Recently we had out-of-town friends visiting and during our visit and prayer time it was decided that we needed to anoint every opening to our home with oil.
Every window and outside door.
Our friends had a small vial of anointing oil in their truck that we used for this task and about halfway through the process it was announced that we may run out of oil. I was reminded of the widow in 2 Kings 4 who needed to pay one of her husband’s creditors or her sons would be taken away as payment. She approached the prophet Elisha for help. He asked her what she had in her house and she replied that she didn’t have anything except a little oil. He instructed her to ask all her neighbors for jars, take them home, close her doors, and begin pouring the oil into the borrowed jars. She did as she was told and the oil flowed until the jars were all full, then the oil stopped flowing. Elisha then instructed her to sell the oil and pay her debts.
As we were running out of oil, I felt prompted to lift my hands and pray that the anointed oil would continue to flow until the anointing job was done. It did. We had enough to anoint every door and window of our home.
That was amazing, but it gets better…
A couple of days later, after our friends had returned to their home 4 hours away, one of them received a vision and felt specifically led to return to our house to talk, pray, and anoint our entire property with oil. They obeyed the Lord and returned. In the middle of the night, three of us were walking around the perimeter of the property. I was walking in the middle carrying what was now a tincture bottle of anointing oil with a medicine dropper. We started at the back corner at one of the trees. I was instructed to drop a drop or two every few feet as we walked with me in the middle between my two friends. I had my flashlight on so I could see the oil dropping.
About halfway around the property I asked my friends a question, “Is this oil colored or is the medicine dropper colored?”
They responded that the oil was colored and the dropper was clear.
“Guys, the dropper is still full,” I informed them.
“What?!”
My fingers were actually hurting because I was squeezing so hard to squeeze every drop of the oil out so we didn’t have to stop until necessary and refill, and before our very eyes I released my fingers and bubbles trickled from the bottom to the top of the dropper, but the level of oil in the dropper didn’t change. It remained full.
We stood there marveling in amazement, then proceeded to finish the journey around the property praying and dropping oil every few feet. From the moment I released my fingers and the bubbles trickled to the top, and we began anointing again, the level in the dropper went down until just a couple of feet from the tree where we had started. Then the oil ran out. We had just enough oil in one dropperful to complete the job!
It was unbelievable! And so like our Abba Father to use a small thing to impart a profound truth ~ He is able to supernaturally provide for our needs! He is able to supernaturally increase whatever we have!
This is the kind of faith I want to impart to my children.
God is capable of supernaturally providing for your needs.
Do you trust Him to do that for you today?
(Photo taken on a different night.)
