Unbelievable Resources

Unbelievable Resources

“What can I do to help you?” Elisha asked. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” “Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil,” she replied. And Elisha said, “Borrow as many empty jars as you can. . . . Pour olive oil from your flask into the jars, setting each one aside when it is filled.” So she did as she was told. . . . Soon every container was full to the brim! 2 Kings 4:2-6

Jeff Feldhahn, a friend of Nathan’s, started a business called World2one. Nathan remembers how excited Jeff was when he first told him about it, especially about its prospects for allowing ministries to quickly, easily, and safely connect with the people they serve and who serve them.

And then the dot-com bubble burst, all sources of funding dried up, and 98 percent of the employees left, leaving Jeff and a part-time programmer to carry the vision. Companies were drying up right and left and filing for bankruptcy, but Jeff felt such a passion for the investors and for the concept itself that he believed he should stick it out.

“I’ll just keep going for six months, and if it doesn’t turn the corner, I’ll move on.” Several months later, Nathan asked for an update.

“It hasn’t exactly turned the corner, but there is something that may happen that’ll turn it for us.” And so it has gone on.

Jeff is now almost ten years into it and finally has a product and website. Through it all, however, his attitude has remained unflagging: God will provide.

So often we fret from day to day, wondering how we will get to tomorrow. What we easily forget is that God has plenty of oil in an endlessly flowing flask. Plenty of resources. In fact, God has all of the oil, all of the resources. We are simply stewards of them.

How does the World2one story end? Right now, only God knows.

But I know that Jeff’s story is unfolding in the way that it should, and that Jeff is growing through the process. And in the interim, he and his wife have coauthored bestselling books on marriage, the For Women Only and For Men Only series, which grew out of their shared experience in this uncertain time in their lives. It was an untapped resource that surfaced when it was needed.

Uncommon Key > When things aren’t going the way you’d hoped, remember that the Creator of the universe has all the resources you could ever need. If you trust in Him and stick it out, you may end up being surprised by the outcome.