OA+DA=GV

One of my heroes in ministry spoke at our church yesterday and he gave us this formula from 2 Kings 4, the story of the widow and Elisha. She was in debt and the creditors were going to take her children as slaves. Elisha had her take the little oil she had and begin pouring it into every vessel should could borrow from her neighbors. The oil stopped when she ran out of vessels. She could then sell off the oil and pay off her debt and live on the rest of the proceeds.

It’s math that doesn’t make sense. Very little oil was already there, yet she kept pouring and the oil kept coming.

The phrase from the formula above goes like this:

Obedient Activity combined with Divine Authority will bring Great Victory.

We need to understand what we HAVE. Elisha asked the widow what she had, and she focused on what was NOT there. We have that response. We need the response that says, “This is what I have. It may not be much, but here it is.”

And see what God will do with it.