One day Pastor Itang got an invitation to the city of Ajibga to go preach on a crusade ground in one evening.
While preparing his message, he decided that he was going to preach about the overflowing blessings of God.
So on the day of the crusade, pastor Itang dressed up from his lodge and was off to the crusade ground with so many escorts guiding him on both sides.
While preaching to the people on the crusade ground he told the people that the lord was going to do a mighty thing in their life this season.
He told them that in the Bible Elisha commanded the wife of one of the sons of the prophet to go and borrow an empty vessel for the overflow of the blessing of her oil into the empty vessels she borrowed.
He told them that as she obey the words of the prophet the whole borrowed vessel became filled with the little oil she has in her jar.
After the message that very day, pastor Itang told the people to also go and borrow empty vessels from their neighbors that the lord is going to bless all of them that obey his voice with abundant blessings of whatever businesses or things they are doing in life.
On getting home that very day, all the people that attended the crusade went and borrowed empty vessels from their neighbors.
They all went and borrowed empty vessels relating to their kind of businesses and went and kept them in their houses and were waiting to see them multiply as instructed by the pastor.
On that very day, they were told to sow a seed of money if they want the blessing to overflow in their business, so they did as commanded by pastor Itang.
To their surprise, the next day when they all went to check their vessels to see if it has overflowed with the various business that they are doing in life they discovered none of them has multiplied.
So they became angry hoping to catch pastor Itang to return all the seeds they sow to him with the hope of receiving an overflowing blessing in return.
As they went to the crusade ground the next day hoping to see pastor Itang, they were told that pastor Itang has already gone.
So they became angry knowing that pastor Itang has duped them of their money.
The question now is, what do we think the people did wrong that made their borrowed vessels not to be filled with an overflowing blessing as commanded by pastor Itang?
Do we think pastor Itang actually tricks them of their money?
But was such a miracle not register in the Bible?
What do we think pastor Itang did wrong that made them not get the same result the wife of one of the sons of the prophet got also?
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If I may add, isn’t this how so many preachers of today preach to the supposed children of God hoping to see the blessing of the lord mysteriously like the miracle money stuff without the in-depth understanding of the scriptures they are using to back their message?
The truth is many people have problems understanding the scripture and they don’t understand God’s journey with humanity.
They don’t understand the transition between the old and the new testament.
And they don’t care to know the difference between the old and the new testament.
So when they preach the scripture, they tried to preach it just from the eyes of the old or just from the eyes of the new testament without trying to understand the scripture from a holistic context.
So they go about picking a verse or a story from the scripture just to support their point.
Like this pastor, what he doesn’t seems to understand is that in the days of the old there was one main prophet who speaks the mind of God to the people. Who will have to tell the people what God would have them do to solve their problem because there was still a veil covering the people from accessing God themselves? And this veil was the veil of sin.
But in this new dispensation, God’s dream has finally come to pass.
God has finally built himself into his people through the finished work of Christ on the cross. He now dwells in men and speaks his mind to them.
He now solves their problem in mass within them instead of in the concept of the old where the prophet will have to be spoken to, to go instruct the people.
More also, what this pastor Itang also doesn’t seem to understand is that the old testament was of shadows of things to come, and as such a shadow cannot be taken just the way it is to be the main thing to be acted upon.
Every shadow is never realistic but only exists in the absence of light.
But with the presence of light, every shadow must disappear.
For the true message to be revealed from the shadows of the old testament writing, the image in the old must first be unveiled or interpreted to reveal the main thing hidden within the scriptures.
So in the case of the prophet Elisha telling one of the wives of the sons of the prophet to go borrow an empty vessel to be blessed by the overflowing blessing of the lord, was never to be taken literally in our days.
You may want to ask that am I now saying that God’s blessing can no longer overflow in our life, that can cause us to go borrow empty vessels from our neighbor to store it?
Or that am I now saying that God can no longer do such a mysterious miracle in the life of the people again?
No, that is not what I am saying.
What I simply mean is that the blessing of the lord now flows within us because we now carry God on the inside as a believer. This blessing of the lord is not physical anymore but spiritual which will come in the abundance of revelational knowledge that will cause us individually to go borrow empty vessels from our neighbors to bring it to fruition.
This empty vessel unused is also not to be literal vessels also like in the days of the old.
These empty vessels here to be borrowed can be people’s unused vessels, like their unused time, unused energy, unused money, unused hand, unused wisdom, and the thing that will be of help to us in accomplishing our God-given dreams and vision in life.
The reason is so that others can be part of the vision God gave us.
As a believer who carries God on the inside, when God wants to bless you abundantly, he will bless you with some level of spiritual blessing that you alone cannot handle, and as such you will need the unused vessel of others to establish the blessing from the lord.
If you try to accomplish it all by yourself, you might end up having a sinking boat like Peter whose ship was sinking when the lord ask him to throw his net to the other side of the sea for an abundance of fishes.
That we may know that this is how God deals with us now in these days and times. It is from the inside-out and not from the outside-in.
So If you know anyone who preaches like pastor Itang who doesn’t understand the scriptures very well, please tell him or her to come and read to understand how to preach the gospel.
Tell him that we are wake people now and that we can no longer be deceived anymore.
