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hey everyone welcome to Wednesday's with crystal on crystal Sparks I'm so glad
that you are here on my channel hey every week on Wednesday I put out a new
video and my channel's purpose is this is to help grow your faith and to help
equip you to accomplish your dreams and your goals today we're going to talk
about you have what you need I don't know about you guys but it seems like
every time I face a big obstacle a big challenge the one thought in my mind is
I don't know that I have what I need to get through this maybe it's coming in
after an overwhelming day and you hear bad news about what's happening at home
and the house is a mess you seem completely overwhelmed and the thought
that hits your head is I don't have what I need to be able to get through this
challenge this difficulty maybe it's a health struggle a financial struggle
maybe I struggle in your business I think the one question that continuously
hits us the hardest is that we don't have what we need it's not that we don't
believe in what God's told us to do it's the fact that we don't believe we have
the resources we need the strength we need the talent anything that we need to
be able to accomplish it in the Bible it tells us a story about a woman in second
Kings chapter 4 and there's a prophet named Elisha and I want to read this
story to you it starts in verse 1 it says now the wife of a son of your other
prophets cried to Elisha your servant my husband is dead and you know that your
servant feared the Lord but the creditor has come to take my two sons to be his
slaves Elisha said to her what shall I do for you tell me what have you in the
house and she said your handmaid has nothing in the house except a jar of oil
then he said go borrow vessels from all your neighbors again empty vessels and
then not a few and when you come in shut the door upon your sons and then pour
out the oil you have into all those vessels setting aside each one until
it's full so she went from him and shut the door upon her selves in her sons and
who brought who brought her to her the vessels as she poured the oil when the
vessels were awful she said to her son bring me another vessel and he said to
her there is not one left then the oil stopped
multiplied and 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 you know a few
things I want to tell you about here is that first thing is is that what you do
first will always determine what happens next
what you do first when you realize that you don't have enough will determine
what happens next I can't tell you how many times that I have felt inadequate I
felt like I didn't have what it takes to get through that challenge through that
difficulty and what usually happens is I host a pity party and I start wallowing
in my sorrows I start trying to add up my checkbook again as though things are
gonna change the numbers are gonna magically morph into different members I
began to think about how I wish I would have done things differently I wish
these people wouldn't have left me I wish this scenario didn't happen and all
I'm doing is digging myself deeper into the disappointment but the truth is is
that in God the things that we see as our disadvantage is really our advantage
the things that we think are actually holding us back are about to propel a
sport but it's what we do first that's going to determine what happens next
see if she wouldn't have gone to the man of God and asked him that question she
wouldn't have ever gotten a miracle that was about to happen next and so many
times in our lives instead of going to God who knows the answer who can supply
all of our needs the Bible says according to his riches and glory what
we do is we keep looking at art in adequacy and in looking and our
inadequacy and our insufficiency we get deeper and deeper into despair but one
moment talking to God can solve all of our problems in the interesting that
here when she to put God first place all the problems begin to be solved I wonder
how many sleepless nights she had how many days she had worrying and stressing
how much time she wasted that she's never able to get back thinking about
how it wasn't gonna work out and in a moment God revealed to her the answer
how many you guys know that there's times in our lives where we say things
like well I guess all that have left to do is to pray oh my
goodness the only thing left to do that should be the very first thing you
should do see what we do first determines what happens next what if
when we began to have that negative thought come into our mind if you don't
have what it takes what if instead of going on the negative spiral we begin to
pause and pray what if we begin to just say God I put you first place right now
God I asked for you to open up my eyes let me see what I do have the next thing
is that I want to show you is that what you need you already have if you don't
have it it's because you don't need it see here she is the very first thing
that she does is she comes she asked the man of God what to do but then she does
what we do she talks about everything that she doesn't have she talks about
how she doesn't have a husband now she doesn't have the resources but she has
nothing left in her house and here's the thing is if you don't have it you don't
need it and what you have is already in the house you know I'm telling you this
message because this is a very message that the Lord spoke to me the other day
I was praying and I was having a pity party and I was telling the Lord Lord I
can't do what you called me to do these people aren't with us anymore we
don't have the resources that we need this situation didn't work out the way I
hope and the Lord just asked me everything you need you already have if
you needed it you would still have it the Lord's like I didn't let anything
leave your life that was gonna sabotage you from the calling that I have for you
if you have it that means that you still need it and the Lord asked me what do
you have who are the people that are in your life what are the resources that
you have what things have I entrusted you with and I want you to start to
think about those things see here's the deal is that even when all she had left
was a little bit of oil that was all she needed think about Jesus when he was
about to be the disciples they were so busy telling him everything they didn't
have we don't have enough food even if we went to town they wouldn't have
enough food and I love what Jesus says he says what do you have go out in the
crowd and tell me what we do have and the miracle began to happen not and then
folk seeing an insufficiency it was where the
miracle happened was as they begin to give God what they do have and friend
let me tell you some of you are still mourning over the people that left you
some of you are still in disappointment over the job situation that didn't work
out that application that got to nine the boyfriend that broke up with you the
heartbreak that it happened in your life and here's the thing is if they left
that means you don't need them because here's the thing is that God is a good
God and he's not gonna let something leave you that you need he's gonna make
sure that hey everything you need you already have and even if you just have
like that woman just a little bit of oil guess what it's gonna give you
everything you need you know it doesn't matter what everything looks like in
your past when you give it to get to God your past pain he'll give to you your
future victories but here's the thing is it's never gonna happen if all you're
doing is getting yourself down thinking about what didn't work out thinking
about what you don't have if all of a sudden you got to begin to give him what
you do have what do you have the next thing I want to tell you is that all God
always gives you more than you needed in the first place you know here this woman
came she all she wanted was the debt to be paid for she just didn't want to lose
her sons she just wanted to lose the debt where it wasn't holding her back
she was about to lose her sons to the debt collectors all she wanted was the
debt to be paid off but I love what the Bible says
he says go and sell all that oil it's gonna pay off your debt and you're gonna
be able to live off the rest you know thinking about Jesus when you multiplied
the loaves and the fish the Bible says it wasn't just enough to feed the
thousands of people there that day but there was actually baskets of leftovers
here's the thing is that God isn't a just get by God I love this that God's
not on a budget he's not thinking oh well how can I barely meet her needs the
Bible says that he gifts to us good measure pressed down shaken together and
running over see here's the thing is that God is a multiplication kind of guy
and when we began to seek him first when we begin to give him what we do have not
the pains of our past not all the things that didn't work out but we begin to
look inside and say what do I have left that I can turn into something great
what do I have left that I can bring to the feet of the master and then when we
begin to do that God does so much more than what we came for friend let me tell
you you have everything you need you just gotta start using it if you got a
camera start shooting if you got a house start inviting people over if you got a
urban start that bakery right there in your kitchen quit waiting for what you
don't have and just start using what you have and when you use what you have
friend let me tell you that God will take you places that she never dreamed
possible you just start using what you have today and gotta worry about the
rest hey thank you so much for watching hope this video inspired you to start
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