Peace Over Anxiety | Week 3 | January 21st, 2024

“The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.”
– Proverbs 22:7

 18-29-year-olds: $69 billion total, $12,871 average
 30-39-year-olds: $1.17 trillion, $26,532 average
 40-49-year-olds: $1.13 trillion $27,838 average
 50-59-year-olds: $98 billion, $23,719 average
 60-69-year-olds: $64 billion, $16,661 average
 70 and older: $36 billion $9,827 average

“Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
– 2 Kings 4:1

“And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.” Then he said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few. Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all these vessels. And when one is full, set it aside.”
– 2 Kings 4:2-4

“So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons. And as she poured they brought the vessels to her. When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another
vessel.” And he said to her, “There is not another.” Then the oil stopped flowing. She came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”
– 2 Kings 4:5-7

What made the difference?
She sought spiritual guidance, not just worldly wisdom.

She attached God to her resources.

God’s provision provides for God’s people all that they need.

“…give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure, you use it will be measured back to you.”
– Luke 6:38

When God becomes your source, you are no longer owned by your resources.