A woman, of the wives of the sons of the prophets, cried out to Elisha, saying: Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant was afraid of the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two sons for servants. 2 And Elisha said to him, What shall I do to you? Tell me what you have at home. And she said: Your servant has nothing in the house, except a jar of oil. 3 He said to him, "Go and borrow pots for yourself from all your neighbors, empty pots, not a few." 4 Enter then, and lock yourself up, you and your children; and pour into all the pots, and when one is full, set it aside. 5 And the woman left, and shut the door, shutting herself in and her children; and they brought her the pots, and she poured the oil. 6 When the jars were full, he said to one of his son, Bring me still other jars. And he said: There are no more vessels. Then the oil stopped. 7 Then she came and told the man of God, who said, "Go and sell the oil, and pay your creditors; and you and your children live on what's left. 2 Kings 4: 1-7 King James Version (KJV)
In the Bible, God is known as "Jehovah-jireh," which means, "the Lord our provider."
The Christian should not fear in anything, in his needs, because God will always face to supply our needs according to the riches in glory, which are in Christ Jesus.
The believer must focus his search on God and the Lord will focus the intention of his heart to supply the needs of his children and even in times when we do not know how God's help will come.
In 2 Kings 4: 1-7, we find an important story that highlights God's power to meet the needs of those people, even when they don't know how God will do it.
The woman in this story had been left a widow and with the debts that his wife owed to certain creditors. The creditors pressured her to pay the debt and she, in anguish, went to the prophet Elisha, who, invoking the power of God, brought the solution to the problems she had for the widow.
The prophet only asked the widow what she had at home that God could use to help her, she simply said, "a pot full of oil." That simple vessel full of oil, God used so that the widow would pay the debt with her creditors and have enough left to support herself and her children. How did God do it? Simply, with what we least imagine, that God can act to supply our needs.
Fearing that we will not have enough in times of need insults God who has revealed himself as “Jehovah-jireh,” the Lord our provider.