TOP FIVE – WEEK FIVE
“Putting God First In Your Stresses & Storms”
Pastor Doug Heisel – June 4, 2023
TOP FIVE
“Putting God First In Your Stresses & Storms”
Pastor Doug Heisel – June 4, 2023
Matthew 6:33 — But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
1 Kings 17:7-16 — Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.”
So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”
“As surely as the LORD your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”
Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the land.’”
She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah.
Lessons to Bring Into Your Stresses and Storms
The Lord cares about what OVERWHELMS you, and He will SPEAK into your situations, but you have to lean in and LISTEN.
LETTING GO of something in your hand (or heart) is often the key to receiving MORE of God’s blessing and favor.
The Lord’s plan does not include delivering us FROM all problems. Often He uses a current problem to prepare us FOR a greater purpose.
A Word to Marketplace Leaders
You have a SACRED ADVANTAGE in difficult times when you put God first in your career. The Lord not only has WISDOM to give you, and RESOURCES to bring to you, He wants to leverage your work for a PURPOSE greater than the work itself.