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.

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