FINANCIAL MIRACLES“4 Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”2 And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.” 3 Then he said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few. 4 Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all these vessels. And when one is full, set it aside.” 5 So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons. And as she poured they brought the vessels to her. 6 When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There is not another.” Then the oil stopped flowing. 7 She came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.” (1 Kings 4:1-7, ESV)
A miracle is an unusual or wonderful event that is believed to be caused by the power of God. The word for miracle in Greek is dynamic or dunamis. Its meaning is the inherent power, power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature, or which a person or thing exerts and puts forth. Dynamic means always active or changing, marked by usually continuous and productive activity.
As we come to the close of our Daniel Fast, there are a few more things that we need to take hold of in this season. Pastor Jackie Jackson has taught and preached counter-cultural, truth-filled, and liberating messages to help our body as a church break the mindset and heart disposition of poverty individually and collectively. To aid us in this process, it is key to understand the heart of God when it comes to financial miracles. Miracles are a Divine work, supernatural, and unexpected events, and are required in emergency situations. But God not only is our provider when we lack, He is continuously moving to bless us!
In this passage, we see the prophet Elisha performing a miracle for the widow who was about to lose her sons to slavery because of debt. Two things were required for God to perform this miracle through Elisha: faith and whatever she had in her possession. God doesn’t need you to bring to Him things that you don’t have for Him to come through for you! Just bring what you have to Him, trust and have faith that He’ll come through on His promises, then watch Him do it no matter how long it takes!
Take a look at 2 Kings 4:42-44, Matthew 15:32-38, Mark 8:1-10, Matthew 14:13-21, they all share one thing in common: God using people's leftovers to do miracles! Rarely did Jesus just meet a need. When He performed these miracles, He blessed plentifully so there would be way more food, money, etc. than was actually needed! John 10:10 says, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” Miracles don’t just happen by chance. God wants to bless us abundantly! because He is a good Father and loves His children.
Luke 5:5-6 says, “And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.” The disciples were toiling all day and couldn’t catch any fish (fishing was their occupation, they should’ve been good at it). Jesus saw their need and saw how hard they had been striving and worked a miracle, giving them more than they could even imagine based upon their belief and ACTING on His word.
I’d like to reiterate a few things from Pastor Sam Oye’s sermon. If you still haven’t had a chance to check out this prophetic message, please do so! Click the link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlNtCkAT25I
- If your faith will receive it, your hands will handle it. If you don’t think that you’ll ever get out of poverty or have enough for your family, then you won’t. Let you faith go before you and cast your net over what God has promised you.
- There is a change in your season.
- New Life, God has seen us toiling. We will toil no longer.
- Blessings will happen so fast and all at once. So much that we won’t know what to do with them, we’ll be swimming in them!
Over the past 5 years, I’ve seen God perform so many financial miracles for me that it doesn’t make sense! Since I started school at UC, scholarships left and right came out of nowhere to help my parents pay for college. Three of my siblings were in school. My parents didn’t know where the money was going to come from, but they prayed and had faith that God would make a way. My first year of college, the week before school started, I got 3 unknown scholarships and my schooling was paid for. Each year after that, between losing scholarships due to grades and earning them back, God had always provided a way for me to stay in school. To this day, I have no college loans and no student debt. I’ve seen God honor me and my parents in helping me to not have to worry about debt and I haven’t had a full-time job other than the co-op opportunities through my major. At the beginning of each Semester, I’m reminded of how His plans never fail…even though I do! I’ve never had a reason to worry about money. Ever since I started giving on top of tithing and recognizing that ALL of my money and possessions are truly the Lord’s, I’ve started to experience the flow. Financial miracles are a part of that flow. It’s a part of His heart’s desire to continuously and dynamically bless you beyond comprehension and yes, that means financially too!
I’ll leave you with this last thing that God spoke to me. Trusting in the mystery of His plans will only increase our faith in His ability to come through on His promises.
-Victoria Sumner
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