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Before I start, I hate to "steal" someone else's sermon.  But I listened to this one on the way home yesterday and then couldn't find after looking for over 30 minutes to share it.  So below is my best attempt at the meat of Michael Todd's (quickly becoming one of my favorites to listen to) sermon on having a vision. The text is based in 2 Kings 4 and is the story of "Elisha and the Widow's Oil."  If you're not familiar with the story, it would be beneficial to give those few verses a quick read first. At the start of this story, we see the widow in a desperate situation - her husband has died, she has no  job, no money, and may potentially lose her children and everything else she owns.  It doesn't get much worse.  The first question that Elisha asks her in v2 is, "What shall I do for you?"  The first thing that Elisha asked her was not what she has, rather she wants, what she feels like needs to happen.  Think about that.  How...