This document summarizes a Bible passage about a widow who came to the prophet Elisha for help. She and her family were in debt and creditors were coming to take her sons as payment. Elisha told her to gather empty pots and fill them with oil from a single flask. Miraculously, the oil kept flowing and filled all the pots. She was then able to sell the oil to pay off her debts and support her family. The document outlines the challenges the widow faced, how she responded with faith, and how God provided for her needs through His miracle.

1. FROM A DESPERATE WIDOW
TO A CEO
2 KINGS 4:1-7
Bishop Bong Udang

2. • 2Ki 4:1 Now there happened to be a
certain woman who had been the wife of a
member of the Guild of Prophets. She
cried out to Elisha, "My husband who
served you has died, and you know that
your servant feared the LORD. But a
creditor has come to take away my
children into indentured servitude!"

3. • 2Ki 4:2 Elisha responded, "What shall I do for you? Tell
me what you have in your house?" She replied, "Your
servant has nothing in the entire house except for a
flask of oil."
• 2Ki 4:3 He told her, "Go out to all of your neighbors in
the surrounding streets and borrow lots of pots from
them. Don't get just a few empty vessels, either.

4. • 2Ki 4:4 Then go in and shut the door behind you, taking
only your children, and pour oil into all of the pots. As each
one is filled, set it aside."
• 2Ki 4:5 So she left Elisha, shut the door behind her and her
children, and while they kept on bringing vessels to her, she
kept on pouring oil.

5. • 2Ki 4:6 When the last of the vessels had been filled,
she told her son, "Bring me another pot!" But he
replied, "There isn't even one pot left." Then the oil
stopped flowing.
• 2Ki 4:7 After this, she went and told the man of God
what had happened. So he said, "Go sell the oil, pay
your debt, and you and your children will be able to live
on the proceeds."

6. LESSONS TO BE LEARN FROM A WEEPING
AND PROBLEMATRIC WIDOW.
• I. THE CHALLENGES / PROBLEMS SHE
ENCOUNTERED

7. I. THE CHALLENGES / PROBLEMS SHE
ENCOUNTERED
• • Death of her husband.
• • Loneliness.
• • Debt of her household.
• • Unemployment.
• • Pressure from her creditors.
• • Possibility of losing her two sons.

8.  I. THE CHALLENGES / PROBLEMS SHE
ENCOUNTERED
 II. HOW SHE RESPONDED TO THE CHALLENGES/PROBLEMS
LESSONS TO BE LEARN FROM A WEEPING AND
PROBLEMATRIC WIDOW.

9. II. HOW SHE RESPONDED TO THE
CHALLENGES/PROBLEMS
• She didn’t turn to alcohol.
• She didn’t give up on her family.
• She didn’t blame her husband.
• She didn’t depart from the faith.
• She didn’t question God.
• She didn’t cease contact with the servants of God.
• She believe : (verse 5) “she went from him”
• She obey: (verse 5) she shut the door upon her and her sons.
• She Work: (verse 5) “she poured out”

10.  I. THE CHALLENGES / PROBLEMS SHE
ENCOUNTERED
 II. HOW SHE RESPONDED TO THE CHALLENGES/PROBLEMS
 III. HOW GOD RESPONDED OT HER CHALLENGES/PROBLEMS
LESSONS TO BE LEARN FROM A WEEPING AND
PROBLEMATRIC WIDOW.

11. III. HOW GOD RESPONDED OT HER
CHALLENGES/PROBLEMS
• He heard her cry.
• He tested her faith.
• He provided abundantly., all vessels were filled
up
• He solved her problems . Vs. 7 Go , sell the oil
and pay thy debts and live