Now we're trying to pay for the outreach phase. We need 9,000 Euros. We took an offering today like the last time, but I don't know how much we raised. Today in class we talked about the story in 2 Kings 4:1-7
2 Kings 4:1-7 (New King James Version)
Elisha and the Widow’s Oil
1 A certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves.”2 So Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
3 Then he said, “Go, borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbors—empty vessels; do not gather just a few. 4 And 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.”
5 So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured itout. 6 Now it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.”
And he said to her, “There is not another vessel.” So the oil ceased. 7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”
Of course everyone in the room saw the correlation between our little offering jar and the widow's oil jar. We put a little in, but with God, so much can be poured out! Please pray for these funds to be raised so that we may glorify God and His awesome power.
Timmy is going to her home town this weekend to try and raise some more funds for her portion of the outreach cost. Please pray for her. Pray that the Holy Spirit would go before her and prepare the hearts of all of the people that she will talk to.
We already took the offering, but I still need to pray about whether I should give or not. God really challenged me to give more than I thought I could afford in the last offering. So I did. Then I stressed for a few weeks about my finances. God had told me He would provide, but I was still stressing.
Then in my daily Bible reading, I came across Numbers 11:23
23 The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.”
All of a sudden, I had a need to do my taxes. It took me over an hour to go through TurboTax, but at the end, my refund was $50 more than what I gave in that offering. God had covered it all. I've never gotten a refund like that before. In fact, TurboTax had this feature that let me compare last year's taxes to this year's taxes. Last year, I owed the government money. I have no idea how I got such a large refund. (Send me a private message if you want to know exact numbers. Let me just say that I'm not talking about donating $50 and getting a $100 refund.)
I remember when Stacey wrote on the board how much we needed to raise and thinking, "Wow, that is a lot bigger than last time." Then I pictured God. He was also watching Stacey write the number. Then He leaned over and whispered to me, "Watch what I'm about to do."
I'm excited to see how God will provide, but please pray for us.
PS, if you would like to donate, I'll give you the contact info for the leaders here. However, don't feel like you need to.
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