THE VOLUME OF YOUR EMPTINESS, DETERMINES THE DEPTH OF YOUR FULLNESS

2 Kings 4”1-6 A certain woman’s husband died, and the creditor was coming to take her two sons to be his slaves.

Elisha ask . . . what do you have in the house? She said, nothing, but a jar of oil.

Then he said, go borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbors---EMPTY VESSELS and do not gather just a few.

Why would God speak through a prophet and tell a widow to collect emptiness from her neighbors? He said borrow not a few.

That means borrow a lot of pots and pans. Get as many empty containers as you can. Collect all the emptiness you can find.

The desperate widow and mother had no idea that the Volume of her collected emptiness was going to determine her future.

She didn’t know how it would all work out, all she knew to do was to obey God’s command.

She didn’t realize that her cumulative emptiness would literally determine the measure of her miraculous filling.

When you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons; then pour it into all those vessels, and set aside the full ones.

So she did so, and when the vessels were full, she said to her son, Bring me another vessel, and he said there is not another empty vessel.

So the oil ceased. The man of God said go sell the oil and pay your debt.

Some of us are determined to present our fullness for God to fill. Note: God isn’t interested in meeting you at your best,

that’s really when you are at your worst. He isn’t interested in blessing your independence. He responds to your dependence,

His strength is attracted to your weakness’ God loves to pour out his fullness on your emptiness, but this won’t happen

until we deplete our fleshly resources and plead our dependence on Him.

You will never know He is all you need, until He is all you have!