Look Inside I

Monday 8 August
READ: II Kings 4:1-8
MORE LESSON: Prov. 18: 16

A woman of Israel met Elisha and told him the story of her predicament: Her husband was a man of God who served God passionately and feared God but when the man died all he left behind was debt. The creditor was about to carry her two sons - the only joy she had left in life, and go and make them slaves to work for the repayment of their father's debt. Imagine that a man who was a child of God lived in poverty, died in poverty and left the problem of poverty behind for the next generation to cope with. This is why it is very important to learn and apply the principles that make for prosperity; or else a man could be born again and be poor if he does not apply God's principles for prospering.
Elisha helped the woman in the story by shifting her attention from the problem she had to the principle she needed to follow to get out of it. Elisha said to her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? 2 Kings 4: 2. Elisha was making her know that God had put something inside her house that was the solution to her poverty. God is not unfair; He has given everyone something that will take him out of poverty. That thing could be an ability, skill, idea or unique grace; whatever it is, it is the seed of prosperity. When Elisha asked this woman, she replied like most people I have met reply. She said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house...: 2 Kings 4:2. Eccl 5:9 says that Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. God is thus pointing your attention to the fact that every man on earth has something in his life that he can harness for profit. In addition, he says that even the king that you admire is only using something in him that he has, you also have something in you. However, many languish in poverty because they refuse to look inside themselves to discover the seed of their prosperity but are busy envying people who have taken the diligence to discover what is inside them and are making profit from it.
Thank God for this widow, after she said that she didn't have anything like many people say, she added, save a pot of oil. She believed she didn't have anything and the only thing she had was insignificant – a pot of oil. What can it do in the midst of such a big problem? You might say, I don't have anything and I don't have any skill - but you can plait hair. It was inside that 'pot of oil' that the prosperity of this woman laid. You have something that can bring you wealth in life, find it and use it.

PRAYER/ACTION
* Ask God to open your eyes to the opportunities that are around you, in Jesus’ name.
* Ask God for insight into the giftings in you.
* Command all redundant gifts/talents in you to come alive.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
I advance my goodness to greatness today, no reduction, in the mighty name of Jesus.