if you want to be on his good side, bless you something good for a widow or an orphan.

If you're somewhat deficient right now in the grace and mercy account in heaven, here's how to make a deposit. Find a widow, find an orphan. I guarantee you there's a widow on your street or in your road somewhere. She needs a new roof. She needs her house painted. She needs the yard mode.

She needs to leak in the sink to be fixed. There's some widow near you who needs something. So this identifies this woman. She's identified as a member of the prophetic community. She says, my husband. She identifies her husband as, or she's a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets. So even though the Bible doesn't tell us, Jewish historians and rabbis identify this woman as the wife of Obadiah. And Obadiah was a prophet and he was also his day job. He was an administrator in King Ahab's palace. That's right. That was his day job, but he was also a prophet. Right. And a lot of scholars believe that this woman was the wife of Obadiah. Well, one of the things we know about and his wife hid the prophets from Jezebel and Ahab.

Yes. 100, hid 100 prophets that Ahab and Jezebel wanted to kill. So it's possible, Doc. And again, we're just imagining, we're, you know, imagining, we're speculating. Where did this man's debt come from? I believe it was from supporting the prophetic community out of his own pocket. Me too. That's what I believe. I think he had to borrow money to keep these 100 profits alive. Right.

Right. I think he went into debt to make provisions for 100 servants of the Lord whom Ahab and Jezebel wanted to kill. That's what I think. I don't think he was, I don't think he had a gambling debt. No. Because the verse goes through here and says, you know he was a servant of the Lord. You know that he's dead, but he was a servant of the Lord. You know his reputation, and yet we're in debt because of something that's happened,

because he died. Yes. You know of something that's happened because he died. Yes So this woman cried out There now there cryeth a certain woman She's in distress She's got a great need she's in a situation she can't resolve on her own. What crisis are you facing today? A death in your family?

That's what she experienced. Her husband suddenly died. All of a sudden she's in she's a widow without a husband and he left her bills Divorce what's your crisis? Are you in divorce job loss? Did you just lose your job? Business slowdown Economy right what is it is, what's grieving you, what's hurting you, what's what's deep inside of you that hurts. It just hurts. She cried out. That cry came from her pain, her grief, her desperation. When you hurt enough, you will cry out.

And so that cry represents intense emotion and a sense of urgency. When you cry out it's because you're hurting, you're desperate, and you're out of time. You're desperate for an answer. So in this case, we'll back up in 1 Kings 17 with Elijah. Elijah went looking for the woman, but now in this case, this widow is looking for the prophet, Elisha. And she's not a Gentile woman. She's part of the Hebrew community prior to the sons of the prophets She's in she's in she's in the tribe. She is inside the covenant and

Her husband was a prophet and Connected to Elisha in his ministry, so she cries out Your servant my, he's dead. And you know that he feared the Lord, you know that he was a servant of the Lord, and that he feared the Lord. So she reveals her loss, she reveals the source of her pain, her desperation, she identifies it with words. My husband is dead and you know what a godly man he was and I'm in trouble. This is the gist of her cry to Elisha.

Okay, this shows us that even God-fearing people face tragedies in life. Right. Sometimes completely out of their control. Yes. Every family will experience death. I mean, that's a given. But there are other tragedies that come to us accidents and sicknesses and Financial failures the things that we don't anticipate you could have a storm. It rips your house apart. We all face unexpected tragedies But what this shows us is that she knew what to do. She didn't know how to fix her problem But she knew who could fix the problem. That's what's important here. She had a problem she couldn't fix, but she knew who could fix it.

She knew she had to find a man of God who could intercede for her to the Lord. Now this is Old Testament time. Today we can go directly to the Lord through the mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ. We go directly to God the Father through Jesus. The Holy Spirit is in us to pray, intercede for us, with us. But in the Old Testament times she went to the man of God, she went to the prophet. Her husband was a prophet. She understood these principles. Right. She helped her husband hide 100 prophets from Ahab and They were running an underground railroad. They were trafficking in wanted fugitives. Yes. They're hiding people from the law.

It was a corrupt law. It was a corrupt government, but it was still the government. They had people out, they had agents out looking for these guys. This woman and her deceased husband, they hid these 100 servants of the Lord. So it shows us her husband's devotion and her devotion. They were team, they were devoted to the Lord. And she said, you know that my husband served the Lord and that he feared the Lord. So she obviously, Elijah knows her husband. And she is calling on that personal relationship. So you know who I'm talking about.

And you know who i'm talking about And you you know who I am And i'm in a lot of trouble I need help. Well, what's the trouble and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons To be bondmen Yes My husband borrowed money and he died before he paid it off. He wasn't expecting to die. He thought he'd have this loan paid off. He didn't know he was going to die.

But it's not like they had life insurance or anything back there, back then or anything. And So what do you put up as collateral? Your family. Imagine today if credit card companies required you to put your family up as collateral. And in a way, that's exactly what this widow woman was about to lose, her future. Not just her two sons. I mean, it's tragic as that is, but you've got to understand with her husband now gone, her hope for the future rested in her two sons and their ability to start families and produce children and take care of her as a widow. That's right. And so not only was this an economic crisis that she was facing, but it was also the potential loss of her future as well. Well, she's going to lose her son. She's going to see her sons put into slavery. Right. And what's going to happen to her at that point? We don't know how many years it's going to take them to pay off her husband's debt. Are they going to be slaves? Five years, 10 years, 20 years? We don't know, but they're going to become slaves. Right.

We don't know, but they were going to become slaves. Right. Which teaches us the severity of debt's consequences. Right, debt is bondage. Yes, so these are bond men because they're going into bondage. Yes. So if anything we ought to learn here to avoid worldly entanglements.

World system is designed to get you into debt. You have to work every day not to get in debt. Right. Because it's easy to get in debt. They make it easier. But here's the situation. She didn't create the debt. Her sons didn't create the debt, but they're saddled with it. So there are times in your life where there are circumstances that come along. It's not your fault. It's not your kid's fault. Somebody else did something maybe decades ago that are causing a situation in your life at this moment. But still, she cried to the man of God, and by extension, she was crying out to God, Help me! Help!

Look, sometimes, you know, people die, and it's not that they've left their family in debt but they left their family in a mess to untangle that person's affairs right okay when my father was a furniture manufacturer he made furniture he built furniture for restaurants manufacture. He made furniture, he built furniture for restaurants and when he died he was in an accident not an auto accident, he died at home in an accident. But doc he was in the middle of a contract. He was in the middle of a contract to supply furniture to a restaurant. He was in the middle of a contract to supply furniture to a restaurant. And that threw my sister and my brother and myself into a mess. Because the man who owned the restaurant had already paid for the furniture.

Right. And he wants the furniture or his money. And that would be fair, right? I mean, it was fair. It was fair. So we had a major problem. We had all kinds of and my dad had other contracts in the pipeline where he had deposits. We had to untangle all those things. So you know these things happen where somebody passes away. It's

not that they're leaving behind debt but they're leaving behind a ball of of ropes knots. You got to get out of this thing all right especially if you didn't leave a Especially if you didn't leave a will, if you didn't leave a line of succession, who's gonna take over? All these things have to be worked out. And it's the worst time for a widow, because she's grieving over the loss of her husband. Now she's gotta deal with all his business affairs. So I'm just trying to give you the idea,

the impression of what this woman's going through, and how it can happen to us today. So second verse says Elijah said under her, what shall I do for thee? Tell me what hast thou in the house? And she said thy handmaid hath not anything in the house save a pot of oil. What shall I do for you? What do you desire me to do? Dear woman, I hear your cry. I see your pain.

What do you desire me to do? Speak it, tell me. He's prompting her to speak out the words, to stop crying, wipe away the tears, and express what you need from God. God listens to our crying. He cares. He's sympathetic. He's kind. He's has empathy. He knows we're crying, but at some point he says, now stop crying for a moment and tell me what do you desire from me? And that's when we have to express to him what we need. But if you never stop crying, if you never stop depression, if you never stop just rehashing the loss, rehashing the tragedy,

rehashing the pain, if you never stop that, you never get to the point of expressing to god what you need from him Right. So this wasn't a cruel question that elijah was asking this widow woman That he it was important that she verbalized the need That she put it out there and jesus did the same thing. If you recall the story of blind Bartimaeus, he asked Bartimaeus, he said in Mark 10, 51, Jesus answered and said unto him, what will thou that I should do unto thee?

And the blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. Now it might be obvious, I'm blind. And then Jesus said, what do you want? It would seem obvious, well, to get sight, but it's important that the person verbalize their faith, that put it out there and to say, this is the issue, this is what I need, This is what I need.

So Doc, if Don Rickles were blind and you ask him, Don, what do you need? I mean, how would he answer that question? What's wrong with you, you hockey puck? I can't see. I'm blind. I want to see. You think I want a turkey sandwich? I want to be able to see you know Yeah, so but jesus said stupid said to a blind man. What do you desire from me? I mean, what was the guy gonna say? Uh, can I borrow ten dollars?

Now can you make me see Crystallized And expressed in very clear terms what he desired God to do and that's what happens here with this woman. Elijah says to the widow, what shall I do for thee? He's willing to act on her behalf. He's willing to go to God and inquire of God, how can we bring about what this woman needs? So he plays the role of intermediary. He's going to the Lord saying,

this woman has a great need. She's asked me to help her. What shall I do, Father? How are we going to do this? Now Elijah knew the answer is coming from God, but he also knew is in the natural realm, it's got to flow through him. Yes. So then he says, tell me, what do you have in this house? I can see him looking around. I can see him looking around at the cabinets and the walls.

What do you have here? What do you mean, what do I have here? I got to have something to work with. See again, this is like we get back at last week's lesson with the widow and the bread and the oil. Elijah said, hey, I see bread in your hand. The woman's like, there ain't no bread. There's only enough flour at my house to make one more pancake. But Elijah saw bread

in her hand. What's he saying to her? What do you got in your house? You got to give me something to work with. This is where a lot of people miss out on the miracles. You have to, you have to, your faith has to be connected to something physical that you are in possession of. And what you possess right now is a seed for your future. Amen. Think about that. Whatever you have right now is a seed for your future. Yes, you have something right now that's enough for God to touch and work with and create your miracle.

Look around. Look around in your house. What do you got? What do you have that you can sell? What do you have that you can sell? You really don't need it. You can sell it and that becomes that financial offering to the ministry. What do you have that you can sell? What do you have that you can sell? You really don't need it. You can sell it and that becomes that financial offering to the ministry. What do you have? What's in your garage? What's in your barn? What's in your bank account? What's in your savings? What's in your your retirement? What do you got? God's looking around here. Hey, what do you got? Give me something here to work with You need a miracle

What I I've got I gotta have something to work with. Yes. Okay, I created everything in the beginning So there's something i've already created for you That is your key to unlocking your future here Yes And it's not just physical things. It includes your talents, your skills, your abilities. What do you have? What assets? What talents do you have? What do you presently possess? What's within your reach? What can you touch right now that's yours? You've got to do something. You've got to give God something. He supernaturally performs miracles through natural means.

The blind man that had no eyeballs. Sure, he was blind. He didn't even have eyeballs. He just had empty sockets. What did Jesus do? Did he just go, poof, there's eyeballs? No? He got some dirt out of the ground and spit in it and made a mud ball.

He made an eyeball out of mud. Hey, we're made out of mud. That's right. Make an eyeball out of mud. He stuck two mud balls in that man's sockets. Is that there? That's good. That'll work. I've done this before. God could have miraculously made pots and vessels and jars appear, but he didn't. Right. He involved this woman

in the miracle. See, if you're just sitting there waiting on God to do the miracle, it's not going to happen. He desires you to be involved in it. Hey, let's do this together. You express faith and you demonstrate faith by moving, by action, by physically, naturally doing things and then I get involved in it. When you start by faith to do natural things, that's when God honors your faith and does supernatural things. God is sovereign over resources. Right.

But you know, Rick, he never asked you to bring something you don't have, but something you already have. That's right. I don't think I've told this story for a long long time. So it'll be new to most people. But many many decades ago this would have been in the late 80s. late 80s, maybe 1990, I don't know. Could have been early 90s, okay. I was still living in Maryland at the time. And I was going through a financial drought, a severe financial drought.

And anyhow, we were involved with a group that every month, you know, they went from house to house, you know, each person had a responsibility to host the group for the next gathering. And you fed them, you fed, you know, whoever, whoever was the host or hostess, it was your job to feed everybody coming over. So it happened to be our turn on the worst week you could have had it. Like I just didn't have money to feed a bunch of people. I mean, Doc, it was like 40 people coming to our house. I just don't have the money to feed 40 people coming to our house.

I just don't have the money to feed 40 people this week. We just don't have it. And again, this is a long time ago. So in terms of dollars, you know, inflation is a lot higher now, but I prayed. And I'm looking at the clock and it's like, hey, they're all coming at 7 p.m. and like at 5, you know, Susan mean, and I looked in my wallet, Doc, and I had less than $10 in my wallet. And I prayed and said, God, what am I supposed to do. And I heard him say, go to the grocery store and buy all the salsa you can buy. Again, this is a great story. 35, 40 years ago, you know, salsa didn't cost that much then. So, you know, you could buy a lot with $10. Okay. Whatever I had my wallet could have been seven,

eight, nine, you know, whatever it was, it was less than $10. So Susan said, what are you gonna do? And I said, I'm gonna go to the grocery store and buy salsa. And she's like, are you serious? We're gonna give them salsa? I just prayed and the Lord said, go buy salsa. And she's like, oh, I'm just gonna leave. I'm embarrassed. You know, I'm just going to leave. I'm embarrassed.

You know, I can hear Susan saying that too. You don't even have the enough money to buy the chips to go with the salsa. That's right. You're going to do, you're going to put straws in it. They're just going to suck the salsa out of the jars. I mean, this folks, this is how bad it was. So I went to the store and I'm loading up on $10 worth of salsa. I mean, this folks, this is how bad it was. So I went to the store and I'm loading up on $10 worth of salsa.

And you know, when I got back to the house, I walked in the house and I got my little bag of salsa and everybody's there. You know, when open the door, you can hear the house is full of people. Their cars parked everywhere outside. The house is full of people. And I got my little bag of salsa. And like, Oh, dear Lord, this is the worst day. Okay, let's go on Rick walk into the living room and take the salsa into the kitchen and let's let's let's have a salsa rama. All right. Let's pig out on salsa. When I got into the the dining room, I couldn't believe what I was looking at. Our dining room table

was overloaded with Mexican food. Listen to this story folks. I'm talking burritos and fajitas and you name it. It's queso. It's there. There is so much Mexican food. And I'm like, what just happened here? And I get Susan aside. I said, were you holding out on me? You had money. How did you get all this food? Listen folks, listen to this. And she said, she named a person who knew us and she said, he works for a food delivery company,

drives a truck for a food delivery company. And the truck, the refrigeration unit went out in the truck. And the truck had to go into the garage and would be in the garage for days because the parts weren't there. And this man, the driver called his boss and said, what do I do with all this leftover? I got food in here I haven't delivered yet. And his owner said, the owner of the company said, just find somebody and give it to him. And they brought all this Mexican food over to our house.

And Susan said, the only thing he didn't have was salsa. That's a true story. That's a true story. That's a great one. And so Susan and I, we look like heroes to this crowd of people. We made all this fantastic Mexican food. And as Susan was spreading it out on the table, you know, they saw this as a catering, a caterer truck showed up with all this food. And people said, where's Rick? Oh, he had to go get salsa. See, what's in your hand? I had like $10 in my hand. God says I could work with that.

Go get some salsa. I'm going to do something in your life. I'm going to show you how I can perform miracles in your life. So, what's within your reach? What do you have in your hand? The Lord required this widow's active participation. He said, I'm not going to do this all. I'm not going to do everything for you without you doing something. That would not be a good lesson for you. You've got to be involved. Right. You've got to be involved in your miracle. And she's there.

Go ahead. Yeah, I was going to say, and she responded to Elisha. She was responding from a lack of faith. She was saying, I don't have anything. I have nothing. The only thing really I have is just this little flask of oil over here. Yes. It wasn't a big pot or like a gallon jug or anything.

The word that she's here, just a small flask. You think about the kind of oil that they put on your table at restaurants and stuff like that for oil and vinegar and things. That's it. That's the size I've been talking about. She said, your servant has nothing in this house. Oh, except this little jar of oil. That's it.

That's it. Nothing else. Look around Lord. Look around Elijah. They have nothing here. I have over here. I got this little jar of oil. You got to know that Elisha's eyes lit up when she said that.

Oh, got it. So you can hear him praying Lord. She has oil. got to know that Elisha's eyes lit up when she said that. So you can hear him praying, Lord, she has oil. What can we do with this oil? No, he was praying Lord. She's telling the truth. She doesn't have anything, but she does have a jar of oil. You got any oil miracles stored up for today? The Lord says, a matter of fact. See it's an insignificant resource. She dismissed it. I have nothing.

Oh, I got this little jar of oil. That's it. That would be like saying, I got a salt and pepper shaker. That's all I have. But to the man of God, he says, that's enough. God can do something with that little jar of oil. Give God your emptiness. He will give you his fullness.

Praise God. He's not interested in your fullness. What miracle is he going to do in your fullness? Give him your emptiness. And he will reveal his own. Give even from your lack. Yes. I mean, God uses mustard seeds,

he uses loaves and fishes and he uses tiny flask of oil. What you see, what you determine in your own mind as inadequate, you got to remember God made everything that you see out of nothing. Yes, oh, he likes working with nothing. And so even if you've got a little something, think what he can do. He does his best miracles working with our emptiness in situations beyond our ability to solve. Yes. What you think is hopeless is filled with hope in God's mind.

Amen. He's saying, I hope she calls upon me. I hope he calls my name. I see his emptiness. I see her brokenness. If she'll just give me her brokenness, if he'll give me his emptiness, I will give them my fullness." So she admitted her need and she admitted her poverty and God took the one little thing she possessed in her hands and performed a miracle. So verse three, then he said, Elijah,

go borrow empty vessels from your neighbors. Don't borrow just a few. vessels from your neighbors. Don't borrow just a few. So now the man of God is giving her instruction. This is important. Follow the instructions. When a man of God gives you an instruction, follow it. It teaches us that God often calls us to take steps in faith to prepare for the miraculous supply. Yes. Elijah didn't let her just sit down and say, hey, take a seat over there. Watch what happens with this tiny little jar of oil.

No. He said you got to do something here girl. This is what I want you, this is what I desire you to do. I am telling you to go down the street knock on the doors of all your neighbors and ask them to borrow every pot, pan, jar, vessel, flask, whatever they've got that can hold oil, you go get it. Make sure they're empty. Yes, empty and don't come back with just a few. Right. Come back with as many as you can carry. Make multiple trips. Go, go, go, girl. Go get it done. Send the boys out up down the street So there's that word go yes, no borrow

Go borrow those vessels that's a Command for immediate action go When somebody says go it means now do it now go get up and move go implies physical actions she had to move her feet to release her faith if your feet don't move if your hands don't move, you're not releasing your faith. That's right. Faith always has an instruction. Always. Faith always has an instruction. Somewhere faith always has an instruction. I don't know how to say that more. Rick's experienced it. I've experienced it. It's a principle of faith.

It requires faith has an instruction attached to it, and faith is not released until that instruction is followed. Yes. In watching old videos of healing evangelists, you always see them giving instructions. Like say a man comes up to the evangelist for prayer, what's wrong? I haven't been able to lift my arm higher than this for ten years. Do you believe when I pray for you God's going to heal you? Yes, I believe you do believe yes

I believe they say the prayer now what happens the evangelist will say lift your arm Oh Brother I have I can't it hurt lift your arm. Do you believe do you believe that God? Yes, I do within lift your arm and It and all of a sudden they realize the pain's gone. I can lift my arm. Or sometimes you see it's gradually. Like they go, oh, I got my arm, I haven't had my arm up this far for five years. It's still stiff. Well, let's keep lifting, keep lifting. And you can actually see them, that the healing taking place gradually. But they have to do something.

Can't move my leg. Well, here, move your leg. Let's do this right now. Rise up and walk. Take up your bed and go home. What do you see? Yeah, look around, tell me, What do you see? Yeah, look around, tell me what do you see? I see people look like trees. That's what the man said. They look like trees. Even healings with Jesus sometimes took time to materialize.

Jesus sometimes took time to materialize, right? That there's a process involved. I don't understand it folks, I really don't, but God wants us involved in the process of faith. And he says, go to all your neighbors. Go to all your neighbors and borrow. And don't borrow just a few. Borrow all you can borrow. So this is a very wide, inclusive instruction from Elijah.

Get the whole community involved. Why? I want them talking about the Lord. First of all they're gonna talk about you. They're gonna gossip about you. I say I got a plan here. We're not we're gonna keep this. This is gonna spread through all the town. You go knocking on doors and borrow those vessels. Everybody's going to be talking about you. Right.

What's up with her? Why is she mom? What's she doing? Yeah. Well, man of God told her to. Well, that's crazy. She's losing her mind. Ever since her husband died, she's not been in her right mind.

I heard they're going to take her kids from her. Yeah. Yeah. Child protective services coming. The sheriff's coming. Going to take her kids. She's out here asking for empty pots. There's an empty pot all right.

Oh, yeah. Her head's an empty pot. You can an empty pot, all right. Oh yeah, her head's an empty pot. You can hear what the people were saying. You just imagine it. But they got the pots. They got the pots. The empty pots were symbols of potential. See, the owners of the pot looked at the pots as empty.

Elijah looked at them as full of potential. He saw the oil. He saw the oil. Just like he knew that his teacher, Elijah, said, I saw the oil. You know, let me tell you, class, there was this day during that drought, and I was out of food and water and God sent me to Zarephath. You know, when I saw that woman picking up sticks, I actually saw bread in her hands. And that's what Elijah, he's seeing oil in these empty pots.

That's right. Borrow not a few. Expand your faith. Prepare for the blessing God's about to give. Prepare for abundance. Prepare for abundance. Imagine Yeah, imagine if she just borrowed two or three pots. That wouldn't have sustained her at all. She could even sell two or three pots of oil. Right. But you know what? God left it up to her to decide, excuse me, to decide how big of a miracle she wanted. She desired, I think that word wanted. God allowed it up to her to decide how big of a

miracle she desired. Yes. It was only limited by her faith. Elijah didn't say go get 10 pots cut it off at 50. He didn't give her a number. He left he left it up to her. When she decided I got more pots than I know what to do what with that's that what she limited her miracle at that point. I believe had she doubled the number of pots, she would have doubled the amount of oil. So folks, faith is measured in expectation and expectation is seen in preparation. Yes. Expectation and preparation. If you really believe God is going to meet your need, you better expect it and you better prepare for it.

I like to say to Rick, you know, I feel like I'm gonna go whale hunting, I'm taking a jar of tartar sauce with me. That's right. I mean, you expect to get a whale. That's right. Get a whale. I almost slathered that sucker up.

Like why would you go whale hunting if you're not planning to get a whale? That's right. A lot of people teach this as, well, God in his sovereign wisdom told her in her spirit when to stop gathering pots. But I don't read that. I don't see that. Elijah said, go borrow and don't borrow just a few. So the Lord allowed her to determine

the size of her miracle. Now just stop and think about that in your life. Has there ever been a time that you cut the Lord short? Man I don't even want to think about that in my life. Have you limited God with your lack of expectation? Yes. That's a tough word there Rick. I mean it really is. How many times in our lives have

we limited God with our lack of expectation? Yes. So we're studying the book of Proverbs and eventually we'll get to verses that says that, you know, wisdom will fill your barns. Well, you have to have a barn How is wisdom gonna fill your barn if you haven't built a barn and When I say barn, I'm not talking about a physical structure on a farm I'm talking about a structure to hold blessings. Yes Do you have a savings account How's he gonna fill your savings account if you haven't opened the savings account, right

Do you have any kind of portfolio how is he going to fill it up if you haven't opened it? See, that's the part we have to do. That's the part that says, I'm preparing for blessing. I am expecting abundance. And then verse four says, and when you shall go in and shut the door on you and your sons and pour into all those vessels And you shall set aside that which is full And this is interesting because he tells the woman I want you to go inside your house and shut the door Your neighbors are talking They're nosy. You're going to have some nosy neighbors coming up here trying to get in the house to see what you're up to.

Yes. And they're going to bring their stinking, thinking, doubt and unbelief with them. And we can't allow that. We can't have any unbelief in here. Go in your house and shut your door and let the miracle take place. Then we'll talk about it. We'll talk about it after it's happened. After you guys are on the glory. But you can't let your stinking thinking cousin in here. Or he or she is going to talk you out of your miracle. There are times my friend you cannot tell your friends and relatives what God is doing

in your life. Because they'll rain on it. Because they have no faith. And because they have no faith they want to make sure you don't get a blessing. There are just times you have to be private and let God do the miracle, and then after the miracle, then you testify. And what's interesting here is Elijah isn't even there. He's not in the room with them. Just a woman and her sons. That's right. This is what he's saying. This is a family affair.

You guys just get in there and watch God do this. It's a family involved operation. They were engaged with their loved ones in acts of faith. Elijah is saying, I'm going to stay out of this. I've given you the instruction, but I'm staying out. I don't want in the photograph. You, you know, I just, it's just you and your sons. This is personal between you and your sons. That's right. Get the boys involved. They're the ones who are going to be slaves. That's right and let them see how God bought their freedom. They'll never forget it. Glory to God. Hallelujah. They'll never forget it.

When they're 80 years old, they'll remember how God bought their freedom. They'll be telling their grandkids, you should have seen what the Lord God did. Oh my goodness. There's a lesson there, Rick. Involve your kids and grandkids in your walk of faith and get them involved in it. Wow. And you shall pour into those vessels, into all those vessels.

You shall pour out into all those vessels. You shall pour out into all those vessels. Modern English, pour into all those vessels. Elijah commands the widow woman to take another action, another faith step. Now pour out into all those vessels. Pour what? She's only got one flask of oil. How is she going to fill up a room full of empty jars?

He's saying use what you have, the small beginning with faith, every drop of oil going into every one of these empty jars. You just watch what God does. He will transform it into abundance. You'll see it right before your eyes. All those vessels, his provision is large It's abundant. Don't believe anybody that God doesn't desire you to be abundant. He does desire you to be abundantly fulfilled

And he's going to practice divine multiplication Don't hesitate go get your sons in there now. Shut the door, lock the door, get in there and start pouring the oil. And you shall set aside that which is full. The jars are going to fill up. Every time a jar is filled up, have one of your sons take it and put it somewhere in storage. You're going to have so much oil, you're going to have to store it.

You're going to stack jars on top of jars. You're going to take the clothes out of your closet so you can put jars in the closet. You're going to empty your pantry and put jars of oil. You'll have so much oil. So this is an intentional separation, set aside. Take what God has done miraculously and set it aside. This is holy, this is separate. There you go. Yes. It's sacred. It's separate. It's holy. It's been separated for God's glory. Verse 5. So she went from him and she shut the door and herself and her sons and brought out

the brought the vessels to her and she poured she poured i like that she poured got right to it she shut the door and she poured she didn't sit there and think this is the dumbest thing i've ever done in my life no No, she followed the instruction. She followed the instructions and she had faith. She needed a miracle. Like this is the only thing in town that's happening. It's like, it's crazy. This is absolutely crazy, but it's the only thing going on in my life right now.

If this doesn't work, I don't have a plan B. The sheriff is coming for my sons. This has got to work before the sheriff gets here. I mean, she's desperate. Her faith was driven by her desperation. On an average day she would not have done this. Think about that doc, on an average day before her husband died she would have not done this thing. Right. It was her desperate condition that drove her to release her faith to do something she would never do on a normal day. They brought the vessels to her. Her sons were actively involved in the miracle, her family. She got, this was a family miracle, okay? She's got her sons involved. They're working with mom. They're watching

this take place. This is happening in the home. God's honoring the home. He's bringing about a miracle in the home for the salvation of these sons. Salvation meaning sparing them from slavery. Why? Because their deceased father and their living mother were servants of the Lord, and God was honoring them. And he was he was showing appreciation to their deceased father for what he did Saying I will save the sons of this man because he served me and this woman Has served me and I hear her cries. I hear her desperate, please and I am going to do a miracle But she's got to do something And says and she poured out she poured she this is wholehearted faith and commitment to God look at a timer for

six and when the containers were full she she said to her son, bring me another container. And he said, mom, there is an another container. And the oil stopped flowing. Bring me another pot. Mama, we're out. She was on a roll. She was on a roll. It's happening.

There's oil. Get another pot in here boys And that's when she realized oh I should have went to one more Street I Forgot I Forgot 45th Avenue I Didn't go down that Street. I could have brought I could have borrowed more pots It's too late now. God honored the size of her faith at that moment.

She determined when the oil would stop in her carrying out the instruction. So in her mind, she determined when she was borrowing pots, this is enough. She didn't even know what was gonna happen. Yeah. But she said, I've got more jars than I can use. This whole thing's crazy, but I'm just doing it because the man of God says to do it, but I got a house full

jars right now. And have you ever come to places in your life where the oil has stopped? It may not be because God stopped working. It may be because you've stopped providing the vessels necessary for it to fill up. Yes. Did you cut back on your giving? Did you cut back on your generosity? Where did you limit the Lord? The good thing is you can restart it. You can prime the pump again.

Ask this question here. Is there another vessel? Is there another pot? Don't let your miracle stop short because you underestimated what God can do. Get a bigger pot. Get more pots. find more vessels for God to pour into in your life doc we've got ten minutes I know we got to go to the Lord's table yet first seven then she came and told the man of God and he said go sell the oil and pay your debt you and your sons live on the rest they They had a retirement account. He provided this woman with an annuity. She was invested in oil. She lived on oil dividends. Paid off the debt. She's dead free. She's dead free and she lived on the rest of the money. She was she was invested in oil.

She was the queen of oil. You wanted oil, you went to her house. She had it. Right. And apparently she lived on it the rest of her life. Right. Right and apparently she lived on it the rest of her life Right Man doc, there was a lot of oil there I mean, I you know, i'm kind of like saying well she didn't get enough jars But she obviously got enough like she had enough money to live on the rest of her life

But that's good to have more. And if you're a widow, you need to know the Lord can do a supernatural blessing in your life and supply you with something, takes out all of your husband's debt and you have enough to live on the rest of your life. So she came and she told the man of God, the first person she reported to was the prophet. Honoring him by saying, let me tell you what just happened. Like he didn't know, of course he knew. But she did go to tell him, like hey Elijah, you're not gonna believe this. He said yeah tell me, tell me what happened. Every pot filled up

with oil. There was one more instruction. Yes. Go sell the oil and pay the debt. She sold the oil. She paid off her legal responsibility. She was in debt and she paid it off. Yes. She purchased freedom not only for her sons, but also for herself and for her future. Yes.

She ended up with an oil invested annuity fund. She never worried the rest of her life how she was going to pay her bills. She saw the God of heaven and earth do something completely, totally miraculous. do something completely, totally miraculous. How could she ever doubt God after that? And her sons too. Think about that. Her sons, you know, when they had their families and everything, and he was, let me tell you what happened at Grandma's house one day. And that's a legacy of faith that continues, that continued for generations. That story got told over and over again. Remember great grandma, you know,

and the story of the pots? Yes. There you can hear grandkids say, hey, tell me that story about the pots of oil. I wanna hear that story one more time. All right, Doc, we gotta go to the Lord's Supper. Yes. I've got a tight schedule today and I have to be in a meeting in a few minutes. Yes so let's just go ahead and get

right to the Lord's Supper here today. If you've got the elements of the Lord's Table which includes bread and either red wine or grape juice. We invite you to participate with this and I hope you always come prepared for the Lord's Table on Faith Fridays. And I'm gonna do a brief prayer here and then we'll get right into the Lord's Table here this morning. Heavenly Father in Jesus' name, Lord.

Search our hearts, Lord, for those times where we lack the expectation of your miraculous supply in our lives, Lord. Search our hearts, Lord, for those times where we lack the expectation of Your miraculous supply in our lives, Lord. Those times where we fall short, where we don't bring enough pots in order to fill up all the vessel, all the blessing that You want to pour out, Lord. I just ask in Jesus' name that You would increase our faith.

And Lord, we have a promise from Your Word that if we ask of You, Lord, that You will give anything that we ask, even more abundantly than we can even ask or think. And so Lord, we ask You to forgive us for those times that we fall short, but then fill us, Lord, with that overabundant faith that believes that there aren't enough pots to contain the blessings that you pour out Lord and help us to always live in righteous obedience to what the word of God says. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. So if you have the elements of the Lord's table, we'll pray a brief blessing out,

and then we'll participate together here. We do this every Friday. We honor the Lord in this, and we pray that you approach it with a solemnness and devotion, not just have it, but that this is life for us. This is what makes us a united community, part of the body of Christ. And so pray with me

for our blessing over the elements. Almighty God in your tender mercy, you gave your only begotten Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. He offered himself and made once for all time a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. And he instituted this remembrance of his passion and death, which he commanded us to continue until he comes again. So Father, we ask you to bless and sanctify with your Word and Holy Spirit these gifts of bread and wine that we may partake of his most blessed body and blood. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed once for all upon the cross.

Let us keep the feast. Hallelujah. On the night that he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread and when he'd given thanks, he broke it and he gave it to his disciples saying, take eat, this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. is given for you, do this in remembrance of me." Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. The body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for you, preserved your body and sold everlasting life. This is the bread of heaven, taken eat in remembrance that Christ died

for you. After supper, Jesus took the cup and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them saying, drink this all of you for this is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this in remembrance of me. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ was shed for you. Preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. Drink the cup of salvation in remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for you. Be thankful. Behold the Lamb of God.

Behold Him who takes away the sins of the world, and blessed are those who are invited to the married supper of the Lamb. The sacrament is the gift of God for the people of God. Feed on him by faith with thanksgiving that Christ died for you. Praise God. All right. Amen. Praise the Lord. Well ladies and gentlemen, we pray him first. We have an important meeting and it's one of those things. What do you got? What do you got? By faith. So praise God. Any final words before we sign off for this week, Rick? I just encourage you to just have expectant faith, hope.

I don't care how hopeless things look. I've been in situations where things look so hopeless, but that's what the devil wants you to believe, that there's no hope. There's always hope with God. He has a solution to your problem. There is a solution. And it's usually something you already have. Yes, he'll take something very small that's in your hand and begin working with it.

So just ask him, what is it here that I'm in possession of? What do I have that I can present it to you and you can use it to create a miracle? And then tell us about the story. We desire to hear the story. Amen. God bless you. Have a great weekend. Get some time alone with the Lord this weekend. Get a good word from him and then join us back here on Monday for another edition of Morning Manna. God bless you. We love you. See you. Bye.