Living in the Spacious Place: How to defeat the Poverty Spirit pt 2 OUTLINE

Sermon Text: 1 Kings 17: 15, 16 15 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. 16 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.

Sermon Title: Living in the Spacious Place: Defeating the Poverty Spirit Pt 2

Definitions: Spacious Place—worry free not care free; Poverty Spirit—When you believe your situation/circumstance is bigger than God

Step 5 Rise to the Challenge vs. 9 & 12 Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food. As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied…

Step 6 Eradicate Your Routine vs. 13…Go home and do as you said. But first…

Step 7 Prime the Pump vs. 13…But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. Elijah asked her to prime the pump.
Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

Step 8 Promise Keeper vs. 16 For the jar of flour was not used u and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah
• That’s why God swears on himself. Hebrews 6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
• That’s why he puts the word above his name. Psalm 138:2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
That why he left you a written record of what he has done in the past.
• He is not a man that he should lie. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
• 2 Pet 3: 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.