The Innate Capacity

 

Text: 2 Kings 4:2 (KJV)

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 anything in the house, save a pot of oil.

There is always something remaining in us, which God uses to birth the miraculous. Proverbs 20:27-The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the innermost parts of his heart. There is a small amount of God’s nature present within and around us. No matter how empty you may feel, there is a residue of God’s seed around you; it is usually very little. That is why we do not recognize its significance. Therefore, looking inward makes you focus on internal things; it starts from your thought pattern to the physical things within your vicinity. Think about it; there is something you can start with for that miracle to take place. The very first step of any idea is available without cost, and without any or minimal effort. For instance, from the text of today, there was a pot of oil right in the house of the woman. She never thought that the pot of oil was the source of her blessing. So, let us learn to look inward, look within from the waste, and the abandoned because that can be your key to activate the recessive gene in you. We need to wake up the inactive capacity so that they can germinate again. Job14:9-Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

 

The funny part about life is that the least seed can become the greatest herb in the forest with several branches, where birds will lodge. A drought center becomes a flourishing place by reason of dew of rain. Matthew13:32- Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. So, do not devalue and despise that little beginning, but instead, look within and treasure it. We are so preoccupied with the outward that we forget the inward. Be deliberate about it, get your mind into deep thinking, because that your small faith, prayers, line of scripture, smiles, counsel, relationship, etc. can be the raw material for the new idea. There is still something of value in that man, child, organization, church, nation, etc . Note, she did not borrow oil but empty vessel. At the end, the widow with just a pot of oil had excess to sell and pay up the debt and her children could live with what was left. So, let us learn to be sensitive to prophetic utterance for our miraculous in Jesus name.

 

PRAYER POINT:

1. Father, please re-activate my inactive abilities that will provoke the miraculous in Jesus name.

ACTION QUOTE: Look within, there is something useful, just pay attention to the minor.