2 Kings 4:42-44
1. A man from another place came before and gave his first fruit to the man of God.
a. People who don't follow God yet know that God can and should only have the best and of the best quality.
2. Elisha the man of God thinks of the people and what the word of God can do. He gives what the people really need and is beneficial.
a. In the eye of the man of God or any pastor, is giving the best whatever there is to feed his people. In Elisha's eyes is the people must eat. He repeat it to his servant thrice.
It's when the people begin to eat that they would have the sustaining power for their journey. It's in receiving his words and instructions that we would find that we would move from strength to strength.
The man of God is to feed but the people must also respond and eat it then they would find strength out of it on their own. Because You are more than enough for us.
The people who ministered(his servant) with Elisha don't share the man of God's heart desire as they look to whether the people would have enough.
3. People who know God and are with us only wants to receive what they want and be there to give.
The people who are with us they cant see that the important issue or could not anticipate what in the man of God's heart. Sometimes the very people who are with us, they are content in receiving. Even in receiving, it must meet to their requirement or standard.
But as leaders especially need to rise up and be beside the pastor to begin to give unto the people. Whatever portion that we have received from the pastor, we must be faithfully in redistributing it out to the people .
Elisha knew the people needed this now as this is what God had said.
Sometimes we could be so close yet we missed the very heartbeat that's in the man of God.
Before we can received anything we are there to ask how would all these benefit people, what if it does not help them and etc. But that should not be our concern as we are there to just give the people what they need. It's when they begin to receive what they needed that they would be able to sustain themselves and make more with the little they have so that their supply is never ending. Because it's He that supplies it!!
Church, pastors and leader are not here to meet people' s needs but to give them the training they need to meet their own need so that they can make more and learn to sustain on their own.
