November 22 & 23, 2025
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Reading along with us in 2 Kings, Acts, & Hebrews? Here’s today’s reading:
2 Kings 4 (NIV)
The Widow’s Olive Oil
1 The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”
2 Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?”……Continue Reading
A chapter of very unique miracles to say the least. It is interesting that in Elisha’s miracles people are almost always asked to be active participants, like they have something to do for it to happen. Made me think of how often we might be missing out on God’s miracles in our own inability to act. Maybe we are just praying and waiting instead. Certainly it is so important to be in the word, in paryer and listening to God to be sure we are in tune with the spirit to determine the steps God wishes us to take and the times when we are just not trusting and getting in His way. As someone who can be a bit impatient and Type A, I struggle to be still in God and it is definitely something He is working on in me.
Yes a diverse set of miracles here displaying the power of God on God’s prophet. I love that Elisha tells the widow to get a lot of jars…and sure enough, the oil lasts only until the last jar is filled. What a picture of how much faith we have and how much are we bringing to God for Him to fill. The account of this woman is also curious, that God would give her a son, and then the son would pass and then be raised to life. It is another picture into sometimes how God works to create situations that are even heart breaking only so He can resolve them. And it would be nice to have Elisha around in the kitchen…how quickly something that is harmful is made to be clean. It is the nature of our God to do just that.
Reminds me As we read and studied this week at Wednesday night bible study. Ephesians 3/20. Now to him who is able to do a immeasurably more than what we ask or imagine. According to his Power, that is at work within us.
Psalm 32; 2 Kings 4; Jeremiah 11
Between raising the dead and feeding a small amount of bread to a large crowd, it’s interesting how some of these miracles are similar to the ones Jesus did.
1 Kings 3 and 4, Acts 23.
2 KINGS 3,4
ACTS 23
2 kings 4
2 Kings 4
I was also thinking that these miracles were like some of Jesus’ miracles.