Life Lesson (verse 2 Kings 4:1)
We should be careful and prayerful about the debt we take on.
Life Lesson (verse 2 Kings 4:2)
When God is in the equation, nothing is impossible.
Life Lesson (verse 2 Kings 4:6)
God will always fill an empty vessel.
Life Lesson (verse 2 Kings 4:16)
Do not measure the outcome by your abilities but by God’s abilities.
Life Lesson (verse 2 Kings 4:33)
We should ask God to help us to be more merciful and kind.
Matt 6:12 NKJV
And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
1 Cor 7:23 NKJV
You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
John 15:5 NKJV
"I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Mark 10:27 NKJV
But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible."
Ps 68:5 NKJV
A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
Deut 14:29 NKJV
And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Ex 22:22 NKJV
"You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
Deut 24:19-22 NKJV
19 "When you reap your harvest in your field, and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.20 When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.22 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this thing.
1 Cor 6:19-20 NLT
19 Or don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
Mal 3:8-10 NLT
8 "Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me! "But you ask, 'What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?'"You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me. 9 You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me. 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do," says the LORD Almighty, "I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in! Try it! Let me prove it to you!
1 Peter 4:9 NKJV
Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
2 Kings 4:26 NLT
Run out to meet her and ask her, 'Is everything all right with you, with your husband, and with your child?' "
"Yes," the woman told Gehazi, "everything is fine."
Matt 10:12-13 NLT
12 When you are invited into someone's home, give it your blessing. 13 If it turns out to be a worthy home, let your blessing stand; if it is not, take back the blessing.
Lev 2:1 ASV
And when any one offereth an oblation of a meal-offering unto Jehovah, his oblation shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:
2 Tim 4:3 NKJV
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
Eph 4:14 NKJV
that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
Amos 8:11-12 NKJV
11 "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD,
"That I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water,
But of hearing the words of the LORD.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
And from north to east;
They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD,
But shall not find it.
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