Real Faith Believes God with Obedience and For Abundance
Devotional Reading: 2 Kings 4:3 ESV
Then he said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few.
The longer you walk with God, the more you’ll come to realize that you can trust His instructions—no matter how crazy they might seem at the time.
If we want to be a person of strong faith, we have to believe God with obedience. Real faith has legs on it. It gets up and does whatever God says to do. It doesn’t have to have all the answers. It just needs to say, “Yes, Lord.”
We say that prayer changes things, but are you really praying about your impossible circumstance? And are you doing what God is guiding you to do? Are you saying, “Yes, Lord,” and following that up with action? Are you gathering lots of jars just like the story of the widow woman in 2Kings 4, even though that assignment seems ludicrous?
Real faith doesn’t just act in obedience alone, it also believes God for abundance.
Back to the story of 2Kings 4, Elisha told the widow to gather jars. She didn’t know what was going to happen; she just knew she needed to start collecting jars. And not just a few, but many.
Once she obeyed and started pouring the oil into the empty vessels, she saw the miracle.
The little jar of oil never ran dry, filling jar after jar after jar! In fact, the only reason the oil stopped flowing was because she ran out of empty jars!
You see, when we believe God can do more than we ever imagined, we will prepare and plan for abundance.
God doesn’t just do the bare minimum. No, He goes WAY beyond. Ephesians 3:20 say, God does exceedingly abundantly. He is not the God of barely enough; He is the God of more than enough!
He is able to exceed your wildest imaginations!
So don’t just trust Him to fill a few jars of oil, trust Him to blow you away with His provision! He can make your marriage not just a small better, but over the top awesome! He can help you pay off that pile of debt and have abundant provision left over.
GOD IS ABLE to work through your impossible to produce the unimaginable! We serve an unfathomably great God who is more than able in any and every circumstance. That means when we come to Him with our tough, impossible situations, we can come to Him with confidence, because there is no problem too big for Him to conquer!
Prayer and Confession
Lord I believe that you can do exceedingly abundantly more. Teach me to obey every instructions that is needed for more abundance. Amen!
Further Reading: Ephesians 3:20, 1Kings 4:1-7
