By Olubunmi Adebayo
*Several times we assume we don’t have what it takes to accomplish specific success that we desire in our journey of life.*
*Some will complain of lacking a father or a mother as the reason for their lack of progress, forgetting that we have lots of people who lacked both parents and still went ahead to succeed in life.*
*To some, their complaint is lack of education in specific areas of life, forgetting that there are several people who are self-taught, and who went ahead to accomplish their visions in life.*
*At the peak of the greatest challenge in her life, when going forward was impossible, and retreating was never an option, and she was asked what possible possession or resources she had at home, and the widow of the prophet could only manage to say “NOTHING”.*
*Please read the story in some details :*
*2 Kings 4: [1] Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.*
*[2] And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not anything in the house,… save a pot of oil.*
*As far as she could see and determine, there was nothing she had that was worth reckoning in her house.*
*Most of us are like this woman, we don’t reckon with what we have as having anything.*
*Prophet Elisha asked her, “what do you have at home?” She could only say “nothing”, but on a second thought she added – “except a small pot of oil”.*
*And it was that small pot of oil that God multiplied to address the situation of lack in her life and transform her family.*
*Stop seeing “nothing” as what you have. Look deep, look well.*
*Look at another case scenario : when the man with one of the longest time spans of sickness in the Bible (38 years) encountered Jesus, he started with the narration that he had no man to push him into the pool of Bethesda :*
*John 5: [2] Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.*
*[3]In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.*
*[4]For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.*
*[5]And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.*
*[6]When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?*
*[7]The impotent man answered him, _Sir, I have no man_, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.*
*The man who at that moment was standing face to face with the greatest Helper of the Helpless, was busy complaining of not having anyone to carry and push him into the pool of Bethesda.*
*The sick man was not reckoning with the fact that he was this long sick, and still alive!*
*What you need to make the difference is right with you.*
*What you require to go forward is by your side.*
*When God had become satisfied with Abraham on His instruction that he should sacrifice his son, Isaac, IT WAS RIGHT THERE AND THEN that God raised a replacement animal for Isaac who should have been offered in sacrifice (Gen 22:10-13).*
*Just prayerfully look inward, what you need is with you, what you require is there with you.*
*Are you traveling to Sokoto (a town in northern Nigeria) in search of that “thing”? Look well inside your pocket of your sokoto ( the trouser you are wearing) and you will find it.*
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©️ Olubunmi S Adebayo.
