Title: Let's Be a Big Vessel of Faith
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Become a great vessel of faith
Judges 1:27-33
In 2 Kings chapter 4 we find this. The wife of a student of a prophet has lost her precious husband. After my husband left, I was left with a lot of debt. As a result, he has to hand over his beloved child to the Chaeju as a slave. The pain overlapped like this.
So the woman went to Elisha and told her the situation and asked for help. When Elisha heard the plight, he said, “Tell me what is in your house.”
Then the woman said, "There is only a bottle of oil in her house."
Elisha said to the woman, “Go out and borrow a vessel from all your neighbors. Just borrow a bowl, but don't borrow a little, but borrow as much as you can. Then go into the house with your two sons, shut the door, and pour oil into all the vessels and move them as they fill. This text shows how God prepared the land of Canaan for the Israelites. This shows who God really is.
1. This is Jehovah Jireh that you have prepared.
To Israel, Canaan is the promised land. Genesis 13:14-15 “Lift up your eyes and look from where you are, to the east, west, north and south, and I will give to you and to your descendants the land that you see, and it will last forever.”
This is what God said to Abraham.
Also, Genesis 26:2-3 says, “Do not go down to Egypt, but live in the land I will show you. If you sojourn in this land, I will be with you and will bless you, and I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants.” This is the promise to Isaac.
God has prepared in advance the blessings He will give to the fathers of faith.
If you have little faith, you will become suspicious, and eventually you will receive reproof.
However, if you have great faith, you will receive the power of “the amazing work of faith.”
2. There were some tribes that He had prepared but did not receive their share.
If you look at the text, there were some tribes who did not enjoy the full portion of what God had prepared for them. They are the tribes of Manasseh, Ephraim, Zebulun, Asher, and Naphtali.
The people of that tribe were supposed to destroy and drive out the Canaanites living in the land, but they could not. It's not that they're powerless, and it's not that God wasn't with them. But why didn't they get the share they had already been given?
Not because of complete faith, but because of partial obedience of faith. It is the result of believing in your own thoughts. Rather, they accepted the Canaanite religion and their faith was corrupted, and eventually they became like thorns piercing their side.
If you believe in your own thoughts like this, you will be stranded in such misfortune.
3. The great vessel of faith lives with the belief that the Word will surely come true.
No matter how difficult and difficult the circumstances and circumstances are, please believe that God's promises will surely come true. History will surely happen to those who hold on to that promise and move forward. The Bible promises this to the ‘great vessel of faith’ who lives in obedience to the Word.
“You are blessed in the field, you are blessed when you go to the city, you are blessed when you go out, you are blessed when you come in, and you are blessed in everything you do with your hands.” In this difficult and difficult time, I hope that you will live as a ‘great vessel of faith’ through which you can receive God’s blessings. God has already prepared all the blessings for us.
No matter how prepared you are, if you do not fully believe and obey, all of that will not be yours. Only those who believe and obey God's Word have the grace of being filled.
I hope that you will become ‘a great vessel of faith’ and fill the new year with blessings abundantly.