Present Your Empty Jars

My child, this is a time for bold faith and unquestioning obedience.

In 2 Kings 4, the widow and sons, with only a flask of oil, obeyed Elisha’s instructions to collect many empty jars.  This took faith and courage in their time of need.  Elisha told her to borrow jars from her friends and neighbours and then to go inside her house and shut the door.

My beloved, shut the door on doubt! Stand on My Word until the miracle of provision is manifest in your life.  Don’t allow the narrative of friends or family to undermine faith or the threat of circumstances to rob you of joy.  Instead, choose to obey and believe.

As the widow presented each empty jar, pouring out from what little oil she had, it was filled to the brim! It was only as she ran out of jars that the oil stopped flowing.  My child, keep presenting your ‘empty jars’ in faithful expectation to Me.  Bring before Me your dreams, desires and areas of need.  Do you need fresh oil in your family or healing in your physical frame?  Do you long for a relationship to be restored? Do you need a miracle of provision, a new job or place to live?  

I am the God of abundance and multiplication.  The oil of My Spirit will flow wherever there is faith to believe that I will do far more than you can ask or imagine. You have only to posture yourself to receive.

Activation: 

Bring your ‘empty jars’ before the Lord and ask for His rhema Word for each. Ask Holy Spirit to fill you with fresh faith and then declare God’s truths over each area of your life. Spend time thanking Him for the provision and breakthrough that is coming.

2 Kings 4: 1-7 (NIV)

The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.’

Elisha replied to her, ‘How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?’  ‘Your servant has nothing there at all,’ she said, ‘except a small jar of olive oil.’

Elisha said, ‘Go round and ask all your neighbours for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.’

She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. When all the jars were full, she said to her son, ‘Bring me another one.’  But he replied, ‘There is not a jar left.’ Then the oil stopped flowing.

She went and told the man of God, and he said, ‘Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.’

Mark 11:24 (NLT)

I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours.