1. What to do when you don't know what to do

2. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you just didn't know what to do?

3. Ask The widow was in a crisis
Her husband had died in a patriarchal society
She was confronted in a desperate situation
A creditor was coming to collect her children

4. She does the only she knows to do- seeks Elisha
She comes to him “crying out”
She is asking
Really, she was asking God in that system
Is she the only one to cry out for help to God?
What about us?
Matthew 7:7-8

5. Listen We need to be ears to listen to God
She listens to Elisha and doesn't question him
One jar of oil is important
It is all she had

6. Her decision is our decision
We can listen to God or not
There is a big difference between listening and hearing
There is a connection to listening and obedience
She not only listened but did as he said
Are we doing the same?

7. Trusting She trusts Elisha’s strange command Look at verse 5 again
That takes a lot of trust
She doesn't have all the details of the plan

8. Sometimes it takes a crisis in our lives to test our faith, to show us the limits of our own strength and the provisions of an all- powerful God
Will we trust Him?

9. What we hold is the way to eternal life