The Miracle is Looking for a Vessel

Sermon Overview: “The Miracle is Looking for a Vessel”

Prophetic Word for 2026 – Oil is pouring out, but there are few vessels. We are the vessels. We have been asking God to pour outside of our lives, but not necessarily into our lives. We want the oil, which is God’s power of favor, anointing!  We want God’s Spirit of blessing poured into our jobs, our families, our finances, and our nation.

We are to be an oil-filled, spirit-filled church, filled and a light to the city, but we are living as if our husband has died for us but has not resurrected. We are not walking in resurrection power with our husband, Jesus. We have yet to tarry in the upper room. The bride of Christ is living like a widow, with two children sold to be slaves to the enemy. 

God wants to do a miracle in your life and in Findlay….

But God wants to fill you first! 

• He wants to have all of you, live in you, and remain in you as you remain in Him.  
• His Spirit will not fill a vessel that is not empty, clean, and willing. 

Just like when you buy or rent a house. The first thing that you do when you take POSSESSION isn’t move in! 

• You empty that house and move out what you don’t want.
• You’ll clean that house before you move in.
• Just before you move in, and maybe remodel, paint, and decorate.

We need a reputation and testimony of God’s people asking to be filled with the Holy Spirit and giving themselves to God to take possession. 

God has cleaned out many of your lives in 2025 just to move into your heart and live in you, and instead of inviting Him in, you became angry because He cleaned house! 

Wrong views: 

• • We are not tools – picked up, used, and put down. 
  • We are not vehicles – to be driven and then someday break down and be discarded when old.
  • We are not dipsticks checking services online, listening to podcasts, and watching videos on YouTube, watching services on cable, online, listening to the radio for Christian services – dipping into the oil but not filled with oil.  

• We are not to put God into a box; we are His vessel. 

2 Kings 4:1 Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, 

• The wife…

• • • The church is the bride of Christ, but if it lives as if its husband has died but not resurrected, it walks in forgiveness of sins but not the resurrected power of the Spirit.  
    • There is no hope or future on Earth 
      • Why? Death is not defeated and lingers in every thought and action of the church 
        • Death is a spirit that fills and contaminates everything. 
      • The result? The church longs for heaven and is heavenly-minded, but is no earthly good! 

•  of one of the sons – 

• • God’s Son had two natures in hypostatic union: Fully God and Fully Man
    • Many serve him as a fully man but not a fully God
    • He carried two names: Jesus and Christ
      • Jesus is his Earthly assignment to the cross – Deliverer  
      • Christ is his heavenly assignment to fill us and calls us to ministry with His Spirit.
        • Example: 1 Timothy 1:12  I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service
        • Most know Him as Jesus, but few know Him as Christ. 
      • The Father has seen two pictures of His Son walking the Earth: the Son at the Cross and the Resurrected Son who walked the Earth for 40 days.
      • Many Proofs: Jesus presented himself alive with “many infallible proofs,” including appearing in locked rooms and breaking bread with them, strengthening their faith in his resurrection.
        • However, Jesus did not heal anyone, cast out any devils, nor raise the dead. 
        • These miracles and power would be reserved for His bride, the church would be filled with His anointing to be witnesses, to cast out demons, heal the sick, and speak with new tongues. 

“Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord,  but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.” 

take my two children to be his slaves. – 

• Jeremiah 29:11 Hope and a Future… 

• • • • Indentured servitude for 7 years, and she would be dead. 
      • A dead church is a church:
        • Lost the generations to the enemy 
        • It is a bride who lives like a widow when the bridegroom is resurrected
        • Does nothing with the oil that it has been given! 

• This is what the Devil is after …. Slavery of the next generation from the bride of Christ living like a widow! 

• • Aaron had two children – Nadab and Abihu
  • Eli had two children – Hophni and Phineas
    • They both served in the temple and tabernacle 
    • They both fell into the same sins: Drunkenness, Sexual Immorality, love of money, and offering to the Lord worship that was unauthorized, strange fire, and using the Ark for personal preferences and agenda.  
    • When the church is filled with Christians who are not filled with the Spirit, it will fill itself with the world. 
      • Do not be drunk with wine wherein excess, but be filled with the Holy Spirit 
      •  The body belongs to the Lord, and Christians are to “flee immorality” (1 Cor. 6:17). The body “is a temple of the Holy Spirit” (1 Cor. 6:19a)
      • Mat. 6:24 Man cannot serve two masters – You cannot serve God and Mammon.  
  • Jesus had two witnesses – Moses and Elijah 
  • They appeared with Him on the Mount of Transfiguration 
  • He fulfilled the Law and the Law of the Spirit and stood between them 
  • These two witnesses are coming again for the judgment of the world.
  • To warn the world of the coming of Christ.  

2 And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what have you in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.” 

• • We are not without anointing and the Spirit. 
    • We are just not using what we have to get what we don’t.  

• We do not see the Spirit as our strategy!

• • There is enough oil for the entire city if we would just pour out what we have. 

3 Then he said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few. 4 Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all these vessels. And when one is full, set it aside.” 

• Two generations were involved in the pouring. 
• The door to the world was shut, no distractions from the world or the enemy 
• The church is living with open doors to the world, which has allowed authorized influence in people’s lives through entertainment, social media, music, and worldly influences. 
• There is a price paid for the pouring!
  • Kathryn Kulmen in her sermon, “It Will Cost You Everything.”  According to Kathryn Kuhlman, the “price of the anointing” is not monetary, but involves total surrender and dying to oneself daily.  She emphasized that while salvation is a free gift, the level of God’s anointing in one’s life requires a deep, personal sacrifice and commitment.

Key components of this “price” include: 

• Absolute Surrender: Giving up personal ownership of one’s plans, dreams, reputation, and self-led life to follow God’s will.
• Obedience: Following God’s instructions, even when difficult or painful.
• Loneliness: Accepting that a deep spiritual walk requires separation from certain people or environments where others cannot follow.
• Brokenness: Allowing trials and experiences to deepen dependence on God, rather than relying on one’s own strength or success.
• Discipline: Guarding time, words, emotions, and focus to maintain spiritual integrity and avoid carelessness.
• Humility: Giving up the right to self-defend or self-promote, ensuring all glory goes to God alone. 

Kuhlman often stated, “It will cost you everything.”

5 So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons. And as she poured, they brought the vessels to her. 6 When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There is not another.” Then the oil stopped flowing. 

Analogies: 

• You can’t enjoy a cup of tea or a glass of water, or a Starbucks without a cup. 
• Imagine ordering a Happy Meal without a box, bag, and vessel for your drink and a wrapper for your cheeseburger. 
  • You want happiness from the Lord, but the Lord pours out Joy, and it comes from His Spirit being poured into you. 
    • POINT: If you are not willing to be a vessel for the Spirit,  stop complaining to God that you don’t have joy
      • Joy is not the problem, 
      • Illustration: Happy Meal comes in a Box, 
        • You got the Happy Meal waiting for an empty and clean vessel to go into! 
        • Are you a vessel that is clean and empty or holding on to anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, etc? 
  • No empty, clean, and willing vessel surrendered to be filled?
  • No HAPPY MEAL! 

• Do you need love and peace? These are the fruit of the Spirit. 
  • Illustration: You wouldn’t shop for groceries without a grocery sack.
  • You don’t just stack a bunch of fruit in your arms and try and pay for them – they would be rolling and falling out of your arms onto the floor!
  • You first get an empty, clean, willing sack to be filled. 
  • A vessel! 

No sack, no groceries! 

• The groceries need a bag! 
• I know it sounds kind of dumb, but I need a place to put the blessing! 

We’re all saying, God, give me the power.

• Give me the anointing!
• Give me something to meet my needs! 

God is saying Give me a vessel 

• Give me a message, God, and God is saying Give me a messenger! 
• Give me a blessing, and God is saying Give me a blesser 
• Give me peace, and God is saying give me a peacemaker – blessed are the peacemakers…
• Give us deliverance, God, and God is saying I want to fill a deliverer. 

• God is saying, just give me a willing and open vessel, you give me a vessel, I’ll give you the anointing, salvation, revival! 

Illustration: Could you imagine ordering a pepperoni pizza, and a man comes to your house and says Ding dong, Domino’s pizza and he walks up to your door holding a pizza like this 

• Saying we’ve run out of boxes, that stupid little 39-cent piece of cardboard takes on a tremendous value 
  • Why your mozzarella cheese and your sloppy ooey gooey tomato and the pepperoni slopping all over your drawers and your shoes, you say ain’t you got a box?

God wants a vessel to put the power in. 

• All the vessel has to do is be open and be offered fully to the Lord to be filled. 
• What Vessel will you offer for a miracle
• You cannot receive from God without offering Him a vessel to put the blessing into!  
• He won’t pour out a blessing into your backyard or bathtub, or even into this Building! 

• He is only going to pour into you a proper vessel and the proper vessel in you! 
• The widow has nothing but a pot of oil. 

• • Borrows empty vessels from neighbors; 
  • Pours oil until vessels are full; 

• Oil stops when no more vessels. 
• Core Message: Miracles are available as long as there are empty and willing vessels.
  • God has the power (oil), 
  • But God requires empty, clean vessels (people/homes/churches) to pour into.
• Conclusion: The miracle seeks a vessel.

Revivals Urgency

• The Collateral Effects of Revival Tarrying 
  • We are several generations away from an outpouring of the Spirit. 
  • We need supernatural intervention/miracle to save the offspring.

Why does Revival Tarry? The problem isn’t the oil (God’s power); it’s available vessels.

• God doesn’t show His power for the church’s entertainment
  • but for the church’s arrangement of the Body,
  • engagement of the Devil, 
  • and Amazement of the lost. 
• Jesus gave His Spirit to His church to be his body and continue His work 
  • 1 John 3:8 “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil” (ESV)