START WITH WHAT YOU
HAVE
Introduction
One of Newton’s laws of motion states: ‘All objects remain in
a state of rest until a force is applied,” This may be true also of our
aspirations in life. Things do not move until we move.
Action orientation is a major requirement for success. The
question for most people however is:
“How do I start?” or “where do I start from?” That is why I have made available this
information; to help you overcome inertia and to get you moving in the direction
of destiny. A job begun is a job half done.
The problem with most of us is that we feel we do not have
what it takes to start. However, God will never allow things to degenerate
around us to the point where He has nothing with which to move us to the next
phase of our breakthrough. There will always be a seed in your life that God
will use to meet the need of your life. There is a miracle around you waiting
to be discovered. However, it is in the potential form.
For as long as you hold the belief that what you need to
start is what you do not have, you will not start. And of course you cannot
finish what you have not started. If you start early, you can finish early. But
if you start late, you will finish late, if at all you still have enough time to
finish.
I will be most fulfilled if after you have read this article,
YOU START WITH WHAT YOU HAVE.
2 KINGS 4:1-7
“A certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets
cried out to Elisha, saying, your servant my husband is dead, and you know that
your servant feared the Lord. And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to
be his slaves.”
So Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she
said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
Then he said, “Go, borrow vessels from everywhere, from all
your neighbours empty vessels; do not gather just 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.”
So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her
sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured it out.
And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she
said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.”
And he said to her, “There is not another vessel.” So the oil ceased.
Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go, sell
the oil and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”
What do you do when you
face crisis in life?
What do you do when you face seemingly insurmountable
obstacles, the loss of job, a crumbling marriage or failing health? It may be
when you just cannot cope with the bills. What do you do when you do not know
what to do?
The widow in the above quoted bible passage ran to the man of
God. This was a woman in a desperate financial situation. She was in a season
of change; a season of fire. Her husband had just died. He left little or no
assets. In fact he left liabilities. He owned so much money that his creditors
refused to forgive him, even in death. They were about to take her two sons as
slaves until she was able to pay up the debts.
It is puzzling the way the wind of change blows sometimes.
The death of a breadwinner, downturn in the national economy, the loss of job
or failure in business can sometimes result in deep financial crisis. The most
constant thing in life is change.
We cannot stop the imminence of change, but
we can decide our response to it. We fly of crawl in life depending on our
attitude to change. So I ask you today, what do you do when you do not know
what to do, in desperate situations or in your own season of change? This widow
in her own case ran to the man of God.
What you need in a time of desperate need is a word from God.
One word from God can turn your life around.
START WITH WHAT YOU HAVE!
Get my book titled: “Start with what you have” for the
complete package.
God bless you, I am Sam Adeyemi.
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