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Filling Empty Vessels..

Then he said ‘Go borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbours- empty vessels; do not gather just a few. And when you have come in you shall shut the door behind you and your sons then pour it into all those vessels and set aside the full ones’ 2 Kings 4: 3-4 NKJV. A certain widow who was a wife of a prophet who had died came to Elisha for help. Her husband had died but left his family in debt and the creditor was coming to take her two sons as slaves. Elisha asked her what she had and she said she only had a jar of oil, then Elisha asked her to go and borrow empty vessels not a few but a lot , shut the door, and fill them with the oil she had. The widow of Zarephath kept filling the empty vessels with the little oil she had and the oil kept flowing, but the moment the empty vessels finished the oil stopped flowing. As a business woman when I read this story I couldn’t help but think what if she had borrowed all the empty vessels in the country, she would have not on