ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.

Sunday 10th December, 2023.

Topic: Dignity In Genuine Labour.

Memory Verse:2 Kings 4:7. She went and told the story to the man of God. He said, “Go sell the oil and make good on your debts. Live, both you and your sons, on what’s left.”

Bible Reading: 2 Kings 4:4-6 MSG. Key Verse: v7.

Then come home and lock the door behind you, you and your sons. Pour oil into each container; when each is full, set it aside.” She did what he said. She locked the door behind her and her sons; as they brought the containers to her, she filled them. When all the jugs and bowls were full, she said to one of her sons, “Another jug, please.”He said, “That’s it. There are no more jugs.”Then the oil stopped.

Here we see a widow to a man of God who was in a crisis situation. Her late husband was a man of God, who died leaving his family in heavy debts. The woman was still nursing the pains of losing her husband when his merciless creditors began to mount pressure on the woman to pay up their family debts or they take the two sons he left behind as slaves for who knows how long. The Bible reported that the late Prophet was a good man. It is possible he was sick before he died and they borrowed much to save his life and yet he died. “One day the wife of a man from the guild of prophets called out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead. You well know what a good man he was, devoted to God. And now the man to whom he was in debt is on his way to collect by taking my two children as slaves.” 2 Kings 4:1.

Now Elisha asked the the widow what she had that could be of help. She looked around her and saw only some little oil she had at home that wasn’t there in commercial quantity. That became key to God’s intervention in her life and situation. The man of God gave her what looks to the ordinary man a foolish counsel, which she obeyed in faith and stumbled into a miracle. “Here’s what you do,” said Elisha. “Go up and down the street and borrow jugs and bowls from all your neighbors. And not just a few—all you can get. Then come home and lock the door behind you, you and your sons. Pour oil into each container; when each is full, set it aside.” She did what he said. She locked the door behind her and her sons; as they brought the containers to her, she filled them. When all the jugs and bowls were full, she said to one of her sons, “Another jug, please.”He said, “That’s it. There are no more jugs.”Then the oil stopped.” 2 Kings 4:3-6.

When she ran back to Elisha the servant of God and shared her testimony, the man of God sent her back again to finish the work she began in faith in what God could do. Now, I want us to take note that what the Elisha did here was to send her to work strategically. From the first time she sought help, the servant of God didn’t give her any money, but guided her to work herself out of her predicament. From borrowing vessels to locking up herself and the children to pour and multiply the oil from little to commercial quantity, to making sales involved genuine labour. “Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom. Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.” Proverbs 13:10-11 KJV. Another lesson here is that the key to our miracle is always around us, all we need is to ask God to open our eyes to identify it.

Prayer : Thank you Father God because you are ever faithful. Today open my eyes to every key to my miracle that is around me unidentified. As I look upto you and go to work this season under your guidance, fill me with uncommon testimonies in Jesus wonderful name… Amen 🙏🏿.

Yearly Bible Reading : 2 Thessalonians 3:1-18.

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