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If it wasn't for Andrew's teachings, I would never be where I am today. I would never have victory. I would be living a life of defeat.

There was Andrew's teaching that allowed me to develop that faith.

And now, here's Andrew.

Welcome to another special edition of the Gospel Truth broadcast.

Yesterday, I began to share that God has been speaking to me for probably close to six months, specifically from Second Kings chapter four about this story of a widow woman who couldn't pay her debts.

The creditors were going to come and take her sons to be slaves and she came to Alisha asking for help.

And I read the entire passage in verses one through seven yesterday.

Let me just go back and rehash a couple of things. The very first point that I was making is that she came to Alisha and asked him for help.

And Alisha said in Second Kings chapter four verse two, Alisha said unto her, what shall I do for thee?

And you know, we don't have the benefit of hearing the inflection of his voice. We can see what he said, but we don't have the inflection of his voice to know what he was really mean.

But I believe that what he was doing, he was redirecting this woman's attention or faith back towards God and away from himself.

In other words, he refused to be her source.

And this is so important. God has really spoken to me through this.

That as a minister, you know, I could meet the needs of, I don't know, 50 or 100 people if somebody was in desperate situation.

But I can't meet the needs of millions of people that God has blessed me to be able to speak to over television.

It's not my place to meet the needs of people.

My place, my call and anointing is not to give you a fish, but to teach you how to fish.

And so this is the main point that I made on my program yesterday that Alisha refused to be this woman's source.

Instead, he pointed her back to God and tried to get her to believing God.

And the benefit of this is so powerful because even if Alisha could have meant the need of this woman temporarily,

he couldn't be with her the rest of her life and take care of her, but God could.

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