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2 kings 4:1-6
What’s in your house?
The widow and the oil
I want to begin tonight by addressing the family.
While I don’t know whats going on in your house, I am aware that in our nation and in our world our families are in trouble!
At some point, most families are faced with a crisis -- be it a death, a crime, unemployment or addiction.
In order to work through a crisis, a family must be willing to pull together, while still recognizing the individual needs of each family member.
Identify your support network.
Friends, extended family, neighbors, colleagues and members of local support groups may be able to provide comfort and support.
Resist the temptation to withdraw from others, even if your crisis is one that has you feeling ashamed.
Remember that everyone goes through difficult times.
Seek out people who are compassionate, loyal and nonjudgmental.
Familiarize yourself with the ways a crisis can affect a family.
A family in crisis may lack cohesiveness and closeness, with individual members experiencing symptoms of stress such as sleeplessness, loss of appetite, depression and anxiety.
A couple may experience a lack of quality time.
Siblings may take their frustrations out on each other.
Try to work together as a family to cope with the crisis, rather than placing blame advises psychologist Philip "Dr.
Phil" McGraw in his website article "How Families Can Overcome Difficult Times."
Give every family member the opportunity to talk out feelings.
Praise the good in each other to boost self-esteem, while encouraging each other to stay optimistic and make new goals.
Be aware of how your children are feeling.
Kids react to a crisis with feelings similar to those of adults, but are more likely to show them with actions, rather than words.
Our Kids are in crisis too!
In the text tonight, we find a woman who is in what we call a predicament.
This is a situation that many individuals and many families find themselves in from time to time.
In other words she In a “Rut.”
Is there anybody out there who knows what its like to be in a “rut”?
A rut is place where you feel “stuck, helpless and hopeless.”
It’s a terrible and frustrating place to be in because many times you feel like you haven’t done anything to deserve being in a such a place.
Being in a rut will cause you to lose sleep at night.
Being in a rut will cause you to have to take nerve medicine.
Being in a rut will cause you to be irritable and hard to get along with.
But the worst thing about being in a rut is that if you don’t find a way to get out of it, a rut will turn into a rot!
In order words, a rut… unless you find an escape from it, will rob you of joy and life, and leave you in a dead and rotting place.
It is this kind of place that the Widow woman of Zerapheth found herself in.
Here in the scripture we find this poor widow in a desperate situation.
She is trying to raise her family alone.
Her husband died leaving her with a mountain of debt.
How many of you know that bills will mess with your mind and put you in a mental rut?
As when she follows the instructions of the man of God, God indeed does a wonderful miracle.
He multiplies it somehow so that once she starts to pour, the oil doesn’t stop flowing until every vessel is filled.
That’s what I pray will happen to our families… that we make up our mind that we’re not going to stop seeking the Lord unless every member of our families are saved!
Revival -- If?
If all the sleeping folk will wake up,
If all the lukewarm folk will fire up,
If all the dishonest folk will confess up,
If all the disgruntled folk will cheer up,
If all the depressed folk will cheer up,
If all the estranged folk will make up,
If all the gossipers will shut up,
If all true soldiers will stand up,
If all the dry bones will shake up,
If all the church members will pray up...
Say to your neighbor then we will have true revival!
When fathers get saved, young boys get off street corners!
When fathers get saved, young boys get off street corners!
When mothers get saved, young girls grow up to be fine young women!
When fathers get saved, young boys get off street corners!
--When mothers get saved, young girls grow up to be fine young women!
--When brothers get saved, they become mentors to other brothers!
--When sisters get saved, they become mentors to other sisters!
When brothers get saved, they become mentors to other brothers!
When sisters get saved, they become mentors to other sisters!
Transition statement....
What do you want?
God remember’s a family in crisis
The record says that she found herself in such financial trouble that the sheriff/bill collectors has threatened to come and take her sons as slaves.
It was not unusual, during bible times that if a person got behind in their bills members of their family were sold into slavery until the bills were paid off.
Thank God they don’t do that today.
If they did… there might not be many of us in church this morning.
And so, this woman widow does what many of us have learned to do when we find ourselves in a rut.
In her despair she cries out to the man of God.
It’s good to have a preacher in your corner!
Look at what this woman done… she got in touch with somebody who knew how to get in touch with heaven.
Even if know how to pray for yourself, it’s good to be able to get in agreement with someone who has a right relationship with God.
That way, you can touch on a thing and get a good result as you petition God together.
The bible says that this widow woman called on Elisha and asks him to help her find a way out of this seemingly impossible situation.
She is looking for a miracle.
There’s coming after the children
Transition
What do you have left?
2 kings 4 2
Only a little oil left!
Getting by on left overs!
follow through...
follow through...
Lock in...
Do the work!
2 kings 4
Bring me another vessel
2 kings 4 6
She went back...
2 kings 4
Sell your oil
Conclusion
The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside, just before putting him into the box.
"There are 5 things you need to know," he told the pencil, "Before I send you out into the world.
Always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best pencil you can be."
"One: You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in Someone's hand."
"Two: You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but you'll need it to become a better pencil."
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