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Then Elisha said to her, "Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full."

So the widow had her sons go and borrow vessels from her neighbors. Afterwards, she and her sons went into the house, shut the door and she began pouring the oil from her pot into each of the vessels. When all the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me yet a vessel." He answered her, "There is not a vessel more." And the oil stayed -- or stopped flowing.

Then she came to Elisha and told him what had happened and he said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest." (2 Kings 4:1-7)

This story has been on my mind a lot because I have a good friend who is a soon-to-be-45-year-old-single female. She's talented, pretty and smart, yet finding the right man has always been this elusive quest. And, in my opinion, it's because she hasn't set out enough pots. She spent many years as a home-based entrepreneur who stayed in her house and didn't get out much.

So, I recently gave her a piece of advice. I said,

1) First, KNOW that what you want, wants you! There is someone - possibly more than one someone - out there who would be a perfect match for you. You'd love being a part of his life as much as he'd love being a part of yours.

2) Second, set out some pots! How many places can you go? How many people can you meet? How many new friends can you make? The more people you interact with and the more you get out, the greater your chances of meeting somebody who knows someone who will introduce you to your future life mate.

This same principle can work in business. How many income streams can you create? How many pots can you put out to gather cash? If you don't have but one pot for your revenue to flow into - your JOB - then you're limiting yourself! It takes time to collect pots, but they are worth gathering, because when the Lord rains down His blessings, you control the flow of them by the number of pots you collect and the faith you exhibit!

Here are a few lessons we can gain from this story of the Widow, Elisha and the Pots

First, when the widow was in dire straights, the Lord (working through the prophet Elisha) had her evaluate her assets -- what did she have? She had one pot of oil. It wasn't much, but it was enough for God to work a miracle. By putting together all the woman had with the miracle of the Lord, she had enough to pay her debt and have leftover to live on. It's the same with us. We may sometimes feel we have very few assets -- maybe meager talents or abilities or limited resources, but it really doesn't matter to the Lord. He can take whatever we have -- no matter how meager or insufficient -- and multiply it in a miraculous way so that we can overcome life's obstacles and challenges.

We Can't Do It Alone

Besides the widow, the Lord, Elisha and the woman's sons, who else helped perform this miracle? Why, her neighbors did! She had to have neighbors who were willing to let her borrow the extra vessels. What if she hadn't had neighbors to lean on in her time of need? What if she had been too proud to borrow from them? Part of the Lord's plan is that we help each other. When we, through our pride, refuse to receive help from others, we limit the Lord's ability to bless us.

In business, networking is our greatest resource. When you think about your assets, don't look at just what you personally possess. Look at the resources, talents and abilities your friends and associates possess. With the right bargain, their assets are your assets! When we bring others into win-win equations, everyone is blessed!

Faith Precedes the Miracle

Elisha told the woman to do something that seemed rather silly. Who would think that by pouring out the oil from a pot into other vessels that there would be any more oil than when you started? Many people might have thought, "Well, that pot will hold about four gallons, so I need four 1-gallon vessels." But Elisha had said, "Borrow not a few." So, the widow followed Elisha's commands thoroughly and sent her sons away to gather as many vessels as they could.

Sometimes it takes a leap of faith that flies in the face of reason to believe that our paltry assets, experience, resources and abilities can be magnified by such simple means as the Lord requires. How many times when the Lord has asked you to do something, have you thought, "Who me? I'm not talented enough... I'm not good enough... Why doesn't He ask someone better than me to do this?" But the widow didn't do this. Logic didn't play a role here. Sometimes we need to set aside our human reasoning and logic and just take a leap of faith.

We Control the Flow of Blessings

Let's say that the woman and her sons gathered 100 vessels and the oil poured out to fill all 100 pots and then stopped when she ran out of pots. What if the woman had gathered 500 pots or 1,000 pots? Then the oil would have filled 500 or 1,000 would it not? I don't know about you, but if I were the widow and her sons, I'd be wishing I'd found a way to gather more pots! The widow literally controlled the amount of oil she had to resell by how many pots she and her sons had gathered. We too, control the flow of the Lord's blessings by what we're willing to allow into our lives and receive.

How many blessings are you and I missing out on because we have never asked, because we never set out enough pots, or were too scared to borrow pots from our neighbors? With God, nothing is impossible (Luke 1:37). We control the blessings we receive by our willingness to be obedient, to ask, to seek, to accept help from others, to act on faith, and to prepare to receive.

So get out there and find some more pots! :)