949 It Starts Here

God is the great multiplier. His math doesn’t make sense. It stretches what could never be enough and makes it more than enough. God takes what is grossly insufficient and makes it magnificently abundant. That’s just the way God does it, however you have a role in this. God multiplies whatever you bring. If you bring nothing, God can’t multiply zero. Starting with zero and multiplied by God’s miraculous abundance, you still end up with zero. Zero times anything is zero. You can’t expect God to bless what you won’t do. He can’t work in what you’re not willing to give. His multiplying power is at a halt when you bring zero to the table. God will work through absolutely none of the devotionals I’m not willing to write. And he will speak to you through absolutely zero of the devotionals you’re not willing to listen to. There could be life changing divine power at work here, but if I’m not showing up for it, God can’t work in it. If you’re not showing up for it, you don’t get it. God cannot and will not grow what you’re not willing to start. He cannot bring together that which you’re not turning over. It’s simple math babe. God is the great multiplier, but no matter how strong his multiplying power is, anything times zero is still zero. You give no effort, God has no effort to multiply. You offer no time, God has no time to work in. You allow for absolutely zero faith and dismiss everything, God has nothing to grow in you. But remember, Jesus said in Matthew 17:20 ““I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.” God doesn’t require your huge, unshakable, unquestionable faith. He only needs a little, tiny piece of faith that says ‘Maybe God can use me. Maybe God is going to do something here. Maybe I can trust God in this.’ This tiny starter faith has the power to move mountains because of God’s multiplying power. You give him a little and he multiplies it by his abundance, then nothing shall be impossible. But we dismiss what little we do have the ability to do, the little we could give right now, and we wait for more. Hey sis, more doesn’t come from you. More comes when you offer what little you already have to the God who can make it so much more. You think you will do great and mighty things when you have so much more to offer, but you won’t. You’ll always be stuck in thinking what you have isn’t enough and what you can do is insufficient. It will never feel like enough in your hands. But in God’s hands it becomes something greater than you could ever imagine. You want to see what you have multiplied? Offer it to God! You won’t believe what you already have the start of right now! There once was a widow who had run out of money and she had no way of paying her debts. So, the bill collectors were coming to take her sons as slaves. We read in 2 Kings 4: 1-7 of Elisha, a prophet of God coming to help the widow. Elisha says “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” “Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil,” she replied. And Elisha said, “Borrow as many empty jars as you can from your friends and neighbors. Then go into your house with your sons and shut the door behind you. Pour olive oil from your flask into the jars, setting each one aside when it is filled.” So she did as she was told. Her sons kept bringing jars to her, and she filled one after another. Soon every container was full to the brim “Bring me another jar,” she said to one of her sons. “There aren’t any more!” he told her. And then the olive oil stopped flowing. When she told the man of God what had happened, he said to her, “Now sell the olive oil and pay your debts,