First Good Samaritan Baptist Church
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What you have…IS ENOUGH!

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.”

2 Kings 4:1, 2
New King James Version

Many of us can identify with this woman in the text that has had a feeling of insufficiency. There have been moments in our lives where we feel that what we had…just wasn’t enough. This woman was going through a season of deficiency.

We shared with the congregation that living with a mentality of deficiency is dangerous. A mentality of deficiency can limit one’s options. It can lower one’s expectations and can last for multiple generations. This type of mindset will cause a person to settle and not want to achieve greater in life. The mentality of deficiency will hinder one’s destiny.

The text introduces us to a woman whose family was in jeopardy of being divided because of the death of her husband. According to Levitical Law [chapter 25], anyone who owed a debt to a creditor, they had the right to take your children to be workers to work off the unpaid debt until it was paid or the year of Jubilee.

This woman’s currency was tied to her covering who has died and left her with a debt that could potentially divide her family. She cries out to Elisha for help and reminds him of the faithfulness of her husband to the Lord. In other words, this text teaches us that it is possible that the faithfulness of one can bring favor to another one. Her faith was not eluded or exposed in the text, but the faith of her husband was evident and could possibly bring favor to her family.

Part I of this message reveals that our deficiency does not have to prevent us from our destiny. We have been granted favor, not because of us but on behalf of somebody else who prayed for us. It has been the faithfulness of others who have prayed for us that resulted in God working in us.

Thank God that somebody prayed for me. Thank God that somebody prayed for you. They had us on their mind and took the time to pray for us! I’m so glad they prayed for you and me.

Dr. James A. Simmons, Senior Pastor