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| Little is much, if God is in it: Pastor Tim Lee |
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4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel [with] those seven; they [are] the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
The message is concerning God using small things, the fact that Jesus came born the son of a carpenter instead of a king's son in a palace.God not thinking like a man, God knew that two old men with a stick was all that was needed to inform Pharaoh to let his people go. Mose's told God that he was slow of speech, God sent his brother Aaron with him to be the spokesman. God made the task a little tougher by hardening the heart Pharaoh, yet God knew the breaking point of this mighty king with the most powerful army at that time. After the deliverance from Pharaoh, The hardness of heart caused him to send his army after the children of Israel that came to a hard place and the Red Sea. Again Moses using the stick God provided stretches forth the stick and commands the sea's to part and God parted the Red Sea. Israel crosses on dry ground, Pharaoh's army starts across the dry ground and God drops the walls of water that drowns Pharaoh's army.
17:8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 17:9Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which [belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. 17:10So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. 17:11 And as she was going to fetch [it], he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 17:12And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I [am] gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. 17:13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go [and] do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring [it] unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. 17:14For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. 17:15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days. 17:16 [And] the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
God instructs his prophet Elijah to go to a widow woman to sustain him during the time that it wasn't raining. See no rain means no food will grow especially after three and a half years of no rain. Again, God don't send Elijah to a wealth widow, only a woman that was preparing the last meal for the family, then they were going to eat and die.Elijah ask for water and a small cake, through this obedience God keep the meal and the oil from failing until the drought was over and food supplies were replenished.Elijah told this widow woman to fear not, God didn't fill the barrel with meal nor did God fill the cruise with oil. Elijah said that the meal and the oil would not fail, and the meal and oil never failed."God honors his word".
4:1Now 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. 4:2 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. 4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few. 4:4 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. 4:5 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. 4:6 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.
The wife of a prophet after the death of her husband finds herself in debt and the only means she has to pay her debts is selling her two sons. The widow of the prophet cries out to Elisha for help, not wanting to sell her sons as bondsmen. Elisha ask this widow what do you have of any value? Her answer was a pot of oil, Elisha instructs the widow and her sons to borrow all the vessels they can get their hands on. Elisha's instructs them to pour the oil into the vessel's, as they begin to pour the oil that continued flow until there was nothing else to fill with oil. The widow then ask Elisha what are we to do? Sell the oil and pay the debts and use what's left over to sustain thee and thy family.God all through the scriptures used small things like a sheep tending boy to defeat a giant. God used small band of people in Ai to get the attention of the children of Israel to the fact there was sin in the camp. Little becomes much if God is in it.The problem with our economy is the absence of God in it.God has been kicked out of our school systems.God's not welcome
in most churches, because of the changes that he would require. If my people which are called by my name, would turn from their wicked ways? God can use a still small voice, to get the prophets attention. Little is much, if God is in it. |
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| January 15, 2009 |
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| great word!!!! keep it up! |
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