How to participate in a miracle?

This verse reveals to us that we have received from the Lord wealth and also health to enjoy it. And that the fact that we can enjoy a job and what we receive is also a gift from the Father. If you consider yourself self-sufficient, know the ability to work and the opportunities that open up in your professional life come from God.

Provision depends on His power

Chapter 8 of the book of Deuteronomy is a reminder to the people of Israel. Moses was warning the people not to forget that every provision is a gift from God. Throughout this chapter he reminds the people of all the deeds of the Lord since They came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 8:17-18 says, “You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.”

When the people were in the wilderness, the Lord caused manna to fall from heaven. For them to understand that the provision did not depend on a place (it did not depend on Egypt), on a circumstance (it did not depend on a fertile soil) or on a human being’s own strength, but depended purely and simply on God.

We are still living in a very unstable economic situation. But the Word teaches us that our provision does not depend on a nation’s economy. It depends on God.

The Lord wants to use us in the miracle

We understand that the miracle of provision comes from the Lord, but He invites us to participate in the miracle through generosity. An example of this is the passage where Elisha helps a widow in poverty. Her husband had been one of the members of the group of prophets who served Elisha. And she was so in debt that her children could be taken as slaves. See their dialogue:

2. Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” “Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.” 3. Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. 4. Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.” (2 Kings 4:2-4)

In verse 2, the prophet makes himself available to the widow by asking: “How can I help you?”. Often generosity is just making ourselves available to someone in a vulnerable or needy situation.

In the third verse the prophet instructs the widow to borrow jars from her friends and neighbors. Therefore, she would depend on the generosity of those close to her.

And in verse 4, Elisha asked her to close the door and with her children to pour the oil from the only jar she had. Neither the prophet nor anyone else would need to be present at the performance of the miracle. The oil multiplied in that house with the closed door, demonstrating that the impossible and the provision depend only on God.

Generous people like the prophet, friends and neighbors participated in the miracle. Yet the provision came from the Lord. You can also participate in the miracle that God wants to perform in someone’s life by being willing and generous.