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We are continuing with the theme for the year 2010, ‘fruitfulness’. This is a year of increase, multiplication, a year when you shall blossom. On this first Sunday of the year 2010, Bishop Joe Imakando preached a powerful sermon entitled, ‘From Little to Much, 2Kings4:1-7’ which saw over 130 people give their lives to the Lord.  Left: Bishop Imakando praying for people who gave their lives to the Lord.The widow’s oil: The husband to the widow died and left debt. His creditors were coming to take away their two boys as slaves. In her desperation, the woman went to the man of God who prophesied to her. She heard, accepted and believed the prophecy. God brought a great turnaround in her life, the little oil that she had in her house filled up many jars. She became fruitful by selling the oil and paying off her debt. As we have received a prophetic word, we need to do the same thing she did. We hear the word of God, accept and act on the word that is when it will bring fruitfulness in our lives. There is an anointing to move from stagnation to progress. God wants to bring fruitfulness in your life. She took her problem to Prophet Elisha The woman took her problem to Prophet Elisha. She did not go elsewhere but to the Prophet and pleaded with him. She was a woman of faith and was aware that God had a covenant with herself and her husband. God was faithful to that covenant. God will be faithful even after death. In life you need to know where to take your problems. When you go to the right place, you get the right answer. When you have a problem it’s not time to run away from church or from the man of God, instead it’s time to run to God. The woman was seeking help from God through Elisha. This year God will help you at home, business, work, school, marriage and ministry. There is no mountain God cannot level, He is God and He has the answer. Seek help from God. You have tried elsewhere but now seek God, He wants to help you. He is our present help in time of need. Elisha responded with two quotations The Prophet did not respond traditionally by praying for her, but responded with two questions. a. How can I help you? b. What do you have in your house? She responded that she had nothing except a little oil in a jar. Inside you, there is something you have that nobody can take away. The key to your fruitfulness is in your house. Everyone by God’s grace has a little anointing; it could be in business, a talent, education or a job. That is the little oil in a jar. What do you have? This year is a year of discovering what you have, when you discover you recover; when you recover you will have impact. May God open your eyes to see what you have so that you may be able to do much more. Elisha gave her a prophetic word Elisha gave her a prophetic word, ‘go round and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few.’ Empty jars belong to other people. There are things God wants you to learn from other people. When you borrow empty jars, you become creative but when you borrow jars full of oil, you become a carbon copy. God wants you to be an original. The reason you fail is because you are a carbon copy. This year God wants you to be you. How do you borrow empty jars?
This year, you need to learn from others. Open your eyes to see what others are doing. There is power in association. Someone is going to break through this year. Doors that were closed will open this year. Fruitfulness will come in your life. What you touch shall be fruitful. Open your heart because there shall be no more stagnation. She poured the oil in empty jars to release her increase She borrowed empty jars from her neighbors. The Prophet said, ‘do not ask for a few, but as many as you can.’ The man of God did not put any limit on her; he said whatever you can borrow. God never limits you; the grace upon your life can go as much as you go with it. The anointing can grow; there is no limit to what you can do because He is a God of abundance. Only man puts limits, limits are broken this year. You can be what God has ordained you to be. The business you have can be more than you think. When jars get full put them aside and keep on pouring. When empty jars ran out, the oil stopped. You need to report when you get blessed, like the woman reported to the man of God. God will not pass you by this year, you will be celebrated. The woman sold the oil and lived on the rest. This is a year when you will blossom, multiply. What do you have in your house? Everyone has something, a little oil in the jar. This is the key to your fruitfulness. |
