Understanding the Promise
God Says: “Open wide your mouth and I will fill it” What a great promise this is!
What a great promise this is. It cannot be stated more simply than this. It is God who has made the promise. Your part is to expect God to fulfill it—not according to your smallness or insignificance, but according to the exceeding greatness and majesty of God himself. So expect great things from God.
Overcoming Unbelief
Stop looking at your failures and at your miserable circumstances. Instead, look at what God is willing to do for you and through your life. He is painting a big picture. He is looking at how you are going to respond to it.
Will you pull back from the finishing of the plan and design because of your unbelief? Or are you willing to say, “Yes, Lord,” and step forward in obedience to what he is willing to do for you?
You will open wide your mouth in expectation only if you believe that God is able to do and perform for you what he has promised. Yes, belief is the key.
The Role of Bold Prayer
And its practical reflection will be in prayer—believing God enough to ask. You will start to ask God with freedom, boldness, and confidence.
God is not going to answer prayers with selfish objectives. But whatever is according to his will for your life, there is no limit to what you can ask and believe for.
God’s Total Provision
Stop looking at people and other resources. People can disappoint you, and resources can fall short of your expectations. But God is above all. He will provide. He is not limited in any way. Therefore ask, seek, and knock. God will answer you.
One of the most lovely prayers in the letters of St. Paul shows how great God is and how great his answers are for you. It begins like this: “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,. . .”
Faith in Action: Digging Ditches
In a situation when the armies had no water to drink, Prophet Elisha said, “This is what the Lord says: Make this valley full of ditches. For this is what the Lord says: You will see neither wind nor rain, yet this valley will be filled with water . . . ”
God gave the promise. But the people had to dig ditches in expectation—an act of simple obedience to what God had spoken.
Expectation is trust with its mouth open. Like young birds in a nest, lifting their heads and stretching their necks before the food appears–not doubting, not hesitating–simply expecting.
So open wide your mouth even when there is no outward sign, no visible evidence of a coming miracle. If you believe, God will answer you according to his great riches and mercy.
The Higher Purpose
Remember, open wide your mouth is not a magic formula for getting material benefits from God.
This promise is greater than what God is going to provide for you physically. He wants to pour out his Holy Spirit into your life and transform you into the very nature of Jesus Christ.
Bible quotes from NIV 1984 edition:
Psalm 81:10b. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
Ephesians 3:20. God being able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.
2 Kings 3:16, 17. Make this valley full of ditches.
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