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Breakthrough Faith for Your Finances By Benny Hinn
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I want to remind you again about another person who stepped into God’s supernatural economy. A widow in great distress whose late husband had been in ministry with Elijah and Elisha approached Elisha. She was caught in a terrible situation of debt and lack: Now there cried a certain woman of 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 is 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, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, 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 upon 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 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. (2 Kings 4:1-7) Elisha had replaced Elijah as the head of the school of prophets, so it was not unusual that the widow of one of the prophets-in-training would come to Elisha for help after her husband’s death. She had been left penniless. The creditors were demanding payment, and were determined to take her two sons as bondsmen if she could not pay. (Mosaic Law gave the right to claim children of the debtor who could not pay, and they were then forced to serve the creditors until the next year of Jubilee.) A major financial problem loomed for the family, and God heard the cry of the widow’s heart. Elisha never asked her for anything, nor did he receive anything from her. He was simply sent to give her a word that would change her life forever, for God saw beyond the woman’s circumstances, beyond the actual and factual. Elisha did not focus on the widow’s bleak situation and what she did not have. Instead, he asked what she did have. God already knew what she had—a pot of oil! Impossible circumstances call for unusual actions! Elisha told the widow to do something that made absolutely no sense in the natural. She had only one vessel of oil, but he told her to go and borrow every container she and her sons could lay their hands on. Imagine what the neighbors thought! Still, she obeyed. She was willing to do the unusual. She had nothing to lose. She faced an impossible situation. And look what God did. Imagine as she poured oil into container after container until all the vessels were running over with oil! Think how her sons reacted, for those containers of oil meant that they no longer had to face a lifetime as bondsmen! Within moments, the widow went from being penniless and facing the loss of her sons to suddenly realizing that everything had changed. She was told by Elisha to sell the oil, pay off the debts, and live on the profits! Needless to say, she wasted no time following the prophet’s instructions. Just a pot of oil and a word from God spoken through His prophet Elisha, changed everything. Her debt was cancelled. She had enough and plenty left over. What about you? You may face dire circumstances, but what do you have in your hands that God can use to turn everything around? That pot of oil—the only resource she had available—became her secret to success and financial breakthrough. It would have been reasonable and understandable for the widow to say, “Wait a minute! I’m certainly not going to let go of the last ounce of oil I have for a prophet when I need that oil! Even after the multiplication of oil began, she could have whined, “That’s all the vessels that I have in my house, and I’m certainly not going to embarrass myself by going around to all my neighbors to borrow pots and jars from them!” Can you imagine if she had refused to act in faith? Instead, the woman used her vessel of oil and did the unusual to move into the unthinkable. Her faith and obedience made all the difference in the world. That pot of oil represented her faith, and her act of sacrifice was the very act that shattered the grip of want and poverty forever. What she did with it changed her family, her fortune, and her future. What do you have in your house? What do you have in your hands? If you will pour out your faith, God will use what you have. The pot is not a gift, a talent, money—it is your faith. What are you doing with that faith today?

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